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RECREATION 


A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING THE 
NAME IMPLIES 


VOLUME XX 
JANUARY TO JUNE, 1904 


G. O. SHIELDS (Coquina), Editor and Manager 


NEW YORK 
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INDEX TO VOLUME XX 


PAGE 
SL: Cy ROMEO SOE a wich cans oC aR Gi co « 0 GAM cea 6 cde o cc cn . FRONTISPIECE 
The Passing of Le Premier. SO MEMOLIMIEG 5, HtF WEE von MARRS ad afte ©'s. nah a de CHARLES i. SAWYER 3 
eee A UO 5, BB cating's 2 a.'« Wig dtewe Ses ois Oe ca PR Re bisi’s oo Diba olt James L. Lancaster 7 
ey a IC DOC tn bd Lg h 5 cittas oa Side s ofc okie poate cob cae oon eS Stacy E, Baker 8 
Wonm © Deere Gee | iu sired es oe lk ba sb. Sb cub acl’ iw o Baron Paut TcHerKassov 9 
eee eee ONNIENE: PEPE 6g kt es es ig alee.» dee ole aan oaw.cote' ce, Mee Maup M. Huey 11 
A New Star in the Art World. Illustrated..... te. ee. fe ere LP ee Joun M. Leahy 13 
@: Ebar=vWoes -6 Buck Was: Due,  Eilustrated:..). <0. 05: «ws cvs cm ccsccsdleoes Dr. C. N. Batcrarpd = 15 
Cid Bil Gray's: Story; Poent:. 2.6.2.6. Booey 3b ele Same ae Sa OS ie le JAM Es B. Apams 16 
ocean aromenrn ner, | T insatrabed. «2 sak odie als dialdivie cone.c.s ew slviee' «cis «0 wood Mrs. LitLtig PLEAS’ 17 
rn ns Vanna MROOME ce et, eas ei ieee a er ee PES se ey deal S Toaa 18 
Une ae reese Flowing Bowles... Wiustrated. . i. 52)... 6 cdeucc cuasclemecassesupacecs H. P. GILLeTTE 19 
rr inet. s > bAk, © Pa Ronee. | Rema A. guste da otic kda david dees bce oad Amos GRAYSON”) 21 
eee ee verve Metile..-T Miwieeted a... 2) uhbis « DLS ec... tilde w blals cn ouleate RANK S. ELtswortH 23 
PRP FOUN ys base, koe RE. BIOS vieja ee ie atk s « Aa eb G hr eeade capebes B. BouLpeR 25 
‘rhe 1903 Register. Poem........ ed Stele echo Rs, ao Seka a aaah cies A aie oo Dee Dr. J. S. KENNEDY 2v 
Antoine’s AERIS oi Wie ae ope ems itp’ vee dn Sighs Oh oa. Cain said dle asp oa Maley oa E. W. Parker 27 
Nee naan uals, Pama te 0k once chao ge ov kl wa oes elcs eves cae an R. B. Nattrass 27 
ieee a Grete a CG es Boa. ara ticles’ “gaia Kamien ie le nck, alien sale vp bums ALLAN Brooks 28 
ie Oe SS Ete SY FEE Se eS, 2 ee CS SEL ee) ae Cuas, H. STONE 29 
oe Ree RG Ye RISO MEET oa farce x tam» Sonicbids co ona » ocalp attae a oin's Salud oan ¢ ad» op rimenaty ok seeeee 31 
ECE eet Re: PRESEN Pee rae Rl y's Sega <, o:s Sc ph arene nee Pe Hal Pur lem % Ke FALCON 33 
GS A -  rae oF ee | eS eee 
Ne OS GAG. og 5A e ow WR ae whale gravy wich“ itp oly o oly’ Settee a’ witht» iets H. B. Brown 36 
The Owlet’s Flight. POEM, - 2. 6 02a e cece cet e reece teen e eee e renee sr cnssn eter se raw oe ems Ho Mm 86 40 
“\ Suarp Foreboding......... en etic “eo Re RES SOCCER er eee aaa: C. H. Furtonc 40 
a SR I Sto See nets Solu nts Sin ty phenais atte © p cos dheli-s glut sp cic p GMD Wake os Bruce LEMMON 42 
PMS eee MCL N T EME) coy Set ant airs SG 15 ee en es eiatatake «|e 2 ate eek ebay » olay urche, wate Slay Howarp CARL 44 
Imagine the Thrill of Jumping Over Stumps, Rocks and Other Obstacles on a Narrow Trail! FRONTISPIECE 
Piece te wroats tn Ne  SEMATES so i'd. swe e acre alow See wteois aos ecele ace c 6g ELEANOR SCHAVOiR 85 
Pio wegrapoios im-the Canadian Rockies. - Ulustrated. 066205. ct, ce swiwe ss vledees G. O. SHIELps 89 
ae tec ae Se Mer Perce Wy al... , 2.55 pc's +.p's fied Apes ppesdes vase Reeaey H. B. Norton 99 
tn ESS NT dS Tein Searae «div Roctnle a alle wiser e-a.v p Aaa ate ding ole cwy > + «kas Sam Emma G. CurtTIS 101 
Fe |e PEEPLES! 52 Seto 5.0 gv a ian c= 0 aiciega Totes 9 » aoe tebntcho excite pie 4, Tne’ nin oie 39 A. A. BRIGGS 103 
Oe are RART Re ear EAT 0.5 <1 «4, os ae ae lave ic hoe am oie b> cis ohieeateiads Vmte ekg ete cis «ce aanus Georce FE. W INKLER 104 
EN LOE SE Bh eS or OR 2 Aah ee re F. W. PoRTER 105 
J OS Bea Poi. tl oo RS ee, a E. W. Parker 107 
ale ena WCMEENE A. , So) cl encls ale of cate U Eals mc G DIET '> 0/5, w Suet ele, 0: Sater alae dy wd od JEANNETTE CAMPBELL 108 
A Pioneer Reminiscence. .........-. es eece eee cece eee e eens et enseeesceeses «MISS M. L. Sutton 109 
Buftalo Hunting im Danses. 5). occ 0os os eticees oe 5 ea FS ES eee ae fe Stubs 111 
Pl aR EIEN, ©). SUT fs aes rio tpen 55 eae © fren ede wipes neg: 22-4 OSS ORSON JR. 113 
Ra eIIRIIG, PUPEAMMCERCTONE . TIMID no olngs mie winra.dse fo =o «9:8 5 « Sthatow H Glo» Hawn clea ye Aes Howarp W. Beit 115 
i IO ET, | SCENE, Se eh il nat tina Whe s'c W's hieraiereine shiney ave sie ase ieee hia errr J aBox I rz 
RRR RS MURIEL, gaia Sl cite wield dias Fae vp go wale SA midlee elem s «ie Ss sire so dss S.A. Pappock 11 
\ Ee Aaa eepciety UIGtetiee | fae inn oF, She Gna adie ody ore stk xe. wislinte Wmvelete Sipe aie 0's Meals «ere ear W eye — 
Sat Cet IMO ita Bache VCS sate oie ot stars 1a) cine WI jot picctA oi iv. alk oar, Fg Mla aeo hia ain ote! < joie RR as 0 atari ee oe = e 
Ae Tepe Varley be Tine. 6 ee nin cae tks woke sie civ aw nie de od eels oee cer dee os emesics o« Egan = 
AP Master of -IrHeory.. >. +. 32%. one teeter ett e eect ecu eenestasreeseneseseces ey :: ve EL 
The Other 2 Men Pushed on with 4 Dogs... .....0..2cscccccesccccesvssccsccrccccnsces ae <i 
A Tale-of Alaskan Hlardshipay ss . <0. etec cc wee cece ce scc ener reat nccsecccees eases ay 
Where the White Goats Get Their Salt. Illustrated.............---eeeeeeeee ae 4 se as 
Li digo at ney aa “8 5 ell SERS Sig. SSeS oe DNR 27 7 ae A FRANK MossMAN 179 
An Eye for.An Eye. [IIustrated.......... cece cere tere cers ecennncecereres 7 a a “+ 
The Modern Squirrel Hunter. Poem...........ceeeeeecccrecerecceccesuecs 2s er atoatny hos 
APU MCR TIED WO ODES a oaks oes tc uo soo wrt ded ini 4.0 oidielne. nia aio nyntalege eg => we 60 Mises 8s apie * “pom 2 
A Florida Fishing ee -eare a =e ene mn eerie “me es = + eile = 2 SR “ “scene 188 
Bettine ie cable Sas kr amen Wh ae tame ia Wititam J. Lampton” 189 
Early Days on the Yakima. ........b. cscs eee cece cece eee ere eee ee tence neeees Todi “t ballin ee 
How Sam Flynn Was Cured of Office Seeking. .....---- esse eee ee eee eereccees 2 Eat Se 
The Trumpeter Swan.  [llustrated.......... 0c cece cece renee ee eeee oe eS I hy yallpieaeecei - 
Wow I “Lost Moy. Grin: 05. cas occas ste eve tcees Pe ee eee te all ~ goer sion 193 
Signs of Spring. Poem.........--csleccescsccccnccccescesesesecs  seeees ge *. ete tans 
The Dissolution of Abijah Dusenbury........5-eee eee ee eee rere eee eees Cy able oe ee = 
On a Russian River. Illustrated..........cccceeersececcsrenetseeces ARON L iatig aon oo lps. 
My Trip to Wood’s Te oe snes once san ss +o P+ «'s acm tae ne ORS RE EE oss EE Sr pee cnt 
The Regeneration of uy Se wok hoi ak RR RR el a lah team eg Spee 
Hie Chasse of View. Poem > eS ea ae = ghas : ; Css NY = CANDICE ~ ay ie 208 
Pi cee ck capa cules os ae eos 
A pe RD SS aie Rea ee hein Se eR esr 
The ustelle Family a DORR chan ens ++ = +} oan ue PREM ss SR OmRA Ss te oh tt 0 a ao 
Some Adventures of Minnie Mustelle, the Mink. Uitstaieae t= 2° <P sage = $2) 36 8 ae. pata “a 
The Praxis of Salmon Angling..:.....---..++er-sceercecereeers — seeceeresers: eae Weunsae “ave 
Red Breasted Merganser. Illustrated... .....00sse eee ee eee en creer eeeeeness Bs. Cyr nba 8 
Wild Animals and Birds in the Northwest. Illustrated. ........0.0+eseeees : - p= Nasmcygene be 
The Brown Towhee. Illustrated... ......-- cece cere eee eeeeees pene eees nS. : ; 


Whip-Poor Will. Poem 


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oe Bedorez:ef St. Gla Flate.-- Poem: . iii cas. SBME ie ss oc de bedc nc can Eien oc H. W. Nese 28: 
m the Gol GAG A B.. . on cae hd bb 06s wah) eles BORE a © «iy wee dened ee. 2.3 D. E. Wynkoop 282 


How to Build a Mackinac Boat. Illustrated 


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The Tro@iiee of: 2! Tenidetbett i oad fic in iss igae he Bevan ap ees needs «as ee one Fe Mo 285 
His a Buffalo Faced About and Raised Up, Fully 8 Feet High................ FRONTISPIECE 
A Race Wed Getaely. 2. Side ei cc Bees EET seep wets 1 cae a. oo eee My £. E. gyt 
Casting Amp eee, WHE RtOrs. 6. cna to ob clés cn de ddan och pu Sat hed «see Oana E. J. Myers 333 
How, to Bama &.Log Canoe. = Tustrateds : is 0. < dnc webs see vas bac ov vhs stearate G. O. SHIELDS 335 
Rondeaey) PCCM ows. vee ses ac cece cade we vec cds ondeadecces a eeiighs omd « osllteMed shea E. E. WEBSTER 337 
How .Gesree Killed the Bear.) Dilustrated.. di... cGy... . snubs case tia Gein p aes W. S. Britr 339 
The Qa” PM ooo cie a ecg ghad sda sos cesmy s coms. «ss tammnnonn ta gen «i L. C. Evertck 340 
A Visii-te Bamcuct ‘Wisemthiogs. sw cies. chee. cee so so 5 Raeaeateials bm ce Oe Joun W. Bryan 341 
The Gaetese of a Boon Trouties ssi. cock. s dass OR: . . caine ee bor 0 Don CAMERON 343 
Rome ee tee Amaler. ) PCr: hand ik 0 dx: 5:6 ate vale =p ale ow ela ee eS a Benson B. Moore 344 
PUGS nae > aca 5 o oe kee ov thin deen ces ca vedews -y Os dns ~ ae wae T. J. CUNNINGHAM 345 
mre Great: Trouk.... POG . vied odds . oss Sands geeeene 20 «ahs a os one Henry CROCKER 349 
The WHoutter’s Del. . oibs ss ato u is sve he cin eis [Cae . A ee STANLEY MAYHALL 352 
Alpine’ Anintiie’in. Colorado. i020. 000 is 0s ers 0 ome. phe ee ee 4a hae Fe W. H. NeEtson 355 
PaCocditing Baaae «oi diese kadeddcns scvnscaadedg dun «age sae dae een 6 Can Atice R. Crave 357 
Ceeeniae at Tadion Lele. 6.06 < <> ods cs + ta~ scene onus» se cee ee Gat Tuomas A, Bennetr 358 
Pe riuet in the Bie Hides. ..:. cc aeckss > sass und + shee ssid nah vanes Cee ee CLARENCE Jay 359 
mew to Use a Pocket (Comipass. ci oo... wiis sinc bi vcae Bema Ga e's nce actis we eW Veae ss Wi amen. ne 


Sey Vieat Day's Work: Poeins. os eed ecclss aks cab pOMRRE Chee cA wean eae sy ArTHUR S. PHELPS 362 
An Evening Flight of Bats 


ne We nec be kee'eg ea Oe anne ae SS Bhale’Sibes-o:; om ola ap agian tet ie en 
Asimel.Life in a Cuban Caves sod oii 0 tase Bee eran teehee eas ee es boon Avucust Busck 397 
The New Method of Fencing. Illustrated. ... 2.25 ....e2 cee ccceesevecesners F. Scuavotr, M.D. 401 
Piard’ Hews Poem... . os. Stuiicd tan Ch wec Ol ae econ a eee take ee Geo. A. Wiiittams, M.D. 411 
On Smebbing.....i 5... <fes Golo ata eh dekes 2s dee We ne es oo ee Ve on E, J. Myers 412 
Among the Islands of Georgian Bay. [Illustrated..........6.. ccc eeeee eee eenees May BraGpon 413 
I Go A-fishing. Poem......... LPS eG PATE tt ete -,..R. S. SrrRINGFELLOW 419 
Pranks of Porcepines. . 5. f50- 20h = a0 Fertile cad ops ices sss Velie samen we 4 ae eat G. O. SHIELDS 420 
An Apostrophe to My Canoe. Poem......ceccccsceccccnccctencencasercensccwsces R. R. Kirk 422 
On Top of Californias .0< ists sce on <> PRS! PS er. Oe Pee See ce D. M. Lapp 423 
Sumer. Poem... scivssigtass Sehss dal enae sees PP ft OR Cae CF Wittram R. Berry 424 
A Day on Lake Owett. soa nde vcbic es chi cee ts nahn as 06S c00 be moe w bin els Ome nig oe ige s C. C. HaKsIns 425 
The -Monarch of the Pool, J. cb otic's's : Seda r hc tela Fen wens ss tmab neem qo 8 shinee oe F. H. Rockwett 450 
From the Game Fileds..45, 127, 210, 289, 363,427 Forestry...........-+-+.-- 67, 151, 236, 312. 443 
Fish and Fishing...... 50, 133, 217, 293, 369, 432 Pure and Impure Foods. .69, 154, 239, 314, 385, 446 
Guns and Ammunition. .54, 137, 221, 297, 373, 436 Editor's’ Corner. .....% 73, 160, 244, 318, 388, 448 
Natural History....... 61, 143, 229, 303, 378, 439 Amateur Photography. .80, 166, 250, 234, 392, 458 


The League of American Sportsmen, Publisher’s ‘Notes. ...d0.... 71; 157, 242, 986, 3e7 
63, 147, 232, 397, 442 


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Copyright, December, 1903, by G. O. Shields 
A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 


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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 


PAGE, 
ae 2 Ge Temes. ys, Oh os cd edie's;,.:.cbecees ee Se ael> AMeaells 28h 06 ao cekioth catebes cadens FRONTISPIECE 
The Passing of Le Premier. [llustrated..........2. .ceceeceeeeecceeeeceeseeeees CHARLES H. SAWYER 3 
ener cies PAE apo dhe (antes: Jadpn ac cdheccrdadercecten: JAMEs L. LANCASTER 7 
i a a ee Ee ee we do acuvadesecsones. Stacy E. BAKER 8 
nn COMO TIDCOIORERGS cies cduscccdndcescascasequccccessccnsenns BARON PAUL TCHERKASSOV 9 
NN OOS Fock 65 2.8) ecb dvaadausss</ds0dsgoaksesse dibs ndtnecesccece, Maup M. Huezy 11 
A New Star in the Art World. [Illustrated..............0eee-seeeee- cee cane a Oe Joun M. LEAny 13 
A Bear When a Buck Was Due, IIlustiated...........-...-0.-- ee Pee Dr. C. N. BALLARD 15 
RE EPRI MUGEN SS - WOO. 655. Ace duc dacse sccccctpessiadssoscauedes MA oaed deuce thes JAMES B. ADAMS 16 
i Si EMI SEMMBLTAGOG. ocr cas .csns 0 csaWbveeuscccyecensevedaudcccscoe Mrs. LILtig PLEAS 17 
Me COO WOT SD Meme. PMB. ee soos ii < cecndns conc ose cccectsnavessocccnccestecdusensescess si esee:> C.T.L. 18 
One of Those Flowing Bowles, Illustrated...............2.seeeesseeeeee eee ceeeeeereeees H. P. GILLETTE 19 
MEIN, SOMO Since ds oan p es ares soe cesteesecccece weusenguscatauesseds oly ahigtducysewcs AMOS GRAYSON 21 
Kit, the Tale of a — MURMOI W oc cd His donk sc cd Rak Sate deaons veadubes FRANK S. ELLsworTH 2, 
A Deer Accident.... --B. BOULDER 25 A Day in the Rockies......... BRUCE LEMMON 42 
The 1903 Register. “Poem. .Dr. 5. S.KENNEDY 26 Adventure with a Coyote..-.-- HOWARD CARL 44 
Antoine’s Caribou..-..:.......... E. W. PARKER 27 From the Game Fields.................+s00+--s- 45 
Men ofthe Sunand Rain. Poem..R.B.NatTRAss 27 Fish and Fishing...........-.-----..2.++0020000- 50 
Mountain Badger. Illustrated..ALLAN BRooxs 28 Guns and Ammunition...............-.-+:.--+005 54 
Hiking in Rizal..... iohew Oats Cuas.H.STonE 29 Natural History........--..----+esseeeecerseecees 6x 
The New Army Rifle. Illustrated............... 31 The League of American Sportsmen...----. -- 63 
Our and Somebody’s Else Buck........ ee ee ee eee 67 
RECREATION. Poem............... Nep NaTE 35 Pure and Impure Tieifces s..-. 69 
Bud Moose Bogged.............-- H. B. BRown 36 Publisher’s Notes..............ceese+--eeceereees 71 
The Owlet’s Flight. Poem....-........ S.H.M. 39 Editor’s Cormer.......-.....sssscccccccsccseceenes 73 
A Sharp Foreboding.......--.-- C.H.Furtone 40. Amateur Photography..-...---.----------.:++-: 80 


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was measured off, and it did snow be- 
fore night; a gentle, sifting fall that 
made good tracking. It ceased snow- 
ing after sundown, and camp was 
made. Next morning all impedimenta 
were stowed in a hastily constructed 
cache, and progress was resumed in 
light marching order. The log of the 
second day may be written with one 
word; tramp. It was dryly mono- 
tonous. Tired? That Indian, Gros 
Jean, could keep up a steady push for 
2 days beyond forever, and then some. 
Through thickets, over rocks and ad- 
verse tangles of logs, tearing through 
heart-breaking masses of jagged dead 
limbs and biting briars in the brule; 
up precipitous boulders, clinging to 
roots and jutting crags I toiled, until 
bailed out of both ambition and wind. 
No man ever got a moose who did not 
earn him. 

How far did we go? Gros Jean 
said 15 miles. I should guess some- 
thing less than 500. What does an 
Indian, whose tendons are steel rib- 
bons, and who pumps wind with gutta 
percha bellows, know of miles? He 
measures distance by time, anyway. 
So, when old Sol was half way down 
the home stretch, that is, about 3 post 
meridian, we struck the fresh trail of 
8 moose, the tracks showing one giant. 

“Regard you, le premier!” said Gros 
Jean. “Ah’ll lak for see de horn of 
de an-mal dat mak dat beeg fit.” 

Moose tracks have been seen that 
would compare favorably with a New 
England pancake, but these looked 
bigger than a full moon through a 
September haze. 

“Arrete donc,” said the Indian. 
We stopped, and there, under the 
snow-laden branches of a giant fir, 
browsed a cow moose, broadside on, 
not 30 yards away. We stood. The 
cow stood. Did I shoot? “TI gass not, 
yes, I gass not,” as my Franco-Indian 
would say. There were no horns on 
that head, and we were not out for 
meat. Besides, my permit said only 
one more moose. She slowly made 
off, and, not long after, the spoor of 


the “premier” separated from the 
others, trailing through a ravine. We 
followed in a circling course a while, 
when the guide stopped, and, pointing 
at the dipping sun, “De moose will 
soon mak’ lie down for de sleep,” he 


said. ‘Soon com’ dark. What you 
goin’ do about? Camp in snow 
wit’out blanket? No? Bon! We go 


back. She’s only 6 mile straight. 
To-morrow on de morn we tak’ h’up 
dis-a-track an’ fin’ bull.” 

That back pedal trip to the base of 
supplies was nerve wrenching. The 
advance and retrograde movements of 
that day reminded me of a bit of an- 
cient literature anent the King of 
France, who, on an occasion, marched 
up a certain hill to do dire things, only 
to about face on the summit and 
march down again. Supperless I 
tumbled into blankets under a rude 
brush shack and slept the dreamless 
sleep of overtaxed muscles, when a 
guttural voice and heavy hand shocked 
me into conscious being. 

‘Mos’ come day; we go for de 
moose,” said the voice. 

ae n the moose!” 

But only for a moment did tired 
nature revolt. Hope and ambition, 
twin spurs to all great deeds, returned 
with a copious draught of skitty- 
waugh-boo (Injun for rum), a smart 
rubbing of the face with snow, and a 
hastily prepared snack. It was as 
murky as a smoke house, and I would 
have made for the North pole or any 
unmapped locality but for the guide. 
Following him automatically I lurched 
along until, just as the dawn with 
faint pink splashes began to blush in 
the East, we came on the _ hoof 
tracks at the point where the premier 
had separated from the rest of the 
herd the previous day. The halfbreed, 
who had not fired a linguistic shot for 
nearly 3 hours, then delivered himself: 

“Now we leave de moos’ mark. 
We go dis-a-way,” waving his hand 
in a different direction. “We shall 
fin’ heem or de track jus’ all de sam’, 
but we save seex t’ree mile, mebbe.” 





THE PASSING OF LA PREMIER. 5 


This is the proper time and place to 
kowtow to the woodcraft, or moose- 
craft, of the humble ranger and guide. 
How did he know that, by leaving the 
broad trail and striking off into the 
untracked snow, he would again meet 
either the clearly marked course or 
the animal itself, and thus save a long, 
stern chase? His own answer is best. 
It was his “bizi-nesse.’” A man 
brought up with bear, deer, moose and 
the like, keeps tab on their habits and 
doings. While resting a moment on 
a stump, pumping oxygen for that last 
final dash, between gutturals and shat- 
tered habitant talk, Gros Jean said 
things from which the following de- 
ductions were made: 

A moose often travels all day in a 
more or less devious course, but as 
night draws on, it circles around until 
it comes back near its old track, at 
which point it lies down for its night’s 
rest. In other words,-it makes a sort 
of loop at the end of this line, to finish 
its day’s journey. It is thus in a posi- 
tion, while resting, to see, hear or 
smell any person or animal following 
its spoor, and at the slightest hint of 
danger it is off. The Indian, calcu- 
lating the time of day, knew about 
when the beast would begin to loop; 
but he followed the turn in the course 
far enough to estimate the. sizeof the 
loop made by the bull, judging the 
whole circle by the arc traveled, so 
that, from the point where we stood, 
he could approximately calculate the 
direction and distance to be pursued 
in a straight line before striking either 
the track of the moose or its actual 
resting place. Nature taught, and un- 
skilled in mathematical lore, for he did 
not know a segment from a squash, 
and never heard of geometric arcs or 
subtending chords, yet following 
events proved the guide’s roughly for- 
mulated hypothesis to have been cor- 
Peet. 

Cautiously we made our progress in 
the untrodden snow. The ranger ad- 
vanced noiselessly, with neither the 
snapping of a dead twig nor the 


swishing of a limb. Imitating him, I 
also moved with caution, making 
noise enough, it seemed to one with 
nerves as tense as fiddle strings, to 
arouse the 7 sleepers had they been 
in the berth of the beast we were 
after. 

“°’Gardez vous,’ at length muttered 
the savage, lapsing into Kanuck lingo. 
“Vola! De track.” 

It was true. We had hit the trail. 

“Walk on de holes mak’ by de bull 
fit so de snow not mak’ crack an’ scare 
de game. She mus’ be ver’ close, 
mebbe!”’ 

For 300 or more yards the advance 
was made _ slowly, cautiously, pain- 
fully. Suddenly Gros Jean clutched 
my arm. 

“Le premier!’ he whispered, stab- 
bing the atmosphere in front with 
grimy forefinger. 

I looked. On the crest of a ridge, 
at least 400 yards away, lay the moose. 
Slowly lifting his mighty head, as 
if conscious that his habitat had 
been invaded by desecrating aliens, 
although the wind was coming from 
him, he sniffed the air with whistling 
nostrils as he ponderously rose to his 
feet. Ye gods, what a shape! And 
antlers! They looked like the spread 
of a full rigged ship. 

I choked off a nervous gasp and 
took sight. 
“Wait! 
the guide. 

We closed the gap perhaps 150 
yards, still stepping in the hoof marks 
and crouching behind low, bushy 
cedars. The monarch swung his mam- 
moth head in our direction, and leaned 
as though to lurch forward. 

“Now,” whispered Gros 
“Goin’ ronne, mebbe.” 

The crisis had come. All hardship, 
waiting and toil had led up to this 
crucial moment. I fired as steadily 
as I could, aiming behind the left 
shoulder. Thunder! I missed. I had 
not properly calculated the range. 
Quick as a lightning stroke the big 
ears flashed forward, the prehensile 


Mak’ near yet,” breathed 


Jean. 


6 RECREATION. 


muzzle violently twitched, and the 
great creature, instinct with wild, 
brute curiosity and terror, looked like 
some huge, misshapen monster left 
over from a prehistoric era. The 
pause was fatal. I knew I could not 
afford to wait. Whang! spoke the 
rifle again, with not 2 seconds’ inter- 
val between the reports. This time 
the moose made a wild leap into the 
air, and vanished down the rocks. 

“Bon!” shouted Gros Jean, “Ah’ll 
gas you hit heem!” 

At last Gros Jean was excited. The 
emotional French strain in him for the 
time being dominated the stoicism of 
the savage. He leaped forward, I fol- 
lowing, an excited second. Taking a 
header over a stump, I was busy a mo- 
ment, when I heard a war whoop, 
and, 

“Dis-a-way, M’steu!” 

Then I saw my prize. He sat on 
his haunches, a ragged hole, from 
which pulsated the life blood, ripped 
in his side. His long, sinewy forelegs 
were spread wide apart, supporting 
the massive shoulders and ugly, ant- 
lered head, which hung pendulously 
low. With expiring strength he 
floundered to his feet, only to fall 
again. He groaned in mortal agony, 
and, perhaps, who knows? with the 
shame of being conquered. Then the 
madness of death came on him; its 
glazing film dimmed the glory of his 


fiery eyes. The forest homestead, its 
green trees, its cliffs, its deep ravines 
aud mossy glades, were fading, fad- 
ing. The heavy nostrils, flecked with 
bloody foam, quivered in a last spasm 
cf pain, and he fell. His rule through- 
out that vast primeval domain was 
ended, for the lordly beast was dead. 
How big was he? Oh, that’s a 
guess; but Gros Jean, who is a good 
Yankee in some things, puts the weight 
at 1,200. The horns, however, meas- 
ure exactly 63 inches from tip to tip 
and carry 33 points. The web is 16% 
inches wide. In the ordinarily large 
bull the palmated breadth is about 8 
inches. Am I right, Gros Jean? 
“Au-haugh. Dat moose her so beeg 
lak you did say. Lucky t’ing we did 
raf’ her down de Maganasipi riviére 
to dis place, so de camp do see heem; 
but some oder bod-dee, perhap, not 
beleeve you did git soche beeg feller.” 
‘Perhaps not,’ was the answer. 
“But as you once pointedly remarked, 
my friend, ’n-importe. That makes 
little weight with one whose soul is 
conscious of rectitude. Skepticism 
is the homage which envy pays 
to success. That majestic shape 
hangs on yonder tree to refute the 
baseless charge of skeptics that its 
magnificent proportions were con- 
jured up in imagination. N’est ce 
pas, Gros Jean?’” 
“Au-haugh,” said the guide. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY C. C. SPEIGHT 


NIGHT HAWK. 


One of the 20th Prize Winners in Recreation’s 7th Annual Photo Competition. 


JUNO, THE 


JAMES L, 


Before leaving here last November for 
my usual Autumn visit to my plantations 
in Virginia, | had given orders to my man- 
ager to put Juno, my 3 year old retriever, 
in the hands of her trainer, so she might 
have some field work before I should ar- 
rive. Recollecting her past history I ex- 
pected great things of her. 

The morning after my arrival the trainer 
and I mounted our horses, taking with us 
on another horse a boy to carry extra 
shells and luncheon, ande any game we 
might be fortunate enough to kill. 

I found quail abundant, more so than 

for several years past. Juno was perfectly 
aware of the duty expected of her and 
anxious to perform it. She ranged well 
in front of the horses, moving rapidly and 
covering the ground thoroughly. I soon 
ascertained that she is careful and staunch, 
and is a first class retriever. She never 
failed to find and fetch the dead bird 
promptly, and it was useless to insist on 
“dead bird,’ for if she did not get it and 
bring it in at once there was no dead bird 
to be brought. 
' During the first day’s hunt, and a little 
before noon, a covey of quails flushed wild 
and flew into a sedge field containing a f w 
scattered pine trees. It was a good place 
to shoot single birds, as they lie close in 
the sedge, and the pines interfere but little. 
We followed, and after good work by 
Juno and fair success on our part, she 
pointed again. That time the bird flew to 
the left and was shot by the trainer. 

At the word the dog bounded forward, 
picked up the bird and was returning when, 
with the quail in her mouth, she once more 
came suddenly to a stand. She held the 
point steadily while we gazed at her in 
admiration. Then, feeling that it was not 
fair to the dog to hold her longer on point, 
we closed in, and I kicked the bird out of 
the sedge. 

Both of us fired and the bird fell, seeing 
which Juno bounded forward and, still 
holdirg the first bird in her mouth, made 
desperate efforts to pick up the second. 
Failing in that, she left it where it lay, 
brought in the. bird she already had, then 
went back and fetched the other. A few 
minutes later, when at lunch, we gladly 
shared the best we had with Juno. 

I have been in the field almost every 
fall for the past 20 years, but until then 
had only once seen a dog stand a live bird 
while holding a dead one in his mouth. 
That was when I was a boy. I afterward 
described the scene to an old man who did 


RETRIEVER. 
LANCASTER, 
not know much about dogs, especially 


pointers. He listened, smiled, and then 
said: 

“T have always heard that if you want to 
make a first class liar of a boy you have 
only to give him a gun and a p’inter.” 

For a long time afterward I was shy of 
telling about that incident. 

I do not now think it worth while to 
explain this statement to sportsmen; but 
as some people, not sportsmen, who read 
your magazine, might be inclined to agree 
with the old man, I add this explanation: 

The pointer’s nose is trained to the scent 
of the live bird. This the bird will lose, 
in cold weather, in a few seconds after 
death; so the dead bird in the dog’s mouth 
does not prevent him from smelling the 
live one. It may confuse the scent some- 
what and render it less emphatic, but does 
not make it indistinguishable, especially at 
close range. 

A dog with the best of noses often has 
difficulty in finding a dead bird. He will 
run over it again and again, finding it only 
by the closest search and then frequently 
by sight. 

There are certain disadvantages in al- 
lowing a dog to flush birds, which over- 
balance any advantage gained by permit- 
ting him to do so. A dog that is allowed 
to flush can never be a good retriever. In 
the act of flushing birds, the dog’s atten- 
tion is engrossed with that alone, and he 
loses sight of or fails to notice the falling 
bird. This often means a long search. for 
dog and hunter, in order to find the bird; 
while if the hunter flushes, the dog soon 
learns to watch for the bird, and has little 
or no trouble in finding it. The dog should 
see the bird when hit and while falling, if 
he is to do his best work as a retriever. 

I saw Juno on one occasion bringing in 
a dead bird when another bird got up and 
was killed. She saw this bird fall, and 
instantly dropping the bird she had in her 
mouth, knowing, I believe, that she could 
easily find it again, rushed off to get the 
bird she had marked down. When she 
had brought that one in, she went back 
and promptly fetched the other. 

good retriever usually marks the 
falling bird, knowing that if the eye be 
taken off the spot there may be much 
trouble in finding it. Good sight, added to 
keen scent, makes a good retriever. 

I would count a retriever of little value 
if I had to spot the falling bird and then 
show the dog where it fell, only to see him 
pick it up and bring it to me. The value 


8 RECREATION. 


of a retriever lies in its ability to do all 
this without assistance, and therein Juno 
excels. 

The dog should stand to a flush and not 
break to shot; neither should he go for- 


ward until told to do so. But no “down 
charge!” while you flush the birds. Your 
dog must stand and watch them as they 
rise, so that he may find and retrieve the 
dead bird promptly. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY WM. R MAGEE. 


DUKE, POINTING. 


Winner o 


33d Prize in ReEcREATION’s 7th Annual Photo Competition. 


LINES TO THE HOUND. 


STACY E. BAKER. 


Sad eyed, he sits and dreams of days gone 
by, 
And wonders if he’s lost that subtle knack, 
That made him in his youthful master’s 
eye 
The pride and praised of all that famous 
pack. 


The hounds!» The 
race ! 
And hunter, too, on fleet foot horse! 
The chase! ! All join the chase! 


Mad with the 


hounds! 


The chase ! 
The fleeting red fox names the course, 


Don's hunting days, alack, have long since 
passed ; 

He of the pack is left alone. 
He stretches stiffened limbs, 
comes fast; 

He trembles as he hears the hunter’s horn. 


’Tis morn, 
his breath 


The death! The death! With live blood 
flush, 
Survivals of this reckless chase! 
The brush! The brush! Who gets the 
brush! 


Who, who, but she who set the pace, 


BEN’S RUSSIAN COUSIN. 


BARON PAUL TCHERKASSOV, 


Photo by the Author. 


Herewith I send you a photograph of 
Forester Yakhimoévitch and his bear cub, 
as a pendant to Ben’s likenesses, adorning 
the july issue of RecrEATION. Yakhimo- 
vich’s cub rejoiced in the name _ of 
Mishka, Mikey, as male bears generally are 
styled, the female ones being usually called 
Mashka, Molly. Mishka is_ represented 
begging for sugar, for which he had a 
weakness. He had the run of the house 
and of all the premises in Bobrovka, Dis- 
trict of Altai, Western Siberia. It was 
rare fun to see him, during meals, rear up 
on his hind legs and beg for something to 
eat, emphasizing his begging attitudes with 
a droll kind of mumbling, his little, yel- 
lowish eyes glistening like sparks. What 
his subsequent fate may have been, I do 
not know, but am afraid it has been sad, 
like that of almost all bear cubs kept in 
captivity, of which I have heard, or which 
have come under my personal observation. 

Some 6 or 7 years ago a country neigh- 
bor presented a bear cub to my children 
in my absence. I should have declined the 
present, on the strength of my unsatisfac- 
tory experience with cubs of wild beasts 
kept as pets; but as my family spend the 
summer and autumn on our estate in the 
Province of Yaroslav, while my sojourn 
rarely exceeds one month, I did not know 
anything about this addition to the family 
circle until I went for my holiday. 

One evening in July I reached home, 
after a drive of 45 or 50 miles over most 
disgusting roads, thoroughly broken up, 
having had to make the journey in a rough 
and primitive vehicle, besides being in 
poor health. It is only fair to say that 
things have greatly improved since then; 
I2 or 13 miles to the nearest railway 
station, roads fair and health ditto. Not 
feeling up to much after my journey, I 
took my evening meal with the family, and 
went to bed early, enjoying the prospect 
of a good night’s rest. In this I was, how- 
ever, disappointed. My sleep is always 
light, especially the first few nights after 
a radical change of surroundings. Soon 
after dawn, that is, about 4 a. m., it was 
broken by a short, bleating sound near the 
house. I sat up in bed, annoyed by 
tthis disturbance and unable to account for 
it, as I knew there were no sheep on the 
estate. From that time on I got no rest, 
those confounded bleatings making sleep 
impossible and ceasing only toward 7 a. m. 
» When my wife awoke and inquired how 
I had slept, I unfolded my tale of woe. 





“Oh, it must have been Mishka, calling 
for food!” she said. 

“Who is Mishka?” I asked. 

“Such a dear little bear cub! 
presented him to the children.” 

I am fond of animals and of infants of 
all kinds in particular, but | mentally con- 
signed Mishka to a certain warm place, and 
Mr. A. too. 

However, I made Mishka’s acquaintance, 
and we soon became good friends. He was 
a “nat-rally amoosin’ cuss,” like Artemus 


Mr. A. 


Ward’s kangaroo, and we got no end of 
It was not always unal- 


fun out of him. 


THE FORESTER AND MISHKA, 


loyed fun, though. Once he managed to 
pull his collar over his ears, and go on 
a reconnoitring tour. He got into the 
room of one of the maid servants, opened 
her chest of drawers, pulled out all her 
dresses and spread them out on the floor. 
Then some jars of preserves attracted his 
attention. He cleared them in a short time, 
getting the whole of his muzzle sticky, as 
well as his paws. He started cleaning 
them on the unfortunate dresses spread out 
on the floor, and there is no saying where 
his mischief would have ended, if the girl 


10 RECREATION. 


had not come in at that moment. There 
was a scrimmage, howls, tears, swears, 
etc. 


Another time, Mishka broke loose with 
his chain, under laughable circumstances. 
One of the carriage horses had escaped 
from the stables, and was cantering along 
the road, quite forgetful of Mishka’s where- 
abouts. Mishka was enjoying his after- 
noon nap, from which the sound of the 
horse’s hoofs roused him rather suddenly. 
He reared up and emitted the peculiar 
hissing, or spitting, sound, which bears, at 
least young ones, utter when scared. The 
horse was at that moment emerging from 
behind a bush in the bend af the road. The 
sound of Mishka’s hissing, and the sight 
of his chubby body standing erect with 
outstretched paws, was too much _ for 
the horse. It gave a terrified snort and 
started back for the stables as if it were 
chased by a pack of wolves. Mishka’s 
digestive apparatus could not stand the 
shock. We call this kind of sudden indi- 
gestion “a bear’s fit” or “a bear’s attack.” 
Neither could the peg to which the end of 
the chain was fastened stand the sudden 
wrench Mishka gave it, and off went the 
whole show like a streak of lightning. Up 
the trunk of a tall willow Mishka tcre 
along, leaving unpleasant tracks behind, till 
he reached the upper fork of the tree, 
where he took a rest and tried to compose 
himself. The whole affair had taken place 
under my eyes, and it was so utterly and 
irresistibly funny that I nearly burst my 
sides laughing. My wife hearing me 
roar with laughter, came out, and to- 
gether we tried to persuade Mishka to 
come down. After considerable coaxing, 
he began his descent; but that proved by 
far the more difficult part of the perfor- 
mance. He had not descended more than 
a few yards, when the end ring of the 
chain caught in a fork. Mishka was an- 
noyed at this, and began to pull for all he 
was worth, with the result that he lost his 
footing and swung out into space, some 75 
or 80 feet above the ground! Luckily, he 
managed to grasp a small bough which 
gave him a temporary support, but it was 
evident this would not last long. It began 
giving way under his weight, almost as 
soon as he got hold of it. You can ima- 
gine we did not enjoy the situation! For- 
tunately the boy who looked after Mishka 
happened to come along just then. He 
manfully ascended the tree, dodging Mish- 
ka’s tracks, and rescued him from death. 


Some days after this incident, this same 
boy John, noticing that Mishka enjoyed 
sucking his fingers, hit on the brilliant idea 
of giving him the tin of his tongue to suck. 
At first it tickled John, then it began to 
hurt. He tried to rescue his tongue, but 


Mishka did not approve of it, and a scrim- 
mage ensued, in which John was sorely 
handicapped. He set up a_ howl that 
brought us all to the scene of action, where 
we found Mishka firmly fixed to John’s 
tongue. It took some manceuvring to sep- 
arate them, and poor John had a sore time 
of it for 2 or 3 days. His tongue was 
swollen to such an extent that he was un- 
able to stow it away comfortably in its 
proper place! 

In October, when my family were about 
to return to town, Mishka was sent back to 
Mr. A. He spent the winter there quietly, 
but in the spring he began his tricks. Be- 
ing allowed to roam about the premises, he 
began to appropriate articles of food 
which were not intended for him. One 
day the housekeeper caught him in the act 
of diving under the table with a choice 
melon to which he had helped himself 
while there was no one in the dining room. 
The result was a sound whipping for 
Mishka. 

Some days later, the housekeeper was 
walking in the orchard, when a big apple 
hit her hard on the right eye. The lan- 
guage she used was, I am told, forcible, 
flowery and to the point, when she discov- 
ered Mishka sitting in a large apple tree, 
from which he had hurled the apple at 
her, with a wicked grin on his ursine mug. 


After that performance, followed by sev- 
eral others of a similar character, it was 
deemed best to lock Mishka up, and a 
roomy compartment was allotted him in 
the stables. At first there was some un- 
easiness among the horses, but they soon 
became accustomed to their new compan- 
ion, and all went well for a while. Then 
something went wrong with the horses. 
They would suddenly start kicking, and 
plunging, and snorting, several times a day, 
as if something had scared them; but when 
the stable boy went to see what was the 
matter he never found anything suspicious. 
Mishka was in bed, looking so sweetly 
innocent that it would have been a shame 
to suspect him of having caused the com- 
motion. One day, however, the groom no- 
ticed that the tails of some of the horses 
were looking thin. He suspected Mishka, 
and eventually caught him in the act of 
pulling the hairs out of the horses’ tails! 

After this discovery Mishka was kept 
chained, and his temper grew rapidly 
worse, until finally he had to be killed be- 
fore he attained the age of 3 years. 


I am afraid that such is the fate of fully 
75 per cent of the bear cubs kept by private 
parties, and that is-why I always energeti- 
cally protest against any attempts to make 
pets of them. Ben, Baby Sylvester, our 
Mishka, are a small percentage only of the 
number of cubs that have been petted and 


LUCK TO THE HUNTER. aay II 


cared for through a more or less prolonged 
period, but have had to be disposed of or 
killed in the end. 

I am not sure, now, whether it was not 
a performance of our lamented Mishka, 
while living at Mr. A’s, to teach turkeys 
swimming; and when the stupid things 


would not learn to swim, and scrambled 
out of the water on to the bank, clamoring 
their “ Bother-other-otheration,”. to twist | 
their necks for them, and to lay them out © 
on the bank with a view to artistic effect. | 
If not his doing, it was the trick of a cub 
I have been told about. 





BUCK TO THE HUNTER: 


MAUDE M. HUEY. 


A glorious morning, glittering jewels 
On blade and vine, 

Frost-drawn scents from spruce and cedar 
Hemlock and pine. 

Wind of the hillsides fanning to fullness 
The hunter’s breath; 

Snow enough to further his purpose 
Soft on the heath. 

Sapphire skies, and a sun of splendor 
Over the wood. 

Morn of wonder! Ah! but the all wise 
God is good. 


Hark! A sound in the dead twigs yonder, 
A timid stir. 
Luck to the hunter! 
A bunch of fur. 
A hare! Ah! Steady! The hounds are 
after ! 
Be ready to fire! 


See! In the bushes 


Wildly plunging, their red jaws dripping 
With their desire. 
Will they find him? 
boulder 
With beating heart? 
A quivering thing with wild eyes bulging 
And ears apart. 


Crouching close to a 


Yes! They are close! Ah! Now make 
ready! 
Away! Away! 


Following, following; faster, faster, 
A streak of gray. 

Do they have him? 
A flash, a sound, 

And a helpless form lies bleeding, quiv- 

ering, 

Flat on the ground. 

Eyes all glazed with the pain of dying 
Turned on the wood. 

Luck to the hunter! Ah! but the all wise 
God is good, 


No. A moment only, 





MISS MARY CONANT, ON LADY LOU; RECREATION 


AMATEUR PHOTO BY C. B. CHAPIN 


AND SPORT FOLLOWING. 





AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. 





INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. 
12 


A NEW STAR IN THE ART WORLD. 


JOHN M, LEAHY. 


Under separate cover I have sent you 4 
of my original drawings, which are the 
greatest pieces of art that have ever been 
produced. One glance at these master- 
pieces and you will forget that there are 
such men as Frederic Remington and Dana 
Gibson. 

First turn to “A Young Klondyker.” 
This drawing represents Kit Carson, the fa- 
mous scout and miner, when a boy. Notice 
the artistic touch to this picture. Also how 
firmly Kit has braced himself and how in- 





A YOUNG KLONDYKER. 


dustriously he is trying to dig himself out. 
When this drawing appears in RECREATION 
subscriptions will come in by the car- 
load. 

Next comes “Hostiles.” This drawing 
represents Daniel Boone, General Crook’s 
famous scout, running across 2 Apaches. 
How Boone followed and scalped them is 
well known to every reader of frontier his- 
tory. Notice the artistic curve in the 
horse’s tail. 


Patient : 


Next comes “Indians of the Northwest 

oast.” This drawing shows 2 Comanches, 
or Delawares, I do not know which, in their 
war canoe. Something has evidently at- 
tracted their notice; but again I am at a 
loss, for I can not tell why they are looking 
in the direction in which their eyes are 
turned. 

We will now take leave of the 2 Dela- 
wares or Comanches, and pass on to “An 
Unexpected Meeting.” This drawing rep- 
resents Israel Putnam’s meeting with the 
advance guard of the British Hussars 
before he plunged down the declivity at 
Horseneck. The strongest point in this 
drawing is the thrilling manner in which 





HOSTILES. 


Mr. Putnam fingers his shooting iron. You 
can see by this that he is going to do some- 
thing desperate right away. 


I am afraid I haven’t money 


enough to take this treatment, doctor. 


Doctor (stiffly) : 


if you get well without it, 


me.—Life. 


Very well, sir. 


But 
don’t blame 








ME. 


THICKET ALMOST ON TOP OF 


FROM THE 


URST 


; 
? 


I 


FINALLY 


ANIMAL 


THE 


A BEAR WHEN A BUCK WAS DUE. 


DR. C, N. BALLARD, 


Last year I spent my vacation with 3 
companions in the pineries of Northern 
Michigan. We lodged with 2 woodsmen, 
a father and son, who, with their wives, 
occupied a log cabin in a deserted lumber 
camp. The first part of our stay was spent 
in hunting grouse, which were abundant, 
and in catching pickerel, black bass and 
trout. Our bill of fare was ample and 
varied, and often included venison. We 
had fine weather, with just enough snow 
and rain to keep the fallen leaves moist. 

The elder of our hosts devoted much 
time to trapping. For several da-3 after 
our arrival he piloted me each morning to 
a place where he had a bear trap set. As 
he did not succeed in taking anything 
larger than a porcupine I finally lost in- 
terest in these morning trips, and amused 
myself in other ways. That there were, 
or had been, bears in the region was proven 
by a number of hides that hung about the 
cabin, but, as I have intimated, I lost hope 
of meeting Bruin in the flesh. 

The end of my vacation drew near, and 
as I was going out before the others, a 
big hunt was planned for my especial bene- 
fit. It was to be a record breaker in every 
respect. On the eventful morning came 
a light fall of snow, just enough for easy 
tracking. 

With a good lunch in our pockets 4 of 
us started for an all-day hunt. Just as we 
entered the woods up jumped a short 
horned buck. It was all too sudden, and 
in our unreadiness we shot over, under 
and all around him. He did not leave us 
even a lock of his hair. 

Then we separated to drive the woods. 
We saw several deer and fired a number 
of shots without bagging any meat. After 
we had beaten up several miles of thick 
brush 2 of my companions became dis- 
gusted and took the back track, leaving the 
old guide and me to continue. We went on, 
keeping several hundred yards apart. I 
soon found a deer track and followed it 
until I was tired. Coming to a tangle 
of logs I sat down to rest. When 
started to climb over the pile of timber a 
big buck jumped up not 4o feet from me. 
The surprise and my fatigue were too 
much for me, and in the act of lifting my 
rifle I lost my balance and fell from the 
log on which I was standing. When I did 


get a shot it was at over 200 yards, with 
the buck going like the wind. He disap- 
peared, carrying his flag high, and I knew 
it was not worth while to follow. 

By that time I had lost my bearings com- 
pletely and the guide had to give me the 
line of our further march by compass. I 
was resolved to get game of some kind, 
and pushed ahead, though the hills seemed 
steeper and the tangle thicker than ever. 
Soon I came to a dense growth of willows 
in a bit of swampy ground. I climbed a 
pile of logs and stood leaning against a 
bush that seemed willing to help support 
a tired hunter. It was not long until I 
heard a crackling in the brush, faint and 
distant at first, but coming nearer. 

I crouched near the logs, expecting every 
minute to see the horns of a great buck. 
So sure was I of what was coming that I 
began speculating as to how I was to 
smuggle those horns to my home outside 
the State. The animal finally burst from the 
thicket almost on top of me, and I saw—not 
the expected horns, but 4 big black feet sup- 
porting a great black convexly curved 
body. A bear, and a monster, too! It was 
my first experience with Ursus, and he 
looked a different proposition from any- 
thing I had solved. I had been told that 
a wounded bear was not a desirable play- 
fellow and the tangle around me was no 
place in which to attempt to cut down the 
running record. I concluded, however, 
that the chance was too good to lose. The 
bear lifted his head as if scenting me, and 
I put a soft nosed 30-30 bullet just 2 inches 
behind the base of his ear. 

I had heard that a badly wounded bear 
would at once roll on his back, with his 
feet up. It proved true in this case at 
least. Over he went, pawing the air wild- 
ly. A moment in that position; then, 
with a struggle and a growl, he regained 
his feet and made off. I fired once more, 
the bullet taking effect in his back. Never- 
theless he went off at breakneck speed. 

When the guide came up we trailed the 
bear. It was an easy matter, though at first 
there was no sign of blood. Farther along 
we found some, and later, great clots of it. 
An eighth of a mile from where he was 
shot we came to the dead body of my first 
bear. 


In the spring the liar’s fancy lightly 
turns to thoughts of fish—The Pilot. 


15 


OLD BILL GRAY'S STORY. 


JAMES B. ADAMS. 


The camp fire blazed with a merry light, 

Like a gleaming gem in the breast of night, 

And the group of hunters who sat around 

Caused the hills and valleys to oft resound 

With peals of laughter, as yarn and song 

Fell glibly off from each wagging tongue. 

Far up the gulch from its rocky lair 

The mountain lion, with restless air, — 

Gazed down on the scene so. weirdly 
strange ; 

And far above in the rugged range 

A night owl hooted in weird surprise _ 

As the gleam of the fire met its owlish 
eyes ; 

While a panther crouched in astonished 
way, 

All undecided to run or stay. 

’Twas a picture familiar to Western eyes, 

Yet strange would have seemed under 
Eastern skies. 


“Speakin’ 0’ grizzlies,” said old Bill Gray, 
As gray of hair as he was of name, 
“Speakin’ o’ grizzlies, I want to say 
That I reckon I'd ort to know that same. 
An’ speakin’ o’ tenderfeet, I’ve heerd 
It said they will never hold their ground, 
But’ll act as if summit slightly skeered 
At a hint that a grizzly’s nosin’ ’round. 
But I once was taught at a Eastern school 
Thar’s allus exceptions to every rule. 


Mortimer King was the name ’at he 

Had struck right acrost a little card, 
An’ when he handed the same to me 

I looked at the Easterner purty hard. 
A little bit of a runty chap, 

With glasses sot on his squinty eyes, 
An’ wearin’ a sort of a striped cap, 


An’ britches that fit him around the 
thighs 

Like the skin of a sassage; an’ socks, I 
sw’ar, 

The same as I’ve heerd that wimmen folks 
w’ar. 


He war’ puffin’ away at a cigaroot, 

An’ when he said ’at he’d like to stay 
With me till he’d run on a chance to shoot 
A grizzly, my laughin’ string give way 
An’ | squealed till 1 split my sides; but he 

Never weakened a little, nor cracked a 
smile, 
But said he reckoned ‘at I mout see 
Him hold his own with the animile. 
So I tuk him into my cabin, jes’ 
‘Cause the cuss ’d amuse me, more or less. 


‘Twas fun fur to hear the little cuss 

A leakin’ language ’bout what he’d do 
Ef he tuk a hand in a grizzly muss. 

Why, boys, from a hunter’s point o’ view 
’Twas too ridiculous fur belief. 

But I let him talk to his heart’s content, 
A sort o’ feelin’ he’d come to grief 

An’ hit the trail to the rear, hell-bent 
The fust time we sighted a grizzly b’ar 
A trampin’ around in the hills up th’ar. 


To shorten my story, we started out 
Nex’ day, a nosin’ around fur game, 
An’ Mortimer King jes’ a blowin’ ‘bout 
How keen he war fur to find the same. 

e hadn’t tramped it a mile afore 
We hit a trail that w’ar mighty fresh; 
It follered the gulch a ways, then bore 
To a thicket o’ manzanita bresh, 
An’ that feller’s eyes begun to dance 
When I tol’ him that now was his golden 
chance. 


Afore I knowed it that little cuss 
Duv into the bushes jes’ like a dart, 
An’ in half a second I heerd a fuss 
That made me chilly around the heart. 
That ol’ Winchester o’ his give tongue 
To some lively barks in a spiteful way, 
An’ the howls o’ the wounded grizzly brung 
My heart in my throat like twas th’ar to 
stay. 
By Godfrey, pardners, I jes’ tuk root 
To the ground; couldn’t move either hand 
or foot! 


When I got my senses I hurried in 
Expectin’ to find but a chawed up dude, 
Fur all had become as quiet as sin, 
An’ I ’magined the b’ar was enjoyin’ his 


food. 


But th’ar stood Mortimer, punchin’ at 


A monster b’ar with his girlish foot 
His eyes never givin’ a skeery bat 


> - 
- 


As he puffed away at a cigaroot:; 


An’ [ jes’ collapsed when I heerd him say, 
How much will the bloody critter weigh?” 


16 


BOUNCE, THE UNDERTAKER. 


MRS. LILLIE PLEAS. 


Having just returned home after a few 
days’ absence, I was awakened from a rest- 
ful nap by sounds which had hitherto been 
foreign to our homestead. On going to a 
back window I beheld the cause of the un- 
usual disturbance. A bull pup, young and 
fat, sat at the foot of the back steps, howl- 
ing for admission to the house. The comi- 
cal appearance of his round body, benched 
legs and angular head struck me so forcibly 
that I laughed aloud. At this he turned 
on me a face seemingly full of solemn 
reproof, then in strident but resolute tones 
he gave the rebel yell, and charged the 
steps. Becoming interested, I lingered to 


ed 


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a. .™ 





A BROAD GAUGE PUP. 


watch the result of his designs on the back 
door. 

He took the first step with little difficulty, 
but at the second he missed his footing and 
fell back to his first position. Without a 
minute’s delay he collected his forces and 
charged again, taking several steps with a 
grand rush. An attempt to finish the as- 
cent brought fresh disaster, for he made 
a false move, his pothooks failed him and 
he fell to earth again. After several vain 
attempts he sat down at the foot of the 
steps to reconnottre.. He gained fresh 
courage as he viewed the scene of his re- 
pulse, and soon went to work again with 
more deliberation. At last he reached the 
top step, but there a new difficulty con- 


17 


fronted him. The door was closed. There 
was no landing, and the footpiece was too 
narrow to accommodate even a small bull 
pup. Nothing daunted, he lunged at the 
closed door, but, alas, it yielded not. He 
fell back, and his. little round body seemed 
fairly to bounce on the steps as he des- 
cended, without a whimper, to sprawl at 
the bottom, defeated on the very thresh- 
hold of victory. 

This incident gave him a name, for he 
was thenceforth known as Bounce. 

Finally I let him in, and installed him 
as a member of the household, where he 
proceeded to make himself thoroughly at 
home. 

As he gained in size he became even less 
comely to look on. He acquired better 
control of his legs, and could mount the 
back steps successfully, but he lost his 
plumpness, and became in appearance what 
a sculptor would call “blocked out.” His 
lips looked as if the drawstrings had been 
broken, for they hung loose in_ several 
places, and his glistening teeth seemed to 
belie the friendly but almost imperceptible 
wag of his thumblike tail. 

The desire for occupation and diversion 
common to all puppies found peculiar ex- 
pression with Bounce. He formed the 
habit of gathering rubbish, or even useful 
articles trom the house, and burying them 
in a corner of the back yard. Rags, bones, 
broken crockery, etc., all went to Bounce’s 
burying ground, and sometimes good shoes 
and hats had to be rescued from an un- 
timely interment. His movements were 
always deliberate, and on these occasions 
he assumed an extra dignity. His face, 
serious at all times, would then wear a 
most solemn expression, so that he soon 
became known among us as Bounce, the 
Undertaker. 

On one occasion, while seeking material 
for a funeral, he chanced on a_ small 
wooden hoop. He had passed many an 
hour playing with this same hoop, and had 
seemingly become as much attached to it 
as any child to a toy. It had once caused 
him keen delight by accidentally rolling 
down a small incline, and he tried for half 
an hour to induce it to roll again. It had 
a mysterious way of entangling itself with 
his feet when he was at play with it, and 
sometimes it would rise up and smite him 
sharply in the short ribs; but now Bounce 
was wearing his “Here to-day and gone 
to-morrow” expression, and the hoop was 
doomed. He bore it with becoming dig- 
nity to a soft spot near the currant bush, 
and dug a hole. Then a difficulty was 


18 RECREATION. 


met, for when one side of the hoop was 
pressed into the grave, the other side rose 
up in a most unexpected manner and 
balked the ceremonies. After several fruit- 
less attempts to entomb the hoop, the dog 
sat down to ponder the situation. It was 
his first problem in engineering. He was 
no mathematician, but he showed that he 
was up to his work by placing the hoop on 
level ground and drawing the loose earth 
over it until it was entirely covered by a 
circular mound. Then he walked slowly 
away, looking very much like a bereaved 
relative. 

A family of brindle kittens shared the 
hospitality of the woodshed with this en- 
terprising pup. They were of the mewing, 
watery eyed age, uncertain of gait, and 
much attached to their place of birth. 
Bounce had repeatedly tried to coax these 
small creatures into sportiveness, but they 
remained unresponsive, so one day he de- 
cided they cumbered the earth to no 
purpose. He took one of them up by the 
skin of its neck and proceeded solemnly, 
I had almost said tearfully, to his private 
graveyard. Digging a suitable hole, he 
placed the passive kitten therein and set- 
tling it carefully with a poke of his nose, 
he drew in the soil and packed it firmly. 
Satisfied with the progress made, he again 
visited the woodshed, but on _ returning 
with his second victim, he found, much to 
his chagrin, that corpse number one had 
revived, and was even then scampering 
away as fast as its wobbly legs could take 
it. He dropped the second to fetch the 
first, and the second fled also. They played 
that on him but once, however, for he soon 
got them both in his mouth and took them 
again to the grave. There he dropped one 
and held it safe by putting one foot on the 
slack of its skin, while he cleared and en- 
larged the grave with another foot. This 
done, he covered the kittens, rammed them 


down with his muzzle, and I think perhaps 
would have sat on the grave to hold them 
securely until such time as they might con- 
sent to remain quiet, had they not been 
rescued by a member of the household who 
felt obliged to go on record as opposed 
to the burial of live cats. 

When Bounce matured he was, generally 
speaking, an amiable watch dog. He 
would not suffer a tramp in sight, how- 
ever, and would bristle and work the draw- 
strings of his lips until there were enough 
great, white teeth in evidence to discour- 
age the boldest Willie. Among his own 
kind he soon became known as a good dog 
to be let alone. It could scarcely be said 
that he ever took part in a dog fight. He 
always allowed his opponent to make the 
first dash, and he never failed to get a good 
throat hold. There was no _ fighting «to 
speak of after that. 

One day Bounce went to a field remote 
from the house, with a hired man who was 
to leave the place the next day. The man 
returned without the dog and went away 
the next morning. It was not until then 
that the dog was missed, and he was not 
seen again until the second day. When 
he came he was fed at once, and as soon 
as he had finished his food he again dis- 
appeared. Late in the evening of the third 
day, after he had gone to the field with 
the hired man he again appeared, dragging 
with his teeth an old coat which the man 
had left on a stump. Faithful Bounce had 
guarded the coat 3 days, and getting tired of 
his lonely job, had decided to remove it 
to a place of safety, crossing several fen- 
ces on the way. The coat was given him 
for a bed, and served to keep him warm 
that winter. 

Bounce has put off his puppyish tricks, 
has retired from the funeral directorship, 
and is now a dignified, faithful and useful 
guardian of the house and its inmates. 


THE COWBOY’S SONG. 


C,7t. is 


Oh! for the life that’s free from care! 
Oh! for the land where men are men! 
To breathe once more that fresh free air, 

Down by the forks of the Dry Cheyenne. 


To feel the bronco bound to the spur, 
To feel the stout rope tighten, when 
Your horse lies back to the steer’s mad 
plunge, 
Down by the forks of the Dry Cheyenne. 


To hear the click of the countless hoofs, 
To hear those rattling horns again 
As the herd stampedes some wild, dark 
night, 
Down by the forks of the Dry Cheyenne. 


To see the grim, grey wolf at dawn, 
Sneak through the hills to his rocky den, 

To start the buck from his leafy bed, 
Down by the forks of the Dry Cheyenne. 


To others the faded life of town, “ 
For me a horse and a gun, and then 
The swelling plains and the pine-bound 


hills, 


Down by the forks of the Dry Cheyenne. 


ONE OF THOSE FLOWING BOWLES. 


Hw. P. GILLETTE 


I have long been an interested reader of 
your excellent magazine. Seldom have | 
experienced more genuine pleasure, how- 
ever, than in reading Mr. J. H. Bowles’ 
contribution, “The Tyee Salmon in Puget 
Sound,” which appeared in RECREATION. 
Coming as this does from my old home, 
it brings back the scenes, not to men- 
tion the smells, of my childhood. The 
Siwash pen picture of old Jack and his 
squaw are to me like the old oaken bucket 
that hung in the well. 
forthwith come visions of the oozy tide 
flats, and the calm-digging Siwashes. I 
hear again the Siwash jargon with its 
whistling notes like the squirting of those 
bivalves on the tide flats; but of those I 
did not start to write. My thoughts center 
rather on the wonderful changes that have 
come to pass in the few fleeting months 
since last I rubbed noses in long sad fare- 
well with my good old friend, Siwash Jack. 
I rejoice to hear that he still lives, and 
wonder whether he smells of clams as of 
yore, and—but I am again growing remin- 
escent. 

Old Jack is still there, but what a change 
has come, not only over the face of nature, 
but over her handiwork as well! I see, by 
Mr. Bowles’ pen picture, the bald headed 
eagle has at last migrated to Puget sound. 
When I was there this monarch of the sky 
still made his eyrie far up among the grand 
crags of the Rocky mountains, where roll 
the thunders and hear no sound save their 
own crashing. Now all is changed. The 
‘bald eagle has come to Puget sound to 
battle for life with the crow. Yet strange 
as to me this all seems, ’tis stranger still 
to-read that Mr. Bowles “finally became 
‘absorbéd in watching the onslaught of a 
flock of crows on a pair of bald eagles, 
whose nest was in one of the giant firs.” 


Wonder not at his absorption! As for 
me, I marvel; but rather that Mr. Bowles, 
the first human being who ever saw a bald 
eagle’s nest in a tree, that he, though he 
had gone to fish, did not remain to pray. 


These be strange days; and Mr. Bowles 
pauses not to write of commonplaces, when 
stranger things remain to be chronicled. 
Dragging his eyes from the eagle’s rocky 
eyrie in the “giant fir,” he finds that a 
tyee with a stomach like a reel has. swal- 
lowed everything but his rod. There fol- 
lows a battle royal between the reels of 
the tyee and of Bowles, until the latter 
wins. 


A moment later Bowles is again thrash- 


I see them, and. 





A BATTLE FOR LIFE. 


ing water into foam with a silver salmon; 
and hardly has he gaffed his prey than he 
finds himself struggling with a mammoth 
rock cod. So he goes from fish to fish, 


. never sighing, like Alexander of old, for 


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more worlds to conquer. 

I protest against the brevity of Bowles. 
When a scientist makes a discovery he 
owes it to himself and to the world to give 
in full the story of his struggles. Bowles 
is altogether too loose in his statements. 
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but Bowles 
is not giving us wit; he is describing 
things that no human eyes but his have 
ever seen; a bald eagle on Puget sound, 
an eagle’s nest in a fir tree, a silver salmon 
in an eddy, a tyee, or steelhead, salmon 
there also, and the time, February, 1902! 

Why February? Answer, the bald 
eagle nests only then. Why 1902? I was 
there myself in 1901, and before then with 
old Siwash Jack; and February, 1903, has 
not yet come.* Thus, like Sherlock Holmes, 
I find the exact date which Bowles neg- 
lects to name. I might e’en get down to 
the very day of the month, but what boots 
it? I pass on to other wonders chronicled 
by this worthy literary descendant of Dar- 





* This story came to me in 1902, but has been 
held over till now because of the quantity of mat- 
ter in hand when this came. Editor. 


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win. Again I quote: “For half an hour 
we rowed slowly along; watching the king- 
fishers retiring for the night to their holes 
in the cliffs.” 

Gone, gone, are the scenes of my child- 
hood! Clifis now tower where once the 
pine-clad slopes upreared their crests to the 
sky! And kingfishers—thieves always— 
have stolen the bank swallows’ nests, and 
rear their young in holes! 

Ah! Bowles, thou makest me sigh. No 
more may I go back to my clammy tide 
flats and rest my eyes on the verdured 
hills; hold forth my arms and cry, “Home 


TA — sill 


- £ ; ’ 


ENEMIES 


I enclose a photograph of 2 ferrets and 
2 common house rats occupying the same 
cage and living happily together. Of course, 
the cage shown in the photograph is not 


their permanent home. They were placed 





RECREATION. 


am I come, and ye do smile a welcome 
sweet to me.” Ah, no! ’Tis all gone. The 
cruel, relentless hand of time hath hewn 
those rolling hills into cliffs, where the 
kingfisher burrows like the mole, and the 
eagle, tired of his craggy home, sleeps im 
the swaying top of the giant fir! The 
tyee, which once ran in the ides of March, 
and the silver salmon, which came only in 
July, now breathe the same water, and to- 
gether, like children in the song, “holler 
down the same rain barrel!’ But why re- 
pine, the world still moves! And Bowles? 
Who can doubt it? He hath spoken. 


AMAT CUR PHOTO BY FRANK E. PONTING 


AT PEACE. 


there to be photographed. They were 
brought up together from young and feed 
from the same troughs. 
Frank E. Ponting, ' 
Malmesbury, England. 





“Jack, dear,” she sighed, “Jack, when 
you are gone I shall pine away.” 


“Don’t,” 


he answered, adding, with an 


uneasy laugh, “don’t pine away; spruce 


up.”—Princeton Tiger, 


BY THE HARDEST. 


AMOS GRAYSON. 


I’ve forgotten the make of gun and can’t 
recollect the brand of powder. 

Jim came and disturbed me at a time 
when no civilized man should disturb a 
civilized fellow man. It was so early that 
it must have been the day before. He 
shook me awake and said: 

“Squirrels ripe. Hustle out.” 

Squirrels were ripe and some fell to the 
ground. We picked them up and bagged 
them. 

I would not undertake to say how far 
we walked that morning, for I am afraid 
of a treacherous memory; but we made the 
rounds. There was the tall shell-bark over 
on the ridge; then the clump, back up in 
‘Wind hollow. Over on the Molohorn place 
were more hunting grounds. 

Then we went to the big forked hickory 
at the foot of Dug hill. 

We had no dog. As we stole within 
range there was a flash of rusty red up 
in the branches. 

“Gee whittaker,” said I, 
know foxes climbed trees. 
squirrel ?” 

“Tt’s both,” said Jim, 
got to do is to get him.” 

We didn’t get him. Several times we 
saw him, or thought so. 

The peppering we gave the spot where he 
seemed to show preserved no meat. I can’t 
say that the hunt was conducted on strict 
sportsmanlike principles. I was new to the 
game and had a new double barreled, 
breech loader out for the first time. Jim 
was a good hunter of the backwoods type, 
6 feet 2, but would have killed that squirrel 
with a fence rail if he could. 

I think we wore a runway around that 
tree. I had to lift my neck straight when 
I quit looking for the squirrel. 

“Let’s both start away,” said Jim. “I'll 
go on to where there’s another tree. You 
sneak back and hide in the brush and 
maybe we'll fool him.” 

The squirrel was no fool and he knew 
it. In half or three-quarters of an hour 
Jim came back. Maybe I was reading, or 


“a fox! Didn't 
Can't bea 


“and what we've 


meditating, or asleep. Jim says I was 
asleep, but I deny it. Anyway the old 
fox was safe. 

“Let’s lambast him,” said Jim. “We're 


going home, anyway.” 

We shot into every clump of leaves. I’m 
afraid we got rattled. We threw rocks. 
ji “Let’s scare him to death, anyway,” said 

im. 


21 


He didn’t scare worth an empty shell. 
I’m also afraid the squirrel was worth sev- 
eral dollars before we let up on the bom- 
bardment. 

“Let the gol darned critter go,” 
“l’m getting hungry.” : 

I remember he said that after all his 
ammunition was gone. 

I claim the merit of prudential restraint 
of the destructive instinct inherent in every 
son of Adam. I started for home with 
one shell left. I claim that merit, and be 
it noticed, ’tis all I do claim in this matter. 

What prompted me to stop when we had 
walked some distance, and request Jim to 
notice if my gun would carry back as far 
as the tree, I can’t say. Certainly all 


said Jim. 


thought of slaughter had left my mind. 


“Jim,” said I, “watch the Big Fork and 
see if this gun can reach from here. I'll 
aim at that clump of leaves half way up. 
See if any of the leaves are hit.” 

With that I cracked down on—my thumb. 
I shall not attempt to explain that, but ’tis 
so. I can show the scar in proof. I for- 
get now what Jim said, but I always main- 
tained that I had the most right to the say 
so at that time. I thought the gun burst 
when I tried again, for Jim let out a yell 
that scared me. As the smoke cleared I 
could see Jim going toward the tree. 
There was a 10-rail fence between it and 
us, also a brier patch behind the fence. 
Jim, you remember, was 6 feet 2. He was 
disappearing in the ’brier patch when I first 
saw him. He was whooping and I thought 
the briers were hurting. I think he jumped 
over that fence and never touched it. I 
know he touched the briers. I couldn’t 
understand this caper till my eye caught 
something rusty red dropping, rolling, 
clinging, dropping, rolling, slipping from 
fork to branch, from branch to leaf. It 
was the squirrel ! 

The recollection of what followed is 
vague. It was some time before I got the 
courage to visit that neighborhood again. 
You see the people there are religious, and 
we must have dsturbed them. I forgot to 
state the day was Sunday. 

I have not tried too hard to analyze the 
whole matter, but we must have exulted 
aloud and with motions. 

There was one pellet through the heart 
of the squirrel. The distance was 60 yards 
to the foot of the tree. That was my first 
hunt. I have since been reading RECREA- 
TION, and I don’t shoot squirrels now. 





KIT RAISED THE WHIP HIGH IN THE AIR, 


22 


KIT, THE TALE OF A MULE. 


FRANK 5S. ELLSWORTH. 


Without a doubt she was the worst mule 
I ever saw. Of course, Jack, having 
passed 10 long years in harness, was full 
of sense; but Kit, his worser half, was 
younger and more ambitious in her mulish 
way. A lady mule can not be ambitious 
and retain the respect of her betters. The 


couple was childless, and, as is sometimes 
the case with childless couples, they quar- 
reled. Kit was unquestionably the corporal 
When Jack would ask 


of their rancho. 


A MURDEROUS GLEAM IN HER EYE. 


permission to go to lodge, or to go out with 
the boys, Kit would curse like a pirate, 
kick him a time or 2 in the ribs, and effec- 
tually prevent his going out that night or 
for several nights thereafter. 

Living for months in close proximity to 
Kit and Jack, I learned a great deal about 
both of them. A natural taste for lan- 
guages enabled me to master the rudiments 
of mule grammar and language, thus get- 
ting an insight into mule thoughts and 
character denied my less fortunate com- 
panions. Later researches have convinced 
me that the mule language is a derivative 
of that of the asses, with a considerable 
admixture of words from the horse tongue. 
The mules have brought a few words in 
pristine purity from their original home 
beyond the Caspian, whence they emigrated 





with that branch of the Aryans which en- 
tered Europe near where Constantinople 
now stands. The most ancient word of 
the pure mule tongue which now occurs to 
me is “Yaw-he-haw,” meaning “oats ;” con- 
clusively proving that the Indo-Aryan 
tribes were farmers and raised the grain 
mentioned. However, it is not of mule 
philology and history that I wish to speak 
at this time. Rather of certain unladylike 
traits which Kit exhibited when on the 
desert, many leagues from home. 

I was not with Kit and Jack during the 
day, and I heard little of their conversation 
when they were at work; but when lying 
on my cot in the evening I have often over- 
heard their complaints, little caresses, and 
schemes. Together, but at her instigation, 
they had several times taken jaunts during 
the night, with no intention of returning in 
the morning, until Dick, the teamster, al- 
most as a last resort, had hobbled them. 

Late one afternoon we camped on the 
bank of El Chicon, a large water hole 
Southwest of Uvalde. That night, as the 
mules were being fed, I heard Kit remark: 

“You divide the corn to-night, Jack dear, 
and don’t forget I want to see you a few 
minutes after the moon sets.” 

About 3 hours later, as the teamster, 
topographer and rodmen were playing their 
everlasting euchre, Kit, who was standing 
ae my cot, was whispering to her better 

alf. 

“Jack,” she said, in an earnest tone, “I 
was frightfully abused by that teamster to- 
day, and I feel terribly cut up about it. 
Feel those long ridges just in front of my 
left hip.” 

He felt of them, and asked, “Well, what 
are you going to do about it?” 

“What am I going to do about it? You 
heartless brute! I shall leaye this place 
to-night and you must go with me. I 
heard the chief, that fellow with the black 
beard, tell Dick to-day that in less than a 
week we will be on rough roads again. If 
you think I intend to get my back and 
collar-bones all spotted with sores again, 
you are a mistaken mule!” 

“But, Kit,” Jack interrupted, “we were 
all through Burnet, Llano, and Mason 
counties last year, on the roughest roads 
either of us ever saw, and we both re- 
covered.” 

“There you go! Always satisfied! Never 
trying to push ahead unless Dick is after 
you with that blacksnake whip! I don’t 
believe you would leave a sure ear of corn 
for the possible chance of everlasting free- 


24 RECREATION. 


dom. Now look you, Jack, do you remem- 
ber the shade, and sweet grass, and cool 
water at Olmos creek? To-night 1 shall 
strike out for that place, and if you have 
any mulehood about you, you will go with 
me. There we will be free, no work and 
all play for the rest of our lives.” 

“But, Kitty, what will they think of us?” 

“What will they think of us?” she re- 
peated slowly, and with that delicate scorn 
of which the mule is master. “What will 
who think of us? If you mean this gang of 
toughs that Dick is with, what do we care 
what they think of us? Should we stay 
here, and have our lives beaten out of us 
when the freedom of the prairies is be- 
fore us?” 

Jack was thoughtful, and as she stopped, 
he said, meekly, 

“Lead on, dear, I will follow you.” 

Three days later, after a fearful waste 
of profanity, 2 wobegone but hopeful look- 
ing mules were found 20 miles from camp, 
standing behind a mesquite bush in silent 
meditation. They had lost their way. As 
Dick, on horseback, galloped into sight 
around the bush Kit gave a scream.° 

“Good Lord! Jump, Jack, jump!” 

Whack! Whack! Whack! fell that ter- 
rible whip on her long sides until she cried 
for mercy. 

“Oh, Jack! Jack! Help me! Kick the 
brute! Kick him! Kick him!” But the 
blacksnake fell on her without pity. 


Kit was pigeon-toed in her left hind foot, 
and, as in the case of the crosseyed man, 
one could never tell where she would 
strike. As Dick dismounted on arriving 
at camp the whip slipped from his hand to 
the ground, not 2 feet from Kit’s left hind 
foot. In a second she had planned a fear- 
ful revenge, and there was a murderous 
gleam in her eye as she estimated the dis- 
tance from her hoof to the whip. As Dick 
lifted it from the ground, with a curse on 
her lips, Kit sent her left hind foot out 
like a catapult, and raised that whip high 
in the air. For an instant it hung above 
our heads, then fell into the watery depths 
of El Chicon, and was felt by Kit no more. 

Whatever else Kit might say about us 
she could not say we were ungrateful. Of 
course Dick occasionally applied the black- 
snake, but even a saint would have done 
that, and Dick was no saint. No, we had 
been good to Kit, and her rash act of 
eloping with Jack, if even a mule lady can 
elope with her own husband, followed by 
that of practically stealing our whip, ruined 
her reputation beyond repair. 

Never again did we pitch a camp, after 
her foolish, mulish escapade, that we did 
not fasten a rope about her neck and tie 
her securely to a. tree, while the hobbles 
were removed from Jack’s legs forever. 
Kit afterward told Jack that in providing 
him with a few days’ freedom and ridding 
him of the whip, she had brought on her- 
self a cruel persecution, 


$15,000 REWARD! 


This foreign lady suddenly appeared in 
Devon, Pa., near the Cathcart Home. She 
spoke only Spanish and Hawaiian, though 
she seemed to be from the North, to prefer 





A BOSTON GIRL? 


the coldest outdoor weather, and to be 
singularly independent of the comforts of 
friends in the Academy of Fine Arts. She 
was lonely, as she was far from her “ain 
countrie,” and had no living relatives, and, 
I am sorry to say, she was badly frozen, as 
she refused to come in out of the cold. 
She “would soon go to a warmer climate.” 

One night she vanished as suddenly as 
she had come. The Arabs never folded 
their tents and stole away more silently. 
modern civilization. 

She was Eastward bound, probably for 
the Hub, where there are kindred spirits, 
some of Carlyle’s “Snow and rose bloom 
maidens,” and where she had some old 
! fear there has been some tragedy, but 
hope for the best. 

Fifteen hundred dollars reward will be 
paid to anyone who will return her to me. 
I feel a natural interest in her as I dis- 
covered her one cold, starlight night, alone 
in the woods near, and brought her out, 
hoping to save her for future usefulness ; 
but with the first breath of spring she fled. 

Thos. L. Gulick, Devon, Pa. 


A DEER ACCIDENT. 


B, BOULDER, 


No country of an equal area, easily acces- 
sible to Arizona sportsmen, fulfills so well 
as Loconino county the conditions neces- 
sary for mule deer hunting. The deer 
are there by the dozen, and mighty wild. 
So much the better, when one wishes real 
sport. One cold morning I started out 
from a little town in that county to take a 
deer hunt up in the mountains. The snow 
lay about 3 feet deep everywhere and there 
was a cold wind blowing from the North. 
We made camp 40 miles back in the moun- 
tains in a canyon. 

The morning after arriving we started 
for the highest mountain in the immediate 
vicinity. Reaching the foot of the moun- 
tain, we saw plenty of deer tracks, and 
formed our plan for the day’s hunt by them. 
My chum, Sam, was to go in a Westerly 
direction, and when half way around, start 
for the top, while I was to go around the 
other side, and when half way was to sit 
down and wait for Sam to come over the 
top and meet me. Sam was armed with a 
40-60 Marlin repeater, while I had a 12- 
gauge Winchester shot gun with buckshot. 
I used the latter from necessity, not choice. 

Reaching my destination, I heard Sam 
shoot 4 times in quick succession, and I 
knew he had found deer. In another sec- 
ond I saw something go behind a pile of 
brush at the top of the hill, but could not 
make out what it was. I started toward 
the object, when Sam shot again, and a big 
buck lurched forward and fell, to rise no 
more. Three more came tearing down the 
hill, 50 feet at a jump, straight toward me. 
I raised on one knee, covered the big 
bunch of horns in the lead, pulled the trig- 
ger with a quick aim, and another buck 
jumped his last. Another buck, bigger than 
any I had seen that year, succeeded in jump- 
ing behind a pile of brush and thus escaped 
me, although I shot twice. 

About that time Sam came in view at the 
top of the hill, and was surprised to learn 
that his deer lay within 30 feet of where he 
stood, for he thought he had missed, as the 
deer made one jump after he fired, and then 
was over the hill, out of his sight. I told 
him I had another deer wounded and wished 
to give chase, and asked him to lend me his 
rifle, which he willingly did. 

Then I started to trail my deer. Of 
course, I knew better than to follow his 
track altogether, so I worked around in 
the canyons awhile and came out on a bit 
of hill ground which he had crossed. I 
had found no blood, but I would not give 
up. I worked till afternoon, and was just 


25 


ready to call it a bad job, when I saw 
through a gap in the pines my deer, stand- 
ing still, entirely unaware of my presence. 
I crawled within 90 yards, and sent a 40-60 
on its way for the buck’s shoulder. He 
went down, but quick as lightning he was 
on his feet again. I was ready for him,. 
and to make sure, I raised the rifle to my 
face, took careful aim, and pressed the 
trigger. Then there was a deafening re- 
port, like a charge of dynamite. For a 
few minutes I was paralyzed. My right 
hand hung limp at my side, and felt as if it 
was over a hot blaze. I quickly raised it to 
see what could be the cause of this, and, to 
my horror, my hand was nothing but a lot 
of mangled flesh and bone, and was bleed- 
ing frightfully. I did not lose my presence 
of mind, but took a white silk handkerchief 
from my pocket and quickly bound it around 
my wrist to stop the flow of blood. I 
thought of Sam, but I knew he could do 
nothing for me, so I started for camp, 
which was over 4 miles away. I will not 
attempt to describe my suffering as I trav- 
eled that 4 miles, down deep canyons, over 
hills, through brush and deep snow. At 
last I came in sight of camp. I do not 
know when a camp looked better; it seemed 
to me the only place in the world. I was 
weak, black clouds passed before my eyes, 
my mind left me. 

After a time I could see Sam bending 
over me, trying to force some brandy be- 
tween my teeth. At last I was able to sit up 
and talk to him. He had heard me shoot, 
had gone to where I crossed a ravine, had 
seen the blood on the snow, mistrusted that 
something was wrong, and had followed my 
trail to camp. 

We made up our minds to leave. I shall 
never forget that night’s ride, but never 
was a team driven over that 40 miles in 
less time. We made it in 9 hours, and it 
was over as rough a road as any one would 
care to travel. 

After a week, against the orders of the 
doctor, I again pulled out with Sam for 
the scene of the accident. When we arrived 
there, I could see the cause of the rifle’s 
exploding. It occurred in the magazine. 
It was caused by the spring in the tube, 
the cap in the end of one of the shells, 
and a bullet in the one directly behind the 
former. Anyone well acquainted with the 
Marlin magazine rifle can understand. It 
was mere luck that I did not havé my head 
blown off. * 

The deer we had killed the week before 
were in good shape, being well frozen. 


26 RECREATION. 


There were 2, but not enough for us. We 
were entitled to 4 by law, it was our last 
chance, and we wished to use it. My hand 
was by no means well. I still carried it in 
a sling. When I wished to use my rifle 
I slipped my hand out, laid the barrel across 
my elbow and could shoot fairly well. Sam. 
and I separated, intending to bring our 
game to camp before dark and in time to 
fix up the horses so we could start back to 
town in the morning. I had been gone from 
Sam about half an hour when I heard him 
shoot. He beat me again, but the same 
thing happened. He was driving the deer 
to me for I had not walked over 300 yards 
when I was aware that 2 deer were coming 
down a hill directly in front of me. When 
I first saw them they were too far away 
to shoot, so I waited and they came on. 


THE 1903 
DR. J. 


A register was sent from Washington to 
me, 

It opened at the old Fifth Horse in a fam- 
iliar way, 

But were it not for a few things that woke 
a tender chord, 

I should have sworn that roster false and 
proved it with my sword. 

Those few remained, but higher up I no- 
ticed them to be 

Than when we last saw Skimezin in his 
rude rancheree. 

They’re higher up than in the days when 
Superstition Mount, 

And Slim Buttes by the subs were held as 
scraps on which to count. 

As I viewed this register, outgrown in 
shape and size, 

A kind of hazy atmosphere seemed settling 
fore my eyes; 

I was again upon the plains beside the 
treacherous Platte, 

And scouting on the Yellowstone led by 
the Little Bat. 

It seemed as if I jogged along, the way 
we used to go, 

Across the bad lands guided by Bill Cody 
and Old Joe. 

And o’er the Arizona trails through can- 
yons deep and grand, 

With noseless Cooley leading on the Aravi- 
pai band. 

With thoughts like these what wonder I 
should turn 


When they were within 100 yards of me 
they suddenly turned to the right. Now 
or never! I twisted a 30-30 soft nose 
through a good rifle barrel, and headed it 
for the same old place. The deer stepped out 
of the way and the bullet smashed against a 
big rock. He turned around and I| dropped 
another bullet in front of him. Then he 
wheeled and came straight for me. I think 
he was guessing hard. He came to a clump 
of brush and stopped within 50 yards. I 
made him a present of another 30-40, and 
he received it in the heart, dropping where 
he was. I went to him and found I had 
hit him through the shoulder. There was 
an old wound also, so I turned him over 
and found, to my own satisfaction, that he 
and I had met before. 


REGISTER. 


S. KENNEDY, 


To this new register, surprised and with no 
small concern. 

Or that I should exclaim aloud as if the 
walls had ears 

And tongue to free my mind of doubts and 
hopes and fears. 

“Where’s Emory, Duncan, Hart, and Crit? 
Where's Jaky Gordon? Where? 

Where’s Billy Royal? Do you dare to say 
they are not there? 

Where’s Mason, Burns and Gassy Brown? 
Where’s Sinbad, Prince and Payne? 

Where’s Charlie Rockwell, Rodgers, all 
brave knights without a stain? 

Where’s Almy of San Carlos 
Where’s Bobby London, say? 

You know t’was Bob that ‘Charlie King 
gave to the world in Ray. I—— 

But here a voice both shrill and strong 
broke in and sternly said: 

“Go mix yourself a toddy, Tubbs, those fel- 
lows are all dead.” 

A sadness fell upon me, I felt 
aggrieved, oppressed, 

And to the wraith that spoke to me I thus 
myself addressed: 

“T’is many moons since I have drained the 
bracing, -stirring cup, 

But come, my man, bring forth your grog 
and fill the beaker up; 

It must be that I’m getting old and ebbing 
with the tide, 

How? Here’s to it! I'll strike their camp 

beyond the Big Divide.” 


fame? 


then, 





ANTOINE’S CARIBOU. 


E. W. PARKER, 


Mos’ de beeg bug got de craze for catch 
a deer. T’ree, 4, 5, mebbe, go on Megantic 
2, t’ree week an’ have bully tam shoot de 
pheasant and de duck an’ hunt de caribou. 

Ah’m lak dat mahse’f, an’ w’en Ah got 
finis’ dig mah pettetto Ah’m decide in mah 
min’ dat Ah’ll go tak’ some caribou for 
mah fambly, ’nough lass all winter. So 
Ah gon over cross ’bout 4 acres were 2 
feller Ah know, Jo Garceau an’ Pete Go- 
neau, was mak’ slash. Ah ax heem come 
wit me lass week an’ hunt caribou. Pete 
ax me, 

“W’ere you gon’, Antoine?” 

Ah say we gon on Brompton lak, or Lak’ 
Scratch-roun’-to-meet-us. Jo say Bromp- 
ton bes’ plas an’ he go in for dat wit’ all 
hees heart an’ hees new gaun, too; so we 
’gree for dat an’ Ah gon rat home for feex 
mah gaun. 

Mah fadder give me dat gaun mos’ 30 
year ago, an’ hees fadder give it to heem 
more as 40 year fore dat; mah gre’t gran’- 
fadder tak’ heem from Capen Bung w’en 
he fight de Injuns below Quebec on Mont- 
morenci. Bah gosh, Ah’ll smash de target 
evertam wit’ dat gaun, he’s bes’ Ah never 
see. 

Nex’ mornin’ Ah’m got up hearly for 
ron down an’ buy hammunition an’ gon to 
butcher’s for piece meat las’ mah fambly 
wile Ah’m huntin’. Ah see dere 2, t’ree 
pooty leetle deer wat come down Megantic 
for sell it. One have awful pooty tail, an’ 
Ah’m tol’ de butcher will he give me dat 
tail; Ah want heem for mah leetle gran’son. 
He mak’ remark he ant see w’at mah gran- 
chil’ mak’ wid a tail. Ah tol’ heem Ah go 
ver’ of’en see dat leetle feller an’ we have 
bully tam play de sojer, an’ Ah’ll pin de 
tail on hees cap an’ mak’ heem feel beeg. 

So Ah’m gon home an’ load mah fusee. 
He tak’ t’ree finger paouder an’ han’ful buck 
shot an’ he’s ready for bus’ness. He mak’ 
some hexecution w’en he’s gon off, hem? 

We jomp on woggin an’ ’way we gon to 


Brompton. We mak’ joke an’ have good 
tam, an’ bimeby Jo ax me: 

“Antoine, were you gat dat ole gaun?” 

Ah’m tol’ heem de whole historee, an’ 
he offle bet hees dog Ah ant able hit de 
lak’. He show me hees rafle an’ brag gre’t 
deal. He say it repeataire an’ shoot 15 tam 
an’ load heem o’ny fust tam. 

We ’rive on de lak’ and Jo tie tree on 
hees ole hoss, an’ we plonge in de fores’, 
heverybody for heemse’f go hunt w’are he 
min’ to. 

Ah’m put on mah mogasin an’ go ver 
slow. Pooty soon de fores’ all close in an’ 
Ah ant see Jo an Pete. Bimeby Ah ’rive 
on one slash an’ Ah peek t’rough de bush. 
Rat dere, not 4 rod ’way, stan’ my caribou! 
He look lak he 8 foot high an’ on’y want 
for heat me. I turn roun’ an’ lay mah 
gaun on log an’ look for steek to hit heem. 
Bah gosh, Ah’m ’fraid he bite me. De col’ 
cheel ron up mah back an’ Ah tak’ mah 
cap an t’rough at heem an’ yell lak’ a 
dev’? Mah soul! he jomp more as 40 foot; 
jomp, jomp, an’ hees gon’! 

W’en Ah compose mahse’f de firs’ t’ing 

Ah’ll see is mah gaun an’ Ah say, 
- “Antoine, you condemn ole fool, you ant 
know not’in’.” Ah grab de gaun an’ tak’ 
good aim at de bush w’ere de caribou ron 
t’rough. Ah let heem go an’, sacree cochon, 
how he roar! 

Pooty soon Jo an’ Pete come ron on de 
slash an’ ax me, “W’at you kill, Antoine, 
w’at you kill?” 

“Ah’m shoot beeg caribou,” Ah say. 
“Ron, ron, los’ no tam an’ we’ll gat heem.” 

Dey laugh an’ ax w’ich way he’s gon’. 
Ah show de trail, sure ’nough, an’ Ah tak 
out de leetle deer’s tail ver’ sly and mak’ 
b’lieve Ah’ll foun’ it. “Here’s hees tail,” 
Ah say. “Ron, Jo; ron Pete, you’ll catch 
heem ’fore he’s gon’ 2 acre.” 

Dat las Ah’m see of Jo an’ Pete, an’ de 
caribou, too. 


MEN OF THE SUN AND RAIN. 


R. B,. NATTRASS. 


Men of the sun and rain for me, 

Men with the cheeks of tan, 

Who love all good things ardently 

But most, an honest man; 

Whose grip of comradeship is strong, 
Whose simple words are true, 

Men, if a multitude were wrong, 
Would battle for the few! 

Such are the men for me indeed, 


Men of the fresh turned soil, 

Whose rough hands preach the noblest 
creed, 

The creed of manly toil. 

They may be poor, as riches stand, 

Their manners crude and plain, 

But they’re the kings of any land; 

Men of the sun and rain. 


MOUNTAIN BADGER. 


ALLAN BROOKS. 


This badger was originally described from 
Fort Crook, Shasta county, California, but 
it also occurs through the mountains of the 
interior as far North as Southern British 





but unlike them, the badgers do not ascend 
the mountains to timber line. Their food 
consists of these squirrels and many other 
small mammals, as well as insects, fruit, 


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MOUNTAIN BADGER. TAXIDEA AMERICANA NEGLECTA (MEARNS). 


Columbia. The Nanagan district is the only 
locality where I have met it but it is prob- 
ably found locally throughout the semi-arid 
portions of Southern British Columbia. 
Nowhere have I found it numerous; one or 
2 pairs being found at a time in wide 
stretches of country. A stray one occasion- 
ally turns up in unlooked for localities, 
Generally speaking they are found wher- 
ever there are colonies of ground squirrels, 


roots, etc. I do not know the period of 
badger hibernations and was surprised to 
find them traveling about last winter, 
through deep snow, from burrow to bur- 
row, often 4 of a mile apart. This was in 
December and the weather had been uni- 
formly cold. In a trap these badgers fight 
well; more so than any other animal except 
perhaps an otter. The weight of an adult 
badger is about 18 pounds, 


A. Fusser—What would you do if I 


should kiss you? 


Mary McLane—I should scream for help. 


A. Fusser—Why ? 


Don’t you think I 


could do it alone?—Pawtucket Gazette. 


el ie 8S, ni ee ee 


HIKING IN RIZAL. 


CHAS. H. STONE. 


I recently took a trip into the province 
of Rizal, and although I did not shoot any 
game I saw plenty of evidence that it was 
there in abundance. 

I took the boat from Manila up the Pasig 
river into the Laguna de Bay, a lake 70 
miles long and 35 wide, and about 10 miles 
from Manila. I had the good fortune to 
meet a friend on the boat who lives at 
Tonay, and who insisted on my accompany- 
ing him home. 

While going along the shores of the La- 
guna de Bay we saw numerous snipe and 
large white cranes. The latter are some- 
times called caraboa cranes, on account of 
their often being seen in company with the 
caraboa, or water buffalo. The natives 
never molest these birds, though their eggs 


are gathered and sold in the markets as’ 


duck eggs, which they resemble, but are 
somewhat stronger in taste. We also saw 
thousands of ducks, which are little hunted 
as yet, the natives having no guns, while 
few shot guns are owned in the islands by 
Americans and Europeans. 

After reaching Tonay we endeavored to 
secure the services of several natives as 
packers for our provisions and camp outfit, 
and after considerable trouble we managed 
to hire 5. Generally we have no trouble in 
securing natives, but as the fiesta of the 
pueblo (holiday of the town) would com- 
mence in about 5 days, they did not want to 
risk the chance of missing it. The only 
way we managed to get them was by prom- 
ising we would be back the day before the 
fiesta. 

This particular town celebrates 217 fies- 
tas in a year, besides Sundays. The civil 
government has enacted laws regulating 
holidays, and most of the fiestas formerly 
observed have been discontinued in Manila; 
but in the provinces the old order still con- 
tinues. Each town is controlled by a presi- 
dente, corresponding to a mayor in the 
United States, and as they live an easy life 
and draw a good salary, they do not inter- 
fere with the pleasures of the people; and 
unless these mayors harbor ladrones the 
government does not interfere with them. 

We started on foot the next morning, 
each native carrying about 150 pounds, di- 
vided in 2 packs, which were slung one at 
each end of a short pole. They carry these 
loads without apparent effort, taking a kind 
of dog trot and keeping it up half a day ata 
time. We made 10 miles in 3 hours, going 
over a range of foothills about 500 feet 
high, and finally arrived at our destinatio 
in a deep valley at the foot of the main 
range of mountains. 


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On the way we flushed many quails and 
a wild chicken. The quails are no larger 
than robins, while the chickens are a little 
larger than bantams. The chicken we saw 
was a male, and as he flew across the trail 
he presented a most beautiful appearance, 
with his red plumage and long*tail. The 
hens are dull brown and smaller than the 
males. Every night and morning after we 
got in camp we heard these wild roosters 
crowing, and it seemed as if there must be 
a farm house not far away. 

In our trips in the mountains we saw 
many tracks of deer and wild hogs, and 
even saw roiled water that they had passed 
through only a few minutes before, but did 
not catch a glimpse of any of the animals. 
They are trailed with dogs, and where 
Americans or Europeans are hunting, are 
shot as they come out into the open; but 
as the natives have no guns, they either 
spear their game or drive it into nets. 

We saw several deer traps that the na- 
lives had set, and had to keep close watch 
that we did not get into them. They were 
generally on a trail between 2 close setting 
trees where a 2 inch sapling could be bent 
down for a spring. A stick lying across 
the path serves as a trigger, releasing the 
sapling, which drives a sharp stick through 
the deer’s body. 

Wildcats are numerous in the woods 
along the streams, but are seldom seen. 
Along the streams is found an animal 
closely resembling the alligator, except that 
it has a small head. Its diet is principally 
fish, though it is not averse to fruit, climb- 
ing good sized trees to get it. It frequently 
attains a length of ro feet, with a breadth 
of 12 inches across the back.* The streams 
contain some good fishes, but not an exten- 
sive variety. I saw numerous gars swim- 
ming near the top of the water, but they 
are not good to eat. 

Troops of monkeys are frequently seen, 
but they have been shot at so often that 
they soon make themselves scarce at sight 
of a man. Snakes are sometimes seen, 
though in our 5 days’ tramp we saw but 
one, and that was only a foot long. Boa 
constrictors are found in these islands, and 
sometimes measure more than 20 feet in 
length. 

About a year ago, as one of our ware- 


*This animal is undoubtedly a big monitor liz- 


ard, similar to the kabra goya of Ceylon. It be- 
longs to the genus Varanus. lives mostly on the 
ground, feeds on eggs, small mammals, birds and 
flesh of all kinds that it can catch and swallow. 
Ten feet is a great length for these creatures, but 
a particularly large and long tailed animal might 
attain it. This animal is active and strong and 
fierce in disposition.—W. T. H. 


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houses here in Manila was opened, a boa 
14 feet long crawled from under the stairs 
near the door and was killed by the Chinos 
and Filipinos working in the warehouse. Its 
only desire seemed to be to escape, and it 
did not show fight. It must have crawled 
through a rear window from the canal that 
runs a few feet back of the warehouse. 
While in the mountains we often heard 
the cry of a large bird similar to the buz- 
zard of our Western plains. Its discordant 


WHO LOST IT? 


Herewith I enclose photo of a freak of 
nature, known as the Devil’s Chimney, 
which it well suggests. While going 
through the farming district of Green coun- 
ty, Wisconsin, a few miles north of New 
Glarus, one of the company sighted some- 
thing in the distance towering above the 
treetops, and after driving almost a full 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY WALTER WOHLWEND. 


THE DEVIL’S CHIMNEY, GREEN COUNTY, WIS. 
hour we came face to face with the 
object, as shown in the photograph. It 
proved to be a pile of solid rock reaching 
the height of about 45 feet. It is the only 
rock of any size for miles around. 

Have been reading Recreation for the 
last 2 years, and would not be without it. 
I enjoy your slashings of the game hogs. 
Give it to ‘em! 


Walter Wohlwend, Brackenridge, Pa. 


RECREATION. 


notes can be heard more than a mile. Crows 
can be seen at all times of the day. 

In my travels in the islands I have never 
seen any members of the squirrel or rabbit 
family. I should like to see squirrels in- 
troduced here; they would never become the 
pest that the rabbit has proved in countries 
foreign to it. 

The English sparrow is here, but does 
not multiply as in the States, and its pres- 
ence is more pleasant than otherwise, as 
there is a dearth of birds in the islands. 


A VALIANT WOODCHUCK. 


A few days ago my wife and I, with a 
friend, took a stroll through the woods 
near here. My wife is a Kodak enthusiast. 
One of my friends took his Llewellyn with 
him, and my wife, who had been on the 
lookout for desirable views, suddenly dis- 
covered the dog engaged in a combat with 
a half grown woodchuck. The sight was 





PREPARING FOR A RUSH. 


worth seeing. The little chuck was the 
scrappiest thing of its size I ever saw. 
There were a number of mixups but the 
little fellow came out unscathed every time. 
My wife caught him as he was preparing 
for one of his rushes at the dog and I 
thought you might deem the picture worth 
a place in REcREATION. Out of regard for 
the valor of the little chuck, we called the 
dog off and left Chuckie master of the situ- 


ation. 
S. M. Keenan, Eloise, Mich. - 


She—The milliner told me she had been 
down to the dentist’s to have a. nerve 
killed. 

He—Well, from the prices she asks for 
hats I should say the dentist must have 
killed the wrong one.—Stray Stories. 


Invitation is the sincerest flattery. 


THE NEW ARMY RIFLE. 


In response to many requests I take pleas- 
ure in presenting herewith a p.cture of the 
new 30 caliber army rifle, known as the 
New Springfield. For comparison, I also 
show a cut of the Krag-Jorgensen, which has 
been in use in the army several years, and 
which has now been discarded. ‘The 
new rifle embodies the best features of the 
old one and of the Mauser, and has been 
given exhaustive tests under such condi- 
tions as are likely to be met in active ser- 
vice. Most army officers, as well as 
expert riflemen in the ranks, who have 
used this new arm, are enthusiastic in its 
praise; but, of course, its real value can 
not be known until it shall be subjected to 
actual hard service ia the field and in battle. 


distant the bullet rises 20.67 feet; whereas 
the bullet of the Krag rises 25.8 feet. In 
shooting at a target 300 yards away, with 
the old smooth bore musket, used in our 
army before the Civil War, the bullet rose 
129 feet at its turning point, which was 175 
yards from the muzzle. 

The New Springfield has a killing range 
of 5 miles, though, of course, it is impossible 
to see a man at that distance with the 
naked eye. The rifle is sighted for 3,000 
yards, and is capable of dropping a bullet 
into a line of troops or a camp with deadly 
efficiency, at that range. At 55 feet the 
New Springfield has penetrated 54 inches 
of pine boards, and 6 inches of pine boards 
at 1,500 yards. The new rifle is claimed to 





Upper 


The New Springfield is of the class 
known as the clip-loading magazine gun, 
and is provided with a cut-off which en- 
ables the soldier to use it as a single loader, 
with the contents of the magazine (5 car- 
tridges) held in reserve. 

The new rifle weighs 934 pounds, which 
is about one pound less than the Krag. 
The barrel of the new gun is 24 inches long, 
while that of the old is 32 inches. The 
entire length of the new rifle is 43 inches 
as against 49 inches for the Krag. The bul- 
lets of both rifles are of the same weight, 
220 grains. The powder charge for the 
New Springfield is 43 grains, whereas the 
Krag used 37 grains. This increase of pow- 
der charge gives the New Springfield a muz- 
zle velocity of 2,300 feet a second, which is 
300 feet greater than that of the Krag. 
The new rifle has a flatter trajectory than 
the old. In shooting at a target 1,000 yards 


How’s your wife, 


Rife—THE NEW 
Lower Rife—THE KRAG-JORGENSEN. 


SPRINGFIELD. 


give practically no recoil when fired, and 
this, of course, adds greatly to its possible 
accuracy at all ranges. The barrel of the 
new rifle is entirely encased in wood, which 
gives it a somewhat clumsy appearance, 
but it has been determined by a long series 
of tests in actual service that this plan of 
construction is necessary in order to give 
the arm the highest possible degree of dura- 
bility. 

With the new gun, experts have fired as 
high as 15 shots singly and 5 shots from the 

magazine, in 1534 seconds. 

It will require 60,000 of the new rifles 
to equip the army and navy, and the Spring- 
field armory is capable of turning them out 
at the rate of 250 a day. It is the intention 
to arm the militia of the various States with 
the new rifle, as soon as both branches of 
the regular service shall have been thus 
equipped. 


Blinks? 


Her head troubles her a good deal. 


Neuralgia? 
No; 
31 


she wants a new hat.—Selected. 


A. D. Austin, of Everett, Wash., writes 
a letter to Opportunity, a paper published 
in St. Paul, Minn., telling about the fishing 


trip which he and George Bakeman made to 


“bir Culch 
hid ipatke 


Sy 0 


CHAMPION OF PUGET SOUND. 


picture shows something over 75 fish. Aus- 
tin says, “George Bakeman is the champion 
trout catcher of Puget Sound and I ven- 
ture to say he has few equals in the world.” 


nS > ti — 


L1A€ 


hom: fof Ge, i! 


las 4 


iy See Baheman ; 


> 


A 6-HOUR CATCH OF 


Panther lake, Wash., last summer. He 
sends a photograph of their string of fish, 
which is reproduced here, and which he 
Says measured feet long. He also says 
the fish average 12 inches in length, and the 
GILBERT’S OTHER FAD. 

My gentle hours of a lifetime have been 
given to the breeding of white fantail 
pigeons. I began with them in 1855, and 
have reared them to a point as near per- 
fection as man can get them. In my opin- 
ion there is no handsomer bird. They are 
always in motion, and have a fascinating, 
coquettish style. They can be kept just 
like chickens in any kind of a coop that 
will keep rats and cats away. My pigeons 
are far more tame than chickens, for they 
fly all over me and my wife, and if we sit 
down a moment we are completely fes- 
tooned with the little dancing beauties. 

The bird of which I send you a photo is 
as handsome a little fellow as I ever raised. 
He has not yet been named, and I think 
“Coquina” would be about right. He is a 
revelation to those who have seen only the 





TROUT IN PANTHER LAKE, WASHINGTON, BY GEORGE BAKEMAN 
AND A. D. 


AUSTIN. 


I move to strike out the word “catcher” 
in the above sentence and substitute the 
word “hog.” 


Bakeman’s number in the fish hog book 
is 919 and Austin’s is 920.—Epiror. 


ordinary scrub fantails, of which there are 
SO many in all cities. 
F. M. Gilbert, Evansville, Ind. 





WHO’s IT? 


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OUR AND SOMEBODPY’S ELSE BUCK. 


FALCON, 


Probably there are but few hunters in 
Pennsylvania who have not heard of the 
beautiful Diamond valley, in Huntingdon 
county, famed for its many deer. Sports- 
men from afar visit the valley every year 
and few return empty handed. Of course 
deer are not so plentiful as in former years, 
but there are still enough to afford good 
sport. In that valley, several years ago, 
David L., who has been my hunting com- 
panion for many years, and I, enjoyed our 
first deer hunt. 

An invitation had been extended to us by 
relatives living at the head of the valley to 
stay with them during the hunting season, 
and we were assured game was unusually 
plentiful that year. We took our departure 
by train early one morning in December. 
Reaching Petersburg we got off and started 
to walk to. our destination, 10 miles away, 
over a rough road covered with 6 inches of 
snow. Encumbered by the weight of our 
guns and satchels. It was dinner time be- 
fore we came to the quaint, old farm house 
for which we were bound. Dinner over, 
we decided to go down the valley a short 
distance to shoot grouse. We _ tramped 
through the brush 2 hours and bagged 8 
birds; and were on the point of returning 
to the house when 2 hunters came along 
dragging a large buck over the snow. The 
sight so transported us that we could not 
wait until the next day to go deer hunting; 
so having taken our birds to the house, we 
started out alone, in a strange country, in 
quest of deer. 

We had never hunted deer, but had read 
of the different methods employed, and de- 
cided to try still hunting. After wander- 
ing about the valley some time we heard the 
sound of a bell along the foot of the moun- 
tain. Knowing that a party of hunters 
near were belling for deer, we decided to 
keep moving along opposite the party, on 
the chance of their driving a deer toward 
us. We had double barrelled, muzzle load- 
ing shot guns, into which we had dropped 
a number of buckshot over the bird shot. 
That. was ‘a great mistake, as we afterward 
found. We were both partial to muzzle 
loaders at that time. 

We moved along until the sound of the 
bell became fainter, and finally died away, 
and it was apparent that the party had 
crossed the mountain. We were standing 
on an old logging road not far from the 
mountain, in a rather open tract, when I 
caught sight of something moving in the 
bushes about 300 yards distant, and called 
Dave’s attention to it. Suddenly an im- 


33 


mense buck emerged from the brush into 
the open timber, moving in a line parallel 
to us. We had given up all hope of getting 
a shot at him when he turned and came 
toward us. We crouched behind a small 
thorn bush and with guns cocked, anxiously 
awaited his coming. The animal moved 
forward in a leisurely way, ever and anon 
cropping the leaves in his path. We re- 
mained rooted to the spot, spellbound with 
admiration, but strange to say were not 
seized with buck ague. When the buck had 
advanced to within 30 yards of us he sud- 
denly threw his head high in the air with 
a loud snort. We were to windward of 
him, but nevertheless he scented us. Dave 
whispered, “Now!” We quickly brought 
our guns to our shoulders, took careful aim 
and fired. The monarch of the forest 
sprang high in air and fell, but regained 
his feet in an instant and rushed madly past 
us, taking immense leaps. I wheeled and 
gave him the other barrel broadside, just 
as he disappeared into a small ravine. Dave 
— behind me and could not ag another 
shot. 

Here we made the mistake of our lives 
by instantly starting in pursuit of the 
wounded animal. He had lain down after 
traveling a short distance, and had we wait- 
ed a while before starting on the trail, he 
would have been so stiffened as to be un- 
able to rise, and we could have made short 
work of him. His foot marks were covered 
with blood, and the irregular manner in 
which they were made showed that he was 
moving with an uncertain, staggering gait, 
badly wounded. The trail led down the 
ravine and along the foot of the moun- 
tain, through almost impenetrable thick- 
ets; then turned sharply to the left up 
the mountain side. Slowly we followed, 
now and then losing the track in the thick 
brush. Suddenly there was a crashing noise 
a short distance ahead. We rushed forward 
with all possible speed, and soon arrived 
at the place where the buck had fallen in 
the,snow; but hearing us coming, he had 
risen and started on again. We examined 
the place where he fell and found the snow 
covered with clotted blood. Expecting to 
find him at any moment, we moved quickly 
up the mountain, and after a laborious strug- 
gle arrived at the top. There we lost the 
trail. -We tried in vain to find it, and as it 
was getting late and we were in a strange 
country, we concludéd to give it up; so be- 
gan to retrace our steps down the moun- 
tain. 

Night soon overtook us, and not being 


34 RECREATION. 


able to see the eutline ef the mountain, we 
became confused and could not tell which 
way to go. It was useless to think of camp- 
ing on the mountain for the night; fire 
wood could not be procured as the ground 
was covered with snow, and the weather was 
bitterly cold. We moved aimlessly about 
in the darkness to infuse warmth into our 
benumbed bodies. However, being seasoned 
hunters and warmly clad, we did not suffer; 
although, as we afterward learned, the ther- 
mometer fell to zero that night. At length 
the moon came up from behind the moun- 
tain and the landscape was flooded with 
light. Dave uttered an exclamation of joy 
and pointed to an immense pine tree that 
stood alone in an open space and that we 
had taken particular notice of early in the 
afternoon on account of its great size. 
Knowing the farm was not far distant, we 
pushed rapidly on, but had taken only a few 
steps when a low, snarling sound greeted 
our ears. Stopping suddenly, we saw 2 
glowing eyes shining like balls of fire out of 
a clump of bushes. We immediately raised 
our guns and fired. With a savage growl a 
catamount sprang out of the brush, rolled 
over and expired almost instantly. We 
started for home again, taking turns in car- 
rying the big cat. We reached the house at 
last, and the family were greatly surprised 
to see the catamount. They had been much 
alarmed over our absence, and 2 of the boys 
were on the point of starting in search of 
us when we arrived. 

After dinner we related the details of our 
deer hunt. The boys were not hunters, but 
there was a neighbor at the house that even- 
ing who was considered one of the best deer 
hunters in that country. He said that no 
doubt the buck was lying dead on the moun- 
tain, and he would be glad to go with us in 
search of him in the morning. We arose 
early and started at daybreak; going di- 
rectly to the spot where the buck had been 
wounded. Our new friend, Bill Smith, took 
the lead and we started on the trail of 
the wounded deer, which was partially filled 
with snow that had fallen during the night. 
When the place was reached where the deer 
had bled so freely, Bill exclaimed, “That’s 
a dead buck and no mistake.” We pressed 
on, but it was slow work to follow the 
track, which led through the thickest cover 
on the mountain and was continually crossed 
by other trails. We were moving along the 
top of the mountain through a dense growth 
of laurel, briars, berry bushes and young 
cedars. One not acquainted with the habits 
of deer would say they could not go through 
such a place, yet our immense buck, with his 
magnificent antlers went through, apparently 
with the greatest ease. A buck when pene- 
trating thick places, lowers his head and 
throws his horns as far back as possible. 
Thus the points of the prongs do not become 


’ was 50 yards to the right of me. 


entangled in the brush, but slip through 
easily. We soon came to a place where a 
herd of deer had spent the night. It was 
impossible to follow our buck farther, as 
the snow was covered with tracks which 
led in all directions. After an hour’s 
vain search, we gave it up in despair. We 
had described the buck to Bill, who told us 
the animal was an old timer, known far and 
near for his immense size. He had been 
wounded several times, but was so wary 
that few hunters were ever fortunate enough 
to get a shot at him. ; 

It was yet early in- the day, and Bill pro- 
posed go to a camp of deer hunters farther 
up the valley and spend a day or 2 hunting 
with them. When we arrived at the camp 
we found the men ready to start for the 
day’s hunt. They were all friends of Bill 
and gave us a hearty welcome, with an invi- 
tation to stay as long as we wished. It 
was a model camp. The cabin was built of 
heavy logs with a door in front, a small 
window at one side and a huge stone chim- 
ney at the other. The bunks were built 
along one side, one above the other, and 
were covered with spruce, a foot in thick- 
ness, to serve as mattresses. In the middle 
of the room stood a long, low table with 
benches on either side. All the cooking 
utensils were neatly arranged above the 
fire place, and in one corner of the room 
was a rack which contained the guns. A 
small door opened from the back part of 
the cabin into the larder, which was a small 
shed made of logs, through one end of 
which bubbled a stream of clear, crystal, 
spring water. In front of the cabin hung a 
full grown buck and a doe, also 2 wild tur- 
is the result of the previous day’s 
lunt. 

We went out with the hunters and soon 
struck a trail along the bottom of the moun- 
tain. The bellman, who carried a cow bell 
fastened by a strap thrown over his shoul- 
der, gave us 20 minutes to reach the nearest 
crossing. We clambered up the mountain, 
reached the crossing, and took our posi- 
tion. Soon the faint tinkling of the bell 
was heard far down the mountain. Deer 
are curious, and the ringing of the bell 
sometimes causes them to stand still until 
the bellman gets close enough for a shot; 
but they generally trot slowly along ahead 
of the bellman. I had taken my station 
about the middle of the crossing and Dave 
The bell 
sounded louder and louder, and I knew the 
game was not far distant. Suddenly there 
was a sound of wings, and I turned to see 
a large gobbler alight on a pine within easy 
range. What a temptation to fire! But, if 
I should, all our chances for deer would be 
destroyed, and I would be disgraced in the 
eyes of the other hunters; so I waved my 
hand and scared the tempter away. 


OUR AND SOMEBODY’S ELSE BUCK. 35 


Scarcely had I done so when there was 
a slight, crackling noise directly ahead, and 
I saw a buck and a doe. They were stand- 
ing in a laurel thicket with only their heads 
visible and were out of range. As the bell- 
man came nearer they suddenly disappeared. 
I caught sight of a small patch of gray to 
my left, but did not fire as the distance was 
too great and the man below me would get 
a much better shot. In 2 few seconds I 
heard the crack of his rifle. We all gath- 
ered, and saw the man who had fired cut- 
ting the throat of the buck. On the way 
down the mountain we jumped a spike buck, 
which soon disappeared in the brush after 
having been fired at several times. We had 
reached the valley and were moving rapidly 
on toward the camp, when one of the party 
saw something moving in the brush. We 
could not see what it was, but followed its 
movements by the shaking of the bushes. 
We were soon rewarded by seeing the head 
of our spike buck appear above the under- 
brush. He was so far away as to seem out 
of range. All of the men carried shot guns, 
but one, who had a 44 rifle. So much of the 
shooting is done at close range in that sec- 


A NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMEN. 


One day Bill Nye happened on the sign 
of the late Major Pond, the lecturer man- 
ager, in a window of a New York hotel. 
He said to a friend who accompanied him: 
“Here’s the man who incites the lecturers. 
Let’s go in and see if we can’t induce him 
to lead a better life.” 

Entering, Nye removed his hat, ran his 
hand over the hairless expanse of his head, 
and, after staring about for a moment, 
said, 

“This is Major Pond, I believe.” 

“Yes, sir. What can I do for you?” an- 
swered the major. 

“T want to get a job on the platform,” 
returned Nye. 

“Ah—yes,” said the major, 
“Have you had experience?” 

“Well, I’ve been before the public for a 
couple of years.” 

“Yes. May I ask in what capacity?” 

“Tl’ve been with Barnum. Sat concealed 
in the bottom of a cabinet and exhibited 
my head as the largest ostrich egg in cap- 
tivity.”’—Argonaut, 


slowly. 


- a grouse, and squirrels; 


tion, that most deer hunters use shot guns. 
The man with the rifle raised the sight to 
200 yards and pulled the trigger. Instantly 
the head of the buck disappeared and we 
knew he had been hit. On reaching the 
spot we found him dead. We took the two 


bucks into camp and were soon seated at 


supper. 

That night it rained and the snow be- 
came covered with a thick crust, so we 
could do no more still hunting. We re- 
turned to the farm house, remained there 
several days, shooting small game, and then 
went home carrying large strings of rabbits, 
but greatly disap- 
pointed at not getting our big buck. A few 
weeks later we received a letter saying our 
buck had been found dead on the mountain 
in a dense laurel thicket; so we had the 
satisfaction of knowing that on our first 
deer hunt we had killed the famous old 
buck that had baffled so many hunters. The 
man who found the buck has the magnifi- 
cent antlers hung up in his house, and when 
he shows them to visitors, he tells them how 
2 strangers killed the noble old animal that 
bore them so proudly for many years. 


RECREATION. 
NED NATE. 
Some men will toil throughout their lives, 
From rise to set of sun, 
And take a lay-off only when 
Their work on earth is done. 


Some work 11 months a year, 
From youth till past their prime, 
And take their recreation in 
The good old summer time. 


Some men take Christmas for their rest, 
Some take St. Patrick’s day, 

While some who rest on Sundays 
Think theirs the better way. 


But I, for one, delight in fun, 
I play whene’er I can, 

And take my RECREATION on 
The monthly instalment plan. 


Orator: All 





Political men are born 
equal. 

Voice in Audience: Then why is it seme 
men get more for their vote than others ?— 


Life. 


BUD MOOSE BOGGED. 


H, B, BROWN. 


When years of maturity have been 
reached, it is, at times, but natural to hark 
back to the bygone days and recall some of 
the events which have made up the sum to- 
tal of life. Victories we have won serve to 
cheer by their recalling; at this distance 
the absurd situations in which on occasion 
we have been placed become amusing; the 
regrets which but naturally arise from neg- 
lected opportunities have been so tempered 
by time that their keen edge is lost, and 
personal reminiscence proves a most satis- 
factory employment. with which to pass 
cheerfully an otherwise lonely hour. 

Thus, here am I, Bud Moose, full of 
vigor and strength, keen of eye and ear, 
wonderfully- acute of scent, swift and 
tireless of foot, lying like some unweaned 
weakling, safely, hidden in a dense thicket, 
and passing the early afternoon with thought 
of the days when I was young. 

I first saw the light of day in Kibby town- 
ship, up in Franklin county, Maine, and al- 
though at times I have wandered far from 
my native place, never have I found such 
luxuriant feeding grounds, such tempting 
pools nor delightful haunts as those of 
Kibby, and it has always been with the 
greatest pleasure that I have returned to the 
old scenes. Of my babyhood my remem- 
brances are not distinct. I have a hazy 
recollection of being alone what seemed to 
me much of the time, and of lying in a 
shady place where nothing came to molest 
me but a few flies and mosquitoes. On 
those occasions I suffered more -or less 
from the cold and can clearly recall 
how nice it was when my mother was with 
me to snuggle up to her, and get the grate- 
ful warmth from her huge body. She spent 
much time when we were together in dress- 
ing my baby coat of hair with her strong, 
rough tongue. Even to this day I remem- 
ber with pleasure how warm and comfort- 
able it made my skin feel, and how it 
imparted new vitality and energy to my 
whole body. 

It was fearfully lonesome when she was 
away, and the various noises which reached 
my ears, even then acute to the slightest 
sound, caused me to tremble with apprehen- 
sion, though I knew not what made the 
sounds nor that they portended any harm 
te me. By nature I was suspicious and 
wary, and the passing years have added to 
this trait rather than detracted from it. 
Once some heavy animal came so near 
my hiding place that I could plainly 

ws soft footsteps, the gentle swish 
of bushes and low hanging branches as 


it passed along, and an occasional sniff 
as it inhaled the air for a clew to what- 
ever it was hunting. I was in a panic 
with fear, but fortunately kept motionless, 
and made no outcry, much as I wanted to 
summon my mother, were she in the vicin- 
ity. The animal passed without discover- 
ing me, but I did not move a muscle until 
Mother came to me, which she did soon af- 
terward, although the wait seemed almost 
interminable. 

My opinion is that all moose youngsters 
have considerable trouble in getting con- 
trol of their legs. Such, at least, was my 
experience. They were together too long 
to be in proper proportion to my short, light 
body, and when I stood I felt at a great 
height above the ground. My joints, though 
bulging and overgrown, were weak and had 
an uncontrollable tendency to wabble just 
when I most desired them to be steady, 
When trying to stand still it was necessary 
to keep my feet well apart, and when I 
moved, my progress was a succession of 
staggerings and totterings. By continued 
practice, however, I made great improve- 
ment and when I began to accompany 
Mother to the ponds and bogs where we 
went to escape the flies and in search of 
the succulent leaves and roots of the water 
lily, I discovered that were my legs any 
shorter it would have barred me entirely 
from this delightful recreation. As it was, 
I was cautioned not to venture too far. 
By watching how the others conducted 
themselves and by guiding myself accord- 
ingly I progressed well and was exceed- 
ingly proud of mv advancement. 

Before I was able to accompany her on 
these daily, delightful rambles, Mother had 
beguiled many an hour with extended de- 
scriptions of my father, of his strength and 
prowess and of his skill and adroitness. 
All this I was easily able to believe when 
I first saw him towering high at my 
mother’s side, and _ subsequent events 
proved that she in no degree had overes- 
timated his courage and daring when oc- 
casion arose to put them to the test. 

One story she related of him always held 
me spellbound with interest, and I mar- 
veled much that one naturally so shy and 
retreating could show the bravery he then 
displayed. It appeared that some years be- 
fore I was born, Father had made a sum- 
mer trip down into the Spencer stream 
country and his -adventure took place on 
the bank of that river one moonless, cloudy 
night, when not a breath of air was stir- 
ring. He had been at Fish pond wallowing 


BUD MOOSE BOGGED. 37 


after lily pads and roots, and had started 
for Long Pond bog, to gain which he had 
to cross Spencer stream. He had just 
reached the river at a point where the edge 
of the bank, owing to a long drouth and 
the resulting lowness of the stream was 
shoulder high above the water, and was 
about to plunge in when a slight noise like 
a piece of wood rapping or scraping against 
another was heard directly in front of him. 
The darkness was so intense that he could 
distinguish nothing, but, true to his usual 
habits, he refrained from moving until sure 
his ears had not deceived him. He was 
standing on the alert when suddenly a daz- 
zling light appeared and was flashed directly 
into his eyes. 

For one instant he stood petrified with 
amazement; then calling to life his mome:t- 
tarily paralyzed muscles, but with no 
thought of fleeing from the uncanny light, 
he made a mighty bound directly toward 
the gleaming eye. As he jumped he 
noticed that the light suddenly swerved o 
one side, and he heard a loud exclamation 
from the darkness just beyond it. He rec- 
ognized the voice as that of a man and 
instantly concluded that the flashing light 
was one of the many peculiar appliances 
in man’s endless warfare against the other 
animals. Father struck the water with a 
loud splash and went in all over with one 
foot through the bottom of the frail craft in 
which the, men, of whom there proved to 
have been more than one, had been stealth- 
ily paddling down the stream. With a few 
energetic plunges and kicks he freed him- 
self from the encumbrance on his leg, and 
lost no time in gaining the other shore. 
There he paused an instant and listened 
to the unlucky men who were struggling 
and shouting to one another in the water, 
and who were still talking excitedly about 
their catastrophe when he passed out of 
hearing. He could remember of striking 
none of them when he made his mad leap 
and thinks they escaped with nothing 
worse than a bad scare. 

It has been told to me in later years that 
some animals suddenly situated facing a 
strong light as Father was, will stand as 
if turned to stone and allow those in the 
boat or canoe to approach within a few 
yards, but it is safe to say that particular 
party never again tried to charm a bull 
moose with nothing more powerful than a 
bright light. It took courage to make that 
leap toward the unknown glare, but I am 
confident that under similar circumstances 
I should do as my father did, provided, of 
course, my nerve should prove equal to the 
occasion. 

After joining my father we staid together 
some time and the season passed for me 
most delightfully. Of course nearly every- 
thing was new and strange, and it is diffi- 


cult to conceive the pleasure I derived daily 
from the many wonderful discoveries I 
made and the pride I took in each new 
achievement. Father, notwithstanding his 
great strength and power, was most consid- 
erate toward Mother and me; and with the 
sense of safety we experienced when he was 
near we were a most happy family. How 
well this confidence in his ability was placed 
an incident well illustrates. 

The principal inlet to Horseshoe pond is 
a stream of considerable size, and for some 
distance back from the pond proper the 
water is still and contains some excellent 
summer feeding places. Mother was at a 
bunch of lilies in the stream and close to 
the main shore, while I was in the water 
at the same side, but nearer the pond. 
Father had crossed over and was on the 
strip of land which made down between 
the pond and the inlet, still nearer the pond 
than I was. Not being particularly hun- 
gry I was simply passing the time in the 
cooling water with an occasional nibble at 
some tempting morsel when I noticed what 
I took to be a log floating slowly toward 
me. In a few minutes I was attracted 
again by it and was surprised that with 
no appreciable breeze stirring and with no 
current to aid it, the log had lessened the 
distance between us by half. Mother ap- 
peared to have seen nothing to cause ap- 
prehension, and, not wishing to give a false 
alarm, I persuaded myself that I had prob- 
ably been mistaken in regard to the log’s 
approach and turned my back on it to get 
it from my mind. Suddenly a sharp, low 
“hist” reached my ear, and I whirled to 
find my log right at hand. It was hollowed 
out and in it were 3 humps which seemed 
alive, although perfectly motionless. What 
they were or what their object was in thus 
approaching me I then had no idea, and as 
Mother continued her feeding I was at a 
loss what to do. How relieved I was 
when I saw my father stalk majestically 
from the bushes on the bank between the 
log and the pond. Here was a protector 
before whom not many could stand. 
Slowly and noiselessly’ the log retreat- 
ed until. past my _ father, when it 
quickly turned, the beings in it developed 
more active motions and it glided rapidly 
out into the pond with Father’s huge hulk 
advancing slowly, but menacinely, along 
the shore after it. We went back hurried- 
ly into the thicket, and there I was told 
that the beings were men and what I mis- 
took for a log was a contrivance in which 
they travel on the water. We concluded 
that they had been fishing and having seen 
me had approached until Father’s arrival, 
and his pugnacious attitude had frightened 
them away. What their object was we 
were left to conjecture. During the few 


38 RECREATION. 


days we remained there, we saw them sev- 
eral times, but Father's tactics neyer failed 
to cause them to retreat whenever he con- 
cluded they were approaching too near. 
Each day he became more convinced of their 
cowardice and, in turn, became bolder, until 
finally the sight or sound of the approach- 
ing canoe would cause him to bellow fero- 
ciously and prepare to charge should they 
have the temerity to draw near. 

As I continued to gain in strength and 
ability, so did I begin to feel more indepen- 
dent, to chafe at the restraint put upon me 
while with my parents, and to long to ven- 
ture away by myself. In my foolish vanity 
I believed that 1 was perfectly able to take 
care of myself. These feelings became more 
prominent day by day, until finally an op- 
portunity came to steal away from the fam- 
ily undetected, of which I quickly availed 
myself. The locality in which we were when 
I made my break for independence was one 
little visited by men and through which 
many moose range during the summer. 
There were game trails running in all direc- 
tions, which to a stranger in the country 
were of great value in getting around by the 
easiest and most secluded ways. For a 
few days everything went well. Browse 
of various kinds was plentiful, and the 
country was well watered with numerous 
sparkling little brooks. However, the flies 
came to me by day in swarms, and I kept 
looking for a place where I could plunge 
in and rid myself of them. . 

The general direction of my travels had 
been toward the South, and one day I came 
out on a bog, barren except for a stunted 
growth of low bushes. On the far side of 
the bog was a large body of water, and 
toward it I at once made my. way. It 
proved an extensive pond, although at the 
shore nearest me the water was very shal- 
low. By wading out, however, I felt as- 
sured I could get the depth I desired, and 
as the pond seemed deserted of all life dan- 
gerous to my kind I qnickly resolved that 
here would I take the plunge for which I 
had been longing. On entering the water 
I was surprised at the instability of the 
bottom underneath. This was different 
from any mud in which I had before waded 
and, although it let my legs *down deep, 
notwithstanding my feet were expanded to 
their full width, yet it seemed to cling, and 
it was with great difficulty that I could 
make headway. I managed to get out until 
the mud and water were well up toward my 
body, when I waited to gain wind and 
strength for another advance. I had been 
slowly settling lower into the thick ooze 
while standing still, and on attempting to 
continue out I was horrified to discover that 
I could lift neither foot free from the tena- 
cious mud. How I struggled and strove to 
liberate my feet from the fettering bottom, 


what lunges and plunges I made, and what 
despair settled on me when, out of breath 
and thoroughly exhausted, I was forced 
to admit that it was impossible for me un- 
aided to get in deep enough to swim or 
to regain the solid shore behind. What 
a fool I had been to leave the protection 
and care of my fond parents, and how 
miserably should I perish did not they or 
someone come to my assistance. I gave a 
plaintive call, but no answering sound came 
to my anxious ears over the forsaken bog. 
Again and again I called with like result; 
again and again I struggled frantically for 
freedom, but my strength was going fast 
and each effort was more futile than the 
preceding. 

The sun was getting low toward the 
Western horizon when I was filled with 
consternation to observe a boat approaching. 
In it were men and they drew near swiftly, 
as if they had noticed my plight and were 
determined to take advantage of it. From 
babyhood I had been continually taught to 
avoid man. He, alone, kills for the mere 
lust of killing. With no young at home in 
want of food, with his own larder well 
supplied, and with no necessity for hunting, 
he often goes forth seeking that which he 
may slay. It was said there were excep- 
tions among them; that some had instincts 
and feelings as elevated as those common 
among ourselves, but that the indictment 
was true against so many that the only safe 
course was to shun all, it being impossible 
to determine until too late in whom the 
murderous traits were predominant. 

With these teachings recurring to me 
you can imagine with what feelings I saw 
the men in the boat come up to me. 
Whew! How they did smell of smoke 
and what a shiver of fear the odor caused 
me! They, however, made no move to do 
me any immediate harm, but after examin- 
ing me carefully from all sides, took their 
departure. My relief at seeing them go was 
but short_lived, as they returned soon after- 
ward, and with them came many more in 
other boats. They had brought ropes which 
they tied, some around my neck, others 
about my body. At a signal the cords were 
tightened and I was pulled toward deeper 
water. My tongue lolled from, my mouth, 
and my head was on the point of being sep- 
arated from my neck, when the mud gave 
way from my leg and I surged forward. I 
endeavored to regain my feet, but the boats 
kept advancing and I was pulled along, 
ignominously struggling, until deep water 
was reached. Then I was permitted to 
swim, but the restraining ropes allowed of 
no course except to follow the boats. I 
struck out for shore repeatedly, but imme- 
diately the neck ropes tightened,- under 
went my head, and to save myself from 
drowning I was forced to turn toward my 


“ a a " 


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fie ALES BLIGHT, 


captors. I soon gave up these attempts 
and followed whither the boats led. I was 
extremely weak from my past exertions 
and it was only after an effort most pain- 
ful on my part that I was eventually towed 
alive to land. 

On shore my captors, holding the ropes 
at a distance on either side of me, con- 
ducted me to a small hamlet situated at 
the outlet of the pond. The entire popu- 
lace of the place turned out to view me, and 
the remarks they made concerning my 
figure and appearance were far from com- 
plimentary. After they had all looked 
their fill and discussed me to a disgusting 
length, I was tied up in a building where 
there were some other animals imprisoned. 
These creatures had feet something like 
mine, but had round horns growing from 
their heads, and seemed perfectly contented 
to be where they were. Some dried grass 
was given me to eat, such as the other 
animals there had, but I was too exhausted 
and too nervous over what the future held 
in store for me, to think of eating, even had 
they provided forage with which I was 
familiar. 

The next day I was again paraded on 
the only street of the settlement and my 
disposal appeared a topic much discussed. 
In the crowd of garrulous men, women and 
children, there was one woman with a little 
black box under her arm. She made the 


39 


crowd stand away from me and aimed it 
at ime repeatedly. I could hear a little 
click, but what nonsense it was or what 
she thought she was doing was beyond my 
comprehension. 

I was a prisoner among them’ many days 
and learned much concerning their ways 
which the longest life will never efface. 
They seemed solicitous that I should eat, 
and brought all kinds of impossible things 
to tempt my appetite. I did manage to 
consume enough to sustain life, but how 
I longed for the fare to which I had been 
accustomed. One day I was. led out and 
learned that the game commissioners, to 
whom my captors had written, had decided 
that I should be set at liberty. I was taken 
to the shore of the pond near where we had 
landed that eventful day, the hateful ropes 
were removed from my neck, one of the 
men gave me a parting switch with a 
withe, and I ambled joyfully away. 

At first I could with difficulty realize 
what a happy outcome my escapade had 
had, but soon I comprehended that I was 
free. Free to hunt for my parents and 
endeavor, by my future conduct, to atone 
for my past misdemeanors. Free to breathe 
the clean, untainted air of the forest. Free 
to live as it was intended I should. A 
weak, half starved, most forlorn little 
wretch, but free! 


THE OWLETS FLIGHT. 


Ss. H. M. 


An owlet sat in a towering pine 
And wisely gazed around; © 

The night lay darkly on the wood, 
Earth slept without a sound. 


“The moon and I alone are out,” 
He said, and heaved a sigh. 
His gaze intent was fixed upon 
The crescent hung on high. 
“I wonder,” and his eyes grew big, 
“Tf it really is green cheese, 
Or if it is a world like this 
With leafy trees like these.” 


“T plainly see the man up there, 
He’s looking straight at me. 
He’s all alone like me to-night; 
Where can the maiden be? 


“When last the moon was big and round 
She sat with tresses fair, 

And smiled upon the world beneath; 
How did she get up there?” 


“Too wit! too whoo!” in breathless voice 
The little owlet screamed 

As he lighted on fair Luna’s horn. 
Fair Luna only beamed. 


“Who, who are you?” the owlet asked; 
“Where is the maiden fair 

Who often waves her golden locks 
Till they shimmer in the air? 


“Where go you when at early dawn 
You sink behind the West? 

I sleep within a hollow tree; 
Where do you take your rest? 


“Some nights you hide your beaming face 
And then I look and call. 

Oh, those indeed are gloomy nights, 
The darkness is like a pall.” 


In vain the owlet questions asked, 
The moon made no reply; 

Day dawned and the owlet fell asleep 
With the moon in the morning sky. 


A SHARP FOREBODING. 


Cc. H. FURLONG. 


Alarming depletion in their ranks had 
prompted the wise and cunning old leaders 
of the various animal species to gather un- 
der the protecting branches of the big for- 
est trees. The time was come to make a 
resumé of Man’s doings for the season. 
Sons and daughters had been slain, brothers, 
sisters and other relatives had fallen vic- 
tims to the trapper, the city sportsman and 
the idle country boy. Appallifg slaughter 
was reported among the feathered tribes. 
New tracks had been beaten by Man’s foot 
in the great forest realms; he had penetrat- 
ed into what were hitherto considered safe 
and inaccessible retreats. 

“Only yesterday my eldest son, a fine, 
promising lad, with muscles as firm as steel 
aml supple as the willow branch, was laid 
low in death as he was peacefully browsing. 
He died before I could catch his last plain- 
tive groan,” mournfully remarked Monarch 
Moose to the assembled cohorts. 

“Last week one of those little pellets used 
by Man to exterminate us crashed through 
my mother’s brain, and with rage and sor- 
row struggling for the mastery in my breast, 
I was compelled to flee, lest I, too, fall at 
the next bark,” was the sad comment of a 
grizzly cub. 

“None of my family is left at all,” cried 
Father Rabbit; “fine shot has carried them 
all off, in some instances 2 and 3 at a time 
being killed.” 

“’ye given Man a run for his money,” 
proudly proclaimed Furtive Fox, “but with 
all my cunning and wily tricks, and I think 
everyone here will admit I’ve turned a few 
pretty ones in my day, I couldn’t save my 
wife’s life this season. I saw her pelt, I be- 
lieve that is what Man calls our coats, 
hanging from a hunter’s cabin door a few 
nights ago. I couldn’t repress my emotions, 
and would have wept my fill but for the 
grow! of a prowling hound reaching my 
ears.’ 

“Your sorrow is a hard one to bear,” said 
the bereaved Monarch in a condoling tone. 
“Tt’s dead tough, as I heard a hunter say in 
throwing away a piece of venison the other 
day.” 

“Your Honor always had a pleasant way 
of interspersing a bit of humor to relieve 
the lugubrious,” jollied the fox. 

“He’s going to ask for something,” 
snapped Caustic Catamount. 

“You mistake me, brother,” suavely re- 
plied the fox in an effort to be conciliatory, 
“for you know one of my greatest faults is 
an overappreciation of the humorous. Re- 
member how I laughed when we found that 
fat old rabbit in the trap? He looked so 
much like an apoplectic shoat I had pinched 


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the night before that the comparison over- 
came my sense of propriety.” 

“Never fine at any time,” retorted Cata- 
mount. F 

“I can see where Mr. Fox gets his if this 
repartee keeps up,” cautiously whispered 
Prickly Porcupine in Red Squirrel’s ear. 

“Now you 2 have had enough of this,” 
admonished the Monarch as he assumed a 
more stately and dignified air, preliminary 
to taking up the order of business. 

“Tt is the sole purpose of this gathering,” 
he resumed, “to inquire into and seek a sat- 
isfactory explanation of the terrible deple- 
tions in our ranks within the past few years. 
Grizzly has the floor. After that the first 
one who attracts my attention will be hon- 
ored with permission to harangue. Father 
Fox is limited to 5 minutes, for he is too 
garrulous ‘and fond of his wit. Grizzly 
will now address us in his characteristically 
forcible and pointed style.” : 

With swaying motion of his bullet- 
scarred head, and centering his penetrating 
eyes from time to time on each member of 
the assemblage, Grizzly began: 

“This question of the extermination of 
my own and the families of-my brethren has 
been occupying my thoughts for-——” 

“Your humble pardon, Monarch, but if 
Grizzly will take a pointer,” rudely inter- 
rupted Fox, “I beg to suggest that——” 

“Down with him!” cried the assemblage 
in thundering chorus. 

Grizzly bent over and gave Father Fox a 
belt in the snout. Father Fox attempted to 
apologize, but even that privilege was de- 
nied him, so indignant were all at his break- 
ing into Grizzly’s well worded introduction. 
He nursed a swollen jaw during the rest of 
Grizzly’s address, while Catamount twitted 
him in a cautious but none the less tantaliz- 
ing undertone. 

“As I said before this uncalled for in- 
terruption, much of my time has been given 
to a consideration of the means which 
have brought about such a heart-rending 
slaughter in our midst, and by the bristly 
tail of my grandfather I think I’ve solved 
the problem.” 

“If so, it will be a worthy testimonial to 
your already envied acumen,” commented 
the Monarch with a faint touch of defer- 
ence toward the formidable roamer of for- 
est and mountain. 

Grizzly bowed his head in grave acknowl- 
edgment of the Monarch’s agreeable compli- 
ment and became just a bit chesty. 

“The Old Un’s a peach at slinging the 
salve, isn’t he?” remarked Porcupine to 
Squirrel, 





A SHARP F°REBODING. 4t 


“And the solution is?” chimed in Wo. , 
- Catamount and Badger all together. 

“That smokeless powder is the cause of 
our undoing,” growled Grizzly, with a 
dramatic swing of his left paw that threat- 
ened disastrous contact with Doe’s shapely 
head. 

“Smokeless powder? What the d——” 

“One bushel of the choicest leaves you 
can gather in your jurisdiction is the fine 
imposed on you for profanity uttered in our 
presence,’ pronounced the Monarch, his 
angry eyes darting reproach at the impul- 
sive offender. 

“I can see my youngsters wearing out 
their fall allowance of clothing to sat- 
isfy that stunt,” chuckled Imperturbable 
Porcupine. 

“Ves, and I can see portions of your car- 
cass in the process of digestion in Wolf’s 
stomach if the fine isn’t forthcoming,” was 
the comforting retort of Squirrel. 

“It’s smokeless powder and nothing else,” 
resumed Grizzly, when the surprise which 
his discovery caused had subsided sufficient- 
ly to allow the assemblage to listen with its 
wonted unanimity of attention. 

“To convince you all that I’m right in my 
deductions, I will review the evolution of 
the sportivg arm, which I have learned is 
the name of the weapon used by Man in 
gratifying his thirst for blood. I will make 
it as brief as possible.” 

“If you spoke until Doomsday our inter- 
est would remain at fever heat,” said the 
Fox, seeing a diplomatic opening by which 
to regain favor in Grizzly’s eye. 

“Mr. Slick is throwing a bunch of con 
again. We ought to appoint him minister 
plenipotentiary to negotiate terms of peace 
with Man,” was Porcupine’s-envious com- 
ment. 

“To continue,” said Grizzly, “I wish to 
explain that much I am going to tell you 
was handed down by my ancestors, my 
great uncle in particular. He was a mighty 
scientist, having an investigating turn of 
mind from his early youth. His relatives, 
farther back than I can call to mind, had 
some great experiences with the French 
couriers des bois and the trappers of the 
Hudson Bay company. They were relent- 
less men, strong of limb, steady of aim and 
devilishly accurate with their damned long 
barreled guns. Those guns were muzzle 
loaders; that is, the powder was poured 
from a flask into the muzzle of the gun. 
Black powder was used exclusively in those 
days and even up to quite recent times. It 
was of a much coarser quality and not so 
sure of fire as it is to-day. A pinch of 


powder was placed in a pan at one side 
of the lock, connecting with a tube entering 
the barrel at the breach at a point where the 
powder lay. The gun’s hammer contained 
a flint, which, striking a piece of steel con- 
nected with the powder pan, emitted sparks 
and ignited the powder. Then the bullet 
flew out, but not with half the force or 
range of later day black powder guns. 


“Later came the percussion cap gun. 
Then the pin-fire weapon, which used a 
cartridge similar to those which to-day end 
the lives of our brethren. These old time 
smooth bore guns were sufficiently effective 
to kill our largest and most formidable 
people. Just think, though, what a cinch 
our ancestors hid compared to what we 
have to cope with. It took more than a 
minute to reload one of those old guns. In 
that time one of our forefathers could give a 
trapper the merry ha ha and even contem- 
plate a flank movement destructive alike of 
the pursuer’s mental equilibrium and bodily 
solidity. Even if wounded, our forefathers 
had time to make themselves scarce, unless 
they desired to mix things. 


“But powder and ball were new to our 
ancestors,” continued Grizzly, “and it took 
time for them to get next. After many 
years the rim fire breach loader came out. 
Then the slaughter increased. Not satis- 
fied with this, inventive Man (those 2 
legged beasts must be very devils with their 
brains) brought out a repeating rifle, using 
various cartridges of all shapes and sizes. 
Up to a few years ago nothing new was 
doing in the gun line. All of a sudden 
some crank stumbled on the smokeless 
game to make more convenient and certain 
our slaughter. 

“My brethren, I fear we are undone. 
There is no escape for us. This new dis- 
covery gives increased range, makes no 
smoke, scarcely any noise, and steel jack- 
eted bullets with a portion of the lead ex- 
posed are used. They smash like a bowlder 
hurled from the mountain top. Now hav- 
ing told you all this, who present can fore- 
see the future?” 

“T can,” yelled out Porcupine. . 

“What is it?” gravely asked the Monarch. 

“Tt’s all to the mustard for us,” replied 
the assembly’s joyous spirit. 

This bit of levity so enraged the others 
that a riot ensued. Half an hour after 
Wolf came around and cleaned up the re- 
mains. 

“If all the meetings break up this wav 
it’ll be a good thing for me, now that food 
is somewhat scarce,” he said to himself. 


Willie—Pa, if a warship is called “she” 
why isn’t it a woman-of-war? 
Father—It’s your bed time, Willie——Bos- 


ton Post. 


A DAY IN THE ROCKIES. 


BRUCE LEMMON. 


According to previous arrangement, the 
Doctor and I arose at 4. We put on our 
oldest clothes and our heaviest shoes; and 
went to town for breakfast. The Doctor 
carried his long range .30-30, with its mag- 
azine full; I carried a .25, with magazine 
and a pocket full of cartridges. I also car- 
ried a field glass. At the restaurant we 
found our third partner, Ed B., a miner. 
After breakfast we possessed ourselves of 
3 horses, mounted them, and in high spirits 
left town at 5.20 a. m. ; 

Our destination was the summit of 
Mount Shaveno; our purpose was the 
pleasure that lies in mountain climbing. 
Mount Shaveno lies in the Sangre de 
Christi range, some 10 miles West of Sal- 
ida, Colorado and is more than 100 feet 
higher than Pike’s Peak. It is not to be 
compared with Pike’s Peak for climbing 
purposes. Pike’s Peak has an established 
route to its summit, a good road all the 
way, ‘and, moreover, is not _excessively 
steep. Mount Shaveno is a wilderness on 
every side, has no road whatever, is very 
steep, and has, to cap it, 2 nearly perpen- 
dicular miles of loose granite boulders. 

At the foothills we struck abruptly off 
from the road and entered the timber by a 
cow trail. We followed some distance up 
a creek, made the horses jump a fence, 
crossed the creek, entered farther into the 
pine and cedar brush, climbed a long, low, 
grassy ridge, galloped its length and came 
down again into the dry bed of another 
creek that we followed up some 2 miles 
and again rode out on a brushy ridge. Al- 
ways our faces were toward the great, 
massive mountain towering above us, not- 
withstanding a great deal of zigzagging and 
cross windings. 

As we traveled lengthwise of the ridge, 
Ed first, the Doctor second and I in the 
rear, the Doctor said excitedly: 

“Stop! Get down quick!” Following his 
eyes I saw, on the crest of the next ridge 
to our left, 200 yards away, a deer, facing 
us, watching us. The Doctor dropped on 
one knee, raised his peep sights, and 
fired. The deer jumped and disappeared 
beyond the ridge. We gave chase, found 
abundant blood where he had stood, and 
carefully scrutinized the gulch below. Again 
we saw him, but he was at once gone. He 
was walking slowly. I saw him again, but 
had no time to shoot. Ed and I started 
off on his trail. like 2 dogs, while the Doc- 
tor watched. We trailed that deer 2 miles 
across ridges, through gulches, and he, as 
we saw from his trail, was bleeding and 


42 


moving slowly all the way. Once we 
scared a gray fox. After the 2 miles we 
gave up the chase and went back to the 
horses. Two hours lost, and nothing to 
show for it. 

We picked our way on up to timber line, 
drank long and deep from a clear, icy 
brook at our side and pushed on up. To the 
right of Shaveno is another peak, and be- 
tween the 2 is a low saddle, or ridge, at the 
head of a gulch which divides the 2 moun- 
tains from summit to base and which we 
had been following. We crossed a trans- 
verse ridge, and beheld one of the most 
beautiful scenes I ever saw. Directly in 
front of us was a deep, clear lake, 600 
yards long, and about 200 wide, perfectly 
walled in on 3 sides. Mount Shaveno’s 
precipitous’ side rises abruptly from the 
water on the left; her sister mountain 
leaves 100 yards of lake shore on the right, 
then rises as sharply; while straight ahead 
is another precipice of jagged crags and 
numerous miniature peaks, surmounted by 
rounded buttes. The small basin about the 
lake is covered with flowers, a sort of dan- 
delion with rich purple leaves, and others, 
about 6 inches high, resembling sunflowers. 
There was but one way out of the basin 
for us. The buttes at the upper end of the 
lake were between us and the saddle, there- 
fore we had to scale them. It was the most 
difficult piece of climbing I have ever done. 
The angle is 80 or 85 degrees; the foot- 
holds are scarce and small. We rested half 
a dozen times on our way up and ate snow 
from a drift at our side. At one o’clock 
we reached the crest of the saddle and were 
at least 12,000 feet high. We could barely 
see Salida, far down the valley. On the 
other side is another valley, small and com- 
pletely shut in by high mountains. To the 
West beyond this small basin, as far as the 
eye can reach, rise the summits of innumer- 
able peaks. We found a spring of icy 
water and by it ate our sandwiches, shel- 
tering ourselves on the sunny side of a 
large boulder, for a cold gale was blowing. 

Shaveno still loomed above us. The 
saddle runs North and South, at its South- 
ern end intersecting another small ridge; 
and at the Eastern extremity of this 
smaller one is the highest peak of Shaveno, 
whither we were bound. We climbed up, 
not over rocks only, but granite boulders, 
20 feet through. As we looked back we saw 
5 ground hogs playing in the basin below 
us. We also saw several fresh sheep 
tracks and some wool on the sharp corner 
of a rock. 





A DAY IN THE ROCKIES. 43 


Finally we reached the smaller ridge, 
and struck off to our left, toward the high- 
est point of Shaveno. We staid within 
touch of each other to lessen the danger 
of rock slides. Several times I grew dizzy 
an effect of the rare air, but I said nothing 
of it until the Doctor admitted that he, 
too, was dizzy. It was cold, and the wind 
was blowing a hurricane. We sat down 
on a sheltered rock-to rest, and at that in- 
stant Ed said in a tremulous voice, “Hush! 
Lie low!” and pointed out to us a moun- 
tain sheep, the first any of us had ever 
seen. It was a beautiful sight. The sheep 
was about 600 yards away, on a large boul- 
der, and directly between us and the sky. 
We saw merely his clear silhouette. We 
watched the magnificent animal as he 
turned and walked directly toward us. His 
head was held high in the air, and he 
picked his way over the rocks with won- 
derful nicety, never slipping, never mis- 
stepping. He traveled considerably faster 
than a man could have walked over the 
boulders. When about 200 yards from us 
he turned, walked across the crest of the 
mountain, and disappeared. That sheep 
probably does not know to this day how 
nearly he came to walking right into the 
3 human beings who were visiting him at 
his home on old Shaveno. 

We climbed on toward the summit 
which was then not far away. At one time 
a flock of large, beautiful birds flew almost 
over our heads. They were about half as 
large again as full grown pigeons, were 
white marked with black, their wings were 
long and made a whirring noise, and as 
they flew they uttered unmusical squawks. 
There were at least 20 of them. They told 
me afterward that these were the rare 
ptarmigan. 

A few minutes more and we reached the 
summit. The view was superb, indescrib- 
able! The most prosaic nature would have 
been thrilled and awed. On 3 sides of us 
were mountains, as far into the blue dis- 
tance as we could see. To our East 
lay the Salida valley, 15 miles long, and at 
its farther end a red speck, Salida. West 
of Shaveno, far below us, was a small, cir- 
cular, marshy basin. With a good jump 
we could have bounded down the moun- 
tain side nearly to it, some 2 miles. 

It was so fearfully cold that we began 
the descent at once, without writing any 
poetry on the summit. In going down, we 
ignored all saddles and gentle slopes, and 
took directly down for the horses. We had 


s 


able to do the bathing. 


2 miles, without a break, of loose granite 
to climb down, and the average slant must 
have been at least 45 degrees. We soon be- 
came widely separated, and before I was 
half down, no living thing, save a soaring 
eagle was in my sight. On all that moun- 
tain side, alone, I felt minute. I often 
paused to look and wonder and try to ap- 
preciate. By using hands and feet I made 
good time. I| soon heard a brook running 
under the rocks beneath me, and following 
the sound of it, I saw it emerge. On one of 
its banks there was a border of about 300 
feet of grass. I clambered down to this 
green streak, feet and hands as_ brakes. 
Whenever I grew tired and thirsty, I lay on 
the rocks and drank from the icy brook. 
After awhile the brook again sank, and 
forced me to take to the rocks. When nearly 
down I came suddenly to a jumping-off 
place. I crept up and looked over, and, lo! 
I was on the ledge overhanging the beauti- 
ful, deep, clear lake we had discovered in 
the morning. I was afraid the ledge might 
break, so I did not linger. I climbed 
around the upper end of the lake, de- 
scended a short: distance, and was down 
out of the rocks. 

I followed the basin on down and found 
Ed, just arrived. He was bathing a skinned 
arm and side, but was thankful he was 
In coming down 
he had loosened a rock above him.: It was 
about the size of a foundation stone, and it 
loosened several others. Ed saw them 
coming straight at him. He jumped, and 
landed, he said, about 30 feet farther down. 
In catching himself he sprained his wrist 
and bruised his side. 

We walked on down to the horses, about 
half a mile away, and saddled them. The 
Doctor then appeared, and we took to-the 
trail down through the timber. Once my 
broncho became somewhat excited because 
the dog_ran between his legs. He began to 
buck with great vigor, to run down hill, 
and to scrape against all convenient pine 
trees. The other men laughed heartily, but 
from where I was I could not see the joke. ~ 
When we reached the trail of the wounded 
deer we stopped and followed it. The Doc- 
tor found it, dead, on a ridge not 100 yards 
away, whither it must have returned 
during the day. Its meat was unfit for use, 
hence, regretfully, we left it. 

Our ride to town was otherwise unevent- 
ful. We reached home at 10.30 p. m. 
Tired? 


Stranger—Why do you let that child cry 
so. He’s howling all the time. 

Bridget—Shure, sir, it’s the only way I 
kin kape him still—Exchange. 


ADVENTURE WITH A COYOTE. 


HOWARD CARL. 


I had known John from boyhood, had 
gone to school with him, and had hunted 
with him many times. He was a good shot, 
but sometimes missed, as. do some other 
good shots. 

He finally emigrated to California. One 
might have supposed from the record he 
had on rabbits that he would have had 
no trouble shooting coyotes. Just how 
much trouble he had, I learned a few years 
later when I visited him. His wife told 
me the following story: 


“The coyotes had been bothering us 
greatly, scaring and catching our chickens, 
and we would hear them howling around 
nearly every night. John got in the habit 
of looking out of the window the first 
thing on rising to see if there were any of 
the animals in the neighborhood. 


“One morning he looked out just in time 
to see one trot along the back fence and 
disappear behind the barn. Without stop- 
ping for ceremony, or clothes either, John 
rushed out the back door, grabbed his rifle, 
which was in the tank house near, and 
hurried to the barn, expecting to get a shot 
as the coyote came around the corner. 
However, it had been too quick for him 
and was trotting along the foot of the hill 
about 100 yards away. John threw the rifle 
to his shoulder and tried to take aim. The 
coyote stopped before John could fire and 
then started on again. This happened 
twice. Finally John rested the rifle over 
the top of a post and just as the coyote was 
going by his line of sight, pulled the trig- 
ger. 

“He hit him, but so far back that the poor 
animal sat down and began to howl. John 
turned his attention to another coyote 
which he had just seen making for the hills. 
He hurriedly turned up his Lyman sight 
to the 200 mark, but the coyote was so 
unsportsmanlike as to get behind a tree 
and make off with that completely covering 
his retreat. 


“John then started down to finish the 
brute he had wounded, intending to shoot 
it in the head. He got within 50 yards 
when the animal jumped up and ran. John 


fired, saw the dirt fly on the opposite 
side of the coyote and, as it dropped at the 
report, thought the bullet had gone clear 
through the mark. He walked a little 
closer, took aim at the coyote’s head and 
fired. Again the beast jumped and ran. A 
third time John fired and a third time the 
coyote fell. Determined to make a sure 
thing of it, John took aim at its head, in- 
tending to blow its brains out. He could 
not hold steady, but fired as the end sight 
in its movements wabbled by the coyote’s 
head. Up jumped the beast once more, 
and click went the hammer. The magazine 
was empty. 

“John came running back to the house, 
and as he was barefooted and was running 
through stubble, he touched the ground as 
lightly as possible; one would have thought 
him a ballet dancer; an inference borne out 
by the fantastic flutter of his nightgown 
about his legs. When he got to the house 
I gave him his slippers. He hurriedly 
grabbed his remaining cartridges and ran 
back. The coyote had obligingly waited 
for him, but when John drew near it start- 
ed off. John fired and down it dropped; 
he fired once more and the coyote again 
made off. John had thought he could shoot 
a little, but as he ran back to-the house 
the second time, he had about lost confi- 
dence in himself. 

“He hurriedly seized his loading tools, 
loaded 2 cartridges and started back, de- 
termined to end the massacre. When he 
got close to the coyote it wabbled to its feet, 
John stopped and, aiming low behind the 
shoulder, fired and dropped the brute to 


Stay. 

“John didn’t feel much elated but, never- 
theless, he examined his prize. Besides the 
first and the last 2 hits, he found 2 bullet 
holes through one ear, 3 through the other 
and 2 long lines across the top of the ani- 
mal’s head. 

“A few hours later, on picking up his 
rifle he noticed that the Lyman sight was 
elevated for 200 yards. When he goes 
hunting now he always hears a familiar 
voice saying, ‘Don’t forget to elevate your 
sights, John.’” 


Ascum—If “brethren” is a synonym for 


“brothers,” why not 


ters?” 


Henpeck—Nonsense. 


“sis 
- 


I’ve often heard of 


“sistern” for 


a cistern that would dry up occasionally.— 


Catholic Standard. 


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FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


The man who quits when he gets enough, with plenty of game still in sight, is a real sportsman. 


GROUSE SNARERS CAUGHT. 

A. C. Ferguson and Stephen Horton, of 
West Sandlake, New York, went after 
some grouse snarers in October last and 
caught them. The detectives found several 
brush fences which the snarers had built 
and in which they had concealed numerous 
wire snares set with springs. Ferguson and 
Horton camped by one of these fences over 
night and just at daylight they caught 
Henry Wagner, of Alps, N. Y., in the act 
of taking a ruffed grouse from one of the 
snares. He had in his possession another 
grouse and a rabbit which he had taken 
from other snares. He was waltzed into 
the justice’s office and fined $88.95, which 
he paid. It doubtless took the proceeds of 
many weary days of trapping to clear the 
justice’s docket, and it is hoped Henry may 
find some more profitable 
Meantime his name goes down in the game 
hog book as number 921. 

Frank Cipperly and Charles Acknour co- 
operated with Ferguson and Horton in 
running this grouse snarer to cover. In 
reporting the case to me Mr. Ferguson 
Says: 


Wagner had about § niles of grouse 
fence. There were 2 mo.2 birds in his 
fence when we caught him, >vt as he came 
from the direction opposite that which we 
expected he had not been to the other 
birds, so saved himself a few dollars. You 
cannot hit these fellows too hard.- I can 
go on Sandlake mountains and in one day 
collect 5 pounds of snare wire, no one wire 
more than 15 inches long. Our club, of 200 
members, is trying to drive these snarers 
out of business, and we will eventually suc- 
ceed if we have to pay the expenses out of 
our own pockets. We have to give them 
full doses or it does not count. Last Sat- 
urday I was on the farm of a woman whom 
we arrested and fined $44 last fall, and 
she now has 4 to 5 miles of fence on her 
place. She says she is considerably ahead 
of the game, at that. I am in hope of land- 
ing her soon. They are all as sly as foxes 
and as cunning as coons. We have to 
study their respective habits before we can 
catch them in the act. For instance, some 
look at their snares about midnight, others 
at 4 o’clock a. m., while others go just at 
twilight. Then, again, others will let birds 
lie on cool ground a week, until they go 
to market, as they run no risk of our find- 
ing birds at their houses provided a search 
is made. They also show their cunning 
in carrying birds to market. I have known 
birds carried under a load of charcoal; in 
false seats; in sacks; in butter jars, with 


an butter over top; in the lining 


occupation. | 


of an overcoat; in a new flour barrel headed 
up; under potatoes and apples; and in many 
other ways. 

Arthur C. Ferguson, West Sandlake, N. Y. 





COURAGEOUS WARDEN VINDICATED. 


I have been doing some hard work in 
Ashtabula county. I am a deputy State 
game warden. I became interested in birds 
and game by reading RECREATION, which I 
consider the most valuable journal of its 
kind. I try to enforce the laws regardless 
of who the violators may be. I have at 
times taken some of my friends into court 
and made them suffer. We have a compre- 
hensive law on song and _ insectivorous 
birds, covering every species except crows, 
English sparrows, etc. Last winter I re- 
ceived instructions from our chief to go 
after the milliners, and I brought cases 
against 10 different parties. The move- 
ment was not popular here, and the press 
quite generally roasted me. However, I 
knew my rights and maintained them. At 
the present time there is not an establish- 
ment in Ashtabula county handling illegal 
plumage or birds; and I have the satisfac- 
tion of knowing I am right. The public 
and the press are now coming our way. 

If “every warden would, in a straight- 
forward way, enforce the laws it would be 
a grand thing; but too many either use the 
office for their own ends or for the benefit 
of their friends. I enclose a clipping from 
one of our county papers which explains 
the case. The editor turned himself loose 
last winter when I caused the arrest of 
one of his town milliners in whose stock 
I found a lot of birds. I asked him to go 
down and look at the stock. The clipping 
is the result of his visit to the store. I 
wish everyone could read Recreation. It 
is one of the best educators of the young, 
and places an older person in such a light 
that if he has any manhood he can not help 
trying to be good. 

G. H. Ray, Rock Creek, Ohio. 


The clipping Mr. Ray sends is as follows: 


Last winter when Game Warden Ray, 
acting under instructions of the State 
warden, caused one of his deputies to make 
a raid on local millinery stores and confis- 
cate, for evidence only, such birds as were 
protected by law and whose sale was con- 
trary to the statutes, this official was the 
subject of some severe criticism by the peo- 
ple and the press. Mr. Ray is not the mean 
man that his position makes him appear. 
This morning he found it necessary to in- 
vestigate a Main street millinery store. No 

was. ou the 


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46 RECREATION. : 


displayed, but when the reserve stock was 
inspected over 40 birds were found. Mr. 
Ray requested them to be burned and the 
owner promptly complied. 


I have heard from several other sources 
of the good work which Warden Ray 1s 
doing in his district, and heartily commend 
him for it—EDITor. 





NEW IDEA FOR CAMPERS. 


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frame having adjustable end rails, of a cot 
canvas f formed double and with longitudi- 
nal seams f', and the detachable center rail 
a’, insertible through the central fold of the 
canvas and detachably securable at its ends 
to the rails of said cot frame. 

2. The combination with a cot frame or 
base support for a tent, of supporting ropes 
extending transversely across the head and 
foot of said cot or support; and a tent in- 
volving a tent cover or canvas, and tent 
poles, the side members of which poles 
work adjustably on the said supporting 
ropes. 


long chase. 


WHERE THE WOLF WAS CAUGHT. ~ 
JEANNETTA ZIMMERMAN. 

We had just laid old Uncle Matt in his 
last resting place, and as we rode away 
Art proposed as a fitting finale for Uncle 
Matt’s burial that we call the ater and 
have a big wolf hunt. The old darkey had 
never been happier than when we had al- 
lowed him to follow the hounds with us. 

The snow was melting and everything 
was perfect for a chase when we met that 
afternoon at Deep Creek farm. From 
there we went 3 or 4 miles to where wolves 
had been seen and heard in an extensive 
slough, consisting of small trees and dense 
brush. The hounds were running, but not 
on a trail, when out from the opposite 
side of the brush jumped a big wolf and 
headed for the long hill to the South. He 
left considerable territory behind him be- 
fore we could get the hounds bunched and 
Old Trim on the track. As soon as he be- 
gan to tongue the others followed. The 
wolf made for a road, then through an or- 
chard to the railroad track. He walked 
leisurely up the track, every now and then 
looking back to see how near the dogs 
were. 

Suddenly he made a dash to the right 
over an upland prairie. The younger 
hounds were thrown off and kept on up 
the track, but Trim never left the trail, and 
soon over the prairie went the wolf with all 
the hounds in hot pursuit. Trim made a 
good leader for any hound chorus. Especial- 
ly fine was he with the wolf in view, and 
the distance between becoming shorter. 
The wolf made for O’Brien’s cattle lots, 
evidently expecting to throw the hounds 
there. Then we knew we were up against 
the same wolf that a few weeks previous 
had escaped by running in among O’Brien’s 
cattle after we had given him a hard and 
This time he was doomed to 
disappointment as the cattle had been 
moved to another ranch. When he came 
to the feed lot and didn’t see a hoof he 
seemed to lose spirits. He looked around 
dejectedly and took a path leading to the 
church yard, the hounds close behind. 
Right on the newly made grave of Uncle 
Matt the wolf stopped, faced about, and 
showed fight. The hounds rushed in, and 
by dint of numbers bore the old fellow 
down and killed him. 





FINED FOR TRAPPING BIRDS. 


Dr. ole Kalbfus, Secretary of the State 
Game Commission, is making it expensive sport 
to violate the game laws, and a few more cap- 
tures. of the sort he made here yesterday will go 
far toward inspiring respect for the laws pro- 
tecting insect-eating and song-birds. 

Charles Brunhouse, a York shoe dealer, who 
has been making a specialty of catching gros- 
beaks, better known as redbirds or—corncrackers, 
with a clever contrivance of wire and silk threads 
baited with a live redbird as a decoy to lead 


FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 47 


ethers into the trap, was neatly caught, with the 
oods on him, yesterday by Dr. Kalbfus and 
ame Warden Berrier, of Harrisburg, and heav- 
ily fined by Justice S. N. Eminger, of this place. 

Recently Dr. Kalbfus heard of Brunhouse sell- 
ing the birds and bought several from him at 
York. Warden Berrier was then put on the case. 
Coming to Mechanicsburg last Thursday evening 
Berrier made the acquaintance of Brunhouse and 
on Friday morning the 2 took a drive to the 
South in search of game. During the time they 
were together in the country Berrier witnessed 
the capture of 6 birds in Brunhouse’s trap. When 
they drove back to town in_the afternoon they 
had a total of 26 birds. Dr. Kalbfus was in 
town awaiting them with a warrant charging 
Brunhouse with violating the Act of Assembly 
of June 4, 1897, protecting insectivorous and 
song birds. He placed the man under arrest at 
once. 

Brunhouse was taken before Justice Eminger 
for a hearing, during which he appealed to Ber- 
rier for help, and was chagrined to learn that 
gentleman’s real business. On the evidence given, 
the justice imposed a fine of $10 for each of the 
26 birds found in Brunhouse’s possession, and 
the costs, the total amounting to $263. Brun- 
house refused to pay, saying he would appeal the 
case. He was then placed under $550 bail, which 
he furnished. 

The captured birds were taken to the yard 
back of the Squire’s office and all but 5 were re- 
leased._ The remainder were taken to Harrisburg. 

During the past week Dr. Kalbfus has done 
considerable effective work in different parts of 
the State. Monday, at Lilly, Cambria county, he 
secured the conviction’ of 2 miners who had 
beaten down the nests of orioles and killed the 
young birds. Being unable to pay fines of $50 
the miners went to jail for 50 days. At Wood- 
bury, Bedford county, a man who amused him- 
self shooting swallows paid a fine of» $30. Dr. 
Kalbfus will be busy again next week.—Pennsyl- 
vania Paper. 


Brunhouse will, no doubt, have to pay his 
fine eventually. He will probably decide to 
do so without paying out other good money 
to some lawyer to defend him. When Dr. 
Kalbfus gets after a law breaker, his name 
might just as well be Dennis as Brunhouse, 
or anything else. Brunhouse goes down in 
the game hog register as No. 922. 





RANGE OF THE GLACIER BEAR. 


At the foot of Mount St. Elias and reach- 
ing from the head of Disenchantment bay 
to the Copper river delta, a distance of over 
150 miles, is the great Malsipena glacier. 
At one or 2 points it breaks into the Pa- 
cific ocean. The glacier is gradually reced- 
ing inland and has left a strip of land along 
the shore varying from a few yards to 15 
miles in width. As a rule this strip of 
land slopes gently back from the sea. The 
formation is sandstone and this section is 
known as sand dunes. It has a scattered 
and stunted growth of spruce timber with 
plenty of grass and small berries. 

_ As soon as the snow goes off the dunes 
in spring and during the summer, this strip 
of land is the home of the gfaeier, or blue, 
bear. At intervals rapid rivers find their 
way under the glaciers and across this strip 
of land to the sea. They are difficult and 
dangerous te cross. The boulders in them 


are covered with fine glacial mud, slippexy 


as soft soap, the rivers are swift, cold and 
usually about 4 feet deep. Outfit required: 
Folding canvas canoe, small bore smokeless 
rifle, carbine style; small field glasses, com- 
pass, ice creepers, etc. 

Land at Kayak island from steamer, 
cross over to Auktalee sand spit, 3% miles, 
on the mainland, thence 25 miles down the 
coast past Cape Suckling to the Indian 
camp known as the Seal House. Go into 
camp there, and you will have one or 2 
glacier bears within 2 weeks. Bears will be 
found feeding on the grass and berries on 
the dunes between the glaciers and the sea. 
It would be advisable to secure the services 
of an Indian guide, or of a white man who 
is familiar with the country. 

L. L. Bales, Seattle, Wash. 


EIGHTY FOXES CAUGHT WITH TERRIER. 


I read in September RECREATION a note 
from F. W. Stapleton in reply to an article 
published 7 or 8 months ago, signed by 
me, and which was written over 5 years 
ago. That was before the law was enacted 
in this State which prohibts the sale of 
game, and at that time 6 weeks more were 
allowed to hunting than are at present. 

I agree with Mr. Stapleton that game is 
more plentiful now than for years past; 
but at the time my letter to RECREATION 
was written game was scarcer than I ever 
knew it to be. 

Is it strange Mr. Stapleton never heard 
of a fox terrier being used in hunting 
foxes? Every hunter learns something 
new every year he hunts, or every time 
he reads RECREATION? 

It is never too late to learn, and here is 
Mr. Stapleton’s chance. 

In the spring of 1897 George Shaw did 
capture over 80 foxes with a fox terrier. 
Every farmer in that region who knew of a 
fox burrow sent word to Mr. Shaw. His 
fox terrier would go into the hole and 
drive out both old and young foxes. They 
would be either shot or caught, though 
most ef them were caught alive. Mr. 
Shaw sold over 50 live foxes that year, 
shipping them to the Seuthern States. 

‘I should be glad to make an appointment 
with Mr. Stapleton next spring, so that he 
may see a fox terrier drive out foxes. 

Dr. S. B. Keith, Palmer, Mass. 


& BOY'S: LUCK. 

We had gone into the big woods of 
Maine for our annual hunt, and had taken 
up our quarters at one of the many com- 
fortable log camps of that country. Early 
on the morning after our arrival the guide 
and I started out to provide venison for 
the camp. We crossed the lake in the 
canoe, and took a short cut through the 
forest to another lake about 2 miles be- 
yond. We saw nething on the way out, 








48 RECREATION. 


but on the return trip, as we came along 
an old rocky road, we caught a glimpse of 
a big buck; but he had already winded us 
and was making long leaps through a 
windfall, so I did rot shoot at him. 

Early the next morning we started out 
on another trail. We had gone about % 
mile from camp when a young spike buck 
sprang up, made a few jumps, and, like 
Lot’s wife, stopped to look back. That was 
where he made a mistake. The next in- 
stant a bullet from my rifle landed just 
back of his shoulder, and making 2 or 3 
more leaps, he went down in a bunch. The 
guide dressed him and carried him to camp. 
When I tell you I am but 11 years old, you 
can imagine what a flurry of excitement 
there was, and what a shower of congrat- 
ulations descended on me. That was the 
first deer of the season killed at that camp, 
though several old hunters had been put- 
ting in full time in the woods for 3 or 4 
days before I arrived. 

R. Goldschmidt, Jr., Augusta, Ga. 





MONTANA IN DISGRACE, 


I am a constant reader of your splendid 
magazine and much admire the stand you 
take against the people you have -very 
properly named game hogs. The last ses- 
sion of Mcntana’s Legislature passed a 
law that allowed the shooting of chickens 
on the 15th of August, instead of the Ist 
of September, as has been the law here for 
many years. In my opinion such a law is 
much at fault. Birds are not able to take 
care of themselves at such an early age, 
and, consequently, men with but little of 
the true sportsman’s instinct can ruthlessly 
slaughter many birds without giving them 
the least chance for their lives. I should 
like to learn your opinion on that subject. 

E. M. R., Butte, Montana. 


That clause in your game law is a long 
step backward. Nearly all the States in the 
Union are gradually shortening the open 
seasons for killing game and at the same 
time are placing limits on the number of 
birds or animals which each man may kill 
in a day or a season. Some States which 
provided bag limits a few years ago have 
recently reduced them. In spite of all such 
provisions, game of all kinds is constantly 
decreasing in numbers everywhere, and it 
is indeed unfortunate that Montana should 
have gone backward in the matter of pro- 
tecting her prairie chickens.—EnprrTor. 





IT WAS EXCESSIVE. 


In a few hours’ shooting City Marshal Smith 
and the Hon. John Butt. of Clarksdale, bagged 
over 60 teal ducks, Mr. Butt getting 42 out of 
the 51 shots.—Memphis, Miss., News. 

Replying to my inquiry as to the truth of 
the foregoing report, Mr. Butt says: 


But ffat I fear you would consider me a 


game hog I should enter a plea of guilty 
to the charge. I trust I can with safety, 
however, state that the shooting was the 
best I have ever seen: 

J. S. Butt, Clarksdale, Miss. 


The inference is, therefore, that the state- 
ment quoted above is correct. While your 
killing is not nearly so excessive as that 
of many others I have to report, yet it 
was excessive. I take it for granted that 
you and your friend are gentlemen, and as 
such you should have been satisfied with 
15 or 20 ducks each. This is about the 
limit among all high class sportsmen of to- 
day. It is true that 2 States in the Union 
legally authorize the killing of a larger 
number, but that does not prove that it is 
right. I know plenty of men in the 2 
States referred to who quit when they get 
10 or a dozen, even though they have 
chances to kill many more; and I trust 
that you and Mr. Smith may hereafter be 
satished when you get enough.—EpIrTor. 





GAME NOTES. 


735,314. Decoy. Robert H. Syms, New 
York, Y. Filed Oct. 28, 1901. 
Serial No. 80,225. 

Claim.—A sheet metal profile piece and a 





separate and independent flat sheet metal 
back piece, said profile piece having a slot 
at the tail end and the back piece having a 
slot fitting over the profile piece when the 
back piece is slid into the slot in the pro- 
file piece, etc. : 





August 6th and 7th, last, Andrew and 
Charles Schoonemaker, of this place, went | 
to Yellow creek to hunt prairie or sage 
chickens, killing 30 the 6th and 29 the 7th. 
The younger man is an engineer and spends 
his time at this end of the road, hunting. 
When he is at work, his father and the rest 
of the family go hunting, averaging 4 or 5 
days a week. 

Prairie chickens are scarce here. Some 
sportsmen say the sheep tramp out the 
birds’ nests in the spring, but it seems to 
me the sheep are not entirely to blame. 

Florence L. A. Smith, Evanston, Wyo. 


Charging the disappearance of prairie 


FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 49 


ehickens to sheep is new. Sheep are a 
curse to any big game country, and no 
doubt they do destroy many nests of birds; 
but it is due to such persistent and disrep- 
utable pot hunters as the Schoonemakers 
that the sage grouse, and all other game 
birds everywhere in the country, are grad- 
ually being exterminated. August Schoone- 
maker is game hog No. 923 and Charles 
is 924.—EDITOR. 


If your magazine was read more gener- 
ally in this State, there would be fewer 
side hunts, and you would have fewer pic- 
tures to print of the work of game hogs. 
You are doing a grand work and I hope 
you will keep on until the people have 
learned what constitutes a sportsman and 
discovered that there are nobler things in 
nature than can be found between brick 
walls in the everlasting fight for wealth. 

G. H. Priest, Waltham, Mass. 
ANSWER. 

RECREATION is very generally read by the 
decent sportsmen in your State, as well as 
in all the others; but, unfortunately, there 
are thousands of game butchers every- 
where who do not read it. These are the 
chaps I am trying to reach, and if sports- 
men will send me the names and addresses 
of any such I will gladly send them sample 
copies.—EDITOR. 





735,290. Snow Shoe. Chandley E. Phelps, 
Boonville, N. Y. Filed Feb. -7, 1903. 
Serial No. 142,267. 





Claims —The combination of the bow 
frame, the cross bars and the hanger 4 hav- 
ing a wall extending down on the inside 
of the face of the bow and a socket therein 
to receive the end of the cross bars and 
having means for securing it to the top of 


the bow. 





The principal game hunted here by the 
true sportsmen is ducks and quails, and if 
we could read more about this kind of 
hunting in your journal, I believe it would 
interest many more in Ohio; but of course 
you have many readers to please, each of 
whom has likes and dislikes different from 
those of the others. I am glad to see the 
rapid advance our American people are 
making in their idea of recreation in the 
field. Doctors advise people in all walks of 
life to take vacations. If one has his busi- 
ness on his mind 50 weeks in the year, he is 
entitled to 2 weeks for recreation. He will 


live longer by taking them, feel happier, be 
of better service, and lose nothing but what 
ought to be lost. 

Geo. M. Clouse, M.D., Golumbus, Obio. 





730,528. Animal Trap. Alanson D. Gas- 
ton, Washington, D. C. Filed Oct. 22, 
1902. Serial No. 128,361. 










KA wai SS 
Fea Ni 





Se 


Claim.—An animal trap comprising a 
base member and a spring actuated bail 
member, a trigger, and a latch, and a trip- 
board pivotally secured to the base mem- 
ber and overhanging the end of the trigger 
member. 





Fergus Falls, Minn.—A young man named 
Paul Meyer was brought into the justice court 
in this city on complaint of Deputy Game War- 
den Jones, who charged him with shooting a 
grouse out of season in the town of Edna. He 
pleaded not guilty and was convicted after a stub- 
bornly fought trial. The costs in the case were 
$58.82, and the court fined him $10, making a 
total of $68.82. 


The above, from the St. Paul Dispatch, 
goes to show that all high priced hunting 
is not confined to big game. If we had 
more wardens like Mr. Jones we would 
have more game. 

M. E. Daniels, Monticello, Minn. 


_ Paul’s number in the game hog register 
is 925.—EDITOR. 





The game in this section is all shot off 
by fellows who find a covey of birds and 
follow them day after day till they are all 
gone. I promise you to do all I can in this 
matter, and always what | can toward pro- 
tection of game everywhere. 

W. S. Shaw, Blacksburg, Va. 


RECREATION will find a place in our home 
as long as we have one, and I tender you 
my thanks for the advocacy of the prin- 
ciples you are putting to the front—game 
protection and nature study. May there be 
much more of them in the world before it 
is too late. You have the heartiest well 
wishes of the vast army of sportsmen and 
nature lovers of this country. 

James A. Lawrie, Toledo, Ohio. 





A little girl thus described a dachshund 
she had-seen: “It was one of those funny 
ones, you know; the ones that are a dog 
and a half long and half a dog high. You 
must know the sort. It is a dog that only 
has 4 legs, but looks as if it ought to have 
6.”—The Inglenook, 


FISH AND FISHING. 


MINNOW CASTING. 

In August Recreation J. P. Jaeger, of 
Independence, la., asks some angler to tell 
him how to cast flies and small minnows. 
I shall endeavor to answer, but want to be 
understood as making no pretense to ex- 
pertness in this art. Neither do I claim 
that the tackle and methods I| use are the 
best for the purpose, though they have 
proven satisfactory to me. 

I use a 6 foot Bristol steel rod with single 
grip, cork handle, Kalamazoo finger-hook 
attachment, agate guides and agate tip of 
extra large size. My rod is finished in 
oxidized silver throughout. My reel is the 
quadruple multiplier, known as Shakes- 
peare’s Professional, with jeweled bearings, 
and holds 80 yards of No. 5 silk line. I 
use 60 yards of Shakespeare’s Standard silk 
line, S. S. No. 2, for I prefer to have plenty 
of room on the reel. I use bass flies tied 
on No. 1 Sproat hooks, ringed; these I at- 
tach to a No. o P. and S. ball bearing spin- 
ner fastened to the line with a metal coup- 
ling. 

Having assembled these I wind up my 
line until the bait is near the end of the rod, 
place my thumb on reel spool, and throw 
off both brake and click. When the rod is 
at the proper point in casting, I release the 
spool of my reel, but keep my thumb touch- 
ing and, when I so desire, stop my bait by 
a slight pressure on the spool. This thumb- 
ing is the difficult feature of bait casting 
and requires practice to perform it nicely. 
It must be done to prevent the line from 
over running and back lashing. In casting, 
the motive power is born of the spring of 
the rod. 

‘When baiting with minnows, I use No. 
1 Sproat hooks on double gut snells and 
hook the bait through upper lip, except 
when I use spinners or spoons. With them 
I use No. 10 Sproat hooks attached to the 
spinner or spoon, and tie my minnow to 
the hook by passing a small wire through 
mouth and gills. 

Bait casting is an art requiring consider- 
able practice, some patience and a rod sup- 
plied with guides that offer the least resis- 
tance to the line. 

To practice on shore casting attach to 
line any small weight, run a tape line 100 
feet or less over the ground and fasten at 
both ends. Stand at one end and cast down 
this line and note distance cast and accu- 
racy. Soon you will be able to place your 
bait where you desire. 

W. S. Hoke, Wadena, Ia. 


ME SHOULD READ RECREATION. 
The photograph which is reproduced en this 
page is the result of one day’s fishing in Indian 





river, Florida, by Mr. C. M. Hapgood, of Easton, 
Pa. The total weight of the catch was 105 pounds, 
the largest fish weighing 13 pounds, and 5 other 
fish weighing over 10 pounds each. These were 
all trout with one exception, a bass. Mr. Hap- 
ood fished 5 different days, 3 or 4 hours each 
day, and caught in all 192 trout, the total weight 
being 690 pounds.—Boot and Shoe Record. 


I wrote Mr. Hapgood, asking if this re- 
port was correct and he replied as follows: 


Your information is about correct. Feb- 
ruary 13th I caught, in Indian river, Flor- 
ide, 32 trout that weighed 95 pounds; larg- 
est one, 12 pounds; 14th, 36 trout and 4 
bass that weighed 105 pounds, largest one 
II pounds; 15th, 18 trout that weighed 77 
pounds; 17th, 12 trout that weighed 45 
-ounds; 19th, 25 trout.that weighed 104 
pounds, 5 of them 10 to 13 pounds each; 
2Ist, 11 trout that weighed 50 pounds; 22d,. 
24 trout that weighed 84 pounds; 23d, 30 
trout that weighed 130 pounds, 9 of these 
weighing 95 pounds; total catch 188; total 
weight 600 pounds. These weights are ex- 
actly those allowed my guide when he sold 


the fish. 
C. M. Hapgood, Easton, Pa. 


Here is another case of a man making 
a hog of himself simply because he does not 
know any better. Evidently the trouble 
with this man is that he does not know 
anything of the modern advancement in 
sportsmanship. He knows that up to 10 or 
15 years ago a man was justified in catch- 
ing all the fish or killing all the game pos- 
sible and then boasting of it. Hangood has 
innocently had himself photographed with 
23 big sea trout. No modern, up-to-date 
angler would have taken more than 5 or 6 
such fish in a day, but Hapgood does not 
know this. He simply followed the ex- 
ample of old-time fishermen, caught all he 
could and then had his picture taken with 
the fish. If he lives long enough to learn 
what gentlemen think of such work nowa- 
days he will be ashamed that he ever stood 
up in front of the camera with such an ar- 
ray of slaughter about him and that he 
ever confessed to having committed such 
an act of butchery. Hapgood’s number in 
the fish hog pen is 926.—EDITor, 





WHO CAN TELL THEIR NAMES? 

A good instance of the proper treatment 
of fish hogs came under my netice the 
other day. Six Chicago business men had 
been fishing at Bang’s lake, Wauconda, 
Lake county, Ill., and some farmers had 
caught them using a seine. The farmers 
ordered them to leave town and never be 
caught around there again; but to their 
breed the diversion was too tempting and 
worth the risk, so back they came, camp 


50 





FISH AND 


and baggage. The farmers soon spotted 
them and, watching results, saw they were 
at their old game. The next night, while 
the hogs were out on the lake, a crowd of 
farmers collected at their tent and_ set 
everything on fire. Being attracted by the 
flames, the fishermen returned to within 
talking distance of the shore. Words were 
exchanged, and 2 of the fellows drew re- 
volvers, discharging several shots, but the 
farmers did not scare. Instead, they 
opened up with some well loaded shot 
guns, rushed out, got the fellows, took 
them ashore and gave them a sound beat- 
ing. The Chicago men left town that night 
via the middle of the road and took a 12 
mile walk to Parrington, the nearest rail- 
road station. From what I heard, a number 
of them will eat their meals off mantlepieces 
for several weeks, as they picked up a 
number of shot and stopped some large 
clubs in strong hands. The farmers burned 
every article the hogs had, from tent down. 
It would be well if a few more of the fish 
hog species were treated in a like manner, 


The names of the party were: Wallace. 


Graham, a young Chicago lawyer; John 
French, Arthur Briggs and his man, and 
Walter Holland. McK., Chicago. 


The Legislature of Illinois should pass, 


at its next session, a special act, exempting 
these farmers from taxation during the re- 
mainder of their lives. I heartily com- 
mend their example to all other farmers in 
this country. Can any reader of REcREA- 
TION in that vicinity tell me the names of 
these sturdy sons of toil in order that I 
may do them further honor ?—EDIror. 





THE SPAFFORD-McLEAN CASE. 


I am a reader of RECREATION, a sports- 
man and a lover of fair play. While I be- 
lieve in upholding our game laws-and in 
the punishment of violators of the same, I 
think one article in your September issue 
needs to be taken with salt. It was con- 
cerning the shooting of old man McLean 
last April by Game Warden Bert Spafford, 
of Cadillac. Public opinion in that section 
labels the act as a cold blooded murder. 
Fven the friends of Spafford do not claim 
he was pinned down to the ground by a 
spear, as stated in your article. There was 
not a scratch on Spafford’s body, though 
there was a torn place in his coat to help 
his story. 

Old man McLean was a game law viola- 
tor, and as such deserved the punishment 
the law provides for such offenses. Per- 
sonally, he was a kind hearted, harmless 
citizen and had hosts of friends. I don’t 
know what you think, but I think the life 
of one human being is worth more than 
all the game in Michigan. 

Lean’s was the second life that has 
heen blotted out by the crack of Spafford’s 


- * 


FISHING. 51 


gun. The majority of the citizens of Mich- 
igan prefer men, not murderers, for officers 
of the law. We haven’t any promotion for 
Mr. Spafford. | 
W. A. White, Petoskey, Mich. 
ANSWER. 

I am not prepared to place any value on 
the life of McLean, but there are men in 
every community who are not worth the 
powder it would take to kill them, and a 
man who will sneak out at night and spear 
fish in violation of law can, as a rule, safely 
be placed in that class.—EbITor. 





NEW MINNOW TRAP. 
731,398. Minnow Trap. O’Neal Watson, 


Crawfordsville, Ind., assignor of one- 
half to Charles E. Lacey, Crawfords- 
ville, Ind. Filed Dec. 2. 1902. 
No. 133,598. (No model.) 


Serial 





Claim.—A minnow trap comprising a 
bottom, triangular and plates hinged to the 
bottom, glass side panes closing the spaces 
between the end plates, and a ridge plate 
connecting the tops of the end plates and 
covering the upper edges of the glass side 
panes, etc. 





TONS OF FISH WASTED. 


Avalon, Cal., July 21.—The tons of fish landed 
in yesterday’s slaughter were nearly all hauled out 
to sea and dumped to-day. Most of the fish 
which were caught were yellowtail, and there 
being sufficient of the more edible varieties, such 
as barracuda and bass, to supply the local and 
shipping demands, the yellowtail were all thrown 
away. Probably 2 tons of this single variety 
were thus disposed of. Many of the launches 
which came in loaded yesterday did not stop to 
unload the fish, but steamed back out to sea and 
threw them overboard. Scores of fish brought in 
in rowboats were dumped on the beach, and 
thrown back into the water to-day. The wanton 
slaughter and the reckless waste of these edible 
varieties of fish was an old story to the local 
inhabitants, but to the big crowd of summer vis- 
itors, unused to such scenes, it appeared like a 
cruel sacrifice. Many of the fishermen as well 
as the visitors condemn these wholesale slaugh- 
ters. 


The above item, from a California pa- 
per, will give Eastern anglers an idea of 
the slaughter that is constantly going on at 
the West coast fishing resorts. Fish were 
never more plentiful and fishermen never 


52 RECREATION. ‘ 


so numerous. A few copies of RECREATION 
distributed at Avalon and Redondo might 
have a good effect. 

B. C. Hinman, Long Beach, Cal. 





NIBBLES. 

730,064. Trolling Spoon. 

son, San Francisco, Cal. 

14, 1902. Serial No. 102,785. 
model.) 


Albert W. Wil- 
Filed April 
(No 





Claim.—A link for fishing gear, said link 
comprising a section of wire bent to form 
2 eyes respectively at the ends of the 
link, the end portions of the wire being 
projected past each other and laid back 
alongside of the middle portion, a clamp 
fastening said end portions snugly against 
the middle portions, said end and middle 
portions of the wire forming the shank of 
the link, and a covering inclosing said 
shank and extending continuously from 
one eye to the other, etc. 





I enclose a clipping from the Battle Creek 
Journal, which I wish you would publish. 
Roast these bristlebacks brown. 

C. R. O., Climax,- Mich. 


Patrolmen Miller and Godsmark were fishing 
yesterday on Sherman lake. The report of their 
catch is 724 bluegills. 


I wrote these men for confirmation of 
this report and received the following re- 
ply: 

The report is correct except as to the 
number of fish, which was 725. 


Sidney Godsmark, Battle Creek, Mich. 


It is not necessary to waste valuable 
space in telling you what I think of you, 
any further than to say that I have en- 
tered your name in the fish hog book as 
No. 927, and Miller’s as No. 928. Thou- 
sands of decent men who read of your ex- 
ploit will form their own estimate of you. 
—EDITor. 





Mr. A. Judah reports the following catch of 
small mouth bass in Belgrade lakes, , Pap Fri- 
day, 75; Saturday, 68; Monday, 73; Tuesday, 72; 
Wednesday, 69; Thursday, 64. Mr. Judah says 
that this is the record on the lakes, except his 
own of last year, which was better. He goes 
after fish the same as another man would shoot 
birds, in a business way. 
a boat, starts at sunup, and stays till dark. The 
pide cooks the noon meal and Judah fishes.— 
ansas City Journal. 


On inquiry, Mr. Judah writes as follows: 
I caught 105 smai!l mouth bass in one 


answer: 


He takes a guide and - 











day in Belgrade lakes. For small mouth 
bass fishing there are no better lakes in 
Maine than Belgrade. 
A. Judah, Kansas City, Mo. 

If all the people who go to Belgrade 
lakes wore such bristles as you do the fish- 
ing there would not be worth Io cents a 
day in 2 years from now. Your number 
in the fish hog book is 929.—EDITOR, 





I have just heard that Will Thomas and 
a friend from Roxbury, Me., caught 800 
brook trout yesterday. Kindly write them 
and find out if true; then see that they get 
advertised in good shape. 

E. S. J., Rumford Falls, Me. 


My inquiry brought the following 


Who reported the trout that a friend and 

I caught? We both caught 400 fish in oné 

day and their weight was about 50 pounds. 
William Thomas, Roxbury, Me. 


It matters not who made the report. 
Your own statement is sufficient to brand 
you and your friend as fish hogs with un- 
usually long bristles. Your number in the 
fish hog record is 930, and I only regret 
I have not the name of the rooter who ac- 
companied you.—EbiTor. 





In my capacity as justice of the peace I 
have had the pleasure of soaking it to 
persons for seining in Lake Shetek; one 
paid $s0 and costs, the other $100 and costs. 
There is a warrant out for anot!er fellow, 
and it will cost him $100 when he is brought 
in. This has driven from the lake several 
persons who have been seining fish for a 
living. I was also instrumental in getting 
the game warden here last year, when we 
caught the Walnut Grove crowd. It cost 
them $157 to square up matters, as reported 
to you by Rear Warden Morgan, of Albert 
Lea, Minn., last winter. 

Chas. E. Price, Currie, Minn. 


Here is another administrator of the law. 
who knows how to deal with game and 
fish pirates. I wish we had such mem in 
every township of the United States—_ 
EpiTor. 





POACHERS FINED. 
The Kennebec, Me., Journal says: 
Brown of Smyrna Mills, deput 
took county, Dr. Wellington o 


s: John A. 
sheriff of Aroos- 
) Boston, and John 
Mitchell of Moro, were caught recently netting 
trout in Hope pond in Moro plantation. They 
were prosecuted by Warden Templeton and were 
convicted and paid a fine of $50. —Bangor, Me., 
Daily News. 


This is an astonishing report to be sent 
out about a deputy sheriff and a Boston 
doctor, especially. The report does not say 
anything as to John Mitchell, but I take it 
for granted his ideas of sport must be of a 
degraded sort, or he would not have bec 


: 
: 


4 


FISH AND 


found in such company. I am glad these 

men were tried before a judge who knows 
how to deal with such disreputable char- 
acters. Deputy Sheriff Brown’s number in 
the pig pen is 93i. Dr. Wellington’s is 
932 and John Mitchell’s is 933.—Enitor. 





Can you tell me how to determine the 
age of brook trout? 

H. B. Thompson, Somersworth, N. H. 

ANSWER, 

If you refer to wild brook trout, it is 
practically impossible to tell their age with 
any degree of accuracy. The age must be 
estimated largely from the size, but that 
varies materially with their environment 

and the abundance and kind of food. In 
New Hampshire, wild brook trout ordinar- 
ily run 6 to 8 inches in length when 3 years 
old, although it is possible, under favorable 
conditions, for a 3-year-old brook trout to 
weigh half a pound. To be able to de- 
termine the age of brook trout in any 
particular stream, special observations 
would have to be made for a series of 
years.— EDITOR, 


736,880. Fishing Reel. Edward D. Rock- 
well, Bristol, Conn. Filed March 7, 
: 1903. Serial No. 146,773. 








Claim.—In a fishline reel, the combina- 
tion, with a drag, of a knob controlling said 
drag, and an indicating point mounted on 

_ said knob and capable of movement with 
_ relation thereto, etc. 





Messrs. Frank Deno and E. J. Falkner re- 
turned from a 3 days’ fishing trip down on the 
_-Big Hole river near Twin Bridges, last Satur- 
day. Their catch for the 3 days numbered be- 
tween 1,000 and 1,200.—Dillon, Mont., Examiner. 


Regarding this report Falkner says: 


My fishing is not in the least overesti- 
_ mated in the report you mention. 
E. J. Falkner, Rochester, Mont. 


Your fish hog brand is No. 934 and 
Deno’s is 935.—EDIrTor. 


ye 


- 





Harrisburg, Pa.—In Centre county last week a 
_ fish warden of the Pennsylvania department of 
_ fisheries caught John Kosick and J. L. Millard 
fishing for trout. They resisted the efforts to 
_ @€xamine their baskets and the officers were com- 

elled to use force. Twenty-eight trout under 6 
inches in length were found in their possession. 
or pleaded guilty to violating the fish law and 
paid $280 fine for the short trout and $100 each 


FISHING. 53 


for resisting the officer, making a total of $480.— 
Altoona, Pa., Tribune. 


Kosick’s number in the pen is 936 and 
Millard’s is 937.—Ebtror. 





Ed Medbury and Lis brother Louis caught 400 
trout in the river near Medburyville the other 
day.—Deerfield Valley, Vt., Times. 


To my inquiry Medbury replied: 


The number of trout caught by my 
brother and me in one day was 405 
E. F. Medbury, Wilmington, Vt. 


Your name goes down to posterity in the 
fish hog book is No. 938 and that of your 
brother as 939.—EDITor. 





While dynamiting a stream to kill fish, at 
Walter, Okla., Professor E. Horn, a prominent 
educator of Alabama, was killed by the explosion 
of a cartridge in his hands.—Exchange. 


Here is another dynamiter who got what 
he deserved.—EbirTor. 


AN EXPEDITION. 
EFFIE L. EDLER, 
Jimmie went a fishin’ 
With his pa to-day; 
Carried bait and triggin’, 
Walkin’ all the way. 
Took a little lunch along, 
An’ some water, too; 
How th’ fish’l suffer 
’Fore the evenin’ dew! 
If they come home loaded 
Jimmie will recite 
*Bout the little fishes 
’*Fore he says good night. 
*Spect his little prayers’ll be 
Mixin’ in the brook, 
Tellin’ Jesus how he 
“Caught ’em with a hook.” 
But I think the Lord will 
Keep him ’till the morn, 
For he is the dearest 
Boy that e’er was born. 





Beginning about the 25th of each month, 
I haunt the news stands until RECREATION 
comes out. I consider it the best maga- 
zine published, and I have read all of them. 
The Gun and Ammunition department af- 
fords a great deal of information and con- 
siderable amusement. From the first to the 
last page you pound away at game hogs 
with great persistence and very plain lan- 
guage. They deserve it all and I hope it 
will do them good. 

A. C. Ludington, Marquette, Mich. 





“What was old Thornson grumbling to 
you about? His health, as usual?” 

“Ves. He complained that he was feel: 
ing somewhat better.”—Exchange. 


GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


Anybody can shoot all day, but a gentleman will quit when he gets enough. 


WINCHESTER SAYS YES AND NO. 


T.C. BENNETT, Pacsiocer CE HOOSON,V Pace &Taeas. 


H.S. LEONARD,Assr.Tacas Aj WARD, Secattaay. 


WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. 


MANUFACTURERS OF. 


RIFLES,SHOT GUNS & ALL KINDS OF AMMUNITION. 


ALL LETTERS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED To THE COMPANY. 


A.65590 


My. A. V. Huyler, 


New HAVEN, Conn.U.S.A. 
September 23, 1903. 


C/o N. H. Waite & Co., #21 Maiden Lane, 
New york, W.Y. 


Dear Sir:- 


Replying to your favor of the 22nd inst., would 


say we shall probably put an automatic shot gun upon 


the market, but we are not prepared at this time to 


give any information coneerning it and we can sey that 


it will not be done this year. 


Yours respectfully, 


New Haven, Conn. 
November 2, 1903. 
Mr. Charles Vitous, 
522 W. 25th St., Chicago, III. 
Dear Sir: 

We note your protest against something 
which we do not happen to have. 

We regard the advertisement of the 
Browning gun in RECREATION as a skilful 
piece of work on the part of the editor. He 
set forth the good qualities of that gun with 
great distinctness; at the same time threw 





as much mud at the Winchester Company 
as he was able. A few people may be de- 
ceived. We feel that the editor was not 
acting in good faith. He started to adver- 
tise the Browning gun. He was afraid to 
do so openly. He would like to show the 
Winchester Company at fault. 

Nobody can be more interested in the 
preservation of game than the Winchester 
Company. Yours respectfully, 

Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 

(Signed) T. S. Bennett, President. 





GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 55 
9.6 BENNETT. Pacsiocnr. G.E.HOOSON.V.Pres&Treas. H.S.LEONARD,Ass1.Tacas A.| WARD, Secattsay. 


WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. 


MANUFACTURERS OF 


RIFLES,SHOTGUNS & ALL KINDS OF AMMUNITION. 


LB LETTERS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY. 


H.98263. New Haven. Conn.US.A. 


November 6, 1903. 
Mr. C. FP. Dill, Chief Warden, z 


Greenville, S.C. 
Dear Sir:e-- 

We have your valued favor of the 31st October, and would 
say in reply that we suppose that your letter is influenced by the 
article contained in RECREATION, which was a hit at us, = dishonestly 
we think. The Editor wanted to advertise a certain automatic shotgun, 
and did s0 describing in detail its excellencies and giving the name 
of the maker. He covered this by urging the readers to take a 
decided stand against the Winchester company. We regard it as 
unfortunate for our interests that we have not any gun of the kind. 
We feel, however, on the basis of the interest which has been excited 
by the magazine in question, that the people desiring automatic guns 
are very much greater in number than those who do not desire them. 

We believe in the preservation of game, but do not believe 
that game will be preserved by any delay in the estate of any art. 
People who want these guns are not "potehunters", but people who do 
not believe as you do, and have a different opinion of the Editor 


of RECREATION, 
Yours respectfully, 


Winchester Repeating Arms Co. 


resident. 
New Haven, Conn. In reply we would say that since we with- 
November 6, 1903. drew our advertisement from RECREATION 
Mr. Chas. H. Benthey, we have noticed that the editor’s position 
Hampden, Va. toward us has been somewhat more acri- 
Dear Sir: monious. We do not think he is acting 


We have your valued favor of the 4th honestly with you or with us. He put out a 
November, and note contents of the same. good ad for the Browning automatic gun, 


56 RECREATION. 


describing its extreme efficiency and giving 
the name of the makers; and then by way 
of saving his face he started a campaign 
against the Winchester company. ‘We feel 
that it is unfortunate we have not a gun of 
the kind described at present. We are quite 
sure you will change your opinion about 
decent sportsmen, and we are just as anx- 
ious to preserve the game as you are. We 
are glad to know you have entertained a 
high regard of us, but are sorry to hear 
we are liable to lose it if we continue to 
perfect guns. ;< 
Yours respectfully, 
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 

(Signed) T. S. Bennett, Presidertt. 


It will be seen that in the letter from the 
Winchester company reproduced herewith 
and dated September 23, they say: 


“We shall probably put an automatic shot 
gun on the market.” 


I know from other reliable sources that 
they have been busy several months build- 
ing machinery for the making of an auto- 
matic gun. . 

Then in the letter to Mr. Vitous they say, 


“We note your protest against something 
which we do not happen to have.” 


Not yet, of course, but they are making it. 
In the letter to Mr. Dill, dated Nov. 6, 
1903; Mr. Bennett says: 


“We regard it as unfortunate for our 
interests that we have not any gun of the 
kind.” 

In the same letter Mr. Bennett says: 


“The editor wanted to advertise a certain 
automatic shot gun, and did = so, 
giving the name of the maker.” 


These statements are directly in conflict. 

Mr. Bennett accuses me of advertising a 
rival gun, and of naming the maker thereof, 
in my editorial in November REcREATION. 
I will give Mr. Bennett $1,000 if he will 
point out to me the name of the makers 
of the other automatic gun referred to in 
that article. As matters now stand Mr. 
Bennett himself has the honor of first hav- 
ing advertised the Browning gun in REcRE- 
ATION, and the makers of that gun are wel- 
come to whatever good this may do them. 

Under date of October 14 I wrote this 
to Browning Brothers: 


Dear Sirs: 

I am sorry to learn that you have put out 
an automatic gun. If I had known you con- 
templated this, I should have advised you 
against it long ago, though I do not imagine 
you care for any advice from me. 

It would seem that the small remnant of 
wild birds which now remains, of the mil- 
lions that were formerly on this continent, 


could be killed off fast enough with the 
double barrel guns and pump guns; and I 
regret that a still more destructive weapon 
should have been made and offered for sale. 

While not wishing to injure your legiti-— 
mate business, I shall oppose the use and 
sale of these guns to the best of my ability. 

Yours truly, G. O. Shields. 


Mr. M. S. Browning replied to this, under 
date of October 24, as follows: 


Dear Sir: 

Replying to your favor of 14th would say, 
if the only way to protect the game was to 
limit the efficiency of the gun you would 
have to advocate the flintlock; and even 
that arm, if unrestricted,,would be an awful 
game exterminator. There are general re- 
strictions that are properly made, limiting 
the season, the bag, the bore, marketing, 
etc., to amply protect the game, and as arms 
have been made more effective the lines 
have had to be drawn closer. pace 

Am sorry you have decided to oppose the 
arm, as we had expected to be able to make 
satisfactory arrangements for advertising 
with you when we were prepared to ad- 
vertise. 

Yours truly, 
M. S. Browning. 


If Mr. Bennett doubts the authenticity 
of these letters, I shall be glad to have him 
call, or senda man here, and I will show 
him my carbon copy of my letter to Brown- 
ing Brothers, and Mr. Browning’s original 
letter to me as quoted. 

I should further like to have Mr. Bennett 
point out to me any mud I have thrown 
at his company, or anything that has ap- 
peared in RECREATION since he withdrew his 
ad that is in the least “acrimonious” to- 
ward his company. On the contrary he can 
find on page 376 November RECREATION 2 
articles defending the pump gun which Mr. 
Bennett makes. On page 377 of the same 
issue I printed an article entitled “The 
Ideal Gun,” which strongly recommends 
certain of the Winchester rifles. On page 
380 is another article commending the Win- 
chester pump gun. -On page 384 the 
Winchester 25-35 rifle gets a good send off. 
Then on page 460 of December RECREATION 
the Winchester Company gets more free ad- 
vertising. Will Mr. Bennett please point 
out to me any instance in which I have 
treated him “acrimoniously” since he with- 
drew his ad? 

My protest against the automatic gun, in 
November REcREATION, is a straightforward, 
manly appeal to the sportsmen of the coun- 
try on behalf of the birds. I made no at- 
tempt whatever to injure the Winchester 
Company. They had announced in writing 
their intention of placing on the market an 
automatic gun, and I undertook to have my 





GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 57 


readers convince them that such a gun 
should not be made and sold. Mr. Bennett 
has seen fit to force a fight on me; but what- 
ever I may do or say in this matter, here- 
after, will be entirely fair and unprejudiced. 

Inasmuch as the Winchester Company 
seems determined to go ahead and put out 
this automatic gun, and inasmuch as Brown- 
ing- Brothers have already put one out, I, 
in common with many other sportsmen, 
realize that the time has come to prevent 
by law the sale and use of all repeating 
shot guns. Hence I have drafted a bill to 
prevent the use of these weapons and have 
sent copies of it to all the Chief Wardens 
of the League, and to many other promi- 
nent sportsmen, with a recommendation 
that it be introduced in their respective 
legislatures at the earliest possible date and 
a for passage. Here is a copy of the 
bill: 


AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF 
REPEATING SHOT GUNS IN 
HUNTING BIRDS. 


The people of the State of rep- 
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en- 
act as follows 

Section 1. It shall be unlawful to use, 
in hunting birds or animals of any kind, 
any shot gun holding more than 2 cart- 
ridges at one time, or that may be fired 
more than twice without reloading. 

Section 2. The intent and meaning of 

this bili is to prohibit the use of. any so- 
called repeating shot gun or pump gun. 
_ Section 3. Any person found guilty of a 
violation of this statute shall be fined not 
more than $50 nor less than $25 for each 
offense; and the carrying of any such gun 
in the woods or in the fields or on any of 
the waters of this State shall be considered 
prima facie evidence of an attempt to vio- 
late Section 1 of this statute, and shall be 
punished as provided in this section. 


Will Mr. Bennett please point out to me 
any instance in which I have shown parti- 


ak to Browning Brothers in framing this 
ill: 


MORE PROTESTS AGAINST THE AUTO- 
MATIC GUN. 
Forsyth, Ga. 
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 
New, Haven, Conn. 

Dear Sirs: 

I have read in November REcREATION a 
protest against a wrong which you are 
about to commit against the game of this 
country, by manufacturing an automatic 
shot gun. This is a matter which has con- 
cerned me for some time past. My atten- 
tion was first called to it by a friend in 
Macon Georgia, who is a dealer in sporting 
goods, We were discussing the advent of 





the 20 guage double as a genteel, sports- 
manlike weapon which would cultivate a 
sportsmanlike spirit in any man who would 
use one. He remarked that there would 
soon be placed on the market an automatic 
gun, and that it would have to be manu- 
factured in either Belgium or Germany, as 
the Winchester people had refused to make 
it, on account of the general disapproval 
of such weapons, and the fact that its 
advent would result in the repeating guns 
being outlawed. He said he was opposed 


to selling an automatic gun, as he be- 


lieves in a man’s being a clean _ sports- 
man, and not a game butcher. I was glad 
to hear that no American concern would 
agree to make such an engine of destruc- 
tion, for the introduction of such a gun 
would mean the extermination of our 
game birds. 

I use a double gun, and so does my 
hunting companion. We have shot 7 
years over the same ground, and to-day 
have as many birds as ever, because we are 
careful to leave a sufficient number out of 
each covey to provide breeders the fol- 
lowing season. If this automatic gun is 
made and placed in the hands of a game 
hogs, who will be the only ones to use it, 
the provident care of game by the sports- 
men will not amount to much. 

I notice that one automatic gun is now 
on the market and is doubtless being sold 
to men who are not satisfied with decent 
bags. This we can not prevent at once, but 
we can and do protest against another man- 
ufacturer’s taking up such a weapon. 

Let the protest of the men who want to 
hunt the game and yet keep it, be heard 
and heeded. Your repeater should satisfy 
you. The coming of the automatic will 
ultimately mean the outlawing of the pump 
gun, as well as the automatic, and I shall 
try to have a bill passed at the coming ses- 
sion of the Georgia Legislature, to prevent 
the use of the automatic shot gun in this 
State. 


Respectfully yours, G. O. Persons. 


Baltimore, Md. 
Mr. G. O. Shields, 
New York. 
Dear Sir: 

I heartily commend your editorial in 
November RECREATION on atitomatic guns. 
You will notice by the papers | sent you 
a day or 2 ago, containing a report of the 
annual meeting of our association, that I 
recommended the passage of such a law 
by the coming Legislature of Maryland, as 
will make unlawful the use of pump, or 
magazine guns. I expect to prepare such 
a bill to be presented to our Legislature, 
which will convene in January next. 

I shall be glad to unite with you in such 
manner as you may indicate to prevent the 


58 RECREATION. 


use oF these slaughter guns, and you may 
rely on Maryland doing what it can to 
prevent their use. 

Kindly indicate to me any course you 
may propose to pursue in the matter, and I 
assure you of my hearty co-operation. 

Yours truly, Oregon M. Dennis. 
Secretary Maryland Game and Fish 
Protective Ass'n. 


My Dear Coquina—I strongly endorse 
your protest against the automatic gun. 
It is shocking to think of the continued 
development of sporting guns, though it 
was proved 20 years ago that we had al- 
ready reached the point where the destruc- 
tiveness of the weapons was greater than 
the recuperative power of the game. 
Among-water fowl we have stopped swivels 
and batteries, and I should be in favor of 
abolishing not only automatic guns but re- 
peating shot guns and repeating rifles in 
field sports. E. T. Seton, New York. 


THREE NEW EJECTORS. 

732,891. Ejector for Firearms. Hermon 
L. Powell, Utica, N. Y., assignor to 
Remington Arms Company, Ilion, N. 
Y. Filed May 2, 1903. Serial No. 
155,239. (No model.) 








Claim.—The combination in a breakdown 
firearm of the frame, barrel and barrel lug 
jointed to. the frame, a sliding ejector 
mounted in the barrel lug, a starting lever 
and an ejector hammer both pivoted in the 
barrel lug and adapted to operate on the 
ejector, a projection on the frame to en- 
gage and operate the starting lever, a sear 
operating to secure said hammer and adapt- 
ed to engage the frame adjacent to the joint 
pin and a spring for operating said ham- 
mer. 

730,862. Ejector for Firearms. Charles 
Y. Bartholmes, Ilion, N. Y. Filed 
April 10, 1903. Serial No. 151,888. 





Claim,—The combination with a firearm 


having a frame and a barrel and lug _joint- 
ed to the frame to breakdown of the ejec- 
tor mounted on a longitudinal slide in the 
barrel lug and having a catch shoulder and 
a forcing spring of a catch and tripping 
lever having a shoulder to engage the shoul- 
der on the ejector slide and mounted on a 
vertical pivot in the barrel lug and a cam 
surface on the side of the frame to engage 
and operate said lever. 


732,187. Ejector for Firearms. George E. 
Humphreys, Ilion, N. Y., assignor to 
Remington Arms Company, Ilion, N. 
Y. Filed April 13, 1903. Serial No. 
152,352. (No model.) 


ce. As 


w= 
. Wo” po N 





LL Lf, ve 
2 
Claim.—In an ejector mechanism for fire- 
arms, the combination of the frame, the 
barrel, a barrel lug adapted to enter a re- 
cess in the frame, the ejector. slidingly 
mounted in the barrel lug, a fillip arranged 
to strike the ejector and having an arm, a 
spring having a tooth co-operating with a 
corner on the fillip and a projection on the 
ses adapted to engage the arm of the 
ip. 





THEY STILL WRITE PETERS. 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
The Peters Cartridge Co., 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Dear Sirs—I notice in a recent copy of 
RECREATION a letter indicating a controversy 
between yon and the editor of that publica- 
tion. I am surprised to learn that you 
make strong objections to a criticism such 
as was published, and, which, by the way, I 
noticed. 

I am personally a strong advocate of Pe- 
ters ammunition, and have been using it 
several seasons. A large number of mem- 
bers of our local clubs are using your am- 
munition. I have never heard- any com- 
plaints about it here, but I nave on one or 
2 occasions known of complaints from per- 
sons in other localities. 

I do not think you are justified in making 
the kick you do against Mr. Shields. When 
I was advertising Clipper bicycles in his 
magazine, he did the same thing with me 
that he has done with you; it resulted in 
much good for the Clipper. I believe you 
will find that criticism has made friends for 
you or rather-has brought out your friends, 
I also believe you should not discontinue 
your advertisement with RECREATION. 

Mr. Shields is doing a great work in the 
game protection cause and he has Jots of 





GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 59 


friends; his work will benefit every gun and 
ammunition maker in the country, and I 
think all such concerns should favor his 
magazine. 

It is not often that I write a letter in de- 
fense of a publisher, as I have been for 
years an advertiser, and in the same boat 
with you; but in this case I believe I am 
justified in writing you this letter, and be- 
lieve you will aprpeciate it and take it in the 
spirit in. which it is written. 

I do not deny that I am a strong friend 
of Mr. Shields and a friend of RECREATION, 
but I am also as strong a friend of Peters 
ammunition, and I do not wish to see the 
manufacturers of this ammunition antagon- 

ize the publication. Da RS he 


Ware, Mass. 
The Peters Cartridge Co., ; 
, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Dear Sirs: “It is the hit bird that flut- 
ters.” Why not improve your shells? Every 
true sportsman will stand by Mr. Shields, 
because if it wasn’t for him there would be, 
in a few years, no use for your ammunition 
or any other, as game would be gone. Since 
you have discontinued your ad in REcREA- 
TION, every thorough sportsman ought to 
discontinue the use of Peters shells, and ad- 
vise his friends to do likewise. 

H. F. Moulton. 


Columbus, Ohio. 
The Peters Cartridge Co., 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Dear Sirs: Being a sportsman and a user 
of King’s powders and Peters’ cartridges, I 
feel I have the privilege of expréssing my 
condemnation of your action in withdraw- 
ing your ad from ReEcrEATION. I shall cease 
to use your goods until your ad once more 
appears in RECREATION. Geo. O. Peters. 





LOADING THE 25. 


The 25-21 and the 25-20 cartridges are 
excellent for small game shooting and will 
make as good a target at 200 yards, under 
favorable circumstances, as many of the 
larger calibers. They are, moreover, much 
pleasanter to shoot. For target, use the 
shell full of semi-smokeless ffg. with a light 
card wad to hold it in, a common black 
powder primer and an 86 grain bullet. No. 
25,720, tempered I to 20. Seat the bullet by 
hand in the barrel the depth of its own 
length or deep enough so the muzzle of the 
shell will reach the base of the bullet when 
the action is closed. 

For hunting, DuPont smokeless rifle No. 
¥ can be used, with a nitro primer and a 75 
grain hollow pointed bullet, 1 to 40. Enough 
of this powder should be used so the bullet 
will be seated snugly on it without pres- 
sure. Care should. be used in measuring 
each charge, for if it is compressed in the 


shell it will cause irregular shooting. This 
cartridge is death to woodchucks. A sharp 
pointed bullet can be used instead of the 
hollew point and small game can be shot 
through the body without mutilation. Black 
powder or semi-smokeless fouls badly when 
used in reduced charges. DuPont smokeless 
shot gun powder with a nitro primer is all 
right; but do not attempt to use a full 
charge of any shot gun smokeless in a rifle. 
The bullet should be seated the same as if 
the full charge was used and the powder 
left loose in the shell. 

For full charges semi-smokeless is clean- 
er and makes less smoke than black powder, 
ind good results can be obtained with black 
powder primers. Nitro primers or smoke- 
less powder or a combination of both, I 
do not-know which, is destructive to brass 
shells, rendering them brittle in a short 
time and causing the heads to blow off. 
This, however, can do no great harm if the 
shooter has been thoughtful enough to pro- 
vide himself with an Ideal broken shell ex- 
tractor. 

I never had the trouble that some claim 
to have experienced in keeping the quick 
twist, small bore smokeless rifle in good 
condition. My method is to use, as soon 
as I get through shooting, a tight fitting rag 
wet with strong soap suds. This, with the 
proper amount of elbow grease, will be 
sufficient for removing every particle of dirt. 
Then use dry rags until the bore is perfectly 
dry before oiling. The bore should always 
be slightly oiled after firing a metal patched 
bullet and before firing a lead one. 

E. O. Raynor, Meadville, Pa. 


ANSWERING MR. BECKWITH. 

Alvaie Beckwith, Lincoln, Neb., asks a 
question in April RecrEATION in regard 
to the Magniscope rifle sight. I have 
the only one in this part of the country, 
as far as I know. I consider it a suc- 
cess and a valuable addition to the equip- 
ment of any rifle. Mine is on a Stevens 
Favorite, 22 caliber, and magnifies 2 diame- 
ters. For a longer range gun I should 
choose the 4 power glass. The Magni- 
Scope is nothing more nor less than a 
telescope without the cumbersome and un- 
sightly tube. I use the Lyman No. 2 rear 
sight with the eyepiece of the Magniscope 
fitted in the disc. By screwing out the disc 
and folding down the lens which is fit- 
ted in the rear sight slot, I have the ordi- - 
nary Lyman sights for quick shooting. 
Turning up the lens and screwing in the 
disc, I have a first class telescope sight. 

Some improvements could, and doubtless 
will, be made in the manufacture and hand- 
ling of the Magniscope. My order was out 
about 6 weeks before it was filled, and 
when the sight finally came it was mounted 
on a base to fit the front sight slot instead 





60 RECREATION. 


of the rear, which made necessary about an 
hour's careful filing. The lens was fitted 
into the ring of a Lyman No. 5 front sight, 
the pin seer been cut out. 

If the Savage people would buy the Mag- 
niscope and make it as well and advertise it 
as extensively as they do their other goods 
it would be only a matter of time when the 
tubular telescope sight would be a thing of 
the past, except for very long range target 
work, where a greater range of adjustment 
is required than can be had in the present 
form of the Magniscope. It would be easy, 
however, to improve the Magniscope in this 
respect. 

The gun and ammunition department of 
RECREATION is worth the price of the maga- 
zine. So is the fish and game hog depart- 
ment. Long may your banner wave. 

L. V. DeWitt, Paris, Tex. 


The men who made the Magniscope sight 
proved thoroughly unreliable, and I am 
glad to say have quit. Mr. Marble, presi- 
dent of the Marble Safety Axe Co., Glad- 
stone, Mich., is working on an improved 
form of this sight, and will probably put it 
on the market in the near future —EDITOR. 





IMPRACTICABLE TOOLS, 

That a tool fails to perform the work for 
which it was designed may be the fault of 
the user, but it is sometimes due to the im- 
practicability of the tool. The latter is 
certainly the case with the Marlin rifle. I 
have taken one apart and polished each 
separate piece of its mechanism in the en- 


deavor to make it work smoothly. The ex- . 


tractor, a wee bit of hook and spring, is 
particularly worthless. I suggested an im- 
provement to the company and got a snub 
for my pains. 

After trying all the new model rifles I 
consider the 32-20-105 the best for target 
work and for game up to turkeys. For 
deer I choose a 40-82, a 38-55 or a 38-56. 
The 30-30 makes too small a wound and 
does not draw blood enough to track by. 

My pet shot gun is an Ithaca. With 
Winchester high base shells it does extel- 
lent work. Some time ago I was persuad- 
ed to try Peters New Victor shells. My 
first attempt with them was on’ squirrels. 
I peppered several at ordinary range and 
they merely looked around to see what hit 
them. I did succeed in killing 2 or 3 with- 
in 25 yards, but I think they died from 
fricht. The load was 3% drams powder 
and 1% ounces No. 7 shot. 

W. B. Seavolt, Newhaven, Pa. 





SMALL SHOT. 

Would it not be well to give the liars a 
department of their own, instead of scat- 
tering their fancies promiscuously through 
RECREATION? We have heard from the man 


who kills deer with 22 shorts, the man who 
never fails to make a heart shot, the man 
who kills quails at 90 yards, and many 
others. Probably we shall hear from them 
again. We may, however, hope that the 
man is dead whom the cougar covered with 
leaves while she went after her cubs, since 
that occurrence was first reported soon 
after the expiration of Ananias’ copyright. 

If you can not spare them a department, 
it might answer to tag them as you do the 
hogs; for instance, “How I killed 4 Bear 
with a Puttyblower, By J. J. Jones, Liar 
No. 747.” Then we would know what to 
expect before reading. 

R. E. Peater, Mansfield, O. 





Do the Ideal people make a mould for a 
bullet, weighing 200 to 250 grains, that can 
be used in a Colt 44 caliber powder and ball 


pistol? 47, R Williams, Omaha, Neb. 
ANSWER. 

I do not know of any mould made by the 
Ideal people to cast a bullet to fit your re- 
volver and weigh as much as you require. 
Their No. 450,225, weighing 170 grains, will 
probably fit. 

The better way is to send the Ideal Com- 
pany a bullet that fits the barrel and takes 
the rifling well, and see if they cannot fur- 
nish you a mould to suit. Most of the 44 
caliber Colt and Remington powder and 
ball revolvers of the Civil War period re- 
quired a ball with a diameter of .450 of an 
inch.—EDbITor. 





While I own and use a 22 rifle, I can 
not help thinking that the world would be 
better off without these destructive little 
weapons, They are too cheap and handy 
and tempt unthinking boys and men to 
wanton destruction of song birds and small 
animals. While connected with a saw mill 
in the woods last summer, I noticed that 3 
of the crew carried cheap 22 rifles to and 
from their work for the purpose of shoot- 
ing any birds they might come across. 
These fellows became expert and seldom 
missed a shot. Either the price of small 
rifles should be raised sufficiently to keep 
them out of the reach of irresponsible per- 
sons or a tax should be put on their use. 

R. B. Stowers, Cupio, Ky. 





Please explain why 22 long U. M. C. 
cartridges stick in my rifle. They will not — 
go into the barrel. Would a 22 long kill a 
rabbit at 75 yards? Have had many mis- 
fires when using Peters shells. 

_A. C. Adams, Pitcairn, Pa. 





Will some one who has had experience 
with W W. Greener guns kindly give his — 
opinion of them? 

W, C. Garthwaite, St. Marys, Ont. 





72 oo 


NATURAL HISTORY. 


When abird or a wild animal is killed, that is the end of it. 


If photographed, it may still live and 


its educational and scientific value is multiplied indefinitely. 


SIX WOODPECKERS. 
FRANCES ANTHONY. A 

I have a tender spot in my heart for a 

flock of woodpeckers that live in our trees. 
Six of the 8, if not all, were born in a soft 
maple tree in our yard. 

This morning, just before getting up 
time, there was a series of rap-rap-rappity- 
Taps in the gable over my front window. 

All the opening and shutting of windows 
in my efforts to see which or how many of 
them were there seemed not to disturb 


the birds in the least; they kept it up just | 


the same, and judging by the number that 
_were flying around they may have taken 
“turns at it. Even above the noisy, chat- 
tering of blackbirds holding a mass meet- 
“ing in the evergreen thicket, it could be 
plainly heard. The difference between the 
2 musical exercises was noticeable. While 
that of the blackbirds was noisy and con- 
fused, this of the woodpeckers seemed dig- 
‘nified, purposeful and orderly; and, as I 
listened longer, it grew to seem like a Sun- 
, et morning salute to the rising sun. 

In the growing up of these woodpeckers 
¥ have been much interested. It was by 
accident I found their home, though I had 
moticed in early spring a pair of wood- 
peckers hanging around that tree. There 
seemed to be considerable discussion and 
matters did not go to suit. After a while 
I forgot them; other trees hid the maple 
‘from view and I was busy about other 
things. One day in May the cat brought 
a young owl from the corner of the yard. 
Following the clue, I found a living owl 
under the fence and a dead one under the 
“maple. In another tree sat the frightened 
mother owl, her horns standing straight up 
and her bright yellow eyes blinking as she 

ied to understand what we were doing. 
After some searching we found the hole in 
he maple and in it still another owl. The 
or little things felt and looked forlorn 
genough, being nearly naked, and they put on 
their stupidest air. We put them back in 
ithe hole that to them was nest and home; 
and several days passed before I solved 
the mystery of their having been out of the 
est before they were large enough to take 
care of themselves. I could not believe a 
os had pulled them out, so, putting a lad- 
der up to. the tree, I kept watch. 

A few days later I found 2 headless field 
“mice, a kangaroo mouse in like condition, 
and a dead titmouse under the tree where 

he owl’s nest was. One day I saw the 
‘pair of woodpeckers making a great fuss in 






pe Ep pe 


61 


the tree, looking into the hole and flying 
about. Then | knew the whole story; they 
had intended to use that hole themselves, 
as they had probably done in other years, 
but Mrs. Owl got in first and kept posses- 
sion, either by force or simply by being 
present when other would-be occupants 
came prospecting. So there she brought 
her family up till they reached an age of 
pin feathers and plumpness suitable to the 
taste of cats. Food would not come to 
them; it must be sought, and the older they 
grew the more they took. In a luckless 
hour the mother went to seek it. 
Mrs. Woodpecker and perhaps Mr. 
Woodpecker, too, happened along just at 
the right time and made the most of one 
of those opportunities that are one bird’s 
gain at another’s expense. They dumped 
those precious little owls out on the ground. 
Then they were puzzled what to do next; 
they couldn’t use the nest, for Mrs. Owl 
would see to it that all their eggs were 
eaten. Well, if they must give up one 
thing they would try another, so out went 
all the food, all the choice little birds and 
mice that Mrs. Owl had left for the children 
to eat. It was these things lying under the 
tree that told the story. In spite of every- 
thing the owls grew. The woodpeckers 
showed impatience, and after a time grew 
so bold as to go right in when the mother 
was gone and cut and chisel the nest out 
to suit themselves. Several times I slipped 
quietly up the ladder and, as soon as I 
could reach, put my hand over the hole, 
held it there while I climbed the rest of 
the way, and then finding Mrs. Wood- 
pecker crouching flat above the owls, took 
her out in my hand and let her fly away. 
The young owls proved a pair; one being 
broad built and round of face, the other 
slimmer in body and face and having a 
pair of horns like the mother. After a 
while the little brown beauties flew away, 
and the next day a new home was begun 
in the hole in the maple tree. A creamy 
white woodpecker’s egg was laid there, the 
next day another, and so on till there were 
6. Then after a while there were 5 naked 
squirming little woodpeckers and one egg; 
the next day the egg had disappeared and 
there were 6 ugly looking specimens that 
reminded me of nothing so much as diminu- 
tive plucked geese. Finally the birds 
flew away, claimed their title to the free- 
dom of their kind, and came back only to 
the tree tops and their drumming spot on 
the house. The puzzle to me is that now 


62 RECREATION. 


I can not tell any of the 6 or their parents 
apart. 





BAND-TAILS; NOT PASSENGERS. 

I am sending you the head, wings and 
feet of what I believe was a real old time 
wild pigeon. This year there have been 
countless thousands of them in the moun- 
tains of this State. 1 know of I00 having 
been killed in a day by one gun. They are 
not protected here, but you bet they will be 
next year if they are the real thing. 

Lundy, Stanwood, Wash. 
ANSWER. 

The head, wing and feet which you sent 
are those of a band-tail pigeon, and not of a 
passenger pigeon. The former is fairly 
plentiful along the coast from British Co- 
lumbia to lower California, and it is a great 
pity the coast States do not enact laws for 
its rigid protection. 

It will be another national disgrace to 
have this beautiful and useful bird wiped 
off the earth, as its Eastern relatives have 
been. You and every thoughtful, careful 
sportsm*n should refrain from shooting 
these birds, and should begin an active 
campaign to induce your Western Legis- 
latures to pass laws placing a 10 years close 
season on the band-tail pigeon.—EbrTor. 





ANSWERING MR. BADGER. 


Answering L. M. Badger in August 
RECREATION, the tree was probably a buck 
oak, and the horn growing near the top 
was torn off by the wind, or fell when ripe, 
and lodged in the crotch, or it might have 
been a dropped horn carried upward on an 
acorn shoot. More likely I picked it up 
years ago and in an idle moment hung 
it in the forks; if so, I am sorry the points 
were gnawed. As the crotch was 8 feet 
from the ground, I think the gnawing was 
done by a giraffe; they will do it every 
time if not watched. Of course, a porcu- 
pine or a badger might have done it. 

Naturalist, Pittsburgh, Pa. 


The deer horn found by L. M. Badger 
imbedded in the trunk of a small tree was 
doubtless placed by some one in a crotch 
of the tree when it was a sapling. The 
wood gradually grew about and imbedded 
the horn, just as growing wood often im- 
beds fence wire. The gnawing of the horn 
was probably done by red squirrels. It 
is a common habit of theirs here in Min- 
nesota. Henry Joerg, Madelia, Minn. 





THESE ARE ALSO BAND-TAILS. 


I was surprised to see in REcrEATION the 
claim that the wild. pigeon has become ex- 
tinct. If the writer of that statement should 
ever visit the coast of Oregon in August 


- the mountains 


he would become convinced that there are 
plenty left. I was at Pillamook bay last 
August and the wild pigeons were there by 
thousands, feeding on elder berries, which 
grow in abundance on this coast. They also 
came into the Willamette valley in large 
numbers in May and June. There are not 
so many here, however, as there were a few 
years ago. I do not think thére is any law 
against shooting them at any season. 


N. W. Smith, Lebanon, Ore. 
ANSWER, 


The bird you refer to is not the Eastern 
wild pigeon, or passenger pigeon, which 
was once abundant all over the Eastern 
and middle States. Your bird is the band- 
tail pigeon, Columba fasciata.. It is a beau- 
tiful, interesting and innocent creature and 
its killing should be prohibited by law in 
all the coast States for at least 10 years.— 
EpITor. ; 





“NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 


To-day I was watching an English spar- 
row trying to fly with a heavy load. It 
rose to an elevation of about 100 feet, and 
dropped its burden which, on examination, 
I found to be a live fledgling. The old bird 
did not again go near the young one. Is 
it customary for these birds to do this? 

J. G. Stewart, Cedar Rapids, Ia. 


This was probably the fledgling of some~ 
other bird. English sparrows eat the young 
of other birds, and possibly the young of 
their own kind from other nests; but it is 
not likely that they ever carry their own 
young about.—EDITor. 





I saw recently among a lot of English 
sparrows a bird which I at first thought was 
a canary. I shot it. Examination con- 
vinced me that it, too, was an English 
sparrow. Its back was light golden in 
color, the rest of its plumage was pure 
white. Has anyone else ever seen such a 
freak? 

A friend found a living crow blackbird 
stapled to a fence post, and hanging head 
downward. As he was unable to draw the 
staples and release the poor bird, he killed 
it to end its misery. 

Raymond Henshaw, Lyons, Kan. 





There are a great many wild pigeons in 
of Western Texas and 
Southern New Mexico, flocks of several 
hundreds being frequently seen. . 
D. M. P., El Paso, Texas. 


The bird vou refer to is not the American 
passenger pigeon. It is the band tail pigeon, 
Columbia fasciata.—EDITOor. 





THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 


GENERAL OFFICERS 


President, G. O. Shields, 23 W. 24th St., 
New York. 

1st Vice-President, E. T. Seton, 80 West 
4oth St., New York. 

2d Vice-President, W. T. Se ae 2969 
Decatur Ave., Bedford Pare NY, 

3d Vice- President, Dr.) in! 8; Palmer, 
Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
4th Vice-President, A. A. Anderson, 80 
West goth St., New York. 

5th Vice-President, Hon. W. A. Rich- 
we General Land Office, Washington, 

“Secretary, A. F. Rice, 155 Pennington 
Ave., Passaic, N. J. 

Treasurer, Austin Corbin, of the Corbin 
Banking Co., 192 Broadway, New York. 





STATE DIVISIONS 
ALASKA 

Dr. E. M. Rininger, Chief Warden, Nome. 

ARIZONA. 
M.J. Foley, Chief Warden, Jerome. 

ARKANSAS 
W. R. Blocksom, Chief Warden, Eureka Springs. 

CALIFORNIA. 
Dr. David Starr Jordan, Chief Warden, Leland 
Stanford University. 
COLORADO. 
-_A. Whitehead, Chief Warden, 303 Tabor Building, 
Denver. 
CONNECTICUT. 

Hon. F. P. Sherwood, Chief Warden, Southport; 
Dr. H. L. Ross, Vice-Warden, Canaan; H.C. Went, 
Sec. -Treas., Bridgeport. 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
C. H. Townsend, Chief Warden, U. S. Fish Com- 
mission. 

FLORIDA, 

W. W.K. Decker, Chief Warden, Tarpon Springs. 
GEORGIA. 

J.J. Doughty, Chief Warden, Augusta. 

IDAHO. 

L. A. Kerr, Chief Warden, Kendrick. 
ILLINOIS. 

M. D. Ewell, M.D., Chief Warden, 59 Clark St., 
Chicago; F. M. Taber, Vice Warden, 144 Kinzie 
pt., C 1cago } G. C. Davis, Sec.-Treas., 123 S. Central 
‘Ave., Austin. 
INDIANA. 

John J. Hildebrandt, Chief Warden, Logansport ; 

. J. Carter, Sec. -Treas., State House, Indianapolis. 

IOWA. 

Carl Quimby, Chief Warden, Des Moines; C. C. 

Proper, Sec.-l'reas., Des Moines. 


KANSAS. 
O. B. Stocker, Chief Warden, Wichita. 
KENTUCKY. 
Geo. C. Long, Chief Warden, Hopkinsville. 
MAINE. 
Col. E. C. Farrington, Chief Warden, Augusta. 
MARYLAND 
J. E. Tylor, Chief Warden, ( xford. 
MASSACHUSETTS. 

_ Heman S. Fay, Chief Warden, Hazletow Block, 
Mariboros J. E. Tweedy, Vice-Warden, North Attle- 
boro; Lamson, Sec.-Treas., 194 Mam St., 
Bearibore. 


MICHIGAN. 
J. Elmer Pratt, Chief Warden, Grand Rapids; R.»S. 


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Woodliffe, Vice-Warden, Jackson; A. B. Richmond, 
Sec.- Treas., Grand Kapids. 
MINNESOTA, 

Dietrich Lange, Chief Ace 2294 Commonwealth 
Ave., St Paul; H. A Morgan, Vice-Warden, Albert 
Lea; Prof. O. T. Denen Sec.-Treas.,St. Paul. 

MISSOURI. 
Bryan Snyder, Chief Warden, 726 Central Bldg., 
t. Louis. 

MONTANA, 

Professor M. J. Elrod, Chief Warden, Missoula; 
Sidney M. Logan, Vice- Warden, Kalispell ; By th 
Waagner, Sec.-lreas., Bozeman. 

NEBRASKA. 

Fred. E. Mockett, Chief Warden, 

O’Mahony, Sec.- lreas., Lincoln. 
NEVADA. 

Dr. W. H. Cavell, Chief Warden, Carson; Geo. W. 
Cowing, Sec.-Treas., Carson. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

Dr. A. F. Barrett, Sentinel Bldg., Keene; Sidney 
Conant, Sec.-Treas., Keene. 

NEW JERSEY. 

Percy Johnson, Chief Warden, Bloomfield; Dr. 
W. 3. Colfax, Vice- Warden, Pompton Lakes; i. 
V. Dorland, Sec.-Treas.. Arlington. 

NEW MEXICO. 
P. B. Otero, Chief Warden, Santa Fe. 
NEW YORK. 

John R. ovatay’ Chief Warden, Powers’ Bldg. 
Rochester; Co!. Kk. E. Moss, Vice-W arden, Wallack’ 
Theatre, New. York Gity. Der. 7C. Curtis, see 
Treas., Columbia College, New York ¢ City. 

NORTH DAKOTA. 
Dr. W. D. Jones, Chief Warden, Devil’s Lake. 
OHIO. 
W. E. eas Chief Warden, Mitchell Bldg., 
Cincinnati; A. C. Thatcher, Vice-Warden, Urbana. 
OKLAHOMA. 
W. M. Grant, Chief Warden, Oklahoma City. 
ONTARIO. 

C. A. Hammond, Chief Warden, Box 7o1, 

Thomas; D. L. Mells, Sec.-Treas., St. Thomas. 
OREGON. 

Robert F. Kelly, Chief Warden, Box 188, The 

Dalles; C. B. Cushing, Sec.- Treas., The Dalles. 
PENNSYLVANIA. 

C. F. Emerson, Chief Warden, 189 N. Perry St., 
Titusville; Hon. C. B. Penrose, Vice-Warden, 1720 
Spruce St., Philadelphia. 

RHODE ISLAND. 

Zenas W. Bliss, Chief Warden, 49 Westminster St., 

Providence. 


Lincoln; P. 


St. 


SOUTH CAROLINA, 
C. F. Dill, Chief Warden, Greenville. 
SOUTH DAKOTA. 
D. C. Booth, Chief Warden, Spearfish; John C. 
Barber, Sec.-Treas., Lead. 
TENNESSEE. 
Hon. G. C. Martin, Chief Warden, Clarksville; 
Hon. Austin Peay, Jr., Sec.-Treas., Clarksville. 
TEXAS. 


Prof. S. W. Stanfield, Chief Warden, San Marcos; 
W. E. Heald, Sec.-Treas., San Angelo, 
UTAH. 
Hon. John Sharp, Chief Warden, Salt Lake City. 
VERMONT. 
S. C. White, Sec.-Treas., Woodstock. 
; VIRGINIA. 


R. G. Bickford, Chief Warden, Newport News. 
C. O. Saville, Vice Warden, Kichmond; M. D. Hart, 
Sec.-Treas., 1217 East Main St., Richmond. 
WASHINGTON. 
F. Merri'l, Chief Warden, Spokane; F. A. Pon- 
tius, Seen l'reas., Seattle; Munro \ yckoff, Vice-War- 
den, Pt. Townsend. 


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RECREATION. 


“WEST VIRGINIA, County. Name of Warden. Address. 
E. F. Smith, Chief Warden, Hinton, Allegany, G. A. Thomas, Belvidere. 
: Broome, oo Sullivan, Sanitaria Springs 
WISCONSIN. R. Mathewson, ec eo fo 
Frank Kaufman, Chief Warden, Two Rivers; Dr. 2yaga, H. M. Haskell, eedspo 
A. Gropper, Sec.- [reas., Milwaukee. Chemung, aret eg Heany any 
bee os A. i mira. 
WYOMING. Columbia, A. B. Miller, ackson’s Corners 
H. E. Wadsworth, Chief Warden, Shoshone 0rtland, = James Edwards, Cortland, 
Agency; Frank Bond, Sec.-Treas., Cheyenne. Dutchess, ai, a Ee : resol s Corners. 
Applications for membership and oraers for badges “ RE, J AWEAS: 
sheuid be addressed to Arthur F, Rice, Secretary, 23 Vv. Erie. Epes ee es Bee s. 
2gth St., New York. Essex, W. H i. er ouanOn Moriah. 
LOCAL WARDENS Franklin, oe Eccles, t. Kegis Falls 
reen-, oper. Windham 
CONNECTICUT. Hamilton, Davide Aird, Jx., Lake Pleasant. 
County. Name of Warden. Address. Herkimer, D. F. Sperry, | orge. 
Fairfield, George B. Bliss. 2 Park Kow, Stam- Jefferson, ' . Smith, Watertown. 
ford. re Ph yoe tok at Alexand.ia Bay, 
4 Harvey C. Went, 11 Park St., Bridge- . s. Northrup, 
y port. ridge Livingston Is De La Vergne, Lakeville. 
es Samuel Waklee, Box 5. Stratford. ps K.S.Chamberlain, Mt. Morris. 
Litchfield, Dr. H.L. Ross, P. O. Box 100, Ca- Henry Skinner, = Springwater. 
naan. : Dr . Cowan, Geneseo. 
Middlesex, Sandford Brainerd, Ivoryten Montgomery, Charles W. sat Canajoharie. 
New Haven, Wilbur E. Beach, 318 Cha: nel Street, New York, C.L. Meyer, 46 WB way,N.Y. City. 
New Haven. Oneida. .M. Scoviia Clinton. 
“ D. J. Ryan, 188 Elizabeth St.. Onondaga, ames Lush, Memphis. 
Derby. Orange, Bing Kidd, Newburgh. 
. —— Harris, Port Jervis 
FLORIDA. Orleans, | H. Fearby, . Shelby. 
Brevard, C. H. Racey, Waveland. Oswego, 4:3 ‘Manning, 154 West YUtica St. 
ILLINOIS. swego. 
Iroquois, . L. Peacock, Sheldon. Putnam, H. L. Brady, Mahopac Falls. 
Rock Island, .M.Slottard, 12th Ave and 17th Queens, Gerard Van Nostrand, Flushing, L. 1. 
St., Moline. a W.S. Mygrant, 40 Elton Street, 
IOWA. P. A. Geepel Gaeat dk 
Clinton, D.L. Pascol, Grand Mound. ae Ope Ta 
Pottawattamie, Dr. C. Engel, Crescent. as L. B. Drowne, 119 Somers Street, 
erage “ Lewis CoAtt. = "reea Coamenl me 
Ness, Frank Lake, Ransom. tel, Rockaway, L.I. 
MASSACHUSETTS. Richmond, Lewis Morris, Port Richmond. 
Norfolk, Orlando McKenzie, Norfolk. ot, Lawrence, et es W.Severance, Gouverneur. 
“ . J. Blick Wrentham. N. Clark, Sevey. 
" W. Fuller East Milton. Schenectady, iW. Furnside, Schenectady. 
Suffolk, Capt. W. J.Stone, 4 Tremont Row, Schoharie, . E. Eigen, Sharon Springs.. 
Boston. Schuyler, G. C. Fordham, Watkins. 
Worcester, B. H. Mosher, Athol. Suffolk, F. J. Fellows, Central Islip, L. I. 
MICHIGAN Xs P. F. Tabor, Orient, L. I. 
P 2 Tioga, Geo. Wood, Owego. 
Berrien, W. A. Palmer, Buchanan. Ulster, M. A. DeVall, ‘The Corners. 
Cass, Thomas Dewey, Dowagiac, a Wm. S. Mead, Woodstock. 
Hillsdale, C. A. stone, Hillsdale. Warren, Geo. McEchron, Glens Falls. 
Kalamazoo, C. E. Miller, Augusta. Washington, C.L. Allen, Sandy Hill. 
Lake, John Trieber, Peacock, “ E. Barber, Dresden. 
Ottawa, W. H. Dunham, Spencer. “ A.S. Temple, Whitehall. 
NEBRASKA. Westchester, iting Poth, sg or lst = 
: ° as. Seacor, 57 Pelham Ro 
Hall, E. C. Statler, Grand Island New Rorhells. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE. * M. W. Smith, Croton Falls. 
Cheshire, e C, Ellis, Keene. sad Ralph Gorham, Mt. Kisco. 
Sullivan, G. A. Blake, Lem pster. Yates, B. L. Wren, | Penn Yan. 
* J. W. Davidson, Charlestown. " Seymour Poineer, Branch Port. 
NEW JERSEY. OHIO. ? 
Hudson, A. W. Letts, 51 Newark St., Allen, S. W. Knisely 
Hoboken Clark, Fred C. Ross, a yw. Main St., 
Mercer. Edw. Vanderbilt, Dentzville, : Springfield. 
Trenton. Cuyahoga, A. W. Hitch, 161 Osborn St., 
. Roland Mitchell, 739 Centre St., ; Cleveland. 
Trenton Erie, David Sutton, saieJackson te 
= F. C. Wright, Trenton. andusky 
Monmouth. Dory-Hunt, Wanaque. Franklin, Brook L. Terry, 208 Woodward Av., 
Morris, Joseph Pellet, Pompton Plains. 2 Columbus. 
- Chas. W. Blake, lover. Fulton, L.C. Berry, Swanton 
= Francis E. Cook, Butler. Hamilton, W.C. Rippey, 4405 Eastern Ave., 
et Calone Orr, Hibernia, Cincinnati. 
Somerset, G. E. Morris, Somerville. _ Knox, Grant Phillips, Mt. Vernon. 
Sussex, Isaac D. Williams, Branchville. Lorain, T. J. Bates, Elyria. 
Union, Ae H. Miller, Cranford. Muskingum, Frank D. Abell, Zanesville. 
.: .M. Hawkins, _Koselle. Ottzwa, Frank B. Shirley, Lakeside. 
Warren, Jaco! Young, Phillipsburg. Scioto, J. F. Kelley. Portsmouth, 
- euben Warner, ; Stark, A. Dangeleisen, Massillon. 
NEW YORK. OKLAHOMA, 
Albany, . D. Johnson, Newtonville. Kiowa and Comanche Nation, / 
<f Kenucth E. Bender,Albany. A. C. Cooper, Ft. Sill. 








THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 65 


PENNSYLVANIA. 
County. Name of Warden. Address. 
Allegheny, S. H. Allen, Natrona. 
Beaver, N. H. Covert, Beaver Falls. 

“ W.R. Keefer, ss 
Bradford, Geo. B. Loop, Sayre. 

Butler, F. J. Forquer, Murrinsville. 

Cambria, W.H.Lambert, 720 Coleman Ave., 
 oonae cig 

Cameron, Harry Hemphill, Emporium 

Carbon, Asa D. Hontz, East Mauch Chunk. 

Clarion, Isaac Keener, New Bethlehem. 

Clinton, M.C. “Ka ler, Renovo. 

Geo. L. Kepler, ie es 

+i RT. Antes, Pine Station 

Crawford, Jasper lillotson, Tillotson. 
10. 7 igi Titusville. 

* J.B mb, Buel. | 
Cumberland, J.C. Gat Mechanicsburg. 
Delaware, alter Lusson, Ardmore. 

Elk, D. R. Lobaugh, Ridgway. 
Fayette, Ely Cope, ey 
efferson, ohn Noll, Sykesville. 

etre slifford Singer, Oakland Mills. 

os Ezra Phillips, McAlesterville. 
Lackawanna, att Weir, Moosic. 

ee m. Major, “ce 
Lycoming, re J.Brennan, Oval. 
ae Kurtz, Cammal. 
McKean, C. A. Duke, Duke Center. 

* .P.F essenden, ranere. 

- Wm. Holsinger, Stickney. 
Montgomery, L. Rs Parsons, Academy, 
Northumber- ey . Roher, 

land, 505 Anthracite S St., Shamokin. 
Perry, Samuel Sundy, 

Potter, Ira Murphy, a 

. Wiley Barrows, Austin. 

fe Chas. Barrows, Austin. : 
Tioga, E. B. Beaumont, Jr., | Lawrenceville 

* G. H. Simmons, Westfield. 
Venango, G. D. Benedict, Pleasantville. 
Warren. F. P. Sweet. Goodwill Hill. 

= Nelson Holmes, Cornplanter. 

Wyoming, Cyrus Walter, Tunkhannock. 
TENNESSEE. 

Madison, of T. Rushing, ackson. 

Montgomery, . W. Humphrey, Clarksville. 

Robertson, €: C. Bell, Springfield. 

Stewart, hae: H. Lory, Bear Spring. 

Sumner, . G. Harris, Gallatin. 

UTAH, 

Washington, S. C. Goddard, New Harmony. 

# J. A. Thornton, Pinto. 

VERMONT. 

Essex, H. S. Lund, Granby. 
Orleans. E.G. Moulton, Derby Line. 
Rutland, Wm. J. Liddle, Box 281, Fair Haven 
Windsor, F, A.-Tarbell, © West Bridgewater. 

: VIRGINIA, 
Henrico, W. J. Lynham, 412 W. Marshall, 

Richmond. 
King & Queen, R. D. Bates, Newtown. 
King William, N.H. Montague,  Palls. 
Louisa, |: P. Harris, Applegrove. 
Mecklenburg, H. Ogburn, South Hill. 
Smythe, J.M. Hughes, Chatham Hill. 
WASHINGTON. 

Okanogan, James West, Methow. 
Stevens, acob Martin, Newport, 

* Lee, Northport. 

Yakima, J, Brachmann, N. Yakima. 
WYOMING. 

Carbon. Kirk Dyer, Medicine Bow. 

Fremont, Nelson Yarnall, Dubois. 

Laramie, cape: Breithet, Cheyenne. 

Uinta, F. L. Petaniai. } Jackson. 


LOCAL CHAPTERS. 


Albert Lea, Minn., H. A. Rae Rear Warden. 
Anadarka, O. T., Rat Smit “ 
Angelica, N. Y., A. Lathrop, a 
Augusta, Mont., H. Sherman, “ 
Austin, Minn., G. F. Baird, « 


Austin, Pa., W.S. Warner, Rear Warden. 
Boston, 5g ae Capt. W. |. stone, 5% 
Buffalo, N H. C. Gardiner, ee 
Cammal, Pa., B. A. Ovenshire, ” 


Champaign Co., O, Hy. F. pee recnge 


Urban 
Char'estown, N. H., W. M. Buswell, i 
Cheyenne, Wyo., J. Hennessy, * 


Choteau, Mont., G. A. Gorham, " 
Cincinnati, Ohio, B. W. Morris, "1 
Couders ort, Pa., 1.L. Murphy, Sh 
Cresco, lowa, J. L. Platt, ¥ 
Cross Villa ns Mich., Job Rohr, 
Davis, W. .Heltzen,’ od 
Dowagiac, Mich., . F. Hoyt, e 
East auch Chunk, Pa. (Fi Pry; ‘g 
Evansville, Ind., F. M. Gilbert, = 
Fontanet, Ind., W.H. Perry, Aa 
Ft. Wayne, Ind., W. L. Waltemarth . 
Great Falls, Mont., J. M. Gaunt, Ks 
Heron Lake, Minn., LS C. Buckeye, e 
Hollidaysb’g, Pa., T.J. Hemphill 


Hopkinsville, Ky., 
Indianapolis, Ind., 


gs E. Bell, oy 


A. Hawkins, ‘“ 


erome, Ariz., : 
ohnsonbur, Pa, W. J. Stebbins, * 
alispell, ont., i Eakright, 54 
Keene, N. H.. Beedle, = 
Kingfisher Okla. A. C. Ambrose = 
Lake Co., Ind DrsR-C C. Mackey, 2% 
Lawton, O sds J Marion Miller, 4 
econ Neb., A. J. Sawyer as 
ansport, Ind., E.B. McConnell, se 
ington, Mich., G. R. Cartier, ra 
Meri Pax vie B. Winchester, ” 
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Dr. J. H. Swartz, * 
Minturn, Colo., A. = Walter, “s 


White, ~ 
ee pe > Weathers, .< 
New Bethlehem, Pa. .. Isaac Keener, ne 


Morgantown, W. Va 
ate Albany, Ind., 


Oklahoma City O.T., N. F. Gates, = 
Penn Yan, N. Y., r. H. R. Phillips, % 
Phillips, Wis. F. K. Randall, = 
Princeton, Ind., H. A. Yeager, <2 
Reynoldsville, Pa., C. F. Hoffman, a3 
Ridgway, Pa., T. J. Maxwell, zn 
Rochester, N. H., Gustave Andreas, - 
« .Y., C.H. McChesney a 

St. Paul, Minn., O. T. Denry, = 
St. Thomas, Ont., no Hall, Sp 
Schenectady, N. Y., ‘ F urnside, _ 
Seattle, Wash. . Kelly, = 
Syracuse, N. Y., C.C. Truesdell, 3 
Terre Haute, Ind., C. F. Thiede, 7 
. The Dalles, Ore. C.B. Cushing, ~ 
Two Harbors, Minn., T. D. Budd, Ss 
Walden, N. Y., 2 W. Reid, ye 
Wichita, Kas., erald Volk, oF 
Winona, Minn., C. M. Morse, = 





LIFE MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE. 
Anderson, A. A., 80 W. goth St., New York City. 
Beard, ‘B. C.; 204 Amity St., Flushing, L. I. 
Blackstone, Lorenzo, Norwich, Conn. 

Buzzacott, "Francis F., Chicago, Ill. 
Brown, J. Stanford, 489 Fifth Ave., New York 


City. 
Butler, C. E., Jerome, Ariz. 
Carey, Hon. H. W., Eastlake, Mich. 
Carnegie, Andrew, 2d, Fernandina, Fla. 
Carnegie, George, Fernandina, Fla. 
Carnegie, Morris, Fernandina, Fla. 
Corbin, Austin, 192 Broadway, New York City. 
Dickinson, E. H., Moosehead Lake, Me. 
Edgell, G. S., 192 Broadway, New York City. 
Ellis, W. D., 136 W. 72d St., New York City. 
Fearing, D. ‘By Newport, R. k 
Ferry, C. H., 1720 Old Colony Bldg., Chicago, Il. 
Ferry, Mansfield, 183 Lincoln Park Boulevard, 
Chicago, Ill. 
Fraser, A. V., 478 Greenwich St., New York City. 
Gilbert, Clinton, 2 Wall St., New York City. 
Hudson, E. J., $3.'Eu gsth St., Bayonne, N. J. 
McClure, A. J., 158 State St., Albany, N. Y. 
Mershon, W. B., Saginaw, Mich. 
Miller, F. G., 108 Clinton St., Defiance, O. 
Morton, Hon. Levi P., 681 Fifth Ave., New York 
ity. 





66 RECREATION. 


Nesbitt, A. G., Maple St., Kingston, Pa. : 

hor a Col Ff. .C., 24: EB. 33d St., New York 
ity. 

a Gen. J. F., 20 W. 52d St., New York 
sity. 

Prescott, A. L., 90 W. Broadway, New York City 

Rice, A. F., 155 Pennington Ave., Passaic, N. J. 

Seton, E. T., 80 W. 4ota St., New York City. 

Seymour, J. H., 35 Wall St., New York City. 

Smith, E. B., Bourse Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Smith, W. H., Bryn Mawr, Pa. 

Thompson, J. Walter, Times Bldg., New York 


City. 
Towne, E. S., Care of National Blank Book Co., 
Holyoke, Mass. 
Underwood, W. L., 


52 Fulton St., Boston, Mass. 
Valentine, Dr. W 


A., 5 W. 35th St., New York 
ity. 
H. Williams, Box 156, Butte, Mont. 





DISCOUNTS TO LEAGUE MEMBERS. 

The following firms have agreed to give 
members of the L. A. S.a discount of 2 
per cent. to 10 per cent. on all goods bought 
of them. In ordering please give L. A. 5S. 
number : 


Syracuse Arms Co.,Syracuse, N- Y, Guns. 
Davenport Fire Arms Co., Norwich, Conn. Shot 


guns, rifles. i 
eerstiech Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y. Photographic 
goods. 
Blair Camera Co., Rochester, N.Y.Photographic goods 


James Acheson, ‘Talbot St., St. Lhomas, Untario, 
Sporting goods. 





DON'T FAIL TO GO TO COLUMBUS. 

The 6th annual meeting of the League 
will be held in Columbus, Ohio, Wednes- 
day, February 10, 1904, and from present 
indications it will be the greatest and most 
successful gathering of any yet held. Chief 
Warden Gleason and Vice-Warden Thatch- 
er, of the Ohio Division, together with the 
Hon. J. C. Porterfield, Chief Warden of 
the State Game and Fish Commission, are 
working like Trojans toward that end. 
These men are known throughout Ohio as 
thorough sportsmen and enthusiastic work- 
ers in the cause of game protection, and 
there is abundant reason to believe that the 
sportsmen of Ohio will respond generously 
and liberally to their efforts in this matter. 

Every officer of the League should begin 
now to make arrangements to attend the 
6th annual meeting. Th 4th and 5th an- 
nual gatherings were great events and the 
men who attended them will tell you that 
all who were not there missed rare treats. 
No officer should deprive himself of the 
pleasure and the benefit to be derived from 
attending this 6th annual meeting, and I 
hope to see a greater gathering this year 
than ever before. 





LEAGUE NOTES. 


Local Warden Isaiah Vosburg, of Sara- 
nac Lake, N. Y., has been making a great 
deal of trouble for game law violators dur- 
ing the past year. Here is a list of con- 
victions he has secured: 

August 26th, Willard P. Jessup, New 
York city, fined $85 and costs, Justice P. M. 


Freeman, Tupper Lake, N. Y. (Sec. 33); 
August 29th, J. D. Alexander, Tupper 
Lake, N. Y., fined $100 and costs, P. M. 
Freeman, Justice, Tupper Lake, N. Y. (Sec. 
9); October 3d, Elmer Barton, Westville 
Center, N. Y., fined $200 and costs, Jus- 
tice R. J. Cunningham, Chasm Falls, N. Y. 
(Sec. 11) ; October 11th, John Soper, Ma- 
lone, N. Y., fined $100 and costs, Justice 
Emile La Rocque, Malone, N. Y. (Sec. 9). 


In October last, John Soper and J. F. 
Walsh, of Malone, N. Y., concluded they 
would like some fresh venison and in order 
to make it as easy as possible, they put out 
their dogs to run the deer. This in viola- 
tion of law. League Warden Vosburgh, of 
Saranac Lake, N. Y., was notified of the 
affair and went after the law _ breakers. 
He captured them both, and took them 
before Justice Larocque, whc fined them 
$100 each and trimmings. Soper and Walsh 
are probably still wishing they had done 
their hunting in a legal and sportsmanlike 
manner. Soper’s number in the swine book 
is 940 and Walsh’s is 941. 








Game Warden H. Reif, of Seattle, Wash., 
L. A. S., No. 9151, has been after the game 
and fish law breakers in and about that city 


- again and has latesy landed several of them 


in court, where they have been properly 
punished. Rief is a zealous worker and 
has made trouble for a lot of lawbreakers 
since he has been in office. More power to 
his elbow! 





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TO MY DOG. 


They sing of love, Virginia’s love for Paul; 
Hero’s for Greek Leander, whom the 
waves 
Brought to her feet lifeless beyond recall; 
Abelard’s love for Heloise, their graves 
The mark of it; and these are passions all 
Of which the sentimental poet raves. 
But yet another love, and not the least, 
Where Cupid plays no part, yet hearts 
confide, 
Firm as the Heathen’s worship for the 
East, 
Loyal and true it cometh to abide; 
A love that needeth neither oath nor 
priest, 
The love of beast for man and man for 
beast. 
—Jean Rushmore, in Life. 





Under a “sketchy little thing” exhibited 
by Jones there hangs a printed card which 
bears the words: 

“Do not touch with canes or umbrellas.” 

An appreciative small boy added the fol- 
lowing postscript: 

“Take A Axe.”—Tit-Bits. 




































WHAT IS A FOREST? 
Repetition is the secret of education. 
Je must again and again present the same 
ibject from different points of view, if 
e will have it understood and appreci- 
ed in all its bearings; especially when 
ie people at large, the laymen, are to be 
ucated in a professional subject, and to 
s made generally intelligent about it. 
ence while the question of what forestry 
1as often been answered in RECREATION 
various ways, there is still need of con- 
ing to explain, as long as so many 
roneous notions are afloat regarding this 
pular subject; as long as there are “city 
resters”; as long as an indiscriminate 
Joodman-spare-that-tree” sentiment dom- 
ates much of the writing in the public 
ss; as long as such things can happen 
the abolishment of our first forestry 
1001, ostensibly because, forsooth, a com- 
ttee of legislators knows better what for- 
involves than the professional men 
f 

The word “forestry” is so modern that 
was not yet recorded in the dictionary a 
arter of a century ago. Even the word 
rest,’ in its present sense, is of quite 
usage. Originally the word was 
itten “voorst,” and was used by the Ger- 
n tribes to denote the property set aside 
the use of the king, or leader, of the 
e, the “Fuerst.” That this property was 
urally, to a great extent, woodlands had 
hing to do with the meaning of the 
‘cd. The main value of this property 
; the game, and as the owners could not 
it for any other purpose, they merely 
srved the right to the chase. Gradually 
right to the chase became a royal pre- 
ative, especially among the Normans; 
the word “forest” became a legal term 
denote a territory, including fields, 
ddlands, pastures, waters, settlements, 
the people themselves living within 
boundaries, on which the king had re- 
yed the right to hunt for himself or 
followers. In other words, a forest 
} what we would now call a game pre- 
Special laws governed the people 
ig within the preserve. The words “af- 
esting” and “disafforesting” were cor- 
onding legal terms, which denoted 
placing of districts under the forest ban 
forest laws declaring them game pre- 
fes, or their release from such restric- 


yhen we read, therefore, of the forests 
Dean, of Windsor, of Epping or of 


FORESTRY. 


EDITED BY DR. B. E, FERNOW. 


It takes 30 years to grow a tree and 30 minutes to cut it down and destroy it, 


Sherwood, where Robin Hood, the forester 
bold, used to ply his trade, it is not the 
natural condition of being woodland, but 
the legal condition of being the king’s 
game preserves that is meant. Foresters 
were nothing but gamekeepers, or police 
officers, to enforce the forest laws; or else, 
as in the case of Robin Hood, a man living 
on the preserve. 

It was only gradually, and in England © 
very lately, that the word forest began to 
assume the meaning of woodland, probably 
as the right to the chase became restricted 
to the woodland portion of the forest in 
its original sense. 

Richardson’s New Dictionary of 1846 de- 
fines a forest still as “a great and privileged 
wood or woody wilderness. Frenchmen 
have generally interpreted it as a place 
whereto access and entry are forbidden by 
the owner unto others; hence it seems that 
privileged fishing, or large waters, wherein 
none but the lords thereof could fish, were 
also termed ‘forests.’ ” 

It is also interesting to note that this 
medieval conception and use of the term, 
which is naturally still recorded in our. dic- 
tionaries, was called into use as late as 
1862, when one of the dukes of Athole, in 
Scotland, instituted a lawsuit against the 
laird of Luke, his neighbor, to restrain him 
from killing deer on his own lands and to 
establish for the duke the right to enter the 
laird’s lands for the purpose, in virtue of 
the duke’s family holding from ancient 
times the position of “forester.” The courts 
decided adversely on the ground of “in- 
nocuous dissuetude” of the forest lands. 

Now the word forest is generally accept- 
ed as denoting a natural condition and as 
synonymous with woodland, but the lexi- 
cographers seem to be uncertain as to the 
distinction between woodland and forest. 

In the German language there are also 
2 words, namely, Wald and Forst. The 
first is the more general term, to denote 
merely the wooded condition, while the 
word Forst contains the idea that this 
woodland is placed under management or 
considered from the standpoint of its use- 
fulness to man. We will do well to accept 
the same distinction and, when we speak of 
forest, have in mind that we are considering 
woodlands with reference to economic ques- 
tions of man, an object of man’s care, no 
matter whether natural, or wild, or planted, 
large or small. Then it becomes easy to 
see that forestry is nothing but that care of 
the woodlands or forests, 


- 


. 


68 RECREATION. 


There are, however, 2 other conceptions 
or points of view that force themselves 
on us when using the word forest, and dis- 
tinguish the forest from such woodlands 
as orchards, windbreaks, roadside plantings 
and parks. 

A forest looks different from those other 
kinds of plantations, and its object is dif- 
ferent. We recognize such a thing as for- 
est conditions and forest purposes. These 
are important distinctions. Not any collec- 
tion of trees, but a certain kind and char- 
acteristic form is a forest and certain ob- 
jects are involved. 

The first and foremost object of a forest 
is to supply us with wood material; it is 
the substance of the trees itself, not their 
fruit, as in the orchard; not their beauty, 
as in the park; not their shelter, as in the 
wind break; not their shade, as in the street 
trees, that constitute the primary object of 
this class of woodland, although inciden- 
tally all these other objects may also be 
served by it. Ultimately, then, a forest is 
nothing more nor less than a wood crop, 
just as a wheat field, while a beautiful ob- 
ject and perhaps a useful soil cover, is a 
food crop. 

Only when the trees are cut and made 
into useful wood articles is the final object 
of a forest fulfilled; no matter what other 
objects it may have incidentally satisfied 
until harvest. Hence, if the State of New 
York withdraws from such use a large 
woodland area in the Adirondacks to sub- 
serve solely these secondary or incidental 
purpose, it is an economic mistake, which 
time and intelligent conception of rational 
economy will correct. 

Sometimes and under certain conditions 
the shelter and soil cover which a forest 
furnishes may become more important than 
the wood material, namely, where steep 
slopes are to be protected against erosion 
and the water flow is to be regulated or the 
climate is to be ameliorated. These pur- 
poses can be attained without foregoing the 
main purpose of wood supply. 

Again, on limited areas a forest may be 
set aside, as by the kings of old, as a game 
preserve and for pleasure purposes. 

We may, therefore, recognize this last 
class as a luxury forest, the former as pro- 
tection forest; but ultimately, in a well- 
regulated economic, industrial nation they 
must all become supply forests. Only the 
manner of management will vary wherever 
the former 2 objects are to be kept promi- 
nent. 

While, then, the object of the wooded 
territory designates it as a forest, we also 
recognize forest conditions. The forest is 
not a mere collection of trees, but in order 
to fulfil its objects, the ideal conditions are 
a more or less exclusive occupancy with 
arborescent growth; a close stand of trees, 


resulting in individual tree development uti- 
like that produced in the open stand; and a 
more or less dense shading of the ground, 
which excludes largely the lower vegeta- 
tion. By so much as these conditions are 
deficient, by so much does the forest fail to 
fulfil its economic functions as a source of 
useful material and as a factor in influen- 
cing climatic and soil conditions. Only 
because of the absence of better ones, do 
the woodlands in open stand, which charac- 
terize the arid regions, deserve the name of 
forest. 

It is not merely wood which is required 
by man, but wood of certain description, 
certain qualities and sizes such as are fit 
to be cut into lumber, as boards, planks, 
joists, scantlings; into timber, as beams, 
sills and posts; or into bolts free from blem- 
ish, which can be advantageously manufac- 
tured into the thousand articles that are in- 
dispensable to human _ civilization. The 
trees which satisfy these requirements are 
those having a long, cylindrical shaft free 
of branches and of the resulting knots. Such 
trees are produced by the dense stand. The 
close neighbors deprive the lower branches 
early of sidelight, kill them, and rub off 
the dead branches. This forces the crown 
to reach up for light, and to put all growth 
energy into the bole instead of dissipating 
it into branch growth, such as is the proper 
thing for a shade tree or a lawn tree to 
develop. ‘ 

Many of our virgin woodlands fail in this 
respect to satisfy the economic requirement 
of furnishing.a suitable timber supply. Not 
only are large areas occupied by species of 
little usefulness, but they lack the ideal for- 
est conditions which it is the function of 
the forester to create. 




































Visitor: So you were shipwrecked and 
came near starving? 

Mariner: Yes, mum, and I had to eat a 
whisk broom and the sawdust out of 
cushion. 


Visitor: It must have been a terribl 
dose. 
Mariner: Not so bad, mum. Yer see 


had been used to eating health foods. 
Chicago News. 





As a sportsman I could not get alon 
without RECREATION, as it gives so mu 
valuable information about — huntin 
grounds and sporting goods. I am muc 
pleased at the way you roast the gam 


hogs. 
E. A. Schwartz, Alewive, Me. 





A Philadelphia paper recently printe 
the following: 
“Wanted—A young unmarried womart 
without children, wants position as coo 
or housekeeper.” 


PURE AND IMPURE FOODS. 


Edited by C. F. LANGworTny, PuH.D. 
Author of ‘‘ On Citraconic, Itaconic and Mesaconic Acids,” ‘‘ Fish as Food,” etc. 


“ What a Man Eats He Js.”’ 


PORK AS FOOD. 


Statements are common to the effect that 
pork is not a fit food for man, various rea- 
sons being given, which in the majority of 
cases seem based more on prejudice than 
any scientific knowledge of the subject. 
Thus, it is often said that pork is indi- 
gestible. As it is comparatively rich in fat, 
it may take a little longer to digest than 
some other meats, but as far as diligent 
search shows there are no experiments on 
record which show it is less thoroughly di- 
gested than other flesh foods. Ham and 
bacon are accepted by many who do not 
believe in roast pork, yet the salt and smoke 
can do little except modify the flavor and 
keeping quality; so there is not much rea- 
son for such limitation. A careful review 
of the whole subject and of the experiments 
of different sorts which have been reported 
leads to the conclusion that pork is a val- 
uable and useful food for man, provided it 
is of satisfactory quality, though the liking 
for it, as for other foods, is a matter of 
the personal equation. 

Some statements recently made by Miss 
Emma J. Davenport, in a paper read before 
the Illinois Housekeepers’ Conference, are 
of interest: 


“There is a domestic animal which, in ~ 


view of the fact that he was represented by 
over 8% millions of his kind in Chicago 
last year, possibly does not need a cham- 
pion. This animal has developed with the 
Anglo-Saxon race, has enjoyed its pros- 
perity, and to-day is a clean, well bred, 
wholesome domestic creature. I refer to 
the modern hog. 

“There are people who claim that pork is 
not fit to eat because the hog is subject to 
some of the same diseases as man. What 
about tuberculous beef? The record, for 
too1, of the chief representative of the 
United States Bureau of Animal Industry 
for the Chicago live stock market, fur- 
nished by Mr. Horine, statistician of the 
Chicago Union Stock Yards, shows the fol- 
lowing results: 

“Of cattle there were 1,810,155 inspec- 
tions in the yard. Of these there were 
2,202 rejections, or % of one per cent. 
There were 1,748,573 post mortem inspec- 
tions, of which 5,371 or 1-3 of one per cent 
of the carcasses were condemned. Of the 
inspected cattle, therefore, .42 of one per 
cent were condemned either on foot or after 
killing. Of hogs there were 6,547,370 in- 
spections, of which there were 15,424, or % 


of one per cent rejected on foot; and, of 
7,121,509 post mortem inspections, 11,088, or 
1-6 per cent rejected. 

“Of hogs inspected, therefore, .30 of one 
per cent were condemned against .42 of one 
per cent of cattle; near 1-3 less. Not only 
this, 4% of one per cent of cattle against 4 
of one per cent hogs were condemned on 
foot; showing that disease in the hog is 
much more easily detected while alive, than 
in cattle; and this is further borne out by 
the fact that, of the post mortem examina- 
tions, but % as many carcasses of hogs 
were condemned as of cattle, or 1-6 of one 
per cent against 1-3 of one per cent. 

“Besides, the average dressed carcass of 
a hog weighs 150 pounds, and that of beef 
470 pounds, or a little over 3 times as much. 
Now if the proportion of diseased cattle is 
4 times as great as of hogs, when we buy 
one pound of inspected meat the chances 
are over 4 times greater that it will be 
healthy, if it be pork, than if it be beef; yet 
no one, except a vegetarian, would think of 
saying that we should not eat beef. 

“The tuberculin test and meat inspection 
have mitigated greatly the chances for dis- 
eased milk and meat being on the market; 
yet the only safety lies in insisting abso- 
lutely that milk shall come from herds 
which are frequently given the tuberculin 
test and where sanitary measures as to 
cleanliness and pure water are observed. 
Protection as to meat is always to cook it 
thoroughly, whatever it may be. 

“These statistics show that pork is as 
wholesome and safe as beef. 

“Comparing the composition of beef and 
pork, the following are averages of the 
whole carcass, not including the head: 
Beef: Waste, 17.6; water, 50.4; dry mat- 
ter, 32.0; protein, 14.6; fat, 16.6; ash, 0.7 
per cent; fuel value, 975 calories. Pork: 
Waste, 24.0; water, 32.0; dry matter, 53.8; 
protein, 10.8; fats, 40.5; ash, 2.4 per cent; 
fuel value, 2,045 calories a pound. 

“Pork is particularly valuable as a food 
for energy, as it furnishes more than twice 
the amount that beef'does. The adult does 
not require food for building up the body, 
except to replace the small waste; but he 
needs that which will give energy. Pork 
also contains the greater quantity of dry 
matter, and it is not deficient in protein. 
Pork is also to be recommended as a cheap 
food. It is especially cheap to the pro- 
ducer, and costs less per pound to the man 
who buys it. From quotations of the Chi- 


70 RECREATION. 


cago markets, prices for dressed pork range 
from 5 cents to 8 cents a pound, and for 
beef, from 8 cents to 12 cents. 

“In a list of dietaries furnishing approx- 
imately 0.28 pounds of protein and 3,500 
calories of energy, the standard for a man 
at moderate muscular work. taken from 
the government bulletin on nutritive value 
and cost of foods, the cheapest diet given 
was bread and butter, pork and beans, at a 
cost of 1334 cents.” 





IN MONARCHS’ KITCHENS. 


According to a recent writer, the Ger- 
man Emperor is disposed to be officious in 
the supervision of his kitchen. 
been known to make a special tour of in- 
spection, under the guidance of a marshal 
of the court, and to harangue the scullions, 
or give them lessons in the art of making 
coffee. As a rule he gets his meals en pen- 
sion, a regular sum per head being allot- 
ted for the board of the imperial family, 
and within these limits the cooks have a 
free hand. The chief cook is a German, 
and under him are a German and a 
Frenchman, although the use of the French 
language on the menus is strictly forbidden. 
The chef has to get through about 4-hun- 
dredweight of butcher’s meat on _ ordi- 
nary days for the meals of the court. On 
great occasions he usually begins his prep- 
arations a week before, and calls in the 
services of the cooks at the other palaces, 
as well as the confectioners in Unter den 
Linden. William II. believes in dishes en 
masse. The joints appear in the dining sa- 
loon, and the cakes are frequently fash- 
ioned into the shape of temples, minarets 
and castles. 

The chef in the household of the Czar 
is an Alsatian, an ex-soldier, who is paid 
a very high salary. He is an adept in the 
fabrication of appetizing Russian soups, 
which are much liked by Nichclas II; and 
he has a regular dictionary of recipes for 
the treatment of caviare. He has to en- 
dure the nuisance of having 2 or 3 Circas- 
sians always hovering about the kitchen on 
the lookout for suspicious underlings, and 
these gentry apply themselves to the task 
of tasting the imperial viands with greater 
zeal than the occasion demands. The 
Empress often conveys to the kitchen a re- 
quest for a dainty dish to be prepared 
a lAnglais; and apart from the national 
dish:s, the composition of the imperial 
menu en famille is as much English as 
French. 

The Emperor Francis Joseph is said to 
spend about $250.000 a year on his table, 
although he himself is one of the most ab- 
stemious monarchs in Europe. The staff 
consists of half a hundred trained cooks, 


He has 





























equally divided as to sex, and a committee 
of the heads of each department is held on 
the occasion of a state banquet. All the 
carving is done in an apartment reserved 
for the purpose, to which the comestibles 
are conveyed from the kitchen. The cus- 
tom of perquisites is more firmly estab. 
lished in the Austrian imperial kitchen 
than anywhere else in royal Europe. 
At some of the smaller courts nati 
chefs are preferred, as for example, in 
Rome, Madrid and Stockholm. At th 
Sublime Porte, Abdul Hamid formerly con. 
tented himself with French chefs, but after 
the visit of the German Emperor to Co 
stantinople he engaged 3 German cooks, 
who assist him in dispensing the enormous 
daily sum of about $5,000 on the pleasures 
of the table for his vast establishment. All 
the Sultan’s personal dishes are prepared 
in silver vessels, and are sealed by the 
grand vizier before they leave the kitchen. 
The seal is broken in the presence of th 
monarch, and it is the duty of the cham 
berlain to taste the first mouthful if so 
commanded. 





BOILED MEATS, POULTRY, FISH. 


be put into boiling water and allowed to 
boil rapidly about 10 minutes. Then the 
temperature should be lowered and the 
meat should be allowed to cook at simmer- 
ing point, when little bubbles appear around 
the edge of the kettle, until it is done. The 
same rule applies to all lightly salted or 
smoked meats. Meats that are heavily 
salted may be put into cold water and al- 
lowed to come to the boiling point slowly. 
By this method much of the nutritive ma- 
terial is extracted before the surface of the 
meat is covered or sealed with an impervi- 
ous layer of albumen, coagulated by the 
heat of the boiling water. Removing the 
excess of salt improves the flavor of the 
meat. When the boiling point is reached, 
the meats must only simmer or they will be 
grained and stringy. Fresh fish should al- 
ways be put into boiling water, and then 
allowed only to simmer, as rapid boiling 
breaks the skin and separates the flesh and 
much is wasted. If it is put into cold 
water, much of the nitrogenous extractives 
and salts, which give flavor, will be dissolved 
before the fish begins to cook. Very salt 
fish is sometimes soaked in cold water be- 
fore being cooked. . 

Nobody had any idea that germs were so 
good to eat until it was learned that more 
than 66 million of them are to be found in 
an adult oyster —Kansas City Star. 


BOOK NOTICES. 


THE ANTHONY & SCOVILL ANNUAL. 


The Anthony & Scovill Co., 122 Fifth 
Ave., New York, has issued the American 
Annual of Photography for 1904, and to per- 
sons who have been fortunate enough to 
see previous issues of this book, it is only 
necessary to say that the present one is 
fully up to the standard of the others. Peo- 
ple who have not been reading the annual 
have a treat in store for them. The table 
of contents of the present volume is of 
itself an interesting study. It enumerates 
such articles as “A Flash Light Help,’ “A 
Plea For Sunshine,’ “Bromide Enlarg- 
ing,” “Carbon Printing,” “Dark Room 
Lanterns,” “Focal Plane Shutters,’ “In- 
dian Photography,” “Originality in Pho- 
tography,” and many others. One scarcely 
knows where to begin or where to stop 
these interesting, useful and instructive ar- 
ticles. 

In addition to the text there are many 
reproductions of photographs that are 
gems of art, and any lover of photography 
who once picks up a copy of the annual for 
1904 will regret to lay it down. 

Notwithstanding all the treasures 
contains this book sells for 75 cents. 


it 





MIGHTY INTERESTING BEARS, 


“Bears I Have Met and Others” is the 
title of a book written by Allen Kelly, of 
California, and published by Drexel Biddle, 
of Philadelphia. This book contains the 
most thrilling collection of bear stories that 
has been brought together in any one 
volume, to my knowledge. The author 
must have spent years in digging up old 
hunters, and he has certainly struck pay 
dirt in most cases. If all these stories were 
true, it would mean that the California 
hills must have been alive with big grizzlies, 
all of which were walking around with 
chips on their shoulders. 

The author pretends to believe that near- 
ly all these big yarns are true, but evident- 
ly means to be polite to the men who told 
the stories. He knows it is not always 
safe to question the veracity of a Western 
man as long as he is walking about with a 
gun strapped on his hip. It is not neces- 
sary that a bear story should be true in 
order to be interesting. Some of these 
may be true, but they are all well told and 
any one of them is worth the entire price 
of the book. It sells at 50 cents, paper, 
and $1, cloth. 





The New York Zoological Society has 
issued a beautiful little book entitled “The 
New York Zoological Park” which con- 


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tains exquisite Albertype plates of elk, 
mule, deer, wild sheep, zebras, lions, tigers, 
bears, monkeys, cranes, flamingoes, etc. 
The pictures are 4x 5% inches in size, and 
are made from the choicest work of Mr. 
E, e Sanborn, official photographer of the 
park. 

The book sells at 25 cents, and is worth 4 
times the price to any lover of wild animals. 
You can get a copy by addressing W. T. 
Hornaday, Zoological Park, New York City. 





S. R. Stoddard, of Glens Falls, N. Y., has 
issued a new edition of his book, entitled 
“The Adirondacks, Illustrated.” This has 
been for many years a standard book of 
reference and study for people who visit the 
Adirondacks and it is scarcely necessary to 
speak of it at length here. It is brimful of 
valuable information and as interesting as 
ever. Every person who has ever been in the 
Adirondacks, or who expects to go there 
in future, should have a copy. It is pub- 
lished by the author and sells at 25 cents 
a copy paper bound, 50 cents cloth. 





Mr. A. H. O’Brien, editor of the Canada 
Law Journal, Ottawa, Ontario, has issued 
his yearly Digest of the Game and Fish 
Laws of Ontario. This is a neat little book 
of 44 pages, which must. certainly 
prove useful to every sportsman who may 
contemplate a hunting or fishing trip to that 
Province. The book sells at 25 cents in pa- 
per covers, and at 50 cents in cloth. In 
writing for it, please mention RECREATION. 





The Secretary of Agriculture, Washing- 
ton, D. C., has issued a bulletin giving the 
text of the new Alaskan game law and 
full instructions as to the regulations adopt- 
ed by the Agricultural Department for the 
enforcement of that law. Any person in- 
terested can get a copy of the bulletin by 
addressing Dr. T. S. Palmer, Department 
of Agriculture, Washington. 


The work you are doing will live after 
you, and no sportsman who once reads 
your magazine can ever cease to be grateful 
to you for your noble work. 

John T. Goolrick, Washington, D. C. 





I am a reader of REcREATION and think 
it the best magazine published. I admire 
the way in which you roast the game hogs 
and hope you will continue. 

Ray Pomont, Corona, S, Dak, 


PUBLISHER’S NOTES. 


HILDEBRANDT ADVERTISES. 

The Enterprise Manufacturing Com- 
pany, Akron, Ohio, has brought a suit 
against John J. Hildebrandt, of Logans- 
port, Indiana, charging him with infringe- 
ment of their patent on an artificial bait. 
They claim heavy damages and ask for an 
injunction restraining Hildebrandt from 
making and selling these baits in future. 
Hildebrandt secured a patent before be- 
ginning the manufacture of his bait, and 
this will no doubt stand good in the courts. 
The Enterprise people are not so enter- 
prising as Hildebrandt is, and there is the 
rub. The Akron outfit has always de- 
clined to advertise in ReEcrEATION. On the 
other hand, Hildebrandt used space in this 
magazine from the start, and naturally did 
a large business. In a recent letter to me 
he says, “I reaped large profits through 
advertising in your magazine; more than 
from all the others together.” 

If the Enterprise people had been as en- 
terprising as they claim to be they would 
have had the trade of this country all sup- 
plied with artificial baits long before Hil- 
debrandt got started. 





A CONVENIENT OUTFIT. 


Some 20 years ago I bought a heavy 
hunting knife, a thin bladed skinning knife 
and a steel to sharpen them on. Then I 
devised a scabbard in which to carry the 3 
implements. I used this outfit until the 
scabbard was well nigh worn out, and then 
sent it to the Marble Safety Axe Co., 
Gladstone, Mich., with a request that they 
make me a new one like it. Mr. Marble 
liked the scheme, and asked permission to 
make up a line of outfits like this and put 
them on the market. I, of course, told him 
I should be glad to have him do so. Mr. 
Marble honored me by naming this the Co- 
quina Outfit, for which I make to him my 
most profound salaam. 

During all the years in which I hunted 
big game in the West, the South, and the 
Southwest, I found this combination of 
knives and steel most convenient and 
handy, and I think any sportsman who tries 
it will agree with me. 





Messrs. Spratt’s Patent benched, fed and 
fitted up the dogs at the Ladies’ Kennel 
Association’s Show held in Madison Square 
Garden, November 3-6; also the Long Isl- 
and Kennel Club’s Show, held in the Cler- 
mont Avenue Rink, Brooklyn, November 
10-13; the Chicago Poultry, Pigeon and 
Pet Stock Show, 1st Resiment Armory, 
Vabash and 16th streets, Chicago, IIl., No- 


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vember 28-4; the N. J. Fanciers’ Poul- 
try, Pigeon and Pet Stock Show, New 
Auditorium, Orange street, Newark, N. J., 
December 1-5; the Poultry Show at Ruther- 
ford, N. J., December 10-12; and the Poul- 
try Show at Hackensack, N. J., December 
17-109. 

They have a contract to pen, feed and fit 
up the Poultry Show to be held in New 
York City, January 4-9, and a number of 
other contracts pending. 


The Blair Camera Co., Rochester, N. Y., 
kas published a Christmas booklet giving 
a full description of Hawk Eye cameras. 
The various models of these are artistically 
and effectively illustrated, and the text de- 
scribes them fully. A new Hawk Eye, No. 
3, is described in this book for the first 
time. It makes 3% by 4% pictures and 
uses daylight loading films. The camera 
is neat, compact and handy, and is sure to 
prove popular. Another speciality of the 
Blair Camera Co. is the Stereo Hawk Eye, 
which is a light, handy camera, and which 
is provided with double lens and double 
rolls for making stereoscopic views. Every 
amateur photographer should have a copy 
of this book. 


Office of G. G. Clough, Lawyer, 
Corpus Christi, Texas. 
Messrs. Schoverling, Daly & Gales, 
New York City. 

Dear Sirs: 

Last summer I bought from F. Schorer, 
Galveston, 2 cans of New Green Walsrode 
that had gone through the Galveston storm 
of 1900. The cans were rusted to pieces, 
but the powder was O. K. I want 5 pounds 
New Green Walsrode. Where can I get 
it near here Yours truly, 

G. G. Clough. 


Prevention is better than cure. Pure 
food and fresh air are essentials to this 
end, but not everyone seems to know that 
right underclothing is practically as im- 
portant in our climate. The only right 
underclothing is wool, but the wool must 
be absolutely pure and the fabric of scien- 
tific weave, like Jaeger’s, or else half the 
benefit is lost. 





> 
¥ 











Prescott, Arizona. 
West End Furniture Co., 
Williamsport, Pa. 
Dear Sirs: 
The sportsmen’s cabinet has arrived, in 
perfect condition, and I am much pleased 


with it. 
C. W. Manderfeld. 


EDITOR'S 


NOW FOR A MILLION. 


An editor’s life is not all grief. It does 
not consist wholly of roasting people and 
Leing roasted. Occasionally someone comes 
in and asks an editor out to have a smile. 
Then again he sometimes gets a smile at 
his own desk. Here is one that came in the 
mail a few days ago: 


Atlanta, Ga. 
RECREATION, Magazine, 

23 West 24th St, New York, N. Y. 
Mr. G. O. Shields, Gen’] Mgr. and Editor. 
Dear Sir, 

1 would like to write you a few lines in- 
forming you That i would like to write a 
Poem each month for your Magazine and 
let it go under the name as Poem’s from a 
Southern Author from Way Down South. 
as I have composed a emense of Ghost 
Storys and Fairy Tales as 1 have never seen 
any such Story’s of the Ye Olden Time 
writen in a Magazine yet and would say 
that i can make it interesting in your 
Magazine for your reders I want to write 
for you the year round funny stories and 
Ghost Poems of the Ye Olden Times, i 
can write stories very comical and can 
make any body laugh their self to death, 
i will write reasonable monthly or yearly. 
So not asi think that i can improve your 
Magazine in Editorals but i can gurantte 
that your readers will hunt for my stories 
every time. so give me a chance, i will 
write you a sample copy of my Southern 
pomes writen From a Southern Dramatic 
Author, i will send sample copy and my 
price by request by you by Return Mail. 

Yours very truly, 


Dramatic Ghost Story Author. 


I think I shall buy some of these poems 
and print them. I dislike to imagine a lot 
of my readers laughing themselves to 
death; but think of the gain to me! Let 
it be announced that a man in the Waldorf 
Castoria had died laughing at something 
he read in RecreEATION. In a minute all 
the other people in the house would fall 
over the corpse in a struggle to get to the 
news stand; and so it would be everywhere. 
I expect to see my circulation go up to a 
million within 2 days after the appearance 
of the first one of these ghost story poems. 











A BROTHER EDITOR APPROVES. 

IT am not fond of reprinting good things 
which brother writers may say of me, but I 
trust I may be pardoned for making a quo- 
tation from a recent issue of the Worcester, 
Mass., Gazette. The editor of that journal 
devotes a column to an ostensible defense 
of S. E. Hanson, of that city, whom I 


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CORNER. 


roasted some months ago for having caught 
300 pounds of fish in one day. In the 
course of his soothing remarks on behalf 
of the wounded Swede, the editor pays me 
a compliment that I can not forego the 
privilege of printing, not only for the satis- 
faction of my friends, but for the further 
stirring up of some other game and fish 
hogs who are busy telling their friends 
that nothing good can come out of REcRE- 
ATION Office. 

The Gazette man, in speaking of Han- 
son’s fishing exploit, says: 


RECREATION is always lying in wait 
for things of this kind, and’ has a man 
in this city who informs the publisher 
of such cases as are deemed breaches of 
good breeding on the part of sportsmen. 
Mr. Shields, the editor and publisher, 
makes no bones of calling men hard 
names when they take an inordinate 
number of fish or kill more game than 
they can make use of. “Game hog” and 
“pot hunter” are among the terms which 
Mr. Shields marshals in a rhetoric so 
fiery that it is sufficient to scald the 
rivets off a steam boiler, to say nothing 
of starting the hirsute covering of his 
so-called “game hog.” : 





A JUSTICE GUILTY. 

Deputy Game Warden Phillips, of Du- 
luth, Minn., wen* hunting in the Bowstring 
country last summer and found in one 
shack 30 sacks of deer and moose hair 
weighing altogether more than a ton. He 
also found 9 tanned.deer skins and a half 
mounted head. He failed to find the 
wretches who killed the game, but it is 
hoped they may be apprehended later. The 
hair was burned and the hides confiscated. 

On another trip, Phillips discovered, in 
the vicinity of Jessie lake, 50 miles North 
of Duluth, a lot of deer hides, deer heads 
and fresh venison. These were stored in 
and about the homes of W. S. Brown, a 
justice of the peace; Samuel Targenson, a 
constable; and John McDougall, chairman 
of the town board. These men were ar- 
rested, jacked up before a real justice, 
and the so called Justice Brown was fined 
$50. The constable and the chairman of 
the town board were also found guilty, but 
for some reason their fines were remitted. 

It seems that Robert Christie, the town- 
ship treasurer, is a member of this band of 
law breakers, but it was impossible to get 
sufficient evidence against him at the time 
to convict him. 

Brown’s name goes down in the game 
hog register as No. 942, Targenson’s as 
943, and McDougall’s as 944. Christie 


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should have a number, but I will postpone 
the registering of his name until Phillips 
gets a hook into him. 





COUNTRY PAPER EXAGGERATES. 

It was recently announced by a local 
paper that a judge of a certain court in 
Minnesota had killed 30 squirrels in a day. 
I wrote the judge for confirmation or de- 
nial of the report, and he replied that he 
and a friend were out 2 days and killed 26 
squirrels, some 8 or 9 of which fell to the 
judge’s gun. This illustrates in a marked 
degree the chronic offense of the average 
country mewspaper editor of exaggerating 
reports of hunting and fishing trips. It is 
safe to say that half the statements of such 
trips sent to this office in the shape of 
newspaper clippings prove false on inves- 
tigation. In the course of the letter to me 
denying the report the judge says: “ The 
publication of the item was without my 
knowledge, and | regret that any publicity 
has been given the trip. The few days 
during the year when I can get away for 
fishing, and hunting are enjoyed more be- 
cause of the opportunity for healthful rec- 
reation than for the capture of game. 
While a well filled creel or game bag adds 
largely to the enjoyment of the trip, yet I 
am always thankful and content with the 
small portion that usually falls to my lot.” 

If country newspapers would only con- 
fine themselves to the truth in reporting 
the hunting and fishing trips of their read- 
ers it would save many a man the necessity 
of convicting the editor or the reporter of 
falsehood. 


THE SHEEP MEN ARE HOT. 


Certain stockmen and sheep owners in 
Wyoming, whose range has been curtailed 
by the creation of the Yellowstone Forest 
Reserve, have been working hard for sev- 
eral months past to induce President Roose- 
velt to rescind the order by which the re- 
serve was created and throw the land open 
again for grazing purposes. These sheep- 
men have also demanded of the president 
the removal of Mr. A. A. Anderson from 
the position of superintendent of this re- 
serve. They have made a great deal of 
noise themselves and have induced other 
people in the State to join them in howl- 
ing; but from present indications their de- 
mands are not likely to be complied with by 
the president, and they should not be. The 
territory comprised within the limits of 
the Yellowstone Reserve is the natural 
home of the elk, the antelope and the mule 
deer, all of which have been greatly re- 
duced in numbers and their feeding grounds 
seriously injured by the encroachments of 
the sheepmen. The limits of Yellowstone 
Park have proved insufficient for the pre- 
servation of these species of game and it 





RECKEATION. 


is just and proper that the United States 
Government should enlarge it. Pending 
such action by Congress, the president acted 
wisely in creating the Yellowstone Forest ~ 
Reserve and it is hoped he may see fit to 
maintain it in its present size and shape. 





A CHEAP EDITOR. 


Albert, Arthur and Lyman Cooper, of 
Corunna, and William Robins, of Owosso, 
Mich., “all prominent citizens,” according to 
a local newspaper, were arrested in August 
last by game warden Brewster, charged 
with dynamiting fish in the Schiwassaa 
river. ‘The principal witness for the prose- 
cution was J. Haines, of Schiwassaa. The 
dynamiters made him a present of a mess 
of fish, which he ate, and then reported 
the case to the game warden. After the 
evidence was all in, the jury went out at 
10 o'clock at night and deliberated until 4 
o’clock in the morning, when the members 
reported to the court that they would like to 
visit the scene of the dynamiting. They 
were driven 14 miles through a drenching 
rain, and on their return agreed on a verdict, 
finding the defendants guilty, whereupon 
Judge Patchel assessed a good, round fine 
against the “prominent citizens.” 

The people of Schiwassaa should feel 
heartily ashamed of an editor who calls 
dynamite fishermen “prominent citizens.” 
The price these “prominent citizens” paid 
for their complimentary notice was proba- 
bly a mess of fish. Verily, honors are cheap 
in Michigan. 

Albert Cooper’s number in the fish hog 
pen is 945, Arthur’s 946, Lyman’s 947, and 
William Robins’ is 948. 





MOVING THE PRAIRIE DOGS. 


When the antelope range was first estab. 
lished in the New York Zoological Park a 
few prairie dogs were planted among the 
pronghorns, simply to enliven the land- 
scape, but they enlivened it too much and 
became entirely too numerous in course of 
time; so Director Hornaday set his men 
to work to trap them and transfer them to 
the regular prairie dog village, which has 
a stone wall around it, running into the 
ground. The amateur trappers in the park 
exhausted their ingenuity on the little ro- 
dents without being able to capture many 
of them. Then a professional trapper was 
called in, and soon solved the problem. 

He got a lot of empty barrels, knocked 
both heads out, set them over the prairie 
dog holes and filled the holes with loose 
sand. The dogs soon got tired of being 
corked up, dug out and let the sand go 
down below. This process stopped up the 
entrance to the holes. In other words, 
when a dog came out he pulled the hole 
out after him, and found himself barreled 
up. Then the trapper simply took a land- 


EDITOR’S 


ing net, dipped up the dog, carried him to 
the prairie dog town, pitched him over the 
fence, and there they all are to-day. 





A RIGHTEOUS JUDGE. 


I have before had occasion to commend 
Judge J. S. Huson, of the Probate Court, 
Grand Rapids, Mich., for the sledgeham- 
mer blows he is dealing offenders against 
the game and fish laws. He has recently 
made some new entries on his docket which 
are worthy the attention of every judicial 
officer in this country. 

Here is the record: 

August 1, 1903, Judge Huson fined Hor- 
ace Lydick $100 and costs, amounting to 
$123.05, for killing a cow moose. 

August 4, Dell Linden was fined $1,000 


and $15 costs for having in possession 50 


deer skins, contrary to law. 

July 2, William H. Brown was fined $50 
and costs, for killing 2 deer out of season. 

July 15, W. D. Leelman was fined $15 
and costs for offering 3 black bass for sale. 

If all judges would deal with offenders 
who are brought before them as Judge 
Huson does, the game wardens, constables 
and deputy sheriffs would soon be able to 
take a rest. 





The Los Angeles Daily Herald gave an | 


account some weeks ago of an investigation 
that was being made by the local fish and 
game protective association, of charges 
against a resident of ‘that city to the effect 
that he was catching song birds in the 


trees about his house, with steel traps. The- 


reporter sent out to write up the case had, 
no doubt, given the name and street ad- 
dress of this man, but the editor had evi- 
dently blue penciled the name, lest he 
should lose a subscriber. 

Will some reader of RECREATION in Los 
Angeles please give me the name and ad- 
dress of this song bird trapper, and give me 
a full report as to what, if anything, was 
done with the case? The trapper may pos- 
sibly be a subscriber to RECREATION, but 
that matters not. If I can learn who he is, 
I shall-be glad to give him a scalding that 
will prevent him from renewing his sub- 
scription, 





The Park Commissioners of this city 
have scored a victory against the bill board 
nuisance. A former Park Commissioner 
granted a permit to a certain advertising 
man to deface the fence surrounding the 
New York Library building, at Fifth ave- 
nue and 42d street. When Commissioner 
Wilcox was appointed he revoked this per- 
mit, and the mutilator of public walls went 
into court for redress. The case has recently 
been passed on by the Court of Appeals at 
Albany, and the action of Commissioner 
\YWilcox is sustained. The unsightly and dis- 


CORNER. VA 


graceful advertisements that have defaced 
the public library fence for a year past must 
now come down. If the Legislatures of the 
various States would follow up this de- 
cision by passing laws prohibiting the erec- 
tion of these ridiculous advertising fakes 
all over the country, the public would be 
grateful. 





N. L. Hoyt, a wealthy grocer of Chicago, 
was arrested July 5th last, for shooting 
woodcock out of season, and 5 of the birds 
were found in his possession. He was taken 
before a justice of the peace in Evanston 
and fined $15, this being the minimum 
penalty as fixed by law for the killing of 
one woodcock. I am informed that State 
Game Commissioner A. J. Lovejoy tele- 
graphed the justice on the morning of the 
trial, asking that the fine be fixed at this 
small amount. The reason for this is sup- 
posed to be that Hoyt is a wealthy man and 
Lovejoy probably thought his influence 
might be valuable in some future election. 
If Hoyt had been a poor devil, the justice 
would no doubt have soaked him to the 
full limit and Lovejoy would have crowed 
over the victory. The law should not be 
twisted. 





Joseph Beiter and William Arthur, 2 
Johnstown, Pa., lawyers, have been given 
a dose of their own medicine. They went 
trout fishing in the close season for these 
fish last summer, and caught 28 in one day. 
State Fish Commissioner Meehan heard of 
the exploit, had warrants issued for the 
offenders, and a justice of the peace fined 
them $10 for each fish, $200 in all. They 
paid the fine and costs. 

It is the business of a lawyer to expound 
the law to other people and collect pay for 
it. A lawyer is supposed to know all about 
game and fish laws, as well as others; and 
it is a great satisfaction.to know that when 
a pair of these legal lights violated a plain, 
simple statute like that against the taking 
of trout at certain times they should have 
been required to pay the penalty. 





In July last George Lucas, Britton Butler 
and Harry Vedeffer, of Winburne, Pa., 
were arrested by County Detective J. W. 
Rightnour, of Bellefonte, for dynamiting 
fish on Black Bear run. They were taken 
before Justice J. B. LaPorte, of Philips- 
burg, tried, found guilty and sentenced to 
pay a fine of $100 each and costs of $15.34, 
and to serve 100 days in jail. The dyna- 
miters appealed their case to the county 
court, where the sentence of the Justice 
bse confirmed and the pirates paid their 
nes. 

Thus Justice LaPorte, Detective Right- 
nour and Harry Simla have earned the 
gratitude of all good people. 


76 RECREATION. 


Lucas’s number in the hog register is 
949, Butler’s 950 and Vedeffer’s 951. 

Dr. Barton W. Evermann, assistant in 
charge of Scientific Inquiry, U. S. Bureau 
of Fisheries, reports that he had excellent 
trout fishing in Alaska last summer, at sev- 
eral different places, particularly at Fresh- 
water bay, Sitka, Klawock and Hunter bay. 
The most abundant trout in Alaska is the 
Dolly Varden. It was so abundant at Pab- 
lof falls, Freshwater bay, that Dr. Ever- 
mann was able to catch a number of large 
specimens in a few hours! The cutthroat 
trout and a new species of rainbow trout 
are also common and exceedingly gamey. 
Dr. Evermann promises to give the read- 
ers of RECREATION a fuller account of his 
angling in Alaskan waters. 





July 23, 2 hunters, a short distance out 
of Wichita, Kan., were ostensibly hunt- 
ing plover along the public highway. The 
local constable, who is a member of the 
L. A. S., thought that plover did not light 
on telegraph wires, investigated, found 
some doves in the wagon, and promptly ar- 
rested the men. He took them before the 
justice of the peace, who fined them $25 
apiece for their fun. They left 2 valuable 
guns as security. The State Secretary- 
Treasurer had caused the late changes in 
the game laws to be advertised extensively 
and the farmers were “next.” Let the 
good work go on. 





A hardware dealer in Dolgeville, N. Y., 
offered a prize in April last to the man 
who would take the biggest trout on the 
opening day of the season and deliver it at 
the hardware store. The prize was won 
by Joseph Kamps with a trout from Big 
Sprite creek that weighed 1034 ounces. A 
certain smart Aleck of Dolgeville entered 
another trout which weighed 14 ounces, but 
it was suggested by ‘some of the competi- 
tors that the fish was not big enough to 
register that weight. On examination the 
fish was found to contain 4 ounces of shot. 
It would have been a good scheme to have 
compelled Mr. Aleck to swallow those shot 
after they were taken from his trout. 





J. N. Brown, of Dover, N. J., killed 3 
wild ducks in July last at one pot shot, as 
they sat on the water. He was greatly 
elated over the result of his imaginary skill 
as a shooter, carried the birds down all the 
main streets and gleefully showed them to 
his friends. Game Warden Anson Decker 
heard of the incident, called on Mr. Brown 
and escorted him to the office of Justice 
J. H. Brown, where the duck shooter was 
informed that the State needed 62 of his 
dollars for the game protective fund. J. N. 


plunked them down, and in future will 
probably wait until the legal season opens 
before he goes after ducks. His number in 
the game hog book is 952. 





Eblom Karom, of Hartford, Conn, was 
recently arrested for killing song and insec- 
tivorous birds. He had in his possession 5 
golden wing woodpeckers, one blue jay 
and 2 robins. The culprit was taken before 
Judge Garvan, of the Hartford police 
court, who soaked him to the extent of $90 
and trimmings—total, $118.77. Karom paid 
the fine, and it will probably be a long time 
before he will make another series of Karom 
shots like those he made that morning. 
Game warden John E. Foote made the ar- 
rest, and says he is now looking for other 
bird hunters. 

Karom is registered in the game hog book 
as No. 953. 


James H. Mandigo, of Ogdensburgh, 
N. Y., attempted to ship 2 barrels of coarse 
fish to a dealer in this city some weeks ago, 
and when the barrels were delivered at the 
express office in Ogdensburgh, Game War- 
den E. H. Hazen, who happened to be on 
deck, thought he smelled game fish. He 
opened the barrels and found, neatly con- 
cealed among the bullheads, suckers, ete., 
6 black bass. Mr. Hazen took Mr. Man- 
digo into court, introduced him to the blind 
goddess and a fine of $50 and a sentence of 
6 months’ imprisonment were prorhptly pro- 
nounced against the offender. | 
_ Mandigo’s number in the fish hog book 
is 054. 
“One J. L. MeNitt, of Milroy, Pa., aided 
by a pack of hounds, caught a deer in Au- 
gust last and sold it to a party of hunters. 
Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary. of the State 
Game Commission, heard of the affair, 
went after McNitt, rounded him up, and 
took him before Justice J. R. Longwell, of 
Milroy, who fined McNitt $125. 

Hereafter when anyone asks McNitt if 
he is found of hunting deer he will prob- 
ably just pronounce the last syllable of his 
name. . 

His full name is further recorded in the 
game hog book opposite the number 955. 











Rev. Robert E. L. Craig, an Episcopal 


. minister of Omaha, while out in Central 


Nebraska last spring holding religious 
services among the farmers, was arrested 
for shooting meadow larks and fined $110. 
He was at the time a candidate for the 
rectorship of Trinity Cathedral, Omaha, 
but the good people of that congregation 
became so disgusted with him when they 
learned of his bird slaughter that they de- 
cided not to appoint him, and I under- 
stand he has left Omaha for some other 
field of labor. His number in the pig pen 


‘ is 956. 





RECREATION. 77 


Beer Keeps One Well 


It is a noticeable fact that those 
who brew beer, and who drink 
what they want of it, are usually 
healthy men. You find no dys- 
peptics among them, no nervous 
wrecks, no wasted, fatless men. 

And so in those countries where 
beer 1s the national beverage. 

The reason 1s that beer 1s health- 
ful. ‘The malt and the hops are 
nerve foods. And the habit of 
drinking it keeps the body supplied 
with fluid to flush out the waste. 

The weak, the nervous and sleep- 
less must have it. Why isn’t it 
better to drink it now, and keep 
from becoming so? 

But drink pure beer — Schlitz 
Beer. There isn’t enough good 
in impure beer to 
balance the harm 
in it. 

Ask for the Brewery Bottling. 





THE BEER THAT 
MALE MILWALAZE 
FAMOUS * 


78 RECREATION. 


2 nnn 


MACE STONE AND THE BEAR. 
W. H. LIPPETTS. 


It was from Mace Stone himself that I 
heard the particulars of his famous wrestling 
match with a bear. It was an unpremedi- 
tated affair on the part of Mace. Although 
he emerged from the encounter consider- 
ably the worse for wear, he often remarked, 

“T larned that consarned critter a thing 
or 2 "bout back and squar holts that he 
didn’t know afore.” A 

Mace was so used to mixing truth with 
vivid imagination that it was sometimes 
hard to say just where the one began and 
the other ended. 

“It was all along of that cussed car- 
penter,” said Mace, when I had succeeded 
in loosening the floodgates of his_ elo- 
quence. “That ornery critter was always 
getting into scrapes and then howlin’ like a 
house afire for some one to get him out. 
You see it was this way: Me and the car- 
penter went out huntin’ one day. We didn't 
know what we was huntin’ for, but we was 
huntin’ and by gum, we found something 
we wasn’t lookin’ for. We got over to 
Baldwin in time to catch the steamer 71- 
conderoga, and made a bargain with Cap- 
tain Frank White to land us at what there 
was left of the old Horicon hotel pier at 
the foot of Black mountain. 

“We picked our way ashore over the rot- 
ten planks some way or other, and turned 
off to the South so as to come out on the 
rocks back of Paradise bay. The carpenter 
was ahead. Him and me was travlin’ slow- 
ly, not witchin’ for much of anythin’. All 
of a sudden the carpenter went out of sight; 
I heard a thundering big thump and then a 
thundering big yell. 

“That cuss had leather lungs I reckon. 
You could have heard him from one end of 
the lake to t’other. I knew there was trouble 
ahead, and not stopping to think I rushed 
forward and in 2 jerks of a lamb’s tail I 
come down in the middle of as pretty a muss 
as any one not a durned fool could hope to 
see. 

“There was the carpenter, flat on his 
back and over him a whoppin’ big black 
b’ar. The b’ar was a-settin’ on his 
haunches, lookin’ kinder surprised at the 
lot of noise that cum frum such a small 
man as that carpenter.. Well, I no sooner 
landed than that cussed skunk of a car- 
penter up and sloped, leavin’ me to tackle 
the critter alone. Before I could ketch my 
breath, the b’ar fetched my arm a clip that 
sent my rifle sailin’ out into the bay where 
the water was 20 foot deep. Then he caught 
me a slap aside of the head that made me 
see heavens’ full of stars. By that time I 
had got my dander up, and we went at it 
hammer and tongs. Meanwhile the car- 
penter had shinned up a tree and was givin’ 
me all sorts of advice. 

“‘Give it to him, Mace,’ he yelled; ‘soak 
him once for me.’ Soak him; Great Scott! 
I’d agiven half a dollar to have soaked the 
carpenter just once about then. Talk about 
soakin’ the b’ar; he had more science than 
Sullivan ever had. I managed to get out 


my knife, but before I could use it, it was 
knocked out of my hand and over the bushes 
to keep company with my rifle in the bay. 

“*Yer gol darned fool,’ I shouted to the 
carpenter, ‘come down out of that tree, pick 
up yer rifle and shoot the brute.’ 

“*Your all right,’ says the carpenter, ‘T’ll 
stay where I am and let you finish him.’ 

“He was a miserable sort of a cuss, that 
carpenter. He had no more pluck in him 
than a 7 day old kitten. There he set up 
in the air, clutchin’ the branch he was sit- 
tin’ on and lookin’ down on me and the b’ar 
as though it was a paid show and he had 
a reserved seat. 

“All that time me and the b’ar was a- 
havin’ it. We went round and round, and 
the dust flew. Sometimes I was on top and 
then the b’ar was. After cussin’ and rastlin’ 
awhile I got the critter where I wanted him, 
and by a sort of a double back-action twist 
I lifted and threw him clean over my head. 
He lit kinder stunned like. By the time he 
had got back his thinkin’ faculties I ketched 
hold of the carpenter’s rifle and sent a bali 
through the b’ar’s ugly head. 

“Then I looked at myself. I was a sight. 
When I started out in the mornin’ I wore 
tolorably good lookin’ clothers. Now my 
coat was clawed off my back and my pants 
was in ribbons. There wasn’t enough 
thread in Ticonderoga to have mended that 
suit. 

“The carpenter cum down from the tree 
and begun to make all sorts of comments 
about my appearance. He said I would 
make a good scarecrow and he’d hire me 
to stand in his corn lot the rest of the fall. 
He made me so consarned mad that I 
walked over to where he was standin’ and 
fetched him a clip on the jaw that laid him 
out apparently as dead as a nit. 

“T left, thinkin’ I’d killed him for sure, 
but when I got back to Ti., there he was 
before me, and had sworn out a warrant, 
chargin’ me with assault with intent to kill. 
I said he got the clip in the jaw from the 
b’ar in the beginnin’ of the trouble, and then 
up and told them all how he had acted dur- 
in’ the fight. The judge threw the case out 
of court. ; 


He—Why are some girls so fond of bath- 
ing that they are on the beach all day, while 
others can’t be induced to go near the 
water? 

She—Oh, it’s simply a matter of form.— 
Exchange. 





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1 drunk..... <4.0 5 Cine Saas Io days 

—Life 


RECREATION is the best of books. I do 
not know how any one who loves hunting, 
fishing, or camping can afford to be with- 


out it. 
-G. E. Kinsley, Lanesboro, Pa. 


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80 RECREATION. 


AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 


“For sport the lens is better than the gun.” 

I wish to make this department of the utmost 
use to amateurs. I shail, therefore, be glad to 
answer any questions and to print any ttems sent 
me by practical amateurs relating to their expert 
ence in photography. 





SOME TIPS ON REDUCTION. 


In October Recreation A. V. Wood- 
cock asks for a formula for reducing over 
developed negatives, and is told to soak 
them in a 10 per cent solution of red prus- 
siate of potash, and to examine the nega- 
tive every few minutes to note the process 
of reduction. I trust that Mr. Woodcock 
is blessed with more than the usual amount 
of patience, else his task must prove weari- 
some. I can well imagine the beginner at- 
tempting to make use of this information, 
and I can foretell the result he will ob- 
tain, or rather will not obtain; for red 
prussiate of potash in solution, used alone, 
has uo more effect as a reducer than so 
much water. Its only visible effect on the 
plate is to stain the film a deep yellow. 

The various reducing solutions common- 
ly in use may be divided into 3 classes, 
according to the manner in which they 
work. One class acts evenly all over the 
negative, removing density equally from the 
thick and the thin portions. The second 
class works unevenly, cutting deepest into 
the thin parts of the film and leaving the 
denser portions comparatively untouched, 
so that the result is to produce greater 
contrast in the negative. The third class 
produces exactly the opposite effect, thin- 
ning down the high lights and reducing the 
contrast. By keeping the idea of these 3 
different classes in mind and using a so- 
lution of the proper sort when occasion 
arises, great improvement can be made in 
work. 

Take, for illustration, a plate which has 
had the proper exposure. It came up nice- 
ly in the developer, but the latter may have 
been stronger than needed, or through 
lack of experience, development may have 
been carried too far. The whole plate 
looks thick and heavy and many of the 
finer details are buried under the dense de- 
posit of silver. In order to make a print 
from this, a long exposure to light is re- 
quired, and as a means of improvement it 
should be reduced. Although the relative 
values of the different densities have been 
somewhat altered from the normal by over 
development, the most satisfactory results 
will probably be obtained by simply remov- 
ing an equal amount from the whole sur- 
face of the plate. To accomplish this, use 
a reducer of the first class, one which will 
act equally on both lights and shadows. 
For this I recommend the following, known 
as Bartlett’s reducer: - 


Dissolve 15 grains perchloride of iron 
and 30 grains of citric acid in 16 ounces 
of water. Soak ihe plate in this a few 
minutes, rinse well and immerse in a clean 
hypo bath of the usual strength for fixing 
plates. Then wash well. 

This reducer works well and evenly, the 
only objection to its use being that the re- 
duction is visible only after the plate has 
been placed in the hypo bath, and on this 
account it is somewhat difficult to tell just 
how much the density of the plate has been 
changed. A few trials with waste plates 
will give one an idea of how long to soak 
the negative in the iron solution. 

An over exposed plate needs a different 
treatment. I get the best results by de- 
veloping it until it is dense and then re- 
ducing it, using a reducer of the second 
class, which will give an increase of con- 
trast. In such cases I generally use the 
red prussiate of potash and hypo solution, 
commonly called Farmer’s solution. To 
prepare this, dissolve 20 grains of red 
piussiate of potash (potassium ferricyan- 
ide) in one ounce of water. Dissolve sep- 
arately 1% ounce of hypo in 4 ounces of 
water. Add enough of the potash solu- 
tion to the hypo to color the latter solution 
a pale yellow, and immerse the plate in 
this, having previously given it a thorough 
soaking. Rock the tray and watch the 
negative closely. If the action of the so- 


lution is slow, add a few drops more of 


the potash. After the solution has acted 
sufficiently wash the negative thoroughly. 

Reduction with this solution should be 
carricd on in weak light and the potash so- 
lution should be freshly mixed, as it un- 
dergoes a chemical change when exposed 
to light. This reducer sometimes works 
unevenly, reducing the plate in spots, and 
may also stain the film yellow if allowed 
to act too long; but by giving the plate a 
preliminary soaking and using a_ freshly 
mixed solution such trouble may _ be 
avoided. 

Last comes the negative with too much 
contrast; the under exposed, over devel- 
oped snapshot, the interior view or what 
not. For these it is best to use a solution 
of ammonium persulphate, freshly mixed, 
of a strength of, say, 15 grains to the 
ounce of water. Soak the negative well 
and apply the persulphate solution. A 
peculiarity in the action of this reducer is 
that it seems to work slowly at first, but 
gradually gathers headway and acts faster 
and faster; so the plate should be carefully 


watched, lest the reduction go too far. When — 


reduction is sufficient it may be stopped by 
immersing the plate, after rinsing it, in a 
solution of sodium sulphite, say about 15 
grains to each ounce of water. The sul- 
phite solution checks the action of the re- 
ducer at once. After a few minutes’ im- 
mersion the plate should be well rinsed 


again, placed in an ordinary fixing bath a 
few moments and then well washed. 

By the intelligent use of these methods 
an amateur may vastly improve the quality 
of his work; but I emphasize the fact that 
a correctly exposed and developed negative 
is always to be preferred to one which has 
been doctored. 

C. M. Whitney, Bayonne, N. J. 


CARD TRIES TO BE FUNNY. 

I enclose a photo taken by Miss Pearl 
Cochran, at a distance of 150 feet. Miss 
Cochran lives at Wabana Lake, in Itaska 
County, Minn., 14 miles North of Grand 
Rayids. She and her father and some 
guests were on the lake in a launch when 
on turning a point of land they came in 
sight of these 2 moose, eating on a bog, 
and caught them just as they looked up. 

H. S. Huson, Grand Rapids, Minn. 


The photo you send is truly a remarkable 
picture. If it had been under the circum- 
stances you describe, it would have proved 
of interest to all sportsmen and natural- 
ists; but there is the rub. Please under- 





stand I am not questioning your statement 


in the least, nor any statement made by the 
young lady who took the picture; but it is 
possible that someone may be playing a 
joke on you, or on me. The photo looks 
as if it might have been made from a 
painting; but it may have been from life, 
as you say. If so, the young lady must 
have been at least 125 feet out in reckon- 
ing the distance; for at 150 feet from the 
camera the bull moose could not have 
been more than one inch high on the plate. 
I recently photographed my saddle horse 
at a distance of 12 feet, on a plate the same 
size as the one on which this moose picture 
was made, and he stands 434 inches high 
on the plate. The moose would be prob- 
ably 3 feet taller than the horse, meas- 
uring from the hoofs to the point of his 
horns, and he stands 5% inches on the 
plate; so if this picture is from life he 
could not have been more than 15 feet to 
20 feet from the camera. 

If this picture was made from a paint- 
ing, as I am inclined to believe, then the 
man who made the painting is a master 
artist and I should like to know who he is. 
It looks like the work of Landseer, or Seton, 
or Rungius. Now, my dear sir, I trust 
you will accept these questions in the 
kindly spirit in which they are put to you. 
There are many people who think it fun 
to get a joke on an editor, and many an 
editor has been caught in such traps. Will 
you kindly enlighten me further? 


I beg pardon for having sent the photo- 


graph of the moose, or for having had 


anything to do with it. First, I am inno- 
cent of trying to practice any deception in 


AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 81 


the matter. The story as reported to me 
I wrote you, thinking it would be of in- 
terest to the readers of RecreEaTiIon.. That, 
only, was my motive. I believed the story 
true, and-the picture as true to nature. 

On receipt of your letter, thinking I had 
made a blunder, I immediately drove out to 
Cochran’s place and presented your letter 
to Miss Pearl Cochran. She was surprised 
that I did not know the origin of the pic- 
ture. She informed me that it was taken 
from a label which came on a package of 
goods. The young lady is in no way to 
blame for the circulation of this story. It 
rests entirely with one John H. Card, of 
this place, who was stopping there as a 
guest, and who thought it funny to deceive 
me in this matter. 

This man Card has in the past borne a 
bad reputation as to killing game out of 
season. I issued a warrant some time ago 
for his arrest, but the deputy sheriff, one 
Sawyer, who, by the way, has been dis- 
continued as deputy sheriff, failed to do 
His duty, so Card escaped punishment. He 
has in the past killed both moose and deer 
for lumber camps. 

H. S. Huson, Probate Judge, 
Grand Rapids, Minn. 


Since the foregoing was put in type I 
have learned that the drawing which Miss 
Cochran photographed was made by Carl 
Rungius.—EnIrTor. 





PLATE SOAKING. 

A correspondent writes in RECREATION in 
regard to pin holes and dust. I emphasize 
what he said about using only the best 
brands of plates, but be sure to find out 
which really are the best, choosing brands 
used by professional photographers of good 
standing. 

-After dusting the plate, which must be 
done carefully, dust the plate holder as 
well. When cleaning my camera the other 
day I was surprised to see the quantity of 
dust and dirt that had collected within a 
short time in the inside folds of the bellows. 
The movement of focusing sets all this dust 
in motion, to settle on the plate during ex- 
posure. 

It is not always advisable to soak the 
plates in water before developing; some 
brands of plates may stand it, but others, 
will not. The action of the developer is 
quite different if the plate is first soaked 
in water. The developer does not get down 
into the film in the same way as when 
poured over a dry plate. The water held in 
the film dilutes the developer and renders 
its action slower and less vigorous. I do 
not know of any plate makers who advise 
preliminary soaking. 

The many inquiries for formule of devel- 
opers of all kinds seen in the photographic 


82 RECREATION. 


magazines indicate that many amateurs are 
hunting for the best developer. All the 
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particular brand of plate. If it were not 
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photographic supplies, follow strictly the 
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HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH A YACHT. 


The best position for the camera in re- 


lation to the yacht must be left to the 
judgment of the operator. A broadside 
view, or direct bow or stern, will not, as a 
rule, make a pleasing picture. What might 
be termed a three-quarter view will make 
the most pictorial photograph. Under or- 
dinary circumstances, especially in bright 
weather, the white sails are rendered in al- 
most the same tone gradation as the clouds. 
It is well, if possible, to secure some con- 
trast, in order that the sail shall stand out 
against the sky in the print. The greatest 
contrasts will be obtained by having the sun 
at the back of the sails or in front of them. 
The position the boat occupies in the print 
is important. Unless at anchor, the boat 
should not occupy the center, and on no ac- 
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boat. The whole of the sails, rigging, spars, 
etc., should be included in the composition. 
This requires much care; but no picture 
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A quick exposure will give a hard, un- 
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SNAP SHOTS. n 

I have been using all kinds of printing 
out paper. When I tone and wash my 
prints I put them on a ferrotype, and they 
always stick to it, How can sticking be 


prevented? What solution is best for So- 
lio paper? 
Edward Krivanek, Chicago, IIl. 


ANSWER. 


The difficulty you have experienced with 
prints sticking to the ferrotype plate may 
be due to the plates having become gummy. 
Wash plates thoroughly 3 or 4 times in 
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formula for which may be found in the 
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toning by separate toning bath add % 


ounce of Eastman Solio Hardener to each 
gallon of fixing bath. This would likely 
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In a recent issue of REcrEATION I asked 
all such of my readers as are amateur pho- 
tographers and who do their own develop- 
ing and printing, to write me postal cards, 
stating that fact. Some hundreds of my 
good friends have taken the trouble to 
write letters in which they have answered 
that question, and in most cases they have 
also discussed other subjects. These let- 
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Can you give me a good formula for a 
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ANSWER. 
A good retouching varnish is made as fol- 
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Shellac: sé .iisd. Use +2 gs (pence 


Saridarde so ities i ete 0.2I ounce 
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The photograph printed on the front 
cover and again on page 339 of November 
RECREATION was made by Norman Pome- 
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the picture when he sent it to me, and 
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Developing 
~ by Machine. 


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The old theory that a negative can be successfully manipulated in 
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FRANK FARNER. 


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A dirty old crone, digging clams with her 

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THE MEDICINE ARROW. 
W. T. JONES. 


About a year ago I visited, with Dr. R. E. 
Stewart and Mr. Charles Newell, of this 
place, an old Indian village at the mouth 
of Rock creek, on the Columbia river, 
where there are yet a few lodges of the 
once great Klickitat tribe. 

Our purpose was to gather relics, arrow- 
heads, spearheads, stone pipes, mortars, 
pestles and other implements for the doc- 
tor’s collection. We reached the village at 
10 a. m. and found the Indians engaged in 
removing the remains of their dead an- 
cestors from the cairns of rock on the 
mountainside, where they had rested for 
generations, to a little cemetery on a slope 
overlooking the broad Columbia. 

The usual row raised by the dogs drew 
their attention and they greeted us .cor- 
dially, for Mr. Newell, who has employed 
many of them on the range, was long since 
made a Tyee, or chief, and is often called 
on to act as judge. His decisions are final 
and always respected; though from some of 
his rulings, as he recounted them to us, I 
should most certainly have appealed. Some 
of the Indians were digging the new graves, 
6 or 8 feet long and 2% to 3 feet wide, 
and nothing to go in them but pitiful little 
bundles of bones, mummified flesh and dust 
done up in rawhide. 

What Tyee Charlie says is law and gos- 
pel with the Klickitats, and after watching 
them a few minutes digging the tough 
gravel soil in the hot sun, he stopped them 
and said in Chinook, 

“This way is good and all right for Bos- 
ton men (Yankees) and King George men 
(English). They travel like the geese, 
ducks and cranes, all over the world. They 
die and one is buried here or there; but 
they are travelers, and when they come 
to Sah-a-le ty-ee ill-a-hee (heaven) they 
find each other easily. Klickatat Siwash 
are not so; they are born together, live to- 
gether, fish, hunt, fight and die together, 
and should be buried together. Then when 
they come to heaven, Sah-a-lee tyee Jesus 
will say, ‘Kla-how-ye Klickatat till-a-cums 
(How are you, my Klickatat people), and 
will give you a good wide range, where 
there is plenty of bunch grass and deep 
streams, and where salmon will run the 
year round.” 

Without a question they selected one of 
the largest graves and widening it into a 
long trench, were soon placing the bundles 
in side by side. In moving one of the bun- 
dles some of the small bones dropped out 
and with them a stone arrowhead of perfect 
shape and peculiar material. I helped re- 
place the bones, which I was told were 
those of Kam-ia-kan, a chief and an old 
time friend of Wa-ki-gas, one of the oldest 
men of the tribe, who was standing near 
I went to Wa-ki-gas and showing him the 
arrowhead asked if it had been buried for 
Kam-i-kan to use in heaven. He shook 
his: head and said: 

“Years ago, when I was a young man, 


Kam-ia-kan, who was much older and a — 
chief, led a band of young warriors to steal 
ponies from the Nez Perces, up on the Walla 
Walla. While hiding in the willows wait- 
ing to run off the pony band, a young Nez 
Perce squaw came to the river to comb her 
hair, using the placid surface of the water 
as a mirror. Before she was half done 
Kam-ia-kan decided that he needed another 
wife. He located the lodge where the 
squaw lived, and when his braves stampeded 
the pony herd that night, he rode to the 
door of the lodge, caught up the woman and 
swung her on his horse.. Then he fled with 
her toward the mountains, but making a 
wide detour came back to the river, where 
he had hidden another pony in the willows. 
He had little fear of being pursued, for 
the Nez Perces were following the pony 
herd, which was being run off by his band. 

“He stopped long enough to tie his cap- * 
tive on the led horse and to pull out the 
shaft of an arrow which had struck him 
in the short ribs as he turned from the 
lodge with his struggling captive. It was a 
medicine arrow, and using the painted and 
decorated shaft to urge on his horse he 
pushed down to the Columbia, which at 
that point is wide, but not rapid. He 
was feeling faint from loss of blood, but 
after untying the hands and feet of the 
squaw he forced his horses into the stream, 
and they swam for the other bank. The 
water, however, softened the blood-clot in 
his wound, and as they landed he fell faint- 
ing from his horse. His captive was a red 
skinned savage, but she was a woman; and 
like all her sisters, no matter of what 
color, she loved boldness in a wooer. Kam- 
ia-kan’s scalp, which her people had many 
times risked their lives trying to get, 
his bow, quiver, ornaments and _ ponies 
would have made her the envied of the 
Nez Perce nation; but she was a woman. 
She bound up his wound and bathed his 
temples until he partly revived. Then help- 
ing him on his pony, she climbed up behind 
and sustained him until they reached his 
village on Rock creek. 

“He is a brave warrior and I am a chief's 
daughter and proud of him,” was all she 
said as she stood there a stranger among a 
strange people. “Yes,” continued Wa-hi- 
gas, “this was the arrow that wounded him. 
It would not have hit him if he had made 
medicine for wife stealing, but he had made 
medicine only for horse stealing, and it was — 
a narrow escape.” 

Now Wa-hi-gas, like Kimiakan and his — 
captive bride, has gone to meet Sahale 
Tyee Jesus, who I sincerely trust has 
judged them mercifully and given them 
the range Tyee Charlie promised them. 










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XVi 


A DAY IN KINNEY COUNTY, TEXAS 


I am a teacher by profession, but spend 
much time camping in the woods. In this 
climate camping is at all times delightful, 
even in midwinter. The air is clear and 
bracing and the temperature moderate. 

Not long ago I went on a short trip to 
Blue Water hole. My outfit consisted of a 
horse and buggy, bedding and provisions 
for a 2 days’ trip. My companion was a 
boy, Aleck Wickham, about 14 years old. 

We left at 3.30 p. m. and arrived at Blue 
Water at 8 p. m,, after a drive of 22 miles. 
We struck camp on the banks of the hole, 
which is about 20 yards wide and 250 yards 
long, fringed with pecan and sycamore 
trees. Having eaten supper and fed our 
horse we walked up the dry bed of the 
stream to try to find turkeys on their roost. 
The moon was shining bright and the 
trees were bare of foliage. We had not 
proceeded over 300 yards when a sudden 
“put, put,” was heard 60 yards ahead, and 
out flew about 15 gobblers. I saw one still 
sitting in the tree; I fired and the turkey 
fell. We returned to camp and picked our 
gobbler. 

I was out again by daybreak, among the 
trees toward which the turkeys had flown 
the night before. I could not see nor hear 
anything of them for a long time. At 
last I saw, in a small live oak, what ap- 
peared a board lodged in the tree, but 
which had the general outlines of a turkey. 
I decided to hold my gun in readiness to 
shoot if the least motion was discernible. 
I stood motionless until what appeared to 
be the tail moved the least bit. In less 
than a second I had fired, and out fell an- 
other large turkey. 

Returning to camp I found Aleck had 
been fishing and had caught a few small 
perch and catfish, When the sun was 
about 2 hours high, I decided to try my 
luck at fishing. I put a trolling spoon 
on a small linen line and using an 18-foot 
cane rod, I made some spins across the 
water and found the silver trout* rising 
beautifully. The place was difficult to troll 
in on account of overhanging trees, but I 
kept Aleck busy stringing trout. I caught 
as many as he could well carry, one of the 
number being a 5% pounder. Others pulled 
the scales at 3 and 4 pounds. 

Leaving Aleck to stake this string near 
camp I walked ahead to a small lake 400 
yards lower, taking along my shot gun 
loaded with buck shot. As I reached 
the edge of the woods opening on the lake 
a yearling deer jumped from the edge of 
the water where he had been drinking. 
Before I had time to think, my gun was at 
my shoulder and the deer was dead. It 
fell within 15 feet of where I first saw it. 
I made a few spins in the lower lake and 
landed more trout, making 16 in all. Car- 
rying my fish and deer to camp, we put 
them in the buggy and started for home at 
2 p. m., arriving in time to supply several 
families with fish for supper. 

A. H. Horn, Brackettville, Texas. 


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' AROUND DOTSERO. 


I came to this place primarily to fin 
relief from asthma. In this I have bee 
successful, and, being an ardent lover o 
nature, have done nothing but hunt, fish 
and ramble over the hills and through th 
canyons. 

The friend with whom I am staying say 
deer, elk and other game animals, are 
scarce now; but I think we can accoun 
for his opinion from the fact that he came 
to this section 15 or 18 years ago, whe 
deer roamed at will over the river bot 
toms and elk could be seen in bands of 
400 or 500. To my mind conditions are 
at present, more favorable for genuine 
sport than they would be were deer anc 
elk as plentiful as formerly, for in th 
case no skill at all would be required 
secure them. 

For elk one must now go 20 or 25 mile 
from Dotsero, though deer can be hac 
within a mile of the village. Only a fev 
days since 6 or 8 passed along a hill neo 
half a mile distant, and in full view of the 
place. There are mountain sheep withir 
5 or 6 miles, but these the law protects 2a 
all times. Lions are scarce in the imme 
diate vicinity. Have seen but few tracks 
this winter, one being exceptionally larg 
Two lions were taken near Gypsum, 
miles above, some weeks ago. 

Bear, like elk, are some distance away. 
though tracks were seen this fall on Onior 
ridge, 4 or 5 miles from here. About Deep 
lake are several bear, and one in particule 
has attracted attention. Men who have 
seen his tracks say they are the larg 
est they have ever run across; indeed, 
bruin himself has been seen by severa 
persons, who say the tracks are not decep 
tive. 

Of smaller animals, wildcats and coy 
otes are numerous; beaver and otter scar 
Ducks, mostly mallards, are plentiful on 
Grand river, and a few geese were here 
a while. Grouse are abundant about Sweet 
water lake, Coffee Pot and other places. 

Trout abound in all the streams and 
lakes. 

Colorado has strict game laws, but they 
are broken frequently, as are those of othe 
States. 

To one desiring recreation and spo 
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the Baden of America, one of the most 
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lakes there are many. Deep, Sweetwater 
Marvine and Wappers are all typical 
mountain lakes, with clear, cold water, 
well stocked with trout, and comparatively 
easy of access. Then, too, there are many 
mountain streams, also filled with trout. 


L. D. Gilmore, Dotsero, Colo. 


“T’m glad to see that you respect you 
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“T’ve got to. Either one of them could 
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I will give a neat barrel match safe mount- 
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free of cost. 

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My experience with Peters’ shells has 
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zle so tightly that I had to use a reamer 
to get it out. I am certain had I shot the 
gun in that condition it would have burst. 
I find a great deal of smoke comes out 
around the primers of Peters’ shells. The 
shells are unevenly loaded and stick in 
the breach. 

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I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains, at 


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ganized a hunting club of 20 members and 
go into camp for 15 days in November. In 
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see that they are enforced. 
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TO ANY PERSON SENDING ME 


TWO new yearly subscriptions to RECREATION 
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MRS. FRANK C. ROBINSON. 


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In pleasure and sorrow too. 


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~ No, Mother, nothing was wanted. 
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A SIOUX LEGEND. 
SHANNON BRUCE. 


Before the Sioux or Mandan, 
Before each roving band 
Of Ute, or Cree or Blackfoot 
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Ruth Wakeman, Sun Prairie, Wis. 


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York Times. 


GASOLINE ENGINES and LAUNCHES 


Self-Starting 


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XXXVI RECREATION. 


























““Bristol’’ 


Calendar 


THIS illustration gives but a faint 
idea of our beautiful calendar, which 
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when you wanta fishing rod be sure to 
geta‘“* BRISTOL.” Sold by ail dealers. 
Calendar sent to any address on receipt 
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cost of mailing provided you mention 
this magazine. 

Ask for Catalog ‘D,’’ describing 25 
styles of “‘ Bristol’’ Steel Fishing Rods 
* —it is free. 

tHE BRIS TOUSTEEL ROD DID TT ~ a or" 


WITH THE YOUNG LADYS MD oor ’ Ghe Horton Mfg. Co. 
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One dry battery will last 3 months and costs only 30 cents. 
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rtcad imoney ooeer. B. L. SCOTT 
23 West 24th Street, NEW YORK. 


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Shot gun cleaning rod, three attachments, 
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Micrometer powder and shot measure, 
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U. S. Government rifle cleaner, any cali- 
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A duck, snipe or turkey call, sells for 75 
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A hand painted sporting picture, suitable 
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Date, 


190 


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RECREATION. XXXix 





WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN, 


Henry A. Castle, auditor for the Post 
Office Department, shows an annual short- 
age of half a million dollars or more in the 
money order system. The opposition to the 
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sentiment becomes sufficiently aroused to 
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subject. Letters to congressmen from their 
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Gazette, Janesville, Wis. 


Citizens should request their representa- 
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I have what I consider the best all 
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The 38-55 is a famous target rifle, and 
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number of fence rails, I to 1% inches in 
thickness, side by side. High pressure pow- 
der drove a metal cased bullet through 
40% inches; low pressure. through 214%. I 
should like to know if any other reader of 
RECREATION has a gun like the one de- 


scribed. 
F. N. Hack, Baltimore, Md. 


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We have a good many rabbits, a few 
squirrels, and fewer quails and_ grouse. 
Hunters hereabout use ferrets and kill ev- 
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winter and got about 25. 

R. O. Chester, Climax, Mich. 





“Miss Spinster doesn’t grow old very 
fast; she’s been 30 for the past 3 years.” 
“Sort of a 30-30 repeater, eh?” 





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Satisfactory to you or money back from the 
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Game is scarce in this part of the Cats- 
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red and gray squirrels, also some coons, 
but that is about all. My father owns land 
here on which he has over 60 tame Ger- 
ee and Tuxedo deer. They multiply rap- 
idly. . 
Jerry Zweighaft, Haines Falls, N. Y. 





Game is plentiful here. I go out when I 
have time and get 4 or 5 ducks or prairie 
chickens. There are lots of moose, elk, 
deér and bear in Duck mountains, North 
of here, and in Riding mountains, West. 

A. W. Brosseau, Grand View, Man. 





Eva DAE W el FOX 


1123 BROADWAY 


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TAILOR AND IMPORTER 


I refer by permission to the editor of RECREATION 


xliv RECREATION. 


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ishing? 


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Goods and much matter of interest 


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A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 


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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER PAGE, 
Imagine the Thrill of J umping Over Stumps, Rocks and Other Obstacles on a Narrow Trail! FRONTISPIECE 
Hunting White Goats in the Selkirks.... .....-..--..--.eeeceeeee eee cette eeeeee es ELEANOR SCHAVO.R 85 
Photographing i iri 2G STIG TS TEMICIDE,\  VIUMSCTOUOU » sais sceis «Salen ace Sead e clare cisibegeindece G.O.SHIELDS 89 
ue SEMA MERRY Of ENG Wem Ferde WAL. 6 nice. <2 52-5 esse ccc cees yap nniy Seng seeeseeess sees H.B.NoRTON 99 
BIBMANG,  POCM. coon oc cvs cece ceein cece ccccusmmscnseccssecseesvcrnseceseee ~cetceesscvcess EMMA G. CurRTIS 10: 
OE TERRE EP nist cles wo. nciWinlw e)dwil w'c's bsp Bae SPIN Vin iale Ou wiba on vatmere asain Meee eran s ..A,A. BRIGGS 103 
ee SONS OL Git 515 re ie aula aii ap a Benia das had itss odéde od vee heemns cos GEORGE E. WINKLER 104 
I DRM re Cece BO ucice duc tos win dk hc co doe anetteysndeeests F. W.PorRTER 105 
Ee fae io ee oe oe eee a ae ee te oe ot wiacaaameaes penae s E.W. PARKER 107 
ARS RIES CL rch ts cs at wae ckp mi bcnt checuvacacisebeec gvacde tenia JEANNETTECAMPBELL 18 
eR REMMNPEL MRE URIUMIBCL ORME tse PO Ge dais cies ag oped xv can Bieta ones waded ae acta oma Sel nie a Miss M.L.SuTTON 1c9 
NT MERU TN TR Mees ohn hoa os 0! (enw vines don Wes ce nig Wah ade hole cueese gcc Pept peancessaseoee: STUBB 111 
The Haunted Mountain.................... fa wee sic ate Bae oe i SN a ee ae MoOsES THOMPSON, JR. 113 
ANN SN Mie coc, ig eas<s. yh ances wvveduebeas twp tnce denevicn s Howarpb W. BELL 115 
Hiawatha. Poem.. ot VEU Es Rae ee oe oP ee ee Be A pe a RN RE SIC Sey aE --JABOX 117 
The Hudson Bay Company - ES ee Kien Sree BO ae) Pag eas wasn se eoien yak ene Ss. rt PAppocK 1:8 
a ENDS dds sis Saren Pukey s clduies ab avces <, odannwostecatdes steeu- GRANT WALLACE 120 ., 
ee ee ER, Sle Dl ola Sagnion ahs lei) © On aese vhded s: wicdewueneetwe'e eo GoLp Dust 122 
UN ENN ks Ce ics acess Masi « apa ana na alae oosecs ab sucess duos ew ne (he R. J. Lone 123 
ER arena (© Reeve i>. ce ERcineon A pha page's One t> nancns ob adsactccteses Hut sary G. A. MACK 125 
From the Game Fields........................: ee: <3 RR Se ar eee Pee tore ISI 
PM IMMER isso shone asec es. pce ncceeees 133 Pure and Impure Foods........------------+++-: 154 
Guns and Ammunition.......................6:. 137. Publisher’s Notes....-.----.----- YP OL 
DRMEMEME MEGMEOEWosececoccve decuesc--. +. ecancnice 143 Weir 6. COTROT oss oes 6 oa cet cas Scneec tae Ese > Oe 
The League of American Sportsmen........... 147. Amateur Photography---....- ee re 


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ON A NARROW TRAIL! 
84 





RECREA TION 


Volume XX. 


FEBRUARY, 1904 


Number 2 


G. 0. SHIELDS (COQUINA), Editor and Manager 


HUNTING WHITE GOATS IN THE SELKIRKS. 


ELEANOR SCHAVOIR. 


In planning our annual hunting trip 
for the fall of 1902, my husband, Doc- 
tor Schavoir, and I decided to entrust 
matters to Mr. W. H. Wright, of 
Spokane, Wash., whose acquaintance 
we had made at the Sportsman’s Show 
in New York. An editorial in the 
September number of RECREATION de- 
scribes Mr. Wright’s qualifications, 
and we both endorse every word said 
in his praise. We started from New 
York City for British Columbia Au- 
gust 17 and reached New Denver, 
B. C., Friday, August 23. A prettier 
place can hardly be imagined, and it 
is properly called the Luzerne of 
America. Slocan lake is a magnifi- 
cent sheet of water, abounding in pic- 
turesque shore scenery. Fishing is 
excellent, trout of 5 different varieties 
being numerous and easily taken. 

At New Denver we made up our 
outfit, consisting of 6 pack and 4 sad- 
die horses. On striking the trail, the 
difficulties of hunting in the moun- 
tains were brought home to me at 
once, and I became convinced that it 
would be no child’s play to obtain 
game in such a wild region. The dwel- 
lers in a flat country can never 
imagine what traveling -in the moun- 
tains means. The trail was never more 
than 2 feet wide; in some places not 
half of that. On one side a steep cliff 
arose, while a bottomless pit yawned 
on the other, and a stout heart or long 
habit is required to retain calmness. 
If only the trail had been clear and 
unobstructed our hardships would 
have been less; but the storms of win- 
ter and the snow slides of spring had 
played havoc with it, and many a 


85 


weary wait did we have while Mr. 
Wright cleared away tree trunks 
lodged across our path. With his 
usual luck, my husband got the quieter 
horse, which stepped carefully over 
obstructions; while my mount, with 
probably a life's ambition to become 
a steeplechaser, persisted in clearing 
everything with a bound. Imagine 
the thrill of jumping over stumps, 
rocks and other obstacles on a nar- 
row trail! However, the brave little 
horse always landed on his feet and 
the trail at the same time, and as he 
seemed indifferent to my feelings I 
concluded I might as well let him have 
his own way. After a while I grew so 
accustomed to that style of locomotion 
that I began to notice the scenery, and 
it was grand, indeed. Glaciers and 
enormous mountains surrounded us in 
all directions, a wild, rushing torrent 
dashed at our feet, and beautiful 
wocds grew all around us. 

We covered 32 miles in that fash- 
ion, and arrived in the afternoon of 
the second day at a charming spot 
about 7,000 feet above sea level. Dur- 
ing the last 12 miles of our ascent the 
trail was conspicuous by its absence. 
In crossing a stream I tried to follow 
Mr. Wright, who descended the bank 
by clinging to some alder brush in 
order tc choose a place for us to cross. 
Feeling sure, after what I had seen, 
that a horse can go where a man has 
passed, I rode to the bank and slid 
down about 20 feet to the river bed. 
Mr. Wright was startled, and both he 
and I motioned to my husband not to 
follow. He, however, imagining that 
I had slid down the bank for a dare, 


86 RECREATION. 


with characteristic masculine obsti- 
nacy forced his horse to the brink, and 
luckily got down without mishap. It 
did not take more than half an hour 
to pitch our camp, and we were com- 
fortably established in our tents, hard- 
ly realizing that we were settled for 
some time. Mr, Wright's contrivances 
to promote our comfort were a con- 
stant source of agreeable surprise to 
us. Our large tent took on an air of 
home which can not be appreciated by 
anyone who has not camped out in a 
howling wilderness, miles from any 
human habitation. 

Another factor to make our stay 
pleasant was our good cook, Casteel. 
He was a prize. How he concocted 
the many tempting dishes he served 
us, with the material at hand, was a 
never ending wonder to us, and right 
well did we enjoy our meals. 

Our first night in camp was rather 
startling, owing to the neighborliness 
of the porcupines which inhabit that 
country. A delegation of them waited 
on us in the small hours of the morn- 
ing, evidently bent on investigating 
our social status. None of my lady 
acquaintances was ever so inquisitive 
as these porcupines. Nothing belong- 
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had failed to leave the tent flaps open, 
our visitors gnawed holes in the sides 
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of that shooting. Exasperated, and 
at his wit’s end, the Doctor turned the 
gun around and clubbed Mr. Quilly 


on the head. There my brave de- 
fender’s aim proved more satisfactory, 
and the invader of our happy home 
was ejected as a corpse without fur- 
ther ceremony. Two fox terriers, 
which accompanied us, and which 
kindly consented to share our tents 
and beds, did their best thereafter to 
keep porcupines at a respectful dis- 
tance. Their efforts. were met by 
a blank refusal to keep off. When 
the dogs tried to back their arguments 
by attacking the unwelcome visitors, 
they got their hides full of quills, and 
it was my daily as well as nightly duty 
to extract the barbed torments from 
the faces, chests and flanks of our 
faithful canines. 

The second day Mr. Wright started 
on an exploring trip, and on his return 
late in the afternoon reported that he 
had seen a number of fresh bear signs 
and workings. He also brought in 
the cheering news that he had met a 
large number of porcupines, all headed 
for our camp. Not having more than 
a case of ammunition on hand, the 
Doctor concluded to try clubbing the 
invaders, and during a 2 weeks’ stay 
27 victims were thus dispatched. 
There seems to be no other way, un- 
less one is willing to have all his be- 
longings chewed up. We were told 
the adventure of one hunter who had 
the brim of his hat chewed off by a 
porcupine while taking an afternoon 
nap in the sun. This tale we might 
have taken with a grain of salt had 
not our own experience convinced us 
of its probability. 

During the next few days we saw 
several small groups of mountain 
goats near the crests of the surround- 
ing mountains, and it was decided that 
we should try our luck on them. Ac- 
cordingly we started one fine morning, 
shortly after breakfast. Our estimat- 
ing of the distance which we would 
have to go and the time in which we 
thought we could do it elicited a know- 
ing wink between Mr. Wright and 
Casteel; and the climb took about 3 
times as long as we had expected. It 


HUNTING WHITE GOATS IN THE SELKIRKS. 87 


was a laborious undertaking and dan- 
gerous, for a misstep or a slip might 
have proved disastrous to life and 
limb. There was a crust of snow 
which made the going more risky, but 
we all reached the summit safe. 

Some strategy was necessary to ap- 
proach our quarry, but Mr. Wright 
was fully equal to the occasion. He 
posted us 
of goats, and after taking a needed 
breathing spell, we approached our 
game. When within about 250 yards 
we each selected a specimen, and fired 
at the same time. Both shots proved 
effective, and we watched the re- 
mainder of the flock flee in all direc- 
tions. The Doctor could not resist 
the temptation to try for another kill, 
and the way bullets flew around that 
mountain peak must have been a good 
imitation of the storming of San Juan 
hill. Another luckless goat became a 
victim of this fusillade, though if every 
shot had proven a hit not one goat 
would be left in that region. 

Mr. Wright and I watched the 
striking of the Doctor’s bullets, and 
both noticed that nearly every shot 
was low. When the Doctor’s nerves 
had quieted sufficiently for him to hear 
what was said, we called his attention 
to the low shots. He explained to us 
that he had read in Van Dyke’s works 
on deer hunting how shots fired from 
above would always pass over the ani- 
mal fired at. He had therefore fired 
low deliberately and in good faith. 
This was fortunate for the goats, but 
considerably shook the Doctor’s faith 
in hunting by the book. 

We dragged the carcasses to a con- 
venient spot, where we took off the 
heads and skins. Then began the 
hardest part of the day’s work, the 
descent. Going up was laborious and 


directly over a small troop 


dangerous; going down was twice as 
hard. Burdened as we were with our 
trophies, we had to proceed with the 
utmost caution. When within 1,000 
yards from our camping ground, we 
had to pass through an alder thicket. 
Suddenly I heard a grunt, a snort and 
a breaking of sticks, not 20 feet to my 
left. My first impression was that the 
Doctor had lost his footing and was 
rolling down the hill. However, the 
grunt was in a lower key than I was 
used to, and presently Mr. Wright 
said I had jumped a grizzly. Un- 
fortunately the brush was so dense 
that I could not see the bear, which 
we could hear tearing through the 
bushes as if he had some pressing 
business in the next county. 

We reached our tents late in the 
afternoon and devoted our attention 
to a square meal, followed by a bliss- 
ful sleep, which not even a porcupine 
could disturb. 

There are many grizzlies in that 
country but the jungle is so dense 
and the land so absolutely on edge 
that it is simply impossible to stalk 
them. Another hunter, who was in 
there with Wright ahead of us, said, 
after a day of hard climbing and pros- 
pecting of the many signs, 

“Why, Wright, there will be bears 
here 100 years from to-day.” 

Our trophies are now ornamenting 
our house, together with moose, cari- 
bou and deer heads, which we have 
taken on former hunts. Never did I 
enjoy a hunting expedition more, and 
never did I bear hardships with great- 
er cheerfulness, for the finest sport is 
to be had in those glorious mountains, 
and well deserved is a trophy when 
obtained in that grand and rugged 
country. 


Before marriage men pay compliments; 
after marriage, bills.—Life. 





GLACIER CREEK CHASM. 


See page 97. 


88 


PHOTOGRAPHING IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. 


G. O SHIELDS. 


A friend of mine who is an expert pho- 
tographer often comes to me, when about 
to start on a hunting or fishing or photo- 
graphing trip, and says: 

“Shields, if you will tell me what kind of 
pictures you would like for Recreation, I 
will make you a lot of them.” 

I tell him I want such pictures as sports- 
men and naturalists like to see in their fa- 
vorite magazine. Then this man makes his 
trip, comes home .and reports that he did 
not find anything he thought I would care 
for, and so did not make any pictures for 
RECREATION. 

The trouble is, he does not know how to 
select subjects. He travels with his eyes 
shut. He lacks the true artist’s instinct. 
He does not seem to see the thousands of 
things which he passes and which, if pho- 
tographed, would make interesting illustra- 
tions for this magazine. So it is with 
many other people. Fortunately, there are 
still others who do carry their eyes with 
them, as well as their cameras, and who 
send me the results of their photographic 
efforts. Thus I am enabled to present my 
readers each month with many interesting 
and valuable pictures. 


I always dislike to publish my own work, 
either literary or photographic, in REcrE- 
ATION; but in some instances it seems nec- 
essary to make exceptions to this rule. In 
my travels in British Columbia and AI- 
berta, last summer, I found hundreds of 
subjects that it seemed to me would inter- 
est readers of RECREATION, so I made a 
great number of pictures, a few of which 
appear in connection with this article, and 
some of which may appear in future issues 
of RECREATION. 

I could have made thousands of views 
of mountain scenery, but as a rule these 
are not what the general reader cares to 
see in a magazine. I was among the high 
peaks 3 months, and while I never tired of 
looking at them; while I never ceased to 
wonder at their grandeur; while every day 
and every change in the lights and shadows 
of the day or the night brought out new 
beauties in those giant seritinels, yet 
mere photographs of them would _ not 
inspire magazine readers as they do the 
traveler on the spot. A peak that tow- 
ers 4,000 or 5,000 feet above your camp; 
that pierces the clouds, and from which 
glacial ice may be tumbling at all hours of 





WHERE OLD FPHRAIM GOT HIS DINNER. 
89 





A DEAD SPRUCE AT TIMBER LINE, 


the day and night, looks tame when pic- 
tured on a printed page. A lake that 
sparkles in the noonday light and glimmers 
in the rays of a full moon, or that reflects 
the myriads of stars in the milky way, or 
that pictures in its silent depths the mighty 
walls of granite, and glaciers, and snow 
slides, and rock slides; or a river that 
runs white over big boulders, and that 


99 


is guarded on either shore by giant 
firs, spruces or pines, loses much of its 
grandeur and much of its beauty when 
transferred to the sensitive film. Yet there 
are thousands of smaller objects, and even 
many large ones, that can be caught on a 
5x7 plate, and that may interest and in- 
struct millions of people when reproduced. 

I labored under great difficulties last 


PHOTOGRAPHING IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. gt! 


summer. During the 90 days I was in the 
mountains there were 76 days on which it 
either rained or snowed, some part of the 
day. Frequently it rained all day, and 
there were only 4 days in the entire 3 
months when the sun shone all day; yet 
there were many days when the sun would 
peep out for an hour at a time, between 
showers. There were gray days, when, 
though the clouds were thick, the light was 
even and steady. We had high winds a 
great deal of the time. There was fog 
hanging about us at least 60 of the 90 days; 
but by watching my opportunities, grab- 
bing the camera and running whenever the 


photographed, and written about, and lec- 
tured about for 50 years; so I need say lit- 
tle of them here. 

Still, a big glacier is a great institution. 
It is a grand subject for the amateur pho- 
tographer, and it is a good thing to have in 
the family, especially in summer. If I only 
had a few glaciers in New York I’d bust 
the ice trust wide open. 


One day in July I climbed a high peak, 
at the foot of which flows the North Fork 
of the Saskatchewan. Near the summit of 
this peak there is a level spot of land, cov- 
ered with moss and junipers. An old griz- 





SOURCE OF THE MACKENZIE RIVER. 


rain did cease, I was enabled to get 
many good pictures. I am no more ener- 
getic than other men; I simply watched for 
subjects and opportunities. I saw many 
things that had a picturesque, or a scientific 
interest, yet that many other men would 
pass over without really looking at or 
thinking of in connection with the 
camera. I flitted about more or less along 
timber line, that is, the belt around each 
high mountain where timber ceases to grow 
and where the bare, rocky walls begin to 
tower. There I found many strange things 
in the way of trees and shrubs which I pho- 
tographed, and a few of which are shown 
on these pages. More of them may be 
shown in a future article. I explored sev- 
eral glaciers and made a number of views 
of them, more as souvenirs of the trip, and 
for my own album, than for any other pur- 
pose. Glaciers have been explored, and 


zly had been there some months before me, 
probably in search of choice food, and had 
apparently discovered the den of a family 
of marmots. He had forthwith proceeded 
to dig them out and eat them. He cer- 
tainly earned his dinner before he got it. 
He had made the largest and most remark- 
able excavation I have ever known a bear 
to make. I measured the hole carefully 
and photographed it, and the picture is 
shown herewith; yet it does not convey 
to the eye or to the mind of the reader a 
proper appreciation of the great task this 
old plantigrade performed. The hole is 
5% feet deep at the center, 10% feet wide 
and 12 feet 8 inches long. The earth is al- 
most as hard up there as concrete; but 
Old Ephraim had the courage of his con- 
victions and a big appetite. He had, there- 
fore, torn into the earth like a steam ex- 
cavator. He had thrown out probably a 





A STUDY IN CLOUDS. 


carload of earth and rocks, some of the 
latter more than a foot in diameter, and 
some that would weigh 200 to 300 pounds 
each. While it is impossible to photograph 
a hole in the ground satisfactorily, yet I 
would not have been without my camera 
that day for $100. 


ss ie ng a 


lose much of their grandeur in being re- 
duced to the narrow limits of the photo- 
graphic film; yet they are always interest- 
ing subjects for a fine lens. 


Readers of RECREATION know that the 
world has frequently been startled by re- 


A eH So heme Rae peat, 


. Saag - MS a te oe aes ee Rs ey 





We were treated to some of the grandest 
exhibitions of cloud building I have ever 
seen anywhere, and I made a dozen pic- 
tures of the great banks of fog as they 
came up over the mountains. These, in 
common with the mountains themselves, 


92 


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A LAKE AMONG THE CLOUDS. 


ports of the discovery, in various places in 
the West, of an ibex. We found one 
near one of our camps, among the high 
tops. That is, we found what many a man 
would have called an ibex, without making 
a thorough investigation. Here is a pic- 





READY MADE TOMB STONES. 


ture of him. However, on close examina- 
tion he proved to be simply 2 sprouts that 
had grown up from the root of a fallen 
tree and died and shed their leaves. It 
happened that the root of the tree had been 
burned and a remaining bit of charcoal 
formed what appeared to be the animal’s 
right eye. A piece of another sprout that 
had been broken off furnished a good imi- 
tation of an ear, and, viewed through the 
brush, the outfit looked very like a real 
ibex. 

Many a so-called hunter would have 
plunked a bullet at such an apparition, and 





THE ONLY AMERICAN IBEX. 


then have gone to camp and told the boys 
how he had shot at an ibex, and hit it be- 
tween the eyes, but that when he went up 
to it, it proved to be only a root of an old 
tree. There are other hunters who would 
have plunked a bullet 4 feet to one side of 


it, or over it, or under it, and would still 
have told the other fellows how they hit it 
between the eyes. I know certain tender- 
feet who would have fled from so formid- 
able a looking beast, at sight, and rushed 
into camp wildly excited and told the boys 
between gasps, how they had seen an ibex, 
and that it dashed into the brush and es- 
caped before they could get a shot at it. 





IMAGINARY DEER HORNS. 


This picture shows about as good a speci- 
men of the real ibex as has probably ever 
been found on this continent; yet a well 
known British Columbia sportsman told me 
2 months ago that he firmly believed there 
were plenty of ibexes in a certain remote 





ALL SNUG AT SPRAY LAKE. 


part of Alaska at that time. He said he 
had been assured of this fact by men who 
had seen them and whose word he could 
not doubt. I asked him how he accounted 
for the fact that though white men and In- 
dians had hunted in Alaska a hundred 
years, not a single head or skin of an ibex 
had ever been brought out? He shook his 
head, but said he still thought there must 
be living specimens of this animal up there. 


I saw on my travels several upturned 
roots that furnished excellent imitations of 
deer horns, elk horns, sheep horns or goat 
horns. We have all been fooled by such 
formations, and many of us have wasted 
cartridges on them. I photographed sev- 
eral of these imitation antlers, simply to 
show how easy it is for even an old hunter 
to be duped when he has his imagination 
with him. 


At our farthest point North we camped 


94 


on a high summit on which one branch of 
the Mackenzie river rises. There is 
a meadow of several hundred acres, which 
has in it a number of springs and these 
combining form one branch of what is 
known as the Sun Capta river. This flows 
into the Athabasca; the Athabasca into 
Great Slave lake, and the outlet of that 
into the Mackenzie. So, strictly speaking 
the little brook flawing out of the meadow 
on the margin on which we camped, and 
which is shown in the picture, eventually 
finds its way through the Mackenzie into 
the Arctic ocean. The altitude of this 
meadow is 9,000 feet, and some of the 
peaks in the immediate vicinity rise 4,000 
to 5,000 feet higher. One can step across 
the little brook, shown in the picture, but 
2 miles farther down it, a horse would 
have hard work to step across it in half an 
hour. The Sun Capta is fed by glaciers 
at frequent intervals. Consequently, it 


PHOTOGRAPHING IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. 95 


spreads rapidly over vast deposits of gla- 
cial mud and gravel, and is one of the most 
treacherous streams to ford that may be 
found anywhere in the great North. 


Usually a picture of a camp contains lit- 
tle of general interest. It is only valuable 
to the people who shared in the luxury of 
it, who loitered within its shades, who sat- 
isfied their voracious appetites about its 
festal board. There are camps, however, 


which have something of general interest 
in them, and we made one such at Spray 
lake, 30 miles from Banff. Our tent was 
10 feet wide and 20 feet long, with a 5 foot 


practical purposes, as you would find in 
the Waldorf Hyphen Castoria hotel. We 
built good substantial bedsteads out of 
poles. I built an easy chair, which is 
shown in front of the tent, and over which 
I spreal a piece of canvas that I carried 
along for the purpose. We built a frame 
for the tent, so as to dispense with the 
center poles at each end, and to make the 
tent so rigid and strong that it would re- 
sist the high winds. We had a stove in 
the tent, and when the cold rains came we 
closed the flap, built a fire and bade defi- 
ance to the other elements. 





MORE TOMB STONES. 


wall. We were to occupy this camp Io 
days, so we proceeded at once to make it 
comfortable. Wright built a table that 
was a masterpiece of construction, in its 
line. He cut down a pine tree about 8 
inches in diameter, cut off 2 sections of it, 
each about 6 feet in length, split them, 
and dressed each face with an adze 
and a jack plane. Then he flattened the 
round sides at the ends, so as to nail them 
on 2 cross pieces. To these he attached 
legs. Thus he had a smooth, level surface 
for the top, about 30 inches wide and 6 
feet long. We spread a sheet of black oil 
cloth over it and had as good a table, for 


I therefore thought it worth while to 
photograph this tent and to show a picture 
of it to the readers of RECREATION. 


On a high plateau, at an altitude of 9,050 
feet, I found some bunches of limestone 
that had been pushed up through the soil 
in a most peculiar fashion. Some of the 
slabs were a foot wide and 3 to 4 feet long, 
with perfectly even edges, carrying their 
width and their thickness throughout, as 
accurately as if they had been carved by a 
marble cutter. Others were 3 to 4 inches 
wide, 2 to 3 inches thick and over 3 feet 
long. What the motive power was that 


THE REMAINS OF TWYFORD’S BONFIRE. 


forced them up in this peculiar fashion on 
this level ground, and which cut or split 
them so evenly, no one knows, but they 
are there and here you see images of them. 


We found on Wilcox’s pass a dead and 
blackened spruce tree to which hangs a 
tale. You can not see it yet, but I will un- 
fold it, so you may read it, thus: 

In 1899, one Henry Twyford, an English- 
man, camped within too feet of where this 
tree stands. He had visited that country 
for the purpose of hunting sheep. One day 
he went over the Divide, 4 or 5 miles from 
this point, found a bunch of sheep and 
killed 2 of them. He returned to camp 
feeling jubilant, and after dinner that night 
proceeded to celebrate by setting fire to the 
dead under branches of the fir tree. They 
were as dry as tinder and burned like a 
kerosene barrel. They created such a heat 
that the flames leaped up through the green 
branches and consumed the foliage as if it 


had been chaff. 





RECREATION. 


As soon as the fire got fairly started, Mr. 
Twyford and his guide discovered, to their 
horror, that the wind blew directly from 
the tree toward camp. ‘The air was filled 
with thousands of sparks, which descended 
on the camp like hail on a Dakota wheat- 
field. The dry grass and moss about the 
tree were at once ignited and the fire start- 
ed toward the tents; slowly, as good 
luck had it, but surely. The nearest 
water was a little creek some 200 yards 
away, and the only vessels the party had to 
carry water in were 3 little pails which held 
about 2 quarts each. They grabbed these 
and lit out for the creek, hitting only the 
high places. In the darkness these got in 
the way of their feet, and each man tumbled 
end over’end several times before reaching 
the creek. They took water and _ then 
walked slowly and carefully back to the 
conflagration. They sprinkled the water 
deftly and frugally about with their hands, 
checking the fire slightly, but the little 
pails were soon empty. Then each man 
had to make another dash for the creek. 
Meantime, though the fire was checked in 
one place, it’ spread in another, and time 
and again the beleaguered campers thought 
it was all off with them; that their outfit 
would be burned in spite of them and that 
the fire would destroy thousands of acres 
of adjacent forest besides. The laws of 


that country provided a fine of $300 for 


NATURAL PIPE WRENCHES. 





A CONVENTION OF FREAKS, 


starting a forest fire, intentionally or other- 
wise. The hard hearted, prosaic law mak- 
ers had not even made an exception in 
case of a man who kills a sheep and wants 
to celebrate the event. Visions of fire war- 
dens, sheriffs, policemen, judges and pvison 
bars lent the wings of Mercury to the feet 
of the water carriers, wherever and when- 
ever they could get a chance to run. The 
fight was kept up until 2 o’clock in the 
morning, when the fire was finally brought 
under control, before it reached the 
camp. Then an inventory was made of the 
damage. It was found that though the tent 
was still able to stand, there were over 
200 holes in it and that blankets, pack 
covers and robes were more or less dam- 
aged by sparks; but the mighty Nimrod 
had saved his mutton and had celebrated 
the killing of his first and second mountain 
sheep. 

I might cover 20 pages of RECREATION 
with descriptions and pictures of odd things 
I found in our travels; but I must stop and 
leave room for better stuff which my 
friends have sent me. 


While in camp at Spray lake, we gath- 
ered up a lot of freak growths of timber, 
carried them to camp, set them up and 
photographed them. Two of these are al- 
most exactly alike. Each one shows the 
result of a tree 4 or 5 inches in diameter, 
having fallen on a young spruce that was 


97 


probably an inch thick and bent it down to 
the ground. The sprout grew up, finaily 
taking a half turn around the pole which 
lay across it, and forming almost an exact 
model of a plumber’s pipe wrench. These 
2 spruces are each about 8 inches in diame- 
ter and the stratification of the wood shows 
they are at least 40 years old. The saplings 
must therefore have fallen across them 40 
years ago and both are still in a good state 
of preservation. 


The creek that flows from the great Bow 
glacier into Bow lake, has cut a narrow 
chasm through a solid wall of limestone, 
nearly 50 feet deep, and yet so narrow that 
one can step across it at the top. I climbed 
down to the level of the creek at one point 
and got a picture looking up through it. I 
focussed at 30 feet and by stopping the lens 
down to 128 f. was able to get good de- 
tail in both foreground and background. 
The small spruce shrub on top of the rock, 
shown in the center of the picture, was 
at least 60 feet away, yet is perfectly sharp. 
An interesting feature of the photograph is 
the exquisite lighting. The picture was 
made when the sun was directly overhead. 
and the rays strike projecting points on 
the rock here and there, all through the 
chasm, thus showing the weird, rugged for- 
mation of the walls. 


I trust I have shown pictures enough 
here to give many of my readers valuable 


98 RECREATION. 

















tographers. It was placed on the market a 
year ago, and while thousands of amateurs 
are now enthusiastic in its praise, there are 
still some experts who claim that no one 
can do good work with it under all condi- 
tions; but this latest device of the East- 
man factory has knocked many of the old 
photographic theories sky high. For in- 
stance, it has always been supposed that 
snap shots should be given more time in 
development than time exposures ; that nega- 
tives made under certain conditions require 
entirely different treatment from those made 





STRANGE MOUNDS ON THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, 


hints as to what they may find if they go 
into the woods or the mountains or even on 
the prairies, carry their cameras with them 
and if they travel with their eyes open. You 
may not find exactly the same kind of 
things, but you may find a lot better things 
for pictures. You need not go to wild, in- 
accessible places to find novelties or ob- 
jects of artistic or scientific interest. I 
never walk a mile in Jersey or in New 
York or in Pennsylvania, or in any other 
State, without wishing I had my camera 
along, or without using it, if I have it. 


Many of you have no doubt been won- 
dering what camera and what lens I use. 
It is only fair to the makers of these instru- 
ments which did me such good service that 
their names should be made known to you. 
These names are household words through- 
out the civilized world. I use a 5x7 East- 
man Cartridge Kodak and Eastman films. 
This box is fitted with a Goerz double 
anastigmat lens and a Goerz shutter. The 
machine was mounted on a Goerz aluminum 
tripod, which weighs only 2 pounds. 

I also carried with me an Eastman de- 
veloping machine, and this proved one of 
the greatest luxuries that modern ingenuity 
has provided for the use of amateur pho- 


He: 


under other conditions. Theoretically, this 
may be true enough, but I developed sev- 
eral rolls of films that had on them some 
exposures made with the lens wide open 
and the shutter working at 1-100th of a 
second; others with the lens stopped down 
to 128 and in exposures timed at 10 to 20 
seconds each. Such rolls, placed in the 
developing machine and ground out with 
careful attention to printed instructions, 
brought out all the negatives with equal 
fidelity to nature. Most of the pictures re- 
produced in this article are the result of 
time exposures, with the smallest stop; yet 
some of the others are from snap shots. 
The proof of the pudding is in eating it, 
and I frankly admit I could not have 
got better results on any of my plates if 
I had cut the films and developed each one 
separately and in accordance with old time 
methods. 

I have been making pictures more or 
less. for 26 years, and have used a num- 
ber of different cameras and lenses; and 
while I ami aware that many of my readers 
will disagree with me, I regard this as 
about the best outfit, all things considered, 
that can be made up for a photographic trip 
in a wild country. 


I believe you think more of that 


dog than you do of me. 


She: 
Exchange. 


But he’s worth so much more.— 





THE TRUE STORY OF THE NEZ PERCE WAR. 


H. B, NORTON. 


I find nothing to criticize in Major 
Brooke’s interesting article, “A Ride 
Through the Land of the Nez Perces,” 
save his assertion that Uncle Sam paid a 
round sum to recoup the losses sustained 
by settlers during the Nez Perce war. My- 
self a loser by that uprising, | know that 
not a cent has been paid for property de- 
stroyed by Joseph and his band. 

In the early days of what was then 
known as Camas prairie, the settlers for 
miles around were accustomed to gather 
each 4th of July at Mt. Idaho and cele- 
brate the day. On such occasions the In- 
dians were always invited to take part. 

At the time of the outbreak Chief Joseph 
had planned to assemble all his warriors 
ate Mt.2"Idaho.- July 4th “and massacre 
the entire white population of the prairie; 
but on the afternoon of June 13 3 young 
bucks, Mox Mox, Walltits, and another 
who is unknown, killed the first victim, 
an old man named Richard Devine. He 
was killed at his ranch, 8 miles above 
Slate creek. That night the same Indians 
went down the river to John Day’s creek, 
and early the following morning killed 
Henry Elfres and Henry Beckrodge. Then, 
mounting horses belonging to the mur- 
dered men, they rode on down the river. 
On their way they met Samuel Benedict, 
who was out looking for cattle. They 
wounded him, but he managed to escape. 

The Indians then left the river and 
went to Camas prairie. Returning the 
same day with 15 or 20 more Indians, 
they shot and wounded J. J. Manuel and 
his little girl, and killed James Barker. 
At Benedict’s place they murdered Bene- 
dict and a Frenchman named August Ba- 
con. 

On June 14 they killed Mrs. Manuel, 
whose body was never found; also Wm. 
Osborne and Harry Mason. It is claimed 
Joseph took part in these murders. 

The same day J. M. Crooks, of Grange- 
ville, rode to Joseph’s camp to ascertain 
whether the Indians intended to carry on 
war against the settlers. He was told the 
settlers would be let alone, providing they 
would not help the soldiers. 

By that time the whole country was 
aroused, and settlers came pouring into 
Mt. Idaho from all directions, 

Chief Joseph’s band, including his 
brother Ollicutt, were camped at the head 
of Rocky canyon when the massacre took 
place, but, fearing the approach of troops, 
they went over the White Bird mountains 


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and set up their lodges in White Bird val- 
ley, a short distance from Salmon river. 
There they were joined by Chief White 
Bird and his band. 

At sunrise on the morning of June 17th, 
a weary company of ogo soldiers under 
Colonel Perry, together with Io or 15 vol- 
unteers, reached the top of White Bird 
canyon, about 16 miles away. Indians and 
soldiers discovered each other about the 
same time. The Indian encampment was 
instantly aroused. Joseph, Ollicutt, and 
White Bird placed their warriors in posi- 
tion. As the soldiers moved down the can- 
yon they met Mrs. Benedict, a baby in 
her arms, and a little girl by her side. 
She had fled from her home after the 
murder of her husband, and was trying to 
reach a settlement 20 miles away. 

The soldiers continued their march down 
the canyon until they came to 2 small 
buttes. The Indians camped beyond these 
buttes were thought to be only a portion of 
those on the warpath, it being reported 
that the main body had crossed to Salmon 
river. As the troops approached the buttes 
Lieutenant Theller, with 8 men, was 100 
yards in advance of the main force. Colo- 
nel Perry, with the volunteers and his 
Own company, came next. Thrimble with 
his squad brought up the rear, leaving an 
interval of about 50 yards between each 
company. All were in columns of fours. 

Suddenly the Indians popped their heads 
from behind rocks in the gulches and ra- 
vines, and took deliberate and deadly aim. 
Chief Joseph instructed White Bird to 
turn the cavalry at the upper buttes, while 
he went behind the rocks and lay in wait 
for them. Mox Mox was directed to take 
the women, children, and horses down 
White Bird creek and to be ready to send 
horses to the warriors as fast as those they 
had were shot down. All instructions were 
carried out to the letter. The battle had 
not been in progress 10 minutes before the 
cavalry was thrown into confusion. Their 
horses became unmanageable, and all hope 
of defeating the Indians was abandoned. 
There was nothing to do but retreat, striv- 
ing to reach the canyon from which they 
had come. Some were headed off by the 
Indians and fell, bravely fighting. Others 
escaped out of the canyon of death to the 
top of the mountain, where about 20 men 
were rallied by Colonel Perry and Parnell. 
The Indians pursued the retreating cavalry 
within sight of Grangeville. Lieutenant 
Theller was left dead on the field, and of 


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100 men who went into the battle not more 
than 60 returned. It was never known 
how many Indians were killed, but the 
number must have been comparatively 
small. 

The settlers and soldiers, then cooped 
up at Mt. Idaho and Grangeville, anxiously 
awaited reinforcements. But Joseph, in- 
stead of attacking them, remained several 
days encamped at W hite Bird. This delay 
on his part gave time for troops to reach 
the seat of war. 

Volunteers from Walla Walla, Dayton, 
Waitsburg, and Lewiston flocked to the res- 
cue of the settlers. On the 24th they ar- 
rived at Morton’s ranch on Camas prairie, 
20 miles from Cottonwood, where there is 
now a prosperous town. Perry came there 
during the day and notified General How- 
ard of the position of the Indians. They 
were still at White Bird canyon. Howard 
advanced with his forces to recover and 
bury the bodies of those killed in the bat- 
tle. That accomplished he located Joseph 
across Salmon river, 5 or 6 miles distant 
from the battlefield. At that time Chief 
Looking Glass and his band were sup- 
posed to be scme 30 miles in Howard’s 
rear. 

Colonel Whipple was ordered to arrest 
Looking Glass and his Indians and turn 
them over for safe keeping to the volun- 
teers at Mt. Idaho. Looking Glass was 
given an opportunity to surrender, which 
at first he promised to do, but afterward 
defiantly refused. The result was that sev- 
eral Indians were killed, but Looking Glass 
and his band escaped. Whipple then re- 
joined Colonel Perry. 

On July 2d Scouts Foster and Blewett 
went in the direction of Craig’s mountain 
to reconnoiter. Toward evening Foster re- 
turned and reported the Indians at Saw- 
yer’s canyon, about 12 miles distant. Whip- 
ple sent Lieutenant S. M. Rains with 10 
men to ascertain the strength of the enemy. 
Rains and his men were cut off and killed 
only 2 miles from the headquarters of the 
troops. It was afterwards learned that 
Blewett was thrown from his horse and 
killed by the Indians. 

On the morning of July 4th Perry’s de- 
tachment joined Whipple at Cottonwood. 
About noon of that day 17 men were 
crossing the prairie to Cottonwood. With- 
in 1% miles of the encampment and in 


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plain view of the troops, they were sur- 
rounded by about 125 Indians. Though 
the fight lasted more than an hour, only 
one man went to the assistance of the sorely 
beset little band. Major George Sherer, a 
volunteer, watched the fight a few minutes. 
Then saying, “A man may be a damn fool 
if he goes down there, but he’s sure a damn 
coward if he doesn’t,” he mounted his horse 
and joined the 17. Afterward Colonel 
Whipple went down with about 24 men. 

Perry claimed, before a court of inquiry 
held at Lewiston, that there was a force 
of Indians in his rear, and he could not 
afford to lose his stronghold on the hill. 

In that fight Captain Randall, Ben 
Evans and D. H. Hauser were killed; 
Johnson and Allie Leeland wounded. The 
17 men were all settlers, defending their 
homes and familics, and after the war was 
over many had not a home to go to. 

From that time until July 11th, skir- 
mishes took place here and there. On the 
latter day the Indians concentrated at the 
mouth of Cottonwood creek. There the 
final and decisive battle was fought. last- 
ing 2 days. The Indians were defeated 
and driven out of Idaho into Montana. 

I will not attempt to describe their flight 
nor the destruction they wrought before 
their capture at Bear Paw mountain, 1300 
miles from their starting point. 

Since then Joseph has been féted in 
various parts of the country and held up 
to admiration as a great and good Indian. 
If his admirers had shared the troubles of 
the Camas prairie settlers they would have 
longed to hold him up with a rope. 

White Bird met his just deserts in the 
Assineboine country a few years ago. He 
was a medicine man, and, undertaking the 
cure of a sick Indian, who finally died, was 
killed by the sorrowing relatives on the 
ground that he had bewitched his pa- 
tient. 

Senator Mitchell introduced a bill pro- 
viding that each volunteer who joined the 
forces of the United States in Oregon, 
Washington, or Idaho, during the Nez 
Perce war should be paid $1 for each day 
of service; also the actual value of any 
horse, arms, etc., lost by him in such ser- 
vice. The pension laws were made ap- 
plicable to those who contracted wounds 
or disease during the war; but I have never 
heard of anyone’s recovering a cent. 


Clara—I knew by the tone of his voice 
that he was going to propose to me. 
Maud—Was there a ring in it ?—Detroit 


Free Press, 





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AMATEUR PHOTO BY MRS. WM 8: LEE. 


ON A NEWFOUNDLAND MARSH. 


Winner of Special Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. Made with No. 4 Eastman 
Cartridge Kodak. 


See page ré8. 


FISHING. 


EMMA G. CURTIS. 


A-restin’ on a grassy bank, 
Encumbered with a fishin’ pole, 
To-day I watched the muskrats prank 
And swallers skim the minner hole; 
I mused amongst the dragon flies, 
And young birds practisin’ their wings, 
And lily pads and pictered skies, 
How fishin’s like most other things! 


The chap that digs the fattest bait 
And picks the likeliest day and pool, 
That don’t poke round and start too late, 
That hustles sharp and yet keeps cool; 
And when he’s got things workin’ right 
Jest seitles, calm as heart can wish, 
And gives ’em time to bite, 
That man will get a string of fish. 


But that there sort that tears around, 
That first tries this pool and then that, 
As nervous as a rabbit hound, 
And on the fence ’twixt perch and cat; 
That thinks that spittin’ on his bait 
Makes up for bait that’s tough and pore, 
That never gets it through his pate 
That big is big, not luck and roar; 
That keeps a-jerkin’ up his hook 
And keeps his line a-goin’ swish, 
Before his catch is fairly took, 
He'll go home mighty short o’ fish. 


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A PIONEER’S ADVENTURE. 


A. A. BRIGGS. 


In the early 70’s the forests of the Mus- 
koka district abounded in game, including 
deer, bears, wolves, black and silver foxes, 
ctc. Game laws were almost unknown, 
and the gun of the early settler was in con- 
stant use. Our homestead was in the Parry 
sound district, and was surrounded by wild 
roses and creeping vines. At the foot of 
one of the many hills ran a trout stream, 
whose limpid, shaded waters attracted the 
wild animals and birds. 

While fishing for trout in this stream I 
saw a big deer running up the side of the 
hill. Behind it was a dog, howling and 
fast losing ground. As the dog _ ap- 
proached the top of the hill he gave out. 
The buck was the largest I had ever seen, 
and I was naturally anxious to get a shot 
at him. As he had been disturbed while 
drinking at the brook, I thought he would 
not return for some time. Accordingly, I 
wound up the line, went home and ate my 
supper. 

The next morning I saw what appeared 
to be cattle in the vicinity of the stream, 
but soon discovered they were deer. I 
reached for my rifle and pushed up the 
window, thinking I could get a shot, but 
the deer heard me, and in a moment they 
were off. Still I was sure the buck that 
dashed up the hill the day before was 
among them. Wild with excitement, I ran 
to the creek. There I tried to think of 
some ruse to entrap the buck. An idea 
occurred to me, and going to the house I 
hunted up the largest straw hat in the 
place, and, putting it on, returned to the 
stream. I followed a covey of grouse for 
a while, more to pass away time than to 
kill, as it would be an hour or so before 
the buck returned. 

Looking about for a hiding place, I saw 
some tall, thick grass among a lot of 
bushes, and there I concealed myself. Mak- 
ing sure my body and limbs were invisible, 
I pulled down the big hat and, with the 
rifle under my arm, waited for the stag. 
Nearly an hour passed before I heard a 
sound. Presently the buck appeared, and 
a grand and stately creature he was. 
must have been greatly unnerved, for my 
arm was shaking so much I feared the 
animal would see the movement in the 
grass and dart off. My view of him, too, 
was unsatisfactory, for I had to blink with 
one eye through a little hole I had made 
in the hat. What I saw was sufficient to 
show that he suspected danger, for he 
kept bellowing and tossing his head around 
as if infuriated. 


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While I was watching him 3 more heads 
came in sight a little distance behind 
the buck. These were the doe and 2 
fawns, who, seeing the stag gazing around 
anxiously, were too timid to come near- 
er. Suddenly I saw the antlers of the 
buck moving in my direction and thought 
my end was near. My fingers, which in- 
stinctively sought the trigger, twitched 
nervously, though the idea of shooting 
never occurred to me. The buck sniffed 
around 3 or 4 seconds, with his eyes 
fixed on the hat, then began slowly to re- 
treat. Now, if ever, was the time to shoot; 
his head was raised and his breast toward 
me. But, no. I would wait and see what 
the stag would do. Presently he uttered 
a low, dismal sound and in an instant the 
other deer were beside him. At first 
they looked around perplexedly, but soon 
moved toward the brook and drank. The 
old buck never stirred. He was now 
within a few yards of me, still keeping his 
eyes in my direction. 

At length the deer, having finished 
drinking, went away. The buck, seeing 
this, retraced his steps to the edge of the 
stream, and for the first time took his 
eyes off the place where I was _ hidden. 
Seeing the doe and fawns were over the 
fence, he lowered his head, gulped a 
mouthful of water, was up in a second and 
off, leaping the old rail fence with the 
greatest ease. 

I lay for a moment wondering if I was 
dreaming, but the drumming of a grouse 
near me and the rippling of the brook soon 
dispelled the idea. Alas! had any of the 
settlers seen me? If so, my reputation as 
a marksman was ruined. I had been ac- 
knowledged the best shot for miles around, 
but if the story was told that I, with a 
rifle in my hand. allowed 4 deer to escape 
within a few yards of me I would be the 
laughing stock of the settlement. 

I left the stream with a strange feeling. 


My desire to hunt had vanished. When I 
told my experience at home they were 
rather touched by the incident. But to 


this day the people of the district never 
heard that the man who for years had 
never refused a shot at game had al- 
lowed sentiment to stay his hand on one 
occasion. 

To-day the scene is changed. The old 
log house has fallen to decay; civilization 
has driven the game Northward. Only 
the old pines still cast their shadows on 
the rippling brook, which flows on as 
ever. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY S. L. BEEGLE 


BOB WHITE BY FLASHLIGHT. 


Winner of 3d Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. Made with Goerz Lens. 


See page 168. 


THE ENCHANTRESS. 
GEO. E. WINKLER. 


A longing once again to view 
The distant, blue limned hills, 
To drink again with thirsty lips 
At ice-fed mountain rills; 
To wander echoing canyons through, 
Took me from you. 


A longing once again to see But each elusive cloud suggests 
The early sun rays strike Your changefulness and grace, 
Like fire upon the lifted crest And ev'ry dew-kissed rose commends 
Of snowy mountain height; The sweetness of your face; 
To stroke with lazy, loving oar The whisp’ring pines that roof my head 
The quiet waters, deep and blue, Bid me their lovely joys eschew, 
Took me from you. And turn to you, 


“Have you ever listened to that long 
Island sound ?” 


“No, but I have heard New York bay.”— 
Life. 


104 


DOWN THE ARBUCKLE RIVER. 


F. W. PORTER. 


We loaded my hunting boat on a wagon 
at my ranch one morning late in January, 
and drove 5 miles to Rocky creek, where we 
launched. 

I told the boys we shouldn’t see any game 
on the way over, but they thought quails, 
squirrels and rabbits were game, so we had 
camp meat at once. From Reedy lake to 
Arbuckle lake is 4 miles if you are bird- 
rigged, and climb a tree to start. By water, 
it is nearer 40 miles. We floated half way 
down the creek that afternoon, and camped 
where I had a turkey roost spotted. I made 
camp and sent the others where I thought 
the big birds would come in. They re- 
turned at dusk without any turkeys. Some 
had been seen, but Winchester said they 
looked just like those his mother had at 
home and he didn’t like to shoot. My other 
friend I’ll call Thunder, because he used a 
double 10 gauge loaded with black powder. 

Next morning we continued our journey 
down the creek. The lower end of the 
creek is through a heavy swamp which was 
dry a year ago for the first time, possibly, in 
centuries. Then fire swept it, throwing trees 
and vines of all sizes across the creek, so 
there was some fancy acrobatic work. 
Sometimes we would vault over a log which 
the boat went under, sometimes we would 
go under and lift the boat over, sometimes 
a dive through a tree top was the caper. 
Once, when we flattened out in the boat to 
squeeze under a big cypress, one chap left 
the slack of his trousers a trifle too high. 
The craft drifted placidly on and left him 
hanging, head to heels, from a branch. We 
rescued him before the cloth tore, and got to 
the mouth of the creek by dinner time. 

The creek had built itself a bank far into 
the lake and our camp was on a part of 
that, 20 yards wide, the creek on one side 
and lake on the other. We spent the after- 
noon there; the boys fished and discovered 
a 10 foot ’gator. 

Arbuckle lake is 8 miles long and 3 miles 
wide. It is usually wind-swept during the 
day, and, as our boat was small and over- 
loaded, we decided to cross at night. I woke 
about midnight, found it foggy but not dark, 
and perfectly quiet. I roused the camp and 
after we had made coffee we put to sea. A 
2 hours’ row took us to the lower end of the 
lake and to what appeared a solid wall of 
cypress. The steersman was told to coast 
along it until he saw an opening. He did 
so and in a few minutes put us in the head 
of Arbuckle river. 

We ran alongside a bunch of bonnet and 
dropped anchor to wait for daylight. Thun- 


105 


der wanted to try for catfish. We were will- 
ing he should but had no bait. We got 
over the difficulty by shooting a water tur- 
key and using strips of its flesh. Our friend 
got lots of strikes, some of them strong 
enough to move the boat, anchor and all, 
but as he was not used to the fighting tac- 
tics of Florida catfish he did not land a 


n. 

When daylight appeared we started down 
stream through one of the prettiest bits of 
water in Florida. The river averages 100 
feet in width, is deep, and for several miles 
runs through a big cypress swamp. 

A dozen species of lilies grow on its bor- 
ders, and the trees are covered with air 
plants and orchids. The swamp is inhabit- 
ed by many varieties of game birds and ani- 
mals. 

The dip of ducks and the whir of wings 
was constantly heard ahead of us, but as the 
foliage was dense and the stream tortuous, 
we got but few shots. 

A short run took us through the swamp 
and out into open water with Kissimee 
prairie on one side and high pine woods on 
the other. There, in a little hummock of 
cabbage palms and live oaks that gave us 
almost the shelter of a house and furnished 
us beds of Spanish moss, we made our per- 
manent camp. We caught bass with min- 
nows, and would not take out of water a 
fish under 8 pounds. We drifted down 
stream gawking at one bank while a gob- 
bler sat and gawked at us from the other. 
He gawked a little too long for his health, 
however. 

Winchester shot into a bunch of curlew, 
and as he waded about picking up his dead, 
a flock of canvasbacks almost knocked his 
hat off. We, in the boat, wondered why he 
did not shoot. He came back and said they 
were not ducks. On one occasion, as cur- 
lew and other birds were passing over us by 
thousands, somebody sat, eyes and mouth 
open in astonishment, until his gun went off, 
pointed nowhere in particular, and nearly 
knocked him out of the boat. 

Then came the last morning, which we 
had decided to devote to turkeys exclusive- 
ly. Two of us got up and had our break- 
fast, of course, long before daylight, and 
we had almost to drag No. 3 out of the 
blankets. Finally he came along and we 
got our turkeys, one of them a 25-pounder 
that Winchester knocked into the river. He 
was surprised to see it go paddling up 
stream, and said if any one had told him 
a turkey could swim, he would, if it was a 
small man, have called him a liar. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY CHARI ES VANOcRVcLUE. 


THE FISHERMAN WHO IS ALWAYS LUCKY, 
Winner of 4th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. Made with a Korona Camera. 


106 


ANTOINE’S CAT. 


E. W. 


Lass week bring me some sperience Ah’ll 
never have before, an’ me Ah’ll tol’ heem 
to heverybody so he can look out not make 
same mistak’. 

Ah’ll not spick de Angleesh ver’ wal, but 
Ah’m cut mah eye teet hevery day, an’ w’en 
he com’ night Ah’ say to me, “Well, ole 
man! eef you ole fool head don’t know 
better dan go poke you nose on de cat bees’- 
ness, den he serve you right for bring de 
trub on you. So nex’ tam look out, ole 
man.” 

Now, Ah’Il tol’ one leetle scrape dat over- 
tak’ me. S’pose you want try you’ han’ for 
dat same speculation affer you hear dat, 
Ah’ll offer no objecshun at all; an’ if you 
not lak dat, you may shun mah leetle mis- 
hap an’ not be ole fool lak Antoine. 

Two, t’ree week ago mah wife hax me 
will Ah go wit he an’ mak’ hevening visit 
to Zephrim Goshela. “Oui, Oui, Madame! 
Ah'll go.” Now Ah’m not lak ver’ wal for 
gon out on de evenin’. Me Ah caint see 
ver’ wal, an’ dis tam de moon he’s not 
’~wake up ver’ herly. But Ah’ll lak please 
mah ole leddy sometam, so Ah go. Zeph- 
rim an’ hees wife was bote good feller an’ 
we been good neighbor many year, an’ Ah 
lak heem wal. ’Sides dat, he’s raise beeg 
famlee an’ many tam he com’ for mah ole 
leddy for assist dat, an’ for me, too, some 
tam. So we feex up an’ finish mah chore, 
an’ ’way we gone. 

Now he’s got "bout quarter mile over dar, 
’cross de fiel’; hover 2, t’ree fence, jomp 
on de brook an’ go up on de hill, dar’s 
whar he leeve, and when we geet dar, we 
was ver’ welcome. Zeph and me too we 
sit down an’ tak’ some smoke, an’ Mam 
Zephrim an’ mah wife tak’ hees knit an’ 
mak’ stockin’. What tam we smoke we lay 
good many plan for gon on Black crick for 
catch muskrat, an’ dore, plentee monee on 
dat job. We ’gree for gon on dat plass 
nex’ week, an’ we ’gree for share de hex- 
pense an’ go snuk on de profeet. 

An’ we can carry plentee pork and pom- 
me de terre an’ bean, too. An’ me Ah’ll tak’ 
mah fusee, Ah got boss good one. We'll 
get plentee pa’tridge and cariboo for tickle 
our stomick an’ we can see no hobstruction 
for hav’ boss tam ever’ day we gon’, bah 
gosh! 

Bimeby Mam Zephrim get up an’ gon’ 
out on de kitchen, an’ soon Ah hear heem 
mak’ rattle on de stove, an’ Ah know he’s 
gon’ for get supper. Mah ole leddy ron 
after an’ beg heem not do dat for we not 
hongry at all. But Ah’m pull hees dress 
and whisper, “Hole you’ tong.” Pretty 


107 


PARKER, 


quick Ah’m smell de pork on de pan an’ de 
onion, too, an de tea kettle lid jingle an’ 
we be all jus’ so happy good many beeg 
bug who try for call heemsef de aristoc- 
racee. 

Nex’ Ah know, de clock strike one, 2, 
tree, ‘leven! Mah soul! whar is gon’ dat 
hevenin’? An, mah ole leddy rose for go 
home an’ roll up hees knitting -on hees 
pocket, an’ make all reddy. 

Many year ago w’en Ah’m small boy,° 
ver of’en Ah’m gon’ cross de same fields 
for huskin’ an’ pare apple bee. Ah’m go 
befor’ he’s dark an’ Ah’m feel bol’ lak a 
lion. But de tam w’en he’s finish an’ it 
come ‘leven ‘clock an’ dark lak a dev’, 
Ah’m com’ bol’ lak a sheep; ’twas a differ- 
ance, don’t it? Good many noise dar. One 
leetle frog can mak’ me ron more Io rod. 
One screech owl flop down close on top 
mah hed mak’ me squat down lak brickbat 
hit me. Dat tam Ah’m all ’lone. Dis tam 
mah ole leddy is wit me an’ not’ing can’t 
scare me. So w’en mah wife rose for gon’ 
home an’ Ah’m light mah pipe an’ shak’ 
han’ an’ ’way we go, over de hill to de 
poor house—dat was Antoine’s. 

Now Ah’m meditate good ’eal *bout de 
Black crick bus’ness, an’ fuss Ah know 
Ah’m leave mah ole leddy long way behind 
an’ soon Ah’m hear heem yell, “Antoine, 
what for you so hurry? You got no bus’- 
ness leeve me ‘lone, an’ Ah’m hear som’- 
ting chase me.” 

So Ah’m gon’ back to he, an’ Ah ax 
heem what he hear? He’s tell me som’- 
ting skip it ‘long behind heem on de snow 
an’ mak’ queer leetle noise lak he never 
see befor’; and w’en we go long ’gain we 
bote hear dat, an’ bahgosh! Ah can see dat 
too ‘bout 10 feets behin’. Now Ah’m tell 
heem walk ver’ slow an’ me Ah’ll feex dat. 
So Ah tak’ a pole on de fence and go ver’ 
heasy. 

Dat leetle chap, Ah see heem sure, he’s 
black, not ver’ beeg, prob’ly weasel. ’Tenny 
rate Ah’ll not “low heem scar mah ole 
leddy any more. No, seh, he’s draw hees 
las’ bret. So Ah raise mah pole high over 
dat an’ put in all mah strengt on heem an’ 
down he com’, whack! on hees back 4, 5 
tam. Mah wife he’s ron an’ mak’ yell, but 
dat leetle feller’s not ron any mo’. Hees 
turn up on hees back an’ lay still. Den we 
proceed to examine dat and Ah’m cal’late 
hom much hees pelt will fetch on de mar- 
ket. So Ah’m light a match an’ look; an’ 
bahgosh, what you t’ink? ’Twas not’ing 
but mah ole leddy’s knittin’ work. De ball 
unwind in hees pocket an’ drag de rest be- 


108 


hind on de snow. Ah’m get de laugh on 
heem long tam for dat. 

But dat was not de lass mah sperience 
‘fore Ah’m get home; oh dear, no! Som’ 
ver’ queer episode happen “fore Ah’m reach 
mah domicil. Ah’m mak’ hurry tor get 
home an’ feex mah fire, an’ so Ah’m leeve 
mah ole leddy for come on by heemse’f. 

Jost dat tam Ah’m hear som't'ing step, 
step, on de snow. 

Ah’m not scare ’t all, an’ w’at you tink 
dis tam? Dar was one pretty leetle kitty 
com’ rat up close an’ look hon mah face 
lak he want make ‘quaint wit Antoine. 
When Ah see dat Ah’m glad, for we got 
none, an’ lass week mah old leddy he’s find 
a mouse in de flour barrel. 

Now here he com’ mah_ chance for one 
boss leetle cat, no cos’ :not’ing only for 
catch heem. Dat leetle chap he come frisk 
roun’ mah leg lak he want play wit me. So 
Ah’m put ’way mah pipe an’ Ah’m go in 
for dat kitten an’ he will mak’ mah ole 
leddy nice Chris’mus present. 

“Now, mah leetle kitty, com’ to me; com, 


AMATEUR PHOTO BY JAMES H. MILLER, 


WHERE'S MY SHADOW? 


One of the 17th prize winners in Recreation’s 7th 
Annual Photo Competition, 





RECREATION. 


see you Onc’. Com’ on mah house, it’s boss 
plass for leev.”” An’ Ah squat down an’ 
coax heem an’, bahgosh, he won't. He's 
kick up hees heel an’ caper roun’ me, an’ 
more Ah’ll see dat de more Ah’m ’termin’ 
for tak’ heem. So Ah’m ron for heem an’ 
he hop roun’ on de snow an’ swish hees 
tail, an’ Ah’m mak’ up mah min’ Ah’m got 
one Anglory cat wort’ more’n 5 dollor. 

Nex’ Ah know, he scoot rat in between 
my mogasin an’ Ah’m mak’ grab wit bote 
bote han’. Nex’ minit Ah’m gon’ rat hover 
on mah back. Oh, waugh, phew, ugh, 
waugh! Ah’m sick on mah stomick an’ 
Ah’m have ter’b’le time. 

Ah’m put som’ snow in mah mouth, he 
don do no good. Den Ah’m dig hopen 
mah eye an’ look for mah ole leddy, and 
he’s gon’ home. An’ Ah’m look for dat 
cat an’ he’s gon’ home; an’ Ah’m hole mah 
nose an’ Ah’m gon’ home, an’ w’en Ah get 
dar mah ole whoman he’s put de bar on de 
door an’ he’s holler on de chamber window, 
“Antoine! go sleep it on de barn!” 


TAKE US AFAR, 
JEANNETTE CAMPBELL. 


Take us afar; beyond the city’s clamor, 
Its din and dust and glare; 

Its grinding toil, its gilded pomp and power, 
Its stifling, fevered air! 

Afar; beyond the ceaseless tide of faces 
The endless throb of feet; 

The eager grasp for gold that men call 

living, 

The jargon of the street. 


Afar, afar, beside the dreaming waters, 
Deep in the forest glade, 
Where wind and wave commune, low- 
voiced, together, 
In sunshine and in shade! 
Where just to be, is gladness; where life’s 
trappings 
Drop off and disappear; 
And we can drink at Nature’s primal foun- 
tains 
Once in the rushing year! 


“I want to ask you something, gracie,” 
said the beautiful heiress. 

“What is it, duckie?” the duke inquired. 

“Would you object if I should request 
the minister to omit the word ‘obey’ from 
the service when we are married ?” 

“Certainly not. He can just make it 


‘love, honor and supply.’”—Chicago Ree- 
ord-Herald, 


A PIONEER REMINISCENCE. 


MISS M. 


In the mountains of Jackson county, 
Oregon, lives an old man familiarly known 
through all the region as Uncle Bill. An 
excellent story teller, he speaks with such 
familiarity of Indians, panthers and bears 
that small boys of the present are jaun- 
diced with envy. 

His favorite tale is of the capture of the 
largest grizzly ever encountered in that 
section; and well illustrates the fortitude 
that made our pioneers the bulwark of the 
West. 

Near Uncle Bill’s home, is a rugged foot- 
hill, thickly wooded with scrub oak and 
crowned by an immense boulder known as 
Table rock. That hill once served as stag- 
ing for a little comedy, which came near 
being a tragedy in Bill’s life. 

Armed only with a light shot gun, 
he was one day wandering about the moun- 
tain in search of lost shoats. Enter- 
ing a small natural clearing, he came face 
to face with a huge grizzly feasting on wild 
berries. Both were surprised; but Uncle 
Bill was chiefly concerned. Without his 
rifle he felt his presence was an intrusion. 
There were no trees within 80 rods; and he 
saw with dismay that the grizzly seemed de- 
sirous of making his acquaintance. 

Taking counsel of his courage, Uncle 
Bill mounted a log in the middle of the 
clearing, and tried to stare the bear out of 
countenance. Satisfied from a close scru- 
tiny, that Uncle Bill was in a palatable 
condition, Bruin began circling about his 
intended victim. He tore up the earth, 
growled fiercely and made frequent little 
dashes, as if to provoke Uncle. Bill to flight. 
Failing in this, the circles gradually nar- 
rowed in, until Uncle Bill drew his hunt- 
ing knife and braced for the shock, deter- 
mined to sell life dearly. 

Suddenly the brute stopped. sniffed the 
air, and gazed intently down the mountain. 
A bristly crest arose along his enormous 
back; he seemed to waver between 2 opin- 
ions. Then with a roar of baffled rage he 
turned tail and lumbered up to the shelter 
of the overhanging rocks. Uncle Bill 
chose an opposite direction with even 


L. 


SUTTON. 


greater celerity and soon encountered 2 
neighbors out for a hunt, which they 
promptly abandoned in that vicinity after 
hearing his story. 

Some weeks later, a dozen men with a 
pack of bear dogs gathered to hunt Bruin 
out. He must have had a premonition of 
danger which ne decided to anticipate by 
a prompt retreat to his winter quarters, 
several miles up Bear creek. The hunt 
followed. The men took stations in trees 
at intervals of about 60 rods along the 
trail, and the dogs were sent in to start 
the game. The occasional sharp yelping 
as they skirted the lair soon changed to a 
chorus of excited baying and warned all 
to be in readiness. 

With a rush, to which the undergrowth 
was no impediment, the bear passed direct- 
ly underneath the first sentinel, receiving 
a rifle ball between his shoulders, with no 
apparent result. His course was direct for 
the next stand, but all waited in vain for 
the report to tell that he had reached it. 
The baying dogs rushed by and became 
silent. The stillness grew oppressive. Call- 
ing to one another, all the hunters, save 
one, responded, and the posse cautiously 
gathered about his position, to find the 
bear’s dead body overlying a battered rifle 
and bits of bloody clothing. 

Their companion was nowhere to be 
seen, but a weak voice from a near manza- 
nita thicket was heard saying, “The bear’s 
dead, boys, and I am too;” which, in 
spite of the seeming inconsistency, came 
near the truth. 

The bullet from the first stand had 
pierced the bear’s heart, but the animal’s 
great momentum and vitality had enabled 
it to reach the next sentinel, drag him 
from his tree, literally scalp him and toss 
him aside, before it fell dead. 

An army surgeon from the barracks, 25 
miles distant, saved the unfortunate hun- 
ter’s life, but left him disfigured by a stif- 
fened neck and a head permanently turned 
to one side. 

The bear’s carcass dressed 800 pounds 
net; and its fine pelt passed as a fee to the 
surgeon. 


_ Clara: I hope you don’t call yourself an 
invalid, with that appetite! 


Clarence: 


Why, Clara, it is this appetite 


that keeps me an invalid—Exchange. 


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AMATEUR PHOTO BY GEORGE WORTH 


THE GOLF GIRL. 


Winner of sth Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 


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BUFFALO HUNTING IN KANSAS. 


STUBB, 


We had sown our fall wheat and having 
nothing further to do at home, Charles S., 
Bill K. and I started for meat. We trav- 
eled West about 100 miles and saw only old 
signs. I carried a 38 rim fire Remington, 
Bill a 44 rim fire, and Charles a 44 rim fire 
Ballard carbine. 

After getting above running water on 
the Pawnee river we turned South and 
crossed the Arkansas. In due time we ar- 
rived at Dodge City, a bad town at that 
time. There we saw hundreds of buffalo 
hides, all of which came from the South, so 
South we went. After traveling one day 
we reached Crooked creek, and there close 
to our camp, some one had killed 3 
buffalo a day or so before. One day’s hunt 
revealed no game, however, but antelope 
and those were not tame, so we got none of 
them. That evening we held a council. 
Bill and Charley decided to go home, but 
I had made up my mind to see a live buf- 
falo. Next morning I went back with the 
boys to Dodge City for more provisions, 
and then started South. 

I spent the night at our old camping 
ground, and the next evening about sunset a 
party of Texans drove up. They said they 
had seen no buffalo for 3 weeks. They in- 
vited me to go with them as they wanted 
to go into Texas and some of the Reds 
were out from their reservation on a hunt. 

Early the next morning we were on our 
way. The day passed without incident and 
that night we camped at Lone Tree, a good 
camping ground on account of water, but 
more interesting to me on account of its 
being the scene of a disastrous fight be- 
tween 5 white men and a band of Reds 
only 3 or 4 months before. The graves of 
the 5 white men told the tale without 
words. 

The next morning just after starting I 
saw my first live wild buffalo, a cow and a 
calf. I wanted to kill them and go home, 
but the boys persuaded me to go farther 
and get a good load. We arrived at their 
camp that evening, and the next morning, 
which was Christmas, we started South- 
west. Before noon one of the men, who 
was in advance of the teams, killed a large 
buck. We took it aboard, also the hunter, 
and proceeded some distance when I saw 
another buck, standing in some _ small 
brush and looking at us. As I had no 
driver, I spoke to the man who had killed 
the first buck and pointed out the second. 
He started, but had not gone 200 yards 
when in going over a small ridge he ran 
almost on to a large buffalo, asleep. John 
soon woke him with his 50 caliber Sharps 


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frontier gun. The buffalo arose and ran 
but seemed dazed. The 50’s were going 
through him too fast for any kind of com- 
fort. Finally, getting tired of it, he turned 
on his enemy; but he had waited too long 
for he went only a few steps and fell, the 
victim of 8 50-caliber bullets. 

We soon had him skinned and the meat 
cut off. About a mile farther we came to a 
spring of water and camped for the day. 
We had buffalo tenderloin and venison for 
our Christmas dinner. As soon as it was 
over I took a run. I saw no buffalo but 
shot my first deer, also 3 coyotes, and 
thought it a wonderful Christmas for me. 

The next morning we again started 
Southwest, crossing the North Canadian 
river about % mile from camp and there 
I saw the coveted cattle. After getting to 
the high ground it was buffalo everywhere. 

John handed me his Sharps sighted for 
100 yards, half way to the hump 150, and 
top of hump 200 yards, which he said was 
as far as I would wish to shoot. The game 
was feeding in a ravine, and we had no 
trouble to get within 50 yards. Bill was to 
shoot, as he knew just where, and I was to 
wait until told to fire. He shot, but did not 
strike within a foot of where he had in- 
tended to. The buffalo started, but stopped 
and looked back at about 150 yards. After 
some persuasion, Bill let me shoot and 
down went a cow. The others showed no 
signs of running, and Bill said we would 
get a closer stand. 

“Why not shoot from here?” 

“Too far. That hit was an accident.” 

I felt flattered, but moved around after 
Bill to the other side of the bunch and to 
about 60 yards distance. By that time the 
cow I had shot was on her feet and was 
blundering about. Bill told me to shoot 
her again, as she would lead the bunch 
away. 

“You shoot one, and I will drop her at 
the crack of your gun,” I said, so he shot 
again, but struck the ground between us 
and the buffalo, and the ball went scream- 
ing over them. That started them on a 
wild run. 

“Give it to them, they won’t stop again,” 
shouted Bill, and I obeyed, firing about 2 
shots to his one. When I quit there were 
6 buffalo on their feet, but 10 down. Seven 
fell at the crack of my gun and Bill 
knocked down another. 

Thus ended my first day among the buf- 
falo. We dressed the carcasses so the 
meat would be all right the next morning. 
Then we went to camp, tired and hungry, 
but happy. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY E. F. POPE. 


A GOOD PAIR TO DRAW TO. 


Winner of 6th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 


Made with a Korona Camera. 


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THE HAUNTED MOUNTAIN. 


MOSES THOMPSON, JR. 
English as she is writ. 


In Ye Olden Times. Two (2) Irish- 
men’s first in America. In the north west- 
ern part of America, “A mountain near a 
large city about fitteen miles away, and 
only could be reached by the Southwestern 
part only by one way. that way was to 
cross a mighty high mountain. _ this 
mountain after about 100 years of age that 
before any one began to settle around 
same and the first family that had made 
it up in their minds to locate at the foot 
of this great mountain thus leading to the 
principal city. After they had made that 
place their homes for some years to past 
the way to this city over this mountain, 
traffic robbers had made the top of this 
large mountain a safe place to rob travel- 
ers and to take their lives if necessary. 
After such deeds had been committed so 
often that the top of this place became 
haunted and prevented traffic traveling of 
the traveler over the mountain. So after 
many people had been frightened by Ghost’s 
and Haunts they found that the traffic over 
the mountain was imposible to accomidate. 
So they had to reerect a road around this 
place twenty miles out of the way so that 
people could travel. after that road was 
completted a short while afterwards trafic 
began its regular travel without any trou- 
ble. So one evening two Irishmen’s had 
come to a hault at the foot of the mountain 
and had lost their guide of the City where 
they was bound for. this time they had 
traveled all day and night had fallen upon 
them at the foot of this Mountain. what 
next said pat we are lost be-jasus. but 
Mike says look Pat there is a light younder 
some one live there suppose we go and ask 
about the route. they went to the light 
where they seen deemly burning and stoped 
and called. So there was a Woman and 
Three Children appeared as if they had been 
deserted, the two Irishmen ask them how 
far was they from the City. the Woman in 
the door replied gentlemens Y’se about fif- 
teen miles from the City over the mountain 
and if you go around the road way that 
leads to the right you will make it about 
twenty five miles to go, as to the top of the 
mountain. have been posted no travelers are 
allowed to cross the mountain after dark as 


they would be frighten to death. the reply 
of the two irishmen we want to know the 
nearest way to the City we care nothing 
about haunts. so if the mountain is the 
nearest way we will take that route thank 
you mum as they bided her good night and 
went on their jurney across the mountain. 
my this time they had taken up time ask- 
ing the route to go it had fallen dark good. 
So up the mountain they went and soon 
reached the top where-upon they was at- 
tacked by a forward Dim Light. with a 
Voice never before had been heard. At the 
top they reached and after doing so it was 
so dark that you could not see your hands 
before you. nearer and rearer the Dim light 
approached towards the two men with a 
noise that could not be understood a dis- 
tance but when it come nearer to them they 
understood such words approaching them. 
with a little Dim red light saying. Were 
must I put it. Where must I put it where 
must I put it. dingerling-dingerling-dinger- 
ling the noise of a small bell was heard. 
but quickly stoped Pat & Mike, Pat says 
to Mike faith and be-jasus what is that 
Pat? Pat says to Mike, I don’t know per- 
haps that is one of them haunts trying 
frighten us, All at once the light seem to be 
upon them good enough to realize what it 
was but could not. but Mike quickly spoke 
and said to the little Dim Light which was 
near. in such Tones as Mike Repeated. 
haint that a nice word for you to ask a man 
stop him in the night like this and ask him 
where shall you Put it. Go Put It Where 
You Got It. Where did You Get It. Thats 
a h—Il of a word to ask a gentleman, where 
shall you put it go put it where you got it. 
at these words the light banhished away 
and was gone and nothing more seen that 
night as they crossed the mountain en-route 
to the City. After that night with Pat and 
Mike’s Experience no such Ghost ever ap- 
pearde again, Its is always said by Older 
people that if you speak to Ghost that they 
will never no more appear especialy in the 
right way words like this. What in the 
name of the lord you want in this poor Sin- 
full World. Pat and Mikes, Wasn’t that 
Way. 


She: Tell me, why do you love me? 
Why,—er—er—I suppose because fools 
rush in where angels fear to tread.—Life. 


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DON’T BOTHER ME. I’M BUSY. 
Winner of 7th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition, 


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AMATEUR PHOTO Br A, & GOSS. 


Made with a Poco Camera, 


THE PAWNEE UPRISING OF 18509. 


HOWARD W. BELL, 


In the summer of 1859 the entire tribe 
of Pawnees, braves, squaws, pappooses and 
dogs, left their 2 villages, 12 miles South 
of Fontenelle, Nebraska, on the South side 
of the Platte river, marched across the low- 
land between the Platte and Elkhorn rivers, 
and camped on the Western side of the Elk- 
horn, just across from Fontenelle. They 
claimed to be going on a grand buffalo hunt, 
to last several moons. The next day half 
a dozen bucks crossed the river about 12 
miles above Fontenelle, and attacked an old 
bachelor who was living alone in a little log 
hut. The bucks showed emphatically their 
disapproval of celibacy by taking $136, a 
package of valuable papers and a yoke of 
oxen, and by drinking all the settler’s whis- 
key and locking him in his shanty. Three 
hours later the settler broke open to free- 
dom, and made his way to Fontenelle, where 
the alarm quickly spread. A company of a 
dozen men was organized, and an advance 
was made on the scene of the outrage. No 
Indians were discovered and the company 
returned to Fontenelle and disbanded. 
Two days afterward the people living at 
West Point came down to Fontenelle in a 
body, and reported that marauding bands 
of Pawnees had burned the homes of the 
settlers, ‘and ripped up their feather beds, 
scattering the contents to the winds, and re- 
serving the ticks to be used as blankets. 
Clocks had been torn to pieces in search of 
brass wheels to hang in the savages’ ears; 
cattle and horses had been freely confis- 
cated. 

Here was cause for war. The campaign 
opened the next morning. Thirty men, 
armed with rifles and revolvers, started for 
West Point in wagons.. When they reached 
there arrangements were made to capture 
the Indians. A few of the settlers took po- 
sitions in one room of a double log house, 
while the others kept out of sight. The peo- 
ple of the house were instructed to admit 
the Indians into the unoccupied room, and 
after they were all in, to fasten the outside 
door securely. The door between the rooms 
was then to be opened, the white men were 
to rush from the room in which they were 
concealed into that occupied by the In- 
dians, and the capture of the savages would 
be easy. 

The Indians, rr in number, approached 
the house, were invited to walk in, and ac- 
cepted. The outside door was fastened; 
the signal was given; the door between the 
2 rooms was opened; the white men rushed 
with a yell into the room which was occu- 
pied by the Indians, and—captured the whole 


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posse? Not much. The greasy, slippery 
devils shed their blankets, dived down 
among the legs of the white men, slipped out 
like eels, burst open the door and were out 
of the room like a flash. All the white men 
had to show for their stratagem was a slug 
in the wrist of one of their own number. 
The whites followed the Indians out of the 
house and blazed away at them as they ran 
toward the river. Two or 3 of the Indians 
were killed and one was wounded. The 
whites captured him, having brought him 
down on the wing by a shot which should 
have been better aimed. 

The settlers then hastily assembled their 
wagons, put the wounded Indian in one of 
them, and started back to Fontenelle. They 
had not gone far when the Indian gave evi- 
dence of being dead. He was closely exam- 
ined by those in the wagon, who agreed that 
he was a goner. As it would not pay to 
haul dead Indians, the wagon was driven to 
the bank of the Elkhorn near which the 
road ran, and the corpse was pitched into 
the river. As soon as the Indian struck the 
water he dived down and swam under water 
for the opposite bank. Even an Indian can 
not stay under water all the time; and when 
that red rascal broke the surface of the 
stream as he came up to get a whiff of air, 
a load of buckshot was deposited in the 
back of his head. He never reached the 
other side. 

It was reported every day for a week that 
10,000 Indians were approaching the town 
fully attired in the traditional war paint and 
feathers. The people were kept in excited 
suspense. At night each bush or shrub was 
transformed into a stealthily approaching 
redskin. This could not be borne long, so 
the hastily equipped militia soon took the 
offensive and marched in the direction of, 
the Pawnee camps. Late one night they 
halted on the outskirts of the lodge and 
struck camp. - 

At 3 o'clock in the morning they were 
aroused and in a short time were on the 
move. At daylight the Indian camp was 
seen, near the junction of a small stream 
with the river. A large extent of ground 
was covered by the lodges, and here and 
there Indians glided about, unconscious of 
the approach of an enemy. In a few mo- 
ments, however, they discovered the whites, 
the camp vanished like magic and in an m- 
credibly short time the wide river bot- 
tom was swarming with redskins, some 
mounted, some on foot, all shouting and 
yelling, striving to make their escape. They 
leveled their lodges to the ground but did 


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not attempt to take them away. They 
thought only to save themselves. The Oma- 
has encamped with the Pawnees did not 
run, neither did they strike their tents, but 
remained in them, knowing they had no 
reason to fear the whites. 

The mounted settlers crossed the stream 
at once and followed the flying Pawnees, but 
some time was lost in getting the wagons 
across the miry stream. Finally the entire 
force was safely landed on the Western side 
of the creek and moved up the river. The 
tall slough grass through which they passed 
concealed a good many of the weaker ones 
among the Indians, who, finding themselves 
unable to keep up with the others, had 
dropped down in the rank grass hoping to 
be passed by. On either side could be heard 
the cries and yells of pappooses thrown away 
by the frightened squaws in their endeavor 
to travel light. Small dogs, pet badgers, 
wolves and “sich” had also been left by 
their masters to shift for themselves, and 
they added their cries to the noise and con- 
fusion. In a short time not an Indian was 
to be seen where but half an hour before 
thousands had swarmed. They had taken 
shelter among the willows on the river bank 
and in the breaks along the bluffs on either 
side of it. 

They did not permanently escape. An un- 
der chief of the Pawnees, a fat old codger 
who was trying to get away on foot, was 
overtaken by a horseman who shot at him 
and missed him. Just as the horseman had 
secured a better aim for a second attempt 
the Indian threw up his hands and surren- 
dered. He was told to call his tribe togeth- 
er for a parley immediately or he would be 
killed. The Indian was glad of this chance 
for saving his life and at once set up a ser- 
ies of terrific yells, in answer to which red- 
skins lifted their heads and approached 
with caution, when the prisoner explained 
that a parley with the “Cherokee man” was 
necessary. 

By that time the scattered white forces 
had gathered, the wagons were corralled 
and a line of battle was formed with a 6 
pound brass piece in front and the horsemen 
on the flanks. When the Indians who were 
looking about, discovered the weakness of 
the force they had been running from, they 
left their hiding places and approached read- 
ily. They were ordered to keep a respect- 
ful distance in front and only the chiefs 
were allowed to come to the wagons. The 
Indian force constantly received additions 
to its numbers, and before an hour had 
passed the whites were confronted by about 
2,000 redskins. The Pawnee chiefs were 
told that they could have their choice of 
giving up the braves who had been engaged 
in the robbing and burning about West 
Point and paying the expenses of the expe- 


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dition out of moneys due them from the 
government, or of fighting. 

It was finally arranged, after several 
hours’ discussion, that the terms propesed 
would be acceded to. Then began a hunt 
for the braves who had been raising Cain in 
the settlements. By the middle of the af- 
ternoon 7 young fellows were tied behind 
one of the wagons and the party was mov- 
ing toward a suitable place to camp for the 
night. 

When the young Indians were given up, a 
squaw belonging to one of them insisted on 
being allowed to go with her brave. When 
this request was denied, she screamed and 
cried, tore the hair out of her head by great 
handfuls, threw her arms around the young 
fellow’s neck and gave way to the most vio- 
lent grief. She was dragged away from him 
with difficulty, and the party proceeded, 
traveling but a few miles before going into 
camp. One of the prisoners seemed to be 
suffering greatly and one of the doctors 
made an examination.. He found that the 
brave had been shot through the body and 
that the wound was mortifying. The young 
fellow was one of the party of 11 who had 
been shut up in the room at West Point and 
he had been shot in running from the 
house. The doctor said he would not live 
to reach the settlements. He was there- 
fore set free and told to go back to his tribe. 
He was found dead the next morning a 
short distance from camp. 

Having struck camp, a supper of black 

coffee, fat bacon, molasses and a certain 
kind of hot bread. peculiar to the plains was 
prepared and eaten with relish. 

Early the next morning the march was re- 
sumed. Within a few miles the company 
reached a high point of ground from which 
a magnificent and picturesque scene burst 
on their view. At their feet was the 
Indian camp, then a scene of active com- 
motion, for the red men had just discovered 
the approach of the whites and were rapidly 
gathering their ponies from the neighboring 
hills. It was a mutual surprise. The 
whites had supposed the Indians would re- 
main for the night at the place where the 
powwow was held, and the Indians thought 
the settlers had turned back that morning 
intending to go home by the route they had 
come. 

It was decided to get everything ready to 
repel an attack, move along as if the 
Indians were not there and trust to Fate for 
the rest. The 6 prisoners were tied together 
and fastened by a rope to one of the wag- 
ons, behind which they trudged quietly, sur- 
rounded by a mounted guard. The com- 
pany did not go through the camp, but 
passed along one side of it. A few squaws 
and pappooses came out to see them as they 
moved past, but the Indians generally re- 
mained about their tents. Among the squaws 





HIAWATHA. 


‘was the one who had exhibited such intense 
grief at the separation from her brave the 
day before. When the wagon behind which 
the prisoners were tied reached her she 
rushed among them and gave her Indian a 
knife, with which he stabbed himself in the 
breast. As he fell heavily to the ground 
the wagon stopped and the guards gave at- 
tention to the wounded Indian. No blood 
was to be seen about the wounds, but a red- 
dish substance resembling blood oozed from 
each corner of his mouth. As the guards 
were doing what they could to assist him, 
his faithful squaw seized the knife and cut 
the ropes which bound the prisoners to- 
gether. Away they sprang like a flash, all 
the guards but one running after them, fir- 
ing as they ran. Meanwhile the wounded 
Indian had stretched out, his eyes sank into 
his head and he gave every indication of be- 
ing dead, while his squaw hung over him in- 
dulging in wild expressions of grief. When 
she saw that the guards were busy in their 
pursuit of the liberated Pawnees, she gave 
her buck the signal and he leaped to his 
feet, as agile as a cat, and started to run. 
He did not go far. One guard had re- 
mained to keep an eye on the corpse and 
when that corpse attempted to run away the 
guard drew up his rifle and called “halt.” 
The Indian halted and it was then found 


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that the wound he had given himself was 
only skin deep and that he had red ochre in 
his mouth. He was recaptured, tied behind 
the wagon and the procession moved on. 

The settlers proceeded about a mile and 
stopped on a high hill for consultation. The 
guards who had pursued the escaped pris- 
oners returned to the command and report- 
ed that they had killed or wounded all the 
prisoners except the one who had been re- 
captured. This was well enough, but in the 
excitement of the chase they had popped 
over an Omaha brave and had killed an 
Omaha pony. The result of this was a visit 
from a deputation of the Omahas, prepared 
for either war or peace as circumstances 
might dictate. After hours of talk they 
finally agreed that if the whites would leave 
medicine for the wounded Indians and pay 
for the pony they had killed, the Omahas 
would not fight. To these conditions the 
settlers assented cheerfully. 

On the homeward march the whites cele- 
brated freely. It was supposed that the 
Government would enforce the contract 
with the Indians and keep back enough 
funds to pay the expenses of the expedition, 
but the Government ignored the settlers, 
paid the Pawnees all that was due them, 
and the noble white men were left to whis- 
tle for their pay. They are whistling yet. 


HIAWATHA. 


JABOX. 


In history books we all may read, 
How bleeding Kansas used to bleed; 
How old John Brown and his shot gun 
Sent slavery scooting on a run; 
But now a something comes to Stay, 
A so-called tune, born in a day, 
Which, some think, adds to Kansas’ fame; 
This tune rejoices in the name 
Of Hiawatha. 


In Kansas, oratorical stunts 

Were done by John J. Ingalls once. 

He soared aloft, then sad to tell, 

Too much hot air, and down he fell. 

But Kansas, advertised by him, 

Was misty, vague, opaque and dim, 

When put beside this modern boast, 

This tinkling tune that rules the roost, 
This Hiawatha. 


Again, the populist came forth, 

Ravaged the land from South to North, 

His native heath, his natal lair 

Was Kansas, so they all declare; 

But what was he, done for so soon, 

Compared with this outrageous tune, 
This Hiawatha. 


The Nation’s Carrie, axe in hand, 
From Kansas swept across our land; 
Her antics and her grotesque face 
Gained far too much newspaper space; 
But Carrie’s glory dims and pales 
Before the jiggly, wiggly wails 

Of Hiawatha. 


Old Egypt’s seven plagues have vexed, 
Have tortured, harassed and perplexed 
The State of Kansas, blizzard swept, 
Grasshopper bitten, cyclone ripped, 
But now the worst of all descends; 
A cruel Fate on Kansas sends 

This Hiawatha. 


The multifarious cereal, 

A hundred tricks of Belial, 

The isms and the fads of earth 

Have mostly had a Kansas birth; 

But save us, men and angels, save, 

Lest we go down into the grave 

And shuffle off our earthly pains 

While listening to the maddening strains, 

The racking, pestering, sickening, blithering 
strains 


Of Hiawatha. 


THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY. 


S. A. PADDOCK. 


In 1670 a party of men bound together 
under the name of the Hudson Bay Com- 
pany, came to America for the purpose of 
carrying on a fur trade with the Indians, 
and immediately built a few forts along 
the cheerless shores of the vast, landlocked 
body of water from which their company 
derived its name. They were under the 
patronage of Prince Rupert, second cousin 
to Charles Il. Their charter gave them 
the grant of exclusive trade, besides full 
possession in perpetuity of all lands in the 
watershed of Hudson bay. A _ lucrative 
trade with the redskins was soon estab- 
lished, and large dividends were paid to 
the fortunate shareholders until near the 
close of the 18th century. Then the com- 
pany’s prosperity began to be seriously 
affected by the energetic competition of 
Canadian fur traders. 

While Canada was owned by the French, 
the Company, because of the monopoly 
which it enjoyed, carried on its business in 
anything but an enterprising way. It was 
content to wait on the coast for furs to be 
brought to it, instead of pushing into the 
interior and sending forth agents. The 
conquest of Canada by England in 1761 
revolutionized the fur trade and, indeed, 
ruined it for several years. Then the Brit- 
ish began trading with the Western Indian 
tribes, and worked farther and farther into 
the forest until the Athabasca and Church- 
ill rivers were finally reached. 

The Hudson Bay Company was roused 
from its torpor by the competition of other 
traders and in 1774 established a fort on 
Sturgeon lake. Up to that time almost 
nothing had been done toward the explora- 
tion of its extensive territories. 

The same year an obstacle more serious 
than the opposition of a rival company 
arose in the shape of a conspiracy among 
the Indians to exterminate the traders. 
But it was the redskins who were exter- 
minated, or nearly so; not by the paleface, 
but by that dread disease, the smallpox. 
The scourge raged until only a few insur- 
gent natives remained alive. That con- 
spiracy was the direct cause of the con- 
solidation of the scattered Canadian fur 
traders into an association, consisting of 16 
and later of 30 partners, under the name of 
the Northwest Company of Canada. It 
strove vigorously but vainly to force the 
Hudson Bay Company out of the field. Its 
agents busied themselves with exploring 
the vast territory of Canada, and estab- 
lished several trading posts. The most 
famous of their explorers was Alexander 


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Mackenzie who, in 1789, reached the Arctic 
ocean and discovered the mouth of the great 
river which now bears his name. Later 
he crossed the Rocky mountains and fol- 
lowed the Fraser river to its mouth in 
Georgian gulf. 

Thus it came about that the new com- 
pany in time ruled the country from the 
Canadian lakes to the Rockies. It even en- 
croached on its rival’s territory to the North 
and forced it to act or be wiped out of ex- 
istence. Accordingly the original com- 
pany pushed its posts farther into the in- 
terior, and in 1821 established a settlement 
on Red River, South of Lake Winnipeg, 
thus putting an obstacle in the way of its 
competitor. The Northwest Company was 
not inclined to tolerate this, and a mighty 
quarrel broke out, resulting in a war, last- 
ing 2 years and ending only when the Red 
River settlers were forced from their posi- 
tion after the murder of Semple, their goy- 
ernor, in 1816. Though that was the end 
of active warfare it was not-until 1821 that 
the terrible feud came to an end. It must 
be remembered that at that time law had 
little force in the trackless wilderness. 

The feud had a most demoralizing effect 
on the Indians, for both sides, each endeav- 
oring to swell the numbers of its allies, sup- 
plied whiskey in unlimited quantities to the 
Indians. As a consequence the whole re- 
gion became the scene of battle, and if it 
had long continued the most important 
tribes would probably have been extermi- 
nated. 


The income from the fur trade was rapid- 
ly diminished until both companies were 
forced to discontinue dividends. This state 
of affairs existed about 6 years. It was 
seen that if the feud did not soon end both 
parties would be ruined. There was but 
one thing to do, and that was to band to- 
gether into one company. This they did in 
1821, under the old name of the Hudson 
Bay Company. After that, the former ene- 
mies, working for mutual benefit. pros- 
pered and were soon able to pay half yearly 
dividends of 5 per cent. 

The Indians also prospered, for whiskey 
was denied them by the Company. In fact, 
the savages had to go without fire water 
until 1873, when whiskey smugglers from 
the United States supplied them with it. 
The wily smugglers returned across the 
boundary with their wagons loaded with 
furs and in certain parts of the country the 
Company’s great warehouses remained 
empty throughout the year. 

The Canadian Government was called on 





THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY. 


for aid, and laws prohibiting the introduc- 
tion of malt and spirituous liquors into 
the Northwest Territories were immediate- 
ly passed. Moreover, the organization 
now known as the Northwest mounted po- 
lice was charged to enforce them. 

Soon after the formation of the new 
Hudson Bay Company, the British Gov- 
ernment granted it a license—terminable 
in 2I years, but renewed for a like term 
in 1838—of exclusive trade throughout the 
territory from Labrador to the Pacific, and 
from the Red river to the Polar ocean. 
Twenty-eight years later the Government 
granted a further license of exclusive trade 
and management over Vancouver Island to 
prevent its being annexed by the United 
States. The Company then held control of 
4,000,000 square miles of territory and its 
yearly profits were immense, amounting to 
£81,000 with a paid up capital of £400,000. 
It was reconstructed in 1863 with a capital 
of £2,000,000 for the purpose of enlarging 
its field of operation. . 

Over that vast country about 200 trading 
posts have been established. These forts 
are without exception placed on the shore 
of some lake or river so furs may be 
easily transported. The business of the 
larger forts with the Indians is carried on 
by a chief trader and a general adminis- 
trator. About 3,500 clerks, postmasters, 
surgeons, etc. are employed, and nearly 
100,000 hunters and trappers, both white 
and Indian, serve the great corporation. 
Many ocean vessels are employed on the 


Northwest coast to carry on trade with the 


natives. Forty years ago this trade alone 
employed 1,000 men, 5 armed sailing ves- 
sels and one armed steamer. 

During the short season when the North- 
ern lakes and rivers are navigable the ac- 
cumulated furs are transported in canoes 
to York or Moose Factory on Hudson 
bay, thence either to Montreal or Van- 
couver. Ultimately most of them go to 
London. It takes many months for furs 
to reach their destination from far points 
in the interior, on account of the numer- 
ous rapids and portages to be passed, and, 
above all, because of the long winter. 


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The Company annually exports £150,000 
to £200,000 worth of peltries to England, 
besides exchanging many pelts for Russian 
and American furs; while a large number 
are exported direct to China. - The profits 
are immense. Money or goods from 5 to 75 
cents in value is given to the Indian for 
a marten skin worth $10 to $30. For a 
$500 fox skin poor Lo receives but little 
more. 

The Company claims that its influence 
over its savage dependents has been ben- 
eficial. So it has, for itself, at least. 
Whether the conversion of a free, hardy, 
frugal and self reliant savage into a lazy, 
dependent, drunken and diseased being, 
practically enslaved by a vast monopoly, is 
a gain to the world at large, may well be 
questioned. 

Moose Factory is over 200 years old, and 
has for some time been the main port on 
James bay. There are situated the head 
offices for the region; and, as the vessel 
from England lands all supplies there, it 


-is the center of distribution for the whole 


bay. The population is about 200, con- 
sisting exclusively of Company employees 
and their famlies. Several hundred In- 
dians are connected with the post. A small 
saw mill manufactures lumber for all the 
posts in the region. A boat building shop 
is also maintained, which has turned out 
vessels capable of crossing the open bay. 

Moose Factory is also the headquarters 
of the missionary diocese of Mooseone. 
A substantial church has been erected, as 
well as a residence for the bishop. Out- 
lying stations have been established at 
Fort Hope, Fort Albany, York Fort, Rup- 
ert’s House, etc. The Indians are all nom- 
inally Christians; most of them are able 
to speak English and to read in their own 
language (Swampy Cree). They use a 
system of phonetic spelling well adapted 
to the language. South of New Post the 
Indians are Ojibways, and adherents of the 
Roman Catholic church: They do not use 
the phonetic writing, but can write in the 
ordinary characters as taught by the Cath- 
olic missionaries. 





The Guide: 
peak at last. 
The Tourist: 


Well, here we are on the 


Do you mean we can get 


no higher? Don’t say that I can ascend no 


farther! 
The Guide: 


alpenstock if you want to. 


—Chicago Tribune. 


Well, you can climb up this 


It’s 7 feet long. 


. 


VENEERED HUMAN NATURE. 


GRANT WALLACE, 


In the San Francisco Bulletin. 


All healthy and normal souls love the 
society of trees and mountains. What a 
relief to be away for a season from the 
crowded pavements and the marts of sordid 
men, where familiarity begets contempt and 
weariness of spirit, to the wilderness of 
crags and pines, fresh and inspiring as when 
spilled from the hand of the Creator, where 
familiarity begets only respect and tender- 
ness! , 

Forever, the highest wisdom springs from 
the tenderest feelings. Your laboratory 
scientist, coldly intellectual, unemotional, 
may observe external facts, and tabulate 
and compare; but he shall never lay hold 
on the big, eternal truths of life until he lets 
emotion play under intellect, even as the 
flame plays under the crucible of cold min- 
erals in his laboratory. Then the gold 
cometh. ; 

Your city man comes forth encrusted with 
materiality, functioning brilliantly enough 
on the mental plane, but lacking in that 
close sympathy with his brother men and 
his brother beasts and birds and that tender 
interest in and consideration for their lives 
and comfort whtich the quiet, observant 
rustic displays. 

The city for intellect, the country for 
genuine human feeling. The city for smug, 
refined hypocrisy in half the acts of life, 
the country for uncouth candor and un- 
manicured sincerity. 

For the most astounding examples of 
ironed and perfumed savagery, commend 
me to the urban product. The countryman, 
particularly the mountaineer, who has time 
for mediation, may wear clothes that do 
not fit him; he may mispronounce some of 
his words; but, as a rule, he is genuine and 
tender souled; but he never shoots a deer 
if he does not need it. 

The city either breaks or hardens the 
heart. It is ever the grave of innocence and 
wholesomeness and rest. The unnatural 
conditions of modern city life, the develop- 
ment of low cunning, the mad scramble for 
pelf and place, make brutes of men, and 
encase whatever of soul there may be left 
in them in a crust of heartless materiality, 
thick and impenetrable. Civilization has 
ever developed the physical amd the intel- 
lectual at the expense of the psychic, the 
humane and the spiritual. 

Such are a few of the reflections that 
crossed my mind as I lay, rolled in my 
blanket, on a luxurious and fragrant bed 
of yellow pine needles and blossoming wild 
buckwheat, in a gloomy rhus thicket on the 


lonely summit of the Sierra de la Liebre 
mountains. 

Range on range of sun-baked mountains, 
covering hundreds of square miles to the 
West and South, practically uninhabited 
save by the deer, the puma, the wildcat and 
the quail, had melted into hazy blue and 
had then merged into the general blackness. 
It was the heart of the deer country, and 
my duties as Government Ranger in the 
great forest reserve had been rendered 
doubly arduous for a month by the neces- 
sity of keeping a watchful eye on the bands 
of deer butchers from the cities, and in 
seeing that forest fires were not started 
from their camp fires. 

These conscienceless hunters seem, many 
times, to take a vicious pleasure in see- 
ing how rapidly and completely they can 
pull off their veneer of urban civilization and 
revert to their true characters of irresponsi- 
ble savages, as soon as they are out of the 
sight of the blue coated policemen. Time 
after time, in ranging up and down the 
mountain streams of Ventura, Los Angeles, 
San Diego and San Bernardino counties, I 
have found the outlets of the trout pools 
dammed up where these gentlemen sports- 
men from the city had waded in and thrown 
all the fish out on the banks, in order that 
they might carry into camp a great catch 
of 75 to 100 trout, and so make a record. 

It is these same gentry who boast of 
shooting 100 doves a day, whether nesting 
or not; who slaughter mother does and 
tiny milk-drinking, spotted fawns, when- 
ever the Ranger or the deputy game warden 
is not watching; who scatter leaden death 
among the mocking birds, the orioles and 
the little families of half grown quails, pip- 
ing behind their mothers around the water- 
holes in the canyons, and whose motto is 
“Kill, kill! No matter what it is, kill!” 

As I drowsed under the stars, I remem- 
bered how, a few hours before, in follow- 
ing the trail of a puma over the Liebre, 
it had led me to the recently abandoned 
camp of a party of 4 deer slayers, hard 
by the only water-hole in that region, I 
caught a glimpse of the tawny “terror of 
the mountains” as he slunk away, waving 
his long, black tipped tail with quick jerks 
as an angry house cat does. At the same 
time 2 coyotes and a family of silver foxes 


_scampered away into the buckthorn chapar- 


I2e 


ral at my approach. All had been devour- 
ing fragments of venison and gnawing at 
the half stripped carcases of deer surround- 
ing the abandoned camp. 





VENEERED HUMAN NATURE. 


_I counted portions of 14 deer, large and 
small. Two spoiled hides lying near 
were clearly those of does, which it is 
never lawful to kill here. I am told the 
campers admitted killing 20 deer, in 2 
weeks, by the murderous method of lying 
in wait at night at the spring and shooting 
them down as they camé to quench their 
thirst. 

These sportsmen are the highest product 
of our alleged civilization. All these 
4 veneered savages are professional men; 
2 being physicians who, having broken 
down their own health in a mad scramble 
to build up the health and deplete the pock- 
etbooks of other people, had sought retire- 
ment in the wilderness to commune with 
nature with repeating rifles. and pump guns 
loaded with buckshot. Health to them 
spelled death to every wild thing within 
range. 

Yet, curious commentary on the helpless- 
ness of man, were these banal lead sling- 
ers to be deprived of their breech loaders 
and compelled to wrestle with the wilder- 
ness for an existence, they could not for a 
day compete with the chipmunk or the cot- 
tontail. 

Were we to dub such sportsmen beasts 
we would owe an apology to the 4 footed 
ones, for none, save the puma and the 
grizzly bear when angered, will kill more 
than it needs. Only man kills for the mere 
sake of killing. Only civilized man swings 
the besom of annihilation. It was not the 
Indians who annihilated the millions of bi- 
zon on our plains. It was sportsmen such 
as I am describing. 

One night I was awakened at 2 o’clock 
by the blood-chilling cry of a mountain lion. 
A little later, from a distance came the 
sound of squealing, and the “‘woof-woof!” 
of terrified pigs. On my way down the 
mountain next morning I passed the spot, 
an ancient hog corral built of chemisal 
brush, in which possibly 2 dozen wild hogs 
had taken refuge. There the lion had found 
them in the night, and with a savage feroc- 
ity almost equalling that of the college-bred 
deer butchers, he had struck dead 11 of the 
pigs. I found 5 or 6 others wandering 
about in the canyon, some with their throats 
or sides torn open, others with eyes 
scratched out; for the puma strikes with 


I2I 


extended, rigid claws, and the results are 
frightful. 

I have found does wounded and left to 
die by heartless gunners, and birds and 
fishes killed for the sake of killing, and 
thrown away. 

A friend, a mountaineer, had half a dozen 
pet does and fawns which fed with his cat- 
tle, and which he prized highly. While ab- 
sent one day some city sportsmen killed all 
of them. . 

All sounds are musical in the woods, save 
the crack of a rifle. There is nothing more 
terrible than case hardened, pavement civ- 
ilization with a gun. It is not the set- 
tlers, many of whom do not kill one deer 
apiece per year, but the kid glove type of 
hunter from the city who slaughters re- 
morselessly, and sweeps the California hills 
clear of every form of wild life. 

They are as senselessly destructive as the 
ravening kangaroo rats which carry off my 
spoons and pencils; objects entirely useless 
to them. These men are the pickpockets of 
Nature, nor have they the excuse of the 
wild justice of revenge, or the necessity of 
self protection. Ancestral blindness wraps 
them up. 

To remonstrate with such men is like 
feeding meat to a horse. Had they other 
eyes than those of corded fat and gristle 
they might get far greater pleasure out 
of hunting the wild creatures of the wood 
with a camera; and they would find it 
would require greater patience, knowledge 
and acumen to still hunt thus, than to make 
the ground wet with the blood of ,fawns 
and orioles. 

Year after year these cultivated vic- 
tims of the continuous calamity of blood- 
thirstiness are permitted to roam the woods 
and mountains, blind to all the real beauty 
about them, forever gripping a long range 
gun and groping about, like the puma or the 
giant in the nursery tale, with his “Fee-fo- 
fum,” smelling blood and prey. At this rate 
it is only a question of a few years when 
there will be left in California neither game 
nor songsters larger than the cicada. 

May the gods endow such Goths and 
Huns of the fields with a conscience, equal 
at least, to that of the wolf, which kills only 
what it needs! 


“Oh, yes, I’ve opened an office,” said the 
young lawyer; “you may remember that 
you saw me buying an alarm clock the other 


day.” 
“Yes,” 


replied his friend; “you have to 


get up early these mornings, eh?” 


“OC, no. 


I use it to wake me up, when 


it’s time to go home.”—Philadelphia Press, 


SEA TROUT GALORE. 


GOLD DUST. 


During a great blizzard which extended 
, over the entire country East of the Rock- 
ies, a friend and I were in camp on the 
banks of New river. New river is 40 miles 
North of Wilmington, North Carolina, and 
for 25 miles is a tide water stream varying 
in width from one to 5 miles, and in depth 
from one to 35 feet. 

The population of the surrounding coun- 
try is composed almost wholly of that class 
of whites known in the South as Crackers, 
and of a low type of negro. All the people 
living near the river are fishermen, but they 
also plant a little land with corn, cotton 
and sweet potatoes. 

The blizzard, which they term in the 
South a “freeze,” lasted from February 
oth to 15th. Snow fell to the depth of 8 
inches, accompanied by a severe Northern 
gale, and the oldest inhabitants said it was 
the longest and most severe freeze they 
could remember. The temperature fell to 
zero during the night of the 11th, and ice 
formed in many places on the river to the 
depth of 4 inches. Though the people suf- 
fered extremely from eold they were jubi- 
lant over the prospect of a large catch of 
fish, as the freezing of the river killed the 
fish that were in shallow water. 

New river and White Oak river are 
known throughout the South as the best 
feeding grounds for mullet. Sea trout 
come ‘up both rivers with the tide to feed 
on mullet, their principal food. 

Matt and Ben Taylor, 2 old fishermen, 
suggested that we join forces with them 
and take part in the grand scramble for 
trout as soon as the river broke up. That 
occurred during the night of February 
15th. 

The next morning we were astir bright 
and early. We set out for the river, tak- 
ing an axe to break our way to clear wa- 
ter. After a hard struggle we succeeded in 
floating the boats, and were the first fish- 
ermen on the scene. The sudden change 
from cold to warm weather broke the ice 
and caused heavy fog. 

After rowing a half mile or so up stream 
we saw dead trout floating on the surface; 
then the fun began. We had been out but 
a short time when the wind changed from 
South to Southwest and lifted the fog.. 
When we were seen at work gathering the 
harvest of trout, boats were pushed out 
from every point. In a few minutes it 
seemed as if the entire population was on 
the river. A general scramble ensued as to 
who should gather most of the harvest. 
These harvests of fish occur only once in 


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4 or 5 years, and then last only -a few 
hours; and all manner of craft are im- 
pressed into use. The women, both white 
and black, take a hand with the men. 

To add to the excitement and our great 
discomfort, a heavy Northwesterly wind 
sprang up, blowing almost a gale. By 
that time we had our boat full to the gun- 
wale. Being in the middle of the river, it 
was a question whether we could reach the 
shore with our cargo or would be obliged 
to throw it overboard to keep from swamp- 
ing. Each heavy sea broke over us and 
added a bucketful or more of water to that 
already in the boat. 

While Matt handled the oars I bailed 
in double quick time with an immense 
gourd. We succeeded after tremendous 
effort in reaching the float ice along the 
shore, but here our troubles really began. 
Our boat was so heavily loaded that the 
gunwhale was but little above the surface 
of the water. The waves dashed the heavy 
ice against.us until we expected the next 
swell would send us to the bottom. Matt, 
after great difficulty, brought the boat suffi- 
ciently near the shore to allow us to jump 
overboard; then taking hold of the gun- 
wale we drew the boat in to land. 

On counting our fish we found we had 
a few over 500, weighing 2'%4 to 13 pounds; 
averaging about 4 pounds each. 

My friend and his fishing partner, Ben, 
were not so fortunate as Matt and I. They 
secured only about half a boatload of trout, 
but they escaped the exciting experience 
we had in making land and came in dry 
and warm. Matt and I were soaked to the 
skin with icy salt water. We were just 5 
hours filling our boat and making land. 

All trout caught in the river are iced, 
packed in barrels, and shipped to New 
York and Philadelphia where they usually 
bring 12 to 15 cents a pound; but owing 
to the thousands of fish caught during that 
“numb,” and to a combination between the 
fish buyers, fishermen on the river were 
obliged to sell their fish for almost nothing. 
Seven cents was the highest price paid for 
any; and we were fortunate in selling ours 
for that. A great many fish were sold for 
3 and 4 cents, and some as low as 2 cents 
each. 

The salt water trout of the South resem- 
bles in form the landlocked salmon, and 
in color the California brown trout. The 
flesh before cooking has the pink color 
of the brook trout and is like it when 
cooked, being delicious in flavor, and ex- 
ceedingly rich. 


NS 


es —— 


AN IMPSON VALLEY FOX HUNT. 


R. J. LONG. 


A few nights ago some one on the edge 
of town wound a few blasts on a hunting 
horn; for what purpose I do not know. 
It may have been a recall to some errant 
dog or it may have been that the musician 
simply wanted to refresh his ear with the 
mellow notes. Whatever his object he did 
one thing, and that was oscillate the 
brain cell containing the memory of my 
first and last fox hunt. 

Before that hunt I had been a scoffer 
at the enthusiasm shown by devotees of the 
chase. “What sport,” I asked, “can be 
found riding across country frosty nights 
listening to the bawling of a lot of 
hounds?” Those to whom this question 
was addressed, knowing my love for all 
other forms of sport, would perhaps in- 
quire, “Did you ever run a fox?” On my 
admitting that I never had, they would ex- 
press their contempt for my ignorance. 

How I came to be converted was in this 
way: Ben Bedford, one of the wildest 
hunters that ever tore along in the wake 
of a bugling pack, won the love of a bright 
eyed Indian girl attending school in this 
city. After their marriage, Ben suffered 
the fire in his smithy to go out and moved 
to Indian Territory, setting up as a way- 
side Vulcan in the beautiful valley of Imp- 
son, 25 miles from the nearest railroad. 
Ben prospered. There was much horse 
shoeing and other work for a clever smith 
like Ben, and besides Choctaw marriage 
had given him the right to fence and cul- 
tivate, or rent to others, as much land as 
he cared to. Saxon like, Ben had a good 
eye for fertile soil. Game was abundant; 
the waters teemed with fish; his hounds 
were lean and hard and the gray foxes 
gave him the sport he loved best. 

When Ben wrote to his brother-in-law, 
Kinzie Pickard, and me, in the fall of 1900, 
to come and hunt, I was made glad. We 
took along the bird dogs, for I have ever 
been, in lawful season, a pesterer of whir- 
ring Robert White. Ben’s wife was away 
on a long visit, but as each man was a 
competent cook we fared well. I am not 
going to tell how the bass bit in Ten Mile, 
Buck and Cypress creeks; how Kinzie 
killed red squirrels in the bottoms: or 
how I fogged up the birds over old Faust 
and Pancho. It is enough to say that we 
feasted on bass, birds, and turkey breast. 

We had been there to days, and Kinzie 
announced one morning that he purposed 
running a fox that night. I told him he 
might run a fox if he wanted to, but that I 
did not propose to engage in any such 


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silliness. They worked on me that day 
with argument and threat until I reluc- 
tantly consented to go. Preparation began 
at nightfall. Tom Click, a neighbor, could 
not go, but contributed 7 lank, lean music 
boxes, while we had 6. Meanwhile a great 
and unpleasant suspicion had grown upon 
me. From certain glances I had inter- 
cepted and chuckles overheard I concluded 
that I was to be ridden to death or lost 
in the hills; so when we selected our 
horses I chose a black mare of racing 
strain, the fastest thing in those parts. 
They might ride me to a frazzle, but run 
away from me, never. 

It was a great white night, the 6th of 
November, when we started down the val- 
ley with the shadowy figures of the dogs 
trotting around and before us. Ben and 
Kinzie were joyous and elated, while I was 
silent and dubious. I was dissatisfied. Al- 
ways thin blooded, the frosty air was biting 
me; my dissatisfaction increased. My com- 
panions drew rein about 2 miles from home 
and sat listening. The dogs had been on 
forages on each side of the road, but with- 
out any decided results. Presently Ben 
remarked: 

“They ought to strike somewhere 
here.” 

“Yes,” I snarled, “and we ought to be 
at home in bed.” 

“Shut up!” retorted Pickard, and silence 
ensued. A few minutes we sat thus, when 
far to South of us sounded a cry that 
was like mellow wine to the blood. It 
was the voice of that good old campaigner, 
Drive; he who had thrashed and domi- 
nated every pack he ever ran with. The 
cry was answered from all sides. Two 
of Click’s dogs darted across the road. 
Kinzie and Ben were pounding the road 
50 yards away, and the black mare was 
tugging to go. I loosed her rein and found 
myself tearing along in my first fox chase. 
It was easy sailing a while, but we soon 
turned off into a bottom road that was 
ugly and where the shadows lay deep. 
There was no slackening of what seemed 
to me a desperate pace. Emerging, a long 
ridge lay bare and white before us; gaining 
its crest every note of a wonderful chorus 
floated up to us. I was glad I came; my 
blood was popping hot; all else was for- 
gotten in the witchery of moonlight and 
riotous melody. I was at once a full 
fledged fox hunter. 

There was tacking a while in the scant 
brush, and then the chase led straightaway. 
Helter skelter we went down the ridge in 


in 


124 RECREATION. 


pursuit. It seemed the fox was trying to 
outrun his pursuers in a straightaway dash. 
We struck a good road running our way, 
and what racing there was to catch up with 
the pack! We heard them tree, but before 
we got there the fox was killed. Jim 
Blackburn, living on the road, had heard 
the dogs and been unable to stay in 
bed; his dogs had joined ours, and when 
he rode to where they had treed, the fox 
sprang out and was killed. It was a large 
dog fox, and after some discussion it was 
decided to return and find its mate. 

This resulted in what the others de- 
clared one of the finest runs they ever par- 
ticipated in. My Lady Fox was soon dis- 
covered, and put up a run for life and 
liberty that for cunning, gameness and en- 
durance won my profound admiration. 
Once she passed us sitting still on our 
horses, in plain view, slipping like a fading 
shadow into the bushes that lined the little 
creek. Never getting out of hearing, seem- 
ingly loath to leave her accustomed walks, 
for nearly 3 hours she trailed, a deadly and 
musical choir in her wake. It was great! 
It was cruel and pitiful. It was magnifi- 
cent, but I thought of her lord and master 
tied to my saddle bow, self-sacrificed in a 
vain endeavor to lead those speedy devils 

away from the vicinity of his lady love. * 

Finally my lady began to dodge her way 
to a dense swamp far in the North, where 


in its tangled depths she might “gain refuge 


from her toil.” Again the rapid ride 
put the blood lust in me, and when we drew 
rein on a hill overlooking the swamp every 
cruel instinct was awake, and I said to 
Pickard, “I should like to see the kill.” 
“Come on,” and he was flying down the 
road. It was dark in those depths except 
where the moonlight fell in patches; 
branches slashed me in the face; the green 
briar brought blood, but in my ears a bed- 


lam of canine melody was ringing. It was . 


soon over. We were within 30 steps when 
they caught her. Dismounting, we ran up 
to the snarling, snapping mass of dogs, dust 
and flying leaves, into which Pickard 
plunged, kicking right and left. When he 
emerged he held the form of my clever 
little lady, already growing stiff with 
death. 

Then came the revulsion. While I said 
nothing, in my heart I hated a hound and 
grieved for the little lady done to death. 
I lay abed next morning and ached in 
every joint and tissue. I was congratulated 
on my conduct and change of heart, and I 
had to own that I had had magnificent 
sport. Magnificent it is; the wild riding in 
the moonlight, your pulses beating to the 
music of the pack; but when the dogs pile 
snapping and snarling on a little run down 
figure, and the leaves whirl and the dust 
rises it is cruel and pathetic. : 


TROUBLE WITH THE LAMBS. 


A Kansas farmer who employed a foot- 
ball player on his farm last summer had 
a herd of sheep that was causing him no 
little trouble. He called the college man out 
into the pen about 6 o'clock one morn- 
ing, and said that he wanted him to herd 
the sheep over to a certain place and then 
drive them slowly back, so as to have them 
in the pens by 7 o’clock that night. The 
new herder started out awkwardly, and the 
farmer returned to the stable. 

Supper time came and not a word had 
been heard from the sheep. Finally at 8 
o'clock the farmer began to be alarmed, 
and was getting ready to go out on a hunt, 
when he heard someone come whistling 


through the yard, and in walked the new 
hand, all smiles and apparently not tired 
at all by his day’s work. 

“Kinder late. Hev any trouble?” 

“Not much, thank you. Got along very 
nicely. But those 3 lambs did keep me 
busy, I will admit.” 

“Lambs! Ain’t got a lamb in the hull 


bunch.” 

“Well, I guess you have, all right. They 
are in the pen now.” 

The farmer grabbed the young fellow by 
the arm, and they hurried to the pen. There, 
chasing about among the sheep, the farmer 
found 3 jack rabbits——Kansas City Journal. 


A MASTER OF THEORY. 


G. A. MACK, 


When first I met E. Mortimer Murta- 
goyd he was sitting in a grove of sugar 
maples, watching for grey squirrels. At 
least, he said he was watching for them 
and as he is big and aggressive looking, I 
took his word for it. His toggery was ir- 
reproachable. His corduroy jacket was 
neither too new nor too old. His leggings 
were briar scratched, yet not at all shabby. 
The forearm of his Savage showed a little 
wear, whether from his hand or a bit of 
emery cloth it was impossible to tell. Mur- 
tagoyd is a neighbor of mine and I had 
long been impressed by his exceedingly 
sportsmanlike air; therefore, with my 
most ingratiating smile, I inquired what 
success he had had. 

“T have just come out,” he replied. “Grey 
squirrels are most active from 4 to 
p.m. If we remain quiet they will soon 
make their appearance.” 

“Probably—” I said, glancing at the sur- 
rounding maples, “probably to get syrup 
for their morning wheat cakes.” 

My companion paid no attention to this 
puerility, and I tried again. Said I: 

“You have a Savage: I should have 
thought a .22 more suita——’ 

“Do you mean .22-3-30, .22-5-35, .22-5-40, 
.22-7-40, .22-7-45, .22-8-45 or .22-13-45?” 

“T had in mind the single shot,” I babbled. 

“Oh,” said he, “the .22-13-45; an excel- 
lent cartridge in its way. Its m. v. f. s. 
is 1481: trajectory at 100 yards, 2.71; at 
200 yards, 12.63; at 300, 33.67. It is capable 
of penetrating 5 %-inch dry pine boards at 
15 feet from muzzle; but the Savage min- 
iature, .303-5%4-100 is much better for 
small game, having more shocking power 
and a flatter trajectory. Its m. v. f. s. 
1-—— - 

“Tsn’t that a squirrel?” I interrupted, 
pointing vaguely at a distant nothing. 

Murtagoyd produced a field glass and 
looked in the direction indicated. Then 
he lowered the binocular and glanced sus- 
piciously at me. Seeing no trace of guile 
in my countenance, he gazed again through 
the glass. 

“Ah!” he exclaimed, “I see it now. It is 
a female, however, and I make it a rule to 
shoot only bucks.” 

Then, and until dusk, a flood of inside 
information rolled over me again; the 
while I thanked Heaven I had not met him 
earlier in the day. As we left the grove I 
suggested that had he been alone he would 
probably have been more successful in get- 
ting game. 

“Yes,” he assented; “I think your noisy 


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approach to the woods frightened the squir- 
rels. A sportsman should above all culti- 
vate noiseless celerity of movement. In 
walking through the forest tread softly on 
the ball of the foot, not permitting the heel 
to touch the ground; and be careful to 
avoid dry twigs.” 

He showed me how the thing should be 
done, As an exhibition of airy grace by 
a 180 pounder, it was well enough; as a 
demonstration of silent celerity, it rivalled 
the happiest efforts of a rheumatic cow. 

Subsequently I called, by invitation, on 
Murtagoyd. He was, it appeared, at work 
in his study, and would I step up? I did 
so, and found him writing at a library table 
littered with MSS. and with gun cata- 
logues and other works of reference. 

“I’m glad to see you,” he cried. “Sit 
down a minute, dear boy, until I finish 
this treatise.” 

The room was large and well furnished. 
On racks hung a small but choice collec- 
tion of firearms, chiefly rifles of late de- 
sign and high power. Every available inch 
of a large book case was filled with pam- 
phlets and volumes relating to ballistics, 
guns and hunting. More literature of the 
same sort was heaped in corners. Photos 
and lithographs of game hung on the walls, 
interspersed with cartridge manufacturers’ 
calendars. Presently Murtagoyd looked up. 

“This writing is tedious work,” he re- 
marked, “but the public has such erroneous 
ideas about sport, and so much trash is 
written.” 

“Ah,” I returned, “then you write for 
publication ?” 

“Oh, yes,” he answered. “Here is a 
little thing of 12,000 words on ‘Some ex- 
periments with the .30-40 soft point on the 
equine cadaver.’ It is for the Dublin 
Sportsman. In it I illustrate, by anatom- 
ical diagrams, the fatal shots; also the prob- 
able course of bullets entering at given 
points. It is quite exhaustive.” 

“T can well believe it,” I interjected. 

“Yes,” he continued, “for instance; one 
bullet entered at crest of frontal bone, fol- 
lowed the vertebral column, and the bulk 
lodged at root of tail. Fragments of the 
ball pierced every vital organ except the 
appendix vermiformis. Following out the 
dissection I traced bits of the jacket down 
both posterior limbs as far as the gam- 
brels.” 

“Such a demonstration is of undoubted 
value to science,” I remarked politely. 

“And here,” added my friend, “is a bro- 
chure of 20,000 ems for the London Field. 


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It is entitled ‘Neurotic Lesions of Sports- 
men,’ and is in 3 parts. The first treats 
generally of hygiene from a sporting stand- 
point. It advocates daily cold _ tubbing, 
deep inhalations and avoidance of stimu- 
lants. The next is devoted to blinking, 
wincing, and other manifestations of gun- 
shyness in man. The last discusses hyster- 
ical superexaltation following a successful 
shot.” 

“T presume,” I said, “you write also for 
American publications.” 

“Well,” he returned, “not often. You see, 
English periodicals accept work only from 
acknowledged authorities; and the disgust- 
ing blue pencil habit is not prevalent there. 
I once sent a brief article of 14,000 words 
to the leading magazine in this country de- 
voted to sport. I mention no names, but it 
is published, I think, on West 24th Street. 
My contribution was on “The more remote 
toxic effects of the copper patch on the 
vaso-motor nerves of the moose.’ You will 
scarcely credit it, but my article appeared 
in print as an item of 247 words; and some 
of those were abbreviated !” 

I murmured inarticulate sympathy. Then, 
after waiting for his emotion to subside, I 
ventured : 

“You have a cosy den. I suppose you 
keep your trophies elsewhere, not caring to 
wager them on the efficiency of our fire 
department.” 

“Eh—yes,” said Murtagoyd, “that is it. 
By the way, this is a charming day; take 
one of my guns and we will go shoot 
something.” 

“Why, really,’ I answered, “I know of 
nothing to shoot now except chucks.” 

“Then we will shoot chucks,” he cried. 
“Take that Krag on the farther rack and 
come along.” 

“I’m a little shy of heavy artillery,” I 
replied, “but I will watch you shoot.” 

“All right; but wait a moment,” and he 
touched a bell. “Maggie,” he said, when 
the girl appeared,. “tea, ice, and lemons,” 


Jack: 
gown, Helen! 
Helen: 


This old thing! 
I can see my face in it. 


RECREATION. 


and. turning to me, “Let me offer you 
Some Russian tea; it’s the only drink for a 
sportsman.” 

“It’s too arctic for me,” I rejoined. “If 
you have anything from the temperate 
zone, say Scotch——” 

“My dear boy, I dare not give you such 
a nerve-racking concoction; at least, not 
until we return.” 

When the tea came, Murtagoyd drank 
one glass, then another. 

“I’m in fine fettle to-day,” he said, “I 
think I may venture on a third.” 

After he had consulted the thermometer 
and the barometer, we left the house, he 
carrying a Savage, and I, the field glass. 
We traversed a number of fields without 
finding game. At length, while peeping 
over a stone wall, I saw a woodchuck sit- 
ting on the little mound in front of his 
burrow, and pointed it out to my com- 
panion. He crouched behind the wall for 
some time, evidently calculating the dis- 
tance. Then“ he looked at his’ watch, 
glanced at the sun, wet a finger and held 
it up to test the wind. All this while the 
quarry sat bolt upright. Murtagoyd took 
off his coat, laid it on the wall, and rested 
his rifle on it. 

“T shall aim at the point of its shoulder,” 
he announced. “Watch the effect through 
the glass.” 

Then he took a long breath, a still longer 
aim, and fired. Whether it was my ima- 
gination or was due to a flaw in the glass, 
I don’t know, but I thought I saw the 
chuck wink at me. Anyway, with a deris- 
ive flourish of his narrative, he dived into 
the hole. I considerately kept my eyes 
averted from my companion. 

“My calculations were absolutely cor- 
rect,” I heard him mutter. “That brute’s 
name would have been Dennis, but for a 
spasmodic constriction of the muscles of 
my right eye. I must limit myself to 2 cups 
of tea.” 


That’s a mighty good looking 


It’s so shiny 


“That’s probably why it’s so good look- 


ing.” —Exchange. 


FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


The man who quits when he gets enough, with plenty of game still in sight, is a real sportsman, 


_A NEW YORK MAN WHO WEARS 
BRISTLES. 

We went to Bathurst, N. B., September 
16th, last, and on arrival there were in- 
formed by the game warden that H. A. 
Jackson, of New York city, and his party 
had gone up the Nepisquit river a week 
or so previous; that all but Jackson had 
taken out licences, but that he had told 
the game warden, Henry Bishop, that as 
he intended to hunt bear only, he would 
not take out a license. 

The game warden asked us to keep a 
sharp lookout for Jackson, as he suspected 
Jackson meant to violate the law. 

We arrived September 21st at our hunt- 
ing grounds, and camped for the night. 
We intended to remain one week, but 
found there a Mr. Storm, a member of 
Jackson’s party, and learned from him that 
Jackson had fired at a bull moose the night 
before and had wounded him. This moose 
we found dead 5 days later. Instead of 
staying a week at the ponds we moved the 
next morning, having a suspicion that 
Jackson had sneaked in 2 or 3 days before 
us to some other small ponds, distant about 
12 miles from the South Branch ponds. We 
reached this latter hunting ground the 
night of September 22d, and Wednesday 
morning, September 23d, we met Jackson 
coming out. We accosted him and saw 
strapped on one of his guides a caribou 
head. Jackson admitted the head was his 
and we told him what we thought of him 
in forcible terms. 

September 24th Mr. Smith was injured 
and had to come out of the ‘woods. He 
arrived in Bathurst September 29th. He 
went at once to Mr. Bishop, the game war- 
den, and preferred charges against Jack- 
son for killing caribou without a license. 
Mr. Tilt, on going to the place where Jack- 
son had killed his caribou, found 2 other 
carcases of caribou, untouched, except that 
they had been shot. They were not killed 
for the heads, for they were spring calves. 
They were not even killed for meat, for 
not a pound of this had been taken. It 
was simply a case of wanton slaughter. 

William Gray, Jackson’s guide, is a thor- 
oughly disreputable man, and is despised 
by nearly all his neighbors. He was, of 
course, a party to Jackson’s unlawful work. 

Yours truly, 
Benjamin B. Tilt, 
Abel I. Smith, Jr. 


The facts regarding H. A. Jackson are 
as follows: When he and his party ar- 
rived in Bathurst from the woods, we had 
Jackson arrested on 2 charges, one of 
shooting a caribou, another of hunting 


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moose without a license. The party took 
out only 3 licenses, Mr. Jackson taking 
none. Jackson employed a lawyer and pro- 
tested that he had not violated the law. 
He had some bear skins, which he claimed 
he shot, but said his friends had shot the 
3 moose and one caribou, the heads of 
which they exposed here. You will note 
they showed only 3 moose heads here. 
When the trial came on we did not wish 
to be too severe on Jackson, and on his 
admitting the charge he was fined $50 and 
costs, for the moose episode, and the party 
left town. 

On their arrival at Bangor, the Daily 
Commercial: published an article which 
made Jackson out to be a great Nimrod. 
In Bangor they said the party had 4 large 
moose heads, the largest one a_ beauty, 
having been killed by Jackson, and gave _ 
full particulars of their trip. A friend sent 
me a copy of the newspaper and I wrote 
the editor exposing Jackson’s methods. 
My letter was published, and afterward 
copied into the St. John, N. B., Daily Tele- 
graph and other papers. I send you copies 
of the 2 articles. | 

Since then, a guide told me Jackson had 
previously taken moose heads from here by 
splitting the skull and concealing the skull 
and antlers in his luggage. 

I learned that Jackson or his party killed 
3 more caribou on this last trip, and did 
not even skin them or take off the heads. 
They simply left the 3 carcasses to rot in 
the woods. 

To further show that this man has been 
always a poacher, a man named Hotchkins, 
of Lambert’s Lake, Me., who was here 
lately, tells me he had Jackson fined in 
Maine, some years ago, and that Jackson 
skipped out after putting up a deposit. 
There is also evidence to show that the 
Jackson party used their permit to catch 
a few trout at the Falls for catching salmon 
this year. 

We have taken steps to prevent Mr. 
Jackson from getting any license here in 
future, and he will probably find that 
crooked work does not pay among sports- 
men. Yours truly, 

H. Bishop, Game Warden, Bathurst, N. B. 


I wrote Mr. Jackson as follows: 


I understand you killed a moose in 
New Brunswick, September last, which 
had a fecord head. Will you kindly ‘tell"me 


whether this report is correct? 
To which he replied: 
New York City. 
I send you the enclosed from Bangor 
paper. A. H. Jackson. 


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Jackson does not confirm or deny the 
statement that he killed the moose, but the 
fact that he encloses a clipping from the 
Bangor Commercial which says he did, is 
equivalent to saying yes. 


Here is a case that should be covered by 
international law, or by treaty. In the 
first place it appears Jackson went into 
the woods without a license, stating to the 
game warden that he was not going to kill 
any other game than bear. The laws of 
New Brunswick do not require a license to 
hunt these animals. It is clearly shown in 
the correspondence and the evidence pro- 
duced in the New Brunswick courts, that 
Jackson killed 3 caribou and 2 moose, 
though he did not gather the first moose. 
It further appears that he sawed the skull 
of the big moose in 2 and secreted the head 
and horns in his trunk, bringing them out 
without letting the game warden know of 
his having them. William Gray, Jackson’s 
guide, was a party to this fraud. 

Then as soon as Jackson crossed the in- 
ternational boundary into Maine he com- 
menced to boast to the newspaper report- 
ers of having killed an unusually large 
moose. On his return to New York the 
Evening Telegram was furnished with 4 
photographs, ostensibly made on this trip. 
One of these shows Jackson sitting behind 
a big moose head, which he claims to have 
killed. Another shows Frank Hays hold- 
ing up a big salmon, which he is supposed 
to have caught. 

Here is an extract from the Telegram’s 
report of an interview with Frank Hays, 
a member of the Jackson party: 


Jackson had a great adventure. He 
killed the biggest moose that has ever 
been taken out of New Brunswick. 
Don’t know how much it weighed, but 
it looked as big as an elephant, and you 
can tell the size of the antlers in the 
picture by comparing them with the 
size of Jackson’s head. It was a big 
bull. Jackson fell across him one day 
when he strayed away from us to get 
a record, and he got it. 

I got a couple of moose, and when- 
ever the gang wanted fish for break- 
fast it always fell to my lot to do the 
hooking. The picture would indicate 
that the fish I am holding is a salmon, 
but salmon were out of season while 
we were there; so it is not a salmon, 
but it was just as good as a salmon.” 


Jackson’s number in the swine record 
is 957. F 

It is unfortunate that we have not’a 
treaty with Canada which would allow an 
officer to come here, take Jackson across 
the line and try him in court for this fla- 
grant violation of the New Brunswick law. 
—Eprtor. 


RECREATION. 


KERR AND POOLE ARE CONVICTED. 

I hand you herewith a clipping from the 
St. Paul Globe, which details the finish of . 
the Lakefield case. The sportsmen of Min- 
nesota have been following this care- 
fully, as it means great things for the pres- 
ervation of game in this State. The war- 
den shall receive the encouragement and ap- 
probation that are due him when he makes a 
good haul like this. RECREATION, the sports- 
man’s best friend, will also be interested. 

I trust that, while you are getting all 
kinds of abuse handed out to you by the 
conscience-stricken game hogs, you will re- 
member that every right minded sportsman 
is with you, and that you will keep on 
roasting the hogs. 

Chas. E. Scofiesu, Ortonville, Minn. 

The clipping says: 

Twenty thousand dollars in fines is 
the most favorable outlook that con- 
fronts William Kerr and Robert Poole, 
of Lakefield, convicted of complicity 
in the recent attempt to smuggle 3,000 
wild ducks from this State into Iowa. 

That estimate of the penalty assumes 
that the court will impose the minimum 
fine of $10 for each bird; but if the 
maximum fine, $25 for each bird, were 
to be exacted, the aggregate would be 
SSD000. wad 

The officers of the commission had 
known for some time that a wholesale 
business in smuggling game from this 
State was being carried on in the vicini- 
ty of Heron lake. Finally definite in- 
formation came of a proposed shipment, 
and Captain William Bird and other of- 
ficers of the commission located a large 
number of ducks and other game birds 
in warehouses at Lakefield controlled 
by Kerr, and watched them several 
nights, until final preparations for the 
removal of the birds were completed. 
Then the officers of the commission, 
with the sheriff of Jackson county, fol- 
lowed the wagons in which the birds 
were being conveyed, until they had 
nearly reached Montgomery, Iowa. At 
that point they halted the drivers of the 
wagons, who were induced to return 
across the State line into Minnesota, 
and then they were placed under arrest 
and the birds were seized. The con- 
fiscated game was shipped at once to 
this city and placed in cold storage. It 
was found that there were nearly 3,000 
ducks in the lot. 

In the indictments returned against 
Kerr and Poole, they were charged 
with having tried to ship illegally from 
the State of Minnesota 2,000 wild ducks, 
although the number seized was more 
than 3,000. 

_The case was tried at Jackson in the 
district court. It was earnestly contested 





FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


on both sides, and every point was hard 
fought. The jury found Kerr and Poole 
guilty as charged in the indictments, 
and a stay of sentence was granted 
pending a motion for a new trial, with 
the ultimate purpose of an appeal to the 
supreme court. 
The fine can not be less than $20,000 and 
may be $50,000. 


This is one of the most important 
game cases ever tried in this country, and 
it is earnestly hoped that the Supreme Court 
of Minnesota may sustain the decision of 
the Jackson Court. It is not likely that 
Kerr and Poole are well enough fixed to be 
able to pay a $20,000 fine. If not, they 
should be compelled to go to jail and serve 
out that portion of the sentence which they 
can not liquidate in cash. This might mean 
a long term of imprisonment, but they men 
deserve it. They knew the law and knew 
the risk they were taking. They are known 
to be intelligent men, and if they see fit to 
carry on such a disreputable and destructive 
piece of business as this, with their eyes 
wide open, it is only fair and right that they 
should suffer the extreme penalty.—Eb1Tor. 





SOME BRITISH COLUMBIA BUTCHERS. 
My duties as deputy returning officer 
for the electoral district of Richmond, B.C., 
took me, during the recent elections, up 
Howe sound, a stretch of water some 40 
miles long, running in from Georgia, at 
the head of which the Squamish river en- 
ters. At its entrance from the gulf the 
river is wide and dotted with many islands, 
some settled and more still covered with 
heavy forests. 
The shores of all, as also those of the 
sound, are rocky and precipitous. The 
‘channels between the islands and between 
them and the mainland vary from:a mile to 
several miles in width. Deer swim from 
one island to another or from the main- 
land to the islands or vice versa. 

I had chartered a good sized naphtha 
launch and my father-in-law, Mr. Den- 
mark, accompanied me on the trip. While 
passing up the channel between Gambier 
island and the mainland we saw a deer 
swimming with just its back and head 
above water. It was within 75 yards of 
shore and we put on all steam to head 
it off. We had no firearms and no rope 
but the anchor rope. 

There happened to be a spare oar aboard, 
Mr. Denmark grabbed this and stationed 
himself in the bow to deal the deer a blow 
on the head as the boat passed. Mr. D. 
did not get in ‘his work in good shape. 
The deer gained the shore and scrambled 
on a ledge of rock in the face of the 
cliff. Full speed astern soon took us 


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back to the place where the deer had land- 
ed and there, to our unbounded satisfac- 
tion, we found there was no way in which 
he could get out of his nook except by 
the way he went in. He backed into his 
corner and stood facing us about 30 feet 
away. Our rope was too short to lasso 
him and we dared not land and tackle 
him with the oar as he was a big buck 
and evidently meant business. 

Suddenly the deer jumped for a small 
ledge higher up, missed his footing, and 
went headlong into the water again. That 
was our chance. We forced the boat in 
between him and the _ shore, dropped 
a noose of the anchor rope over his head 
and secured him. When we tried to haul 
him aboard he struggled furiously. We 
finally hauled his head over the side of 
the boat and cut his throat with a small 
pocket knife. 

While resting after the capture we saw 
another deer swimming in mid channel. 
Having learned a thing or 2 while cap- 
turing the first, we knew how to go to 
work. We got our rope ready and steer- 
ing alongside, quickly dropped our noose 
over the deer’s head and despatched him 
in the same way as the first. They are 
both bucks in prime condition. 

J. Burton, Steveston, B. C. 


You are a disgrace to the Government 
that employs you. British Columbia is 
making or amending laws every year to 
protect its game, yet you, an employee of 
that Government, go out and butcher 2 
deer in the most cold blooded, hideous, 
repulsive manner that could possibly be 
devised. You and your friend should go 
to Chicago or Kansas City and apply for 
work in a slaughter house. You would 
certainly be able to earn good wages there 
and could satiate your thirst for blood 
by butchering domestic animals which can 
be reproduced by the thousands each year. 
It would be much more manly and decent 
to hang up a steer by the heels and smash 
his skull with a sledge hammer than to 
rope a poor, defenceless deer that is swim- 
ming in the water, drag it aboard a launch 
and cut its throat. Your number in the 
game hog book is 958 and that of Wil- 
liam Denmark is 959.—EpIrTor. 





A CALL TO OHIO SPORTSMEN. 


The enclosed article from the Cincinnati 
Commercial Tribune of December 11, 1903, 
gives the sportsmen of this State warning 
to prepare for a fight. 


_ The Ohio Hotel Men’s Association, in conven- 
tion, appointed a committee to work for the re- 
eal of the Ohio game laws. The present State 
sgislature will be asked to carry out this prop- 
osition. 
The hotel men state that the game laws are 


130 RECREATION. 


absurd, hurtful to their business and of benefit 
only to the game warden. At the business meet- 
ing Nicholas A. Court, of Columbus, was elected 
President of the association. 


Nobody knows better than you how dif- 
ficult it is to get a good game law and one 
that will stand. The present law, which 
has stood the test of the supreme court, 
permits game to be in possession only dur- 
ing the time it may be hunted in this State 
(20 days), no matter where it came from, 
in or out of the State. Nobody but the 
hotel keepers and game dealers objects to 
this feature of the law. The sportsmen are 
satisfied to have and to hold for 20 days; 
but as the hotel men can not make enough 
money in so short a time to satisfy them, 
they will petition our Legislature to extend 
the season of possession; to allow them to 
handle, sell and serve game at any time in 
Ohio provided it comes from a State where 
it is legal at that time to kill game. The 
result would be that game would be on sale 
in Ohio during almost the entire year; also 
that game would be shot and snared in 
Ohio during the same period, as these sen- 
sitive citizens are not in business for their 
health, and would surely secure the quails 
with the least outlay of money, namely, at 
home. 

All quails look practically alike to you 
and to me, and it would be distressing to 
see a post mortem held on a quail by a 
hotel man or game dealer on one side and 
a game warden on the other, to establish 
its residence previous to its death. 


I understand the Ohio Game Dealers’ ’ 


Association is also interested with the ho- 
tel men in seeing that a long suffering 
traveling constituency is supplied with quail 
at so much per. The market and pot hunt- 
er has not openly appeared, although a shot 
in the direction of the surrounding brush 
would probably wing one. 

It would scarcely be possible for dealers 
to secure game from beyond the State with- 
out encouraging somebody to violate the 
law, so stringent are the laws of all States 
in the matter of the shipping of game out 
of the State. 

The arguments in favor of the present 
Ohio laws are so many and so forceful that 
it is unnecessary to refresh your or your 
readers’ memory with a review of them; 
but the fact that a powerful opposition to 
these laws is in the field and prepared for 
work requires more than discussion and 
expressions of regret; it requires work, 
now, and continued until the battle is won 
or lost. 

Let us all do our best to defeat this ef- 
fort and at the same time save our game 
from constant harassing and total exter- 
mination. Please press the button and 
start the machinery. 

F. G., Cincinnati, Ohio. 


AS TO BRANDING OF GAME AND FISH 


HOGS. 

I want to offer you a friendly suggestion. 
Your attacks on what you are pleased to 
term game hogs are, I think, frequently made 
in a way lowering to your dignity and to 
the dignity and effectiveness of ReEcREA- 
TION. You have a good magazine, and it 
is doing a great work, but I believe you 
would secure better results and greater sup- 
port from the better class of readers if your 
onslaughts against game hogs were couched 
in more temperate language. I know you 
mean well, but you ride too rough shod. 

W.H. Mullins, Salem, Ohio. 
ANSWER. 

I thank you for your frank letter. I 
always appreciate friendly criticisms of my 
work and you are not the first good friend 
who has given me the same advice. How- 
ever, I can not agree with you as to my 
methods of hunting game hogs. 

If you were to get into one of your duck- 
ing boats and go after a flock of geese, you 
would not use No. 12 shot. If you were go- 
ing after grizzlies, you would not use a 22 
caliber rifle. If you were going after Sa- 
tan, you would not use a squirt gun. 

When I talk to gentlemen I always try 
to use polite English, but when I talk to 
blackguards and ruffians, the kind of men 
who slaughter game, and then boast of it, 
and have themselves photographed with it, 
I use such language as seems necessary to 
penetrate their epidermis. These men are 
usually thick skinned, and it takes a sharp 
weapon to pierce them. 

As you probably know, some of the other 
sportsmen’s journals have been talking 
mildly and politely to such men 30 years, 
and not one of them has ever been re- 
formed by it. On the contrary I have had 
letters from thousands of men saying they 
had never realized the enormity of their 
offences until I went after them with my 
branding iron. They say my words have 
cut deep, that they have now reformed, and 
that they now quit when they get enough. 
Furthermore, many of these reformed 
butchers are now counseling moderation 
and decency among their fellow men, in 
the matter of shooting and fishing. 

It is impossible for any man to under- 


‘stand the many peculiar conditions that 


exist with regard to these matters, without 
being in such a position as I am in. You 
know how it strikes you and your friends, 
but you do not know how it strikes the men 
at whom it is aimed. Of course I have 
made enemies of thousands of these men, 
but I can afford to have their ill will. Many 
of them have, however, taken their medicine 
in good spirit and reformed. Meantime 
hundreds of thousands of other men and 
boys are fighting shy of my pig pen; and 
the game and fish are being saved.—Enrror. 


ea. ee ee 


FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


TWO NEW ANIMAL TRAPS. 


735.957. George F. Eberhard, San 
Francisco, Cal. Filed Oct. 9, 1902. 


No. 


Serial No. 126,561. 
Claim.— The combination in an animal 
trap of wire bent on itself to form spring 
arms, the ends of these arms terminating 





in oppositely curved jaws adapted to inter- 
lock,and provided with impaling teeth, of 
segmental shaped loops, on said arms in- 
closing and approximately in the same plane 
with said jaws, said loops adaptec to inter- 
lock each other when the trap is sprung, 
and a trigger whereby said arms are held 
in a compressed position. 


No. 729,786. Edward F. McDaniel, Otisco, 
Ind., assignor of one-half to Arnie C. 
Schlichter, Otisco, Ind. Filed Nov. 
10, 1902. Serial No. 130,707. 





Claim.—An animal trap comprising a 
cage, an inwardly opening door leading to 
said cage, and means for attaching bait to 
the inner side of said door, whereby the 
animal can gain access to the bait only by 
operating the door and entering the cage. 





WISCONSIN BUTCHERS. 


November 20th, 1902, Leonard Morrison, 
a farmer living 15 miles South of Madison, 
Wis., was hauling corn to his cattle. While 
driving through a small wood lot he was 
astonished to see a 5-prong buck jump up 
and stand watching him. Morrison drove 
to his house, got his rifle, and with his 
brother-in-law set out after the deer. They 
‘tracked him across cornfields 2 miles to 
where he entered a patch of timber. Mean- 
while another man had seen the buck enter 
the woods and pursued him with a shot gun; 
he jumped the buck and shot twice without 
effect. The 2 men who had rifles fired at 


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the deer as it was disappearing in another 
clump of woods. The buck went on and 
from the last reports he was headed West 
and still going, creating more excitement 
wherever he was seen than an old time 
Indian uprising. Where he came from is 
a mystery, as there have been no wild deer 
in this section for 35 or 40 years, and I 
know of no park in the vicinity from 
which he could have escaped. 


Henri Leo, Madison, Wis. 


Of course the deer must be hunted 
and killed. It would never occur to any of 
these men to let a live deer settle down and 
make his home among them. No; every 
farmer and every farmer’s boy who could 
muster a gun of any kind must turn out, 
join the hunt, follow the poor creature and 
some of them would of course get a bullet 
or more likely a charge of buckshot into 
him. Then all the human hyenas would 
celebrate their victory.—EDITor. 





AN ATTRACTIVE GAME FIELD. 


The altitude here is nearly 9,000 feet 
and the climate is temperate. All the 
Southern fruits and vegetables are grown 
here, including many of the sub-tropical 
varieties. From April till the first of July 
the weather is pleasant. The days are 
warm or hot, but the nights are cool. There 
has not been a night since I have been 
here when I did not need at least 2 blank- 
ets. The rains start in July and continue 
daily till the last of August. That is the 
most unpleasant part of the year. The days 
between I1 and 3 o'clock are warm during 
June and July, but the rest of the day is 
fine. The deer are poor and tough in 
spring, but bear and cats are in good con- 
dition. The bear are not fat, but their 
skins are all right for rugs. 

Most people associate Mexico with hot 
weather, snakes, insects and all kindred 
pests, not to mention Indians and bad white 
men. There are no Indians in these parts, 
and bad men, snakes, insects and other 
pests are confined to the lowland regions, 
near the coast and to the South. This is 
a great country, and is fast becoming popu- 
lar with sportsmen. An all the year sea- 
son, no non-resident license laws and plenty 
of game make it attractive, not to mention 
the interesting Aztec ruins and the beau- 
tiful scenery. J. H. White. 

Colonia Pacheco, Chihauhau, Mex. 





GAME NOTES. 


Since writing you before, T have arrested 
3 salesmen of wholesale millinery houses. 
who travel in this countys Two pleaded 
guilty and paid $50 and costs each. The 
other called for a jury trial. As I have 


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never lost a case yet, and have evidence 
that will keep, without ice, I am not wor- 
rying about the outcome. Recently one of 
my deputies and I went out after 2 Italians. 
We drew a charge of shot from one of 
them; no damage done, They had 21 song 
and insectivorous birds. Cost them $100 
and costs. Since I have begun on the whole- 
sale fellows, they are trying through the 
Wholesale Jobbers’ Protective Association 
to make it uncomfortable for me. However, 
as long as I hold the commission, I shall 
continue, in a fair, conservative way, to en- 
force the laws, no matter how much money 
the lawbreakers may have. I have never 
discriminated between violators of the law. 
G. H. Ray, Rock Creek, Ohio. 





None of our sportsmen who went after 
prairie chickens at the opening of the sea- 
son reported large bags. Those who went 
North into Wood and Adams counties say 
the marshes were so wet that the birds 
sought the brush on higher ground, making 
shooting difficult. 

Our game wardens are busy patrolling 
the game regions with the view of strictly 
enforcing the laws. If they keep on as 
they have started, the prospects are good 
that there will be less violation of the 
game laws than ever before. 

Clerk Goff, of Dane county, has issued 
over 1,300 hunting licenses, many being for 


non-residents. 
Leo Bird, Madison, Wis. 





Reading July Recreation I learn that 
one Charles Gass, of Paoli, Indiana, and a 
friend unnamed, went on a wild turkey 
hunt in this State last Christmas, fired 4 
loads of shot into a big gobbler and failed 
to get him. For the information of your 
other Indiana readers permit me to state 
that the pursuit, shooting ‘or destruction 
of wild turkeys in this State is prohibited 
by statute which provides a penalty of 
$50 and 30 days’ imprisonment for a viola- 
tion thereof. I hope Charles will observe 
this law a good deal better than he shoots. 

James D. Ermston, Anderson, Ind. 





Game hogs are thick here. I caught one 
July 3 with 2 little fawns in his possession. 
I arrested him and Justice Sandel, of Eas- 
ton, fined him $50 and costs. That was the 
first arrest made in this part of the country 
for violation of the game law. The other 
hogs are grunting a whole lot, but I’ll get 
more of them before I am through. 

J. C., Easton, Wash. 


I am glad you soaked one of these fel- 
lows and trust you may be successful in 
getting the others in due course.—EbirTor. 


RECREATION. 


Hunters pay no attention to the game 
laws in this county. Chickens were scarce 
because of wet weather during the hatching 
season. They have been slaughtered re- 
gardless of scarcity and close season. It 
makes me feel like going on a still hunt 
for some of the butchers and giving them 
a taste of their own medicine. 

R. E. Daniels, Orrack, Minn. 


That is just what sportsmen should do in 
all cases where pot hunters go out and kill 
off game before the open season.—Epiror. 





I read in August RECREATION an amusing 
article by Jean Allison, entitled “Give them 
Marlins.” In it he says that when 
the party arrived at their hunting station 
they went to bed and dreamed of juicy buck 
steaks and liver. Did he ever eat a deer’s 
liver? How many of your readers have 
eaten a deer’s liver? 

E. B. Brigham, M.D., Indianapolis, Ind. 





Our game laws are strict, especially those 
for the protection of quail. We have a local 
law much more stringent than our State 
law. One man was fined $45 for killing 3 
quails out of season. 

R. A. Thomas, Del Rio, Texas. 





The shooting season opened on Cape Ann 
with slender bags of game. Shooters report 
few birds of any kind. Our mainstay is the 
coot, of which there seems the usual flight. 

B. F. Batchelder, Rockport, Mass. 





Deer are plentiful in this vicinity, with 
bear enough to make it interesting. We 
have a few ducks, snipe and plover. Grouse 


are scarce. 
R. M. Shutts, 
Upper Chateaugay Lake, N. Y 





Deer, turkeys and quails are numerous 


here. 
. B. D. Harris, Quitsna, N. C. 





Never shoot until you have a fair chance 
of killing. 


First Missionary: Well, brother, how did 
you get on in your field? Did you convert 
many heathens? 

Second Missionary: Yes, but just as I 
made converts of them, they all became 
hopeless drunkards.—Life. 





He: Was that you I kissed in the con- 
servatory last night? 
“About what time was it ?”’—Life. 


FISH AND FISHING. 


NOTES OF A RUSSIAN ANGLER. 
BARON PAUL TCHERKASSOV, 

The following notes have accumulated 
during more than 30 years’ experience as 
an angler and amateur tackle maker. 

Notwithstanding the great improve- 
ments in rod making in the last 25 years, 
there are some points about the average 
rod of the present day which are not alto- 
gether satisfactory. The first of these is 
the manner in which ferrules are secured 
to the joints. This is done by means of 
pins, which, in the majority of rods, are 


6, iat 


in the wrong places; too high in the male, 
or counter ferrule, and too low in the fe- 
male ferrule ; i. e., in both cases, too near 
the rim of the ferrule where it overlaps 
the. wood. The result is that the wood is 
weakened at the point where it is subjected 
to the greatest strain, its elasticity being 
interrupted by the rigid metal ferrule; and 
if there is a smash, it is bound to occur 
just at that point. A further source of 
weakness lies in the exaggerated length of 
tenons, tongues, or dowels, with corre- 
sponding depth of sockets for them. In 
the accompanying tracing (1) a-b indicates 


the usual position of the pins in the aver- 
age rod, while A-B shows the position in 
which they would prove just as efficient 
and much less objectionable. In rods with 
flush ferrules, without tenons or dowels, the 
pin of the female ferrule could be shifted 
higher still, to the position indicated by B’. 

Taking into consideration that all mate- 
rials, except steel, used in the construction 
of rods, shrink under the action of dry 
air, that a ferrule-sick rod is an abom- 
ination, and that it is important to make it 
possible for the angler to cure his rod of 


133 


that sickness without having to send 
it to the rod maker, all pins ought to be 
put through so as to enable one to push 
them out when necessary, with the assis- 
tance of the simplest tools; a piece of knit- 
ting needle and something like a hammer. 
This is important, as it is unpleasant and 
dificult to worm out a ferrule pin in order 
to tighten the ferrule itself. 

Elastic rubber cement, melting at a low 
heat, ought to be used for fixing the fer- 
rules on to the wood. The cements used 
formerly to secure the solid rubber tires to 





; 


the metal rims of cycles ought to fill the 
bill exactly. The cement I have used con- 
sists of gutta percha, such as used in the 
manufacture of artificial baits, with or 
without the addition of powdered shellac. 
I have lately come into possession of a 
14 foot split cane grilse rod in which the 
position of the through pins in the male 
ferrules corresponds exactly with the posi- 
tion shown in the accompanying tracing. 
Then there is the old question of flush 
versus dowelled joints. I decidedly pre- 
fer the former, and never have had the 
slightest difficulty in getting a perfect, 





smooth, suction fit with them, making all 
kinds of locking devices superfluous. If 
there is such a demand for dowelled joints 
as to compel the makers to continue their 
manufacture, the length of the dowel or 
tenon ought to be reduced. The following 
ratio is satisfactory: length of dowel stands 
to length of that part of male ferrule which 
engages with female ferrule as 1 to 3. 

In England of late years, the loose rings 
and keepers, which were formerly consid- 
ered best for fly rods, whether intended 
for trout or for salmon, have been sup- 


134 


planted by light standing guides. Snake 
shape seems the most popular, though it 
undoubtedly has some disadvantages. In 
American fly rods the old loose ring still 
appears. The worst part of the ringing 
of the American fly rod is the end ring, 
which I have had to alter in all my own 
rods, as well as in those of my friends. 
The fly rod is used rings downward, in 
casting as well as in playing a fish, by the 
great majority of anglers. Under these 
conditions the one ring arrangement, as it 
appears on nearly all American fly rods 
which I have handled, is not satisfactory, 
causing an undue amount of friction. The 
accompanying tracing will help me to il- 
lustrate my meaning (II, Figs. 1, 2, and 3). 
Fig. 1 shows the way in which the line is 
twisted when working through the one 
ring tip as it is sent out, and Figs. 2 and 
3 show the alteration made by me; Fig. 3 
showing shape given to ring previous to 
bending it as shown in Fig. 2. It is a 
trifling one, and can be effected in a min- 
ute with a pair of ordinary pliers; but the 
advantages gained by it are not trifling, as 
anyone may ascertain for himself. 

The grip pieces, or handles, of split cane 
rods are often put on to the lower joint 
without sufficient care. Several cases have 
come under my observation where the end 
of the lower joint was let into the handle 
1¥4 inches, with the natural result of break- 
age in that place. Breakages of that, kind 
affect the reputation of the article and of 
its makers. 

I remember when eyed hooks of the im- 
proved modern patterns were introduced, 
the brilliant future prognosticated for 
them. Many of the authorities on this 
branch of angling held that the fly on eyed 
hook was sure to supplant altogether the 
fly on snelled hook, but this expectation has 
not been realized. 

The absence of space between the head 
of the fly and the eye of the hwvok is a 
serious defect. I found it finical work to 
tie the flies on to the gut in many cases. 
I have experimented, since then, with flies 
tied with a free space, 1-32 to 1-16 of an 
inch, between the head of the fly and the 
eye of the hook, and find that they are 
much more easily and conveniently tied to 
the gut, while not in any way more clumsy 
in appearance. For large bass, grilse and 
salmon flies I recommend return, or loop- 
eyed, hooks, in which the end of the shank, 
after having formed the eye, is laid back 
along the shank of the hook, toward the 
bend. 

There is another item about eyed hooks 
which I do not find satisfactory. The eye 
is somewhat small, especially in the larger 
hooks. It might be made larger, so as to 
accommodate even a twisted gut snell, 
without in any way making it heavier or 
more clumsy, by reducing correspondingly 


RECREATION. 


that part of the shank which forms the 
loop and the returned end of the shank. 

Rust proof or brown enameled hooks 
are less obtrusive than the japanned ones. 
I strongly recommend rust proofing for 
double and treble hooks to be kept in stock. 
It may increase their cost, but will certainly 
save more in the long run. 





THE KILLIE AS A BAIT FISH. 


I am told that a few years ago one could 
buy what were called salt water minnows 
in cities on the sea coast. These could be 
packed in sea weed or moss and expressed 
to any part of the country. They could be 
carried in the pocket, apparently dead, but 
when put on a hook and dropped into the 
water would hustle away just like a fresh 
water minnow. Are there such fish and 
can wa! be bought now? If so, of whom? 

C. J. Brower, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 


ANSWER, 


The salt water minnow, or killie, is 
extremely tenacious of life, and _ bears 
absence from water wonderfully well. 
Under favorable conditions it is poss- 
ible to keep killies alive in an ordinary box 
for hours. If they are packed carefully in 
wet sea weed they can be transported with 
ease and may reasonably be expected to 
remain alive 36 hours and possibly longer. 

The packing of killies for shipment must, 
however, be done by an expert if this result 
is to be achieved. In the first place, the 
bottle green killies should be selected in pre- 
ference. There is a common striped killie 
known variously as night killie and bass 
killie, that is absolutely worthless; it dies 
within a few hours after being caught. 

Only the most lively killies should’ be 
used for shipment. The best weed for 
packing them is the ulva, or sea lettuce, 
and the pieces that are used must be bright 
green and living. If poor weed is used it 
will die and decay, killing the fish instead 
of preserving them. 

Great care must be taken not to pack 
tightly. A flat tray is best, if it can be 
handled by the transportation company. 
The weed must be thrown in loosely, and 
in such a manner that each killie is sepa- 
rated from the rest. If the packing is at 
all tight, the wet weed will heat and kill 
the fish. If a flat tray is too clumsy for 
shipment, a basket of open wicker work will 
prove the best receptacle. 

No salt water minnows could be carried 
around in the pocket and survive such 
treatment. The angler must carry them in 
a bait pail like fresh water minnows and 
treat them with as much care. 

These salt water killies will live for 
weeks in small pools of fresh water and be 
as hardy when taken out as they were on 
the day of their capture. In ordering, lay 
stress on the fact that the killies wanted are 





FISH AND 


the bottle green ones with white bellies. 
Captain De Nyse, Bath Beach, Long Island, 
can probably supply them.—Ebiror, 


¢ 





SLAUGHTER NOT JUSTIFIED. 


G. C. Gridley returned home yesterday from 
Du Rivier, in the Nippissing district in Canada, 
where he has been trout fishing a week or more. 
He caught an abundance of fish, sending out 
about 200 pounds and bringing 100 pounds with 
him.—Utica, N. Y., Observer. 


Regarding this report Mr. Gridley writes: 


Whoever informed you of the number 
of pounds of trout recently caught by me 
in a week rather exaggerated it. Six or 7 


‘of us went into a club preserve about 180 


miles North of Ottawa, on the Canadian 
Pacific Railroad, crossing the Ottawa river 
at Deux Rivieres, and the entire party esti- 
mated that our catch during the 8 days 
would amount to nearly 400 pounds. We 
had to confine our fishing to about 2 hours 
each day, as we caught more trout than 
we knew what to do with. We sent them 
liberally to our friends and the club. 
G. C. Gridley, Watertown, N. Y. 


Well, what if it is a private preserve? 
Why slaughter fish, even if you do have 
the opportunity and own the land? That 
does not justify you in committing a slaugh- 
ter of fine game fishes. You and your 
friends could not have eaten 25 per cent. 
of the trout you say you caught in the time 
you were there. You may have shipped 
all the others home, but as the trout sea- 
son comes only in the hot weather, fhe 
chances are that a large number of those 
fish spoiled and were thrown away. You 
seem to have been fishing for a record. 
This ambition that haunts many men to 
make big records, go home and tell the 
local editor about it and. get their names 
in the paper is one of the causes of the 
trout streams all over the country having 
been cleaned out. If a man wants good 
trout fishing he must now go to Canada 
for it. That is probably the reason you and 
your friends bought or leased that land in 
Canada, and if you keep up the pace you 
have already started, you will soon clean 
that out, too—Ep1ror. 





PRISON TOO GOOD FOR THEM. 

Glen Morse, clerk of the Circuit Court 
of Outagamie county, Wis., and 5 or 6 other 
men were fishing in Evergreen brook, 
Shawano county, and caught 1,200 trout, 
ranging from 6 ounces to 2% pounds each, 
so these men told me, in 4 days’ fishing. 
Don’t you think they got more than their 
share? You might write Glen Morse or 
George Ames, of this city, for verification 
of this story. 

F. U. R., Appleton, Wis. 


I wrote as suggested and Mr. Ames 
replied: 


FISHING. 135 


I was trout fishing with a party of 7 on 
the Evergreen river, 20 miles North of 
Shawano. We fished 3 days and caught 
1,258 trout. Of that number about 125 
weighed a pound each and some a few 
ounces over a poung. 

George E. Ames, Appleton, Wis. 


It is a constant source of wonder to me 
that decent, Taw-abiding sportsmen allow 
such swine as you and your friends to raid 
their streams and clean them out every 
year. I wish you had run up against a 
bunch of farmers like those in Illinois, 
who turned out, burned the tents and the 
camp outfits of a lot of fish hogs who were 
raiding one of their lakes, and then ran 
the aforesaid out of the country. An ordi- 
nary prison is too good for any such outfit 
as you and your pals. You should be 
locked in a box car and dumped into the 
Milwaukee river. Your number in the fish 
hog register is 960; Glen Morse’s is 961, 
and if I knew the name of the swine who 
were with you, I would gladly label them 
also.—EDITorR. 





MAY BE A FISH LIE, 


While. in our county seat the other day 
met several local sportsmen. They 
seemed to have done more hunting and 
fishing than most business men find time 
for and I was impressed with their stories. 
One of them may be of interest to the read- 
ers Of RECREATION. 

Some time in June, 4 of the fellows, 
Frank Treat, Walter Hanscom and Lester 
Price, of San Andreas, and Alex. Smyth, 
of West Point, went to Blue creek on a 
fishing trip. Blue creek is one of the best 
trout streams in the Sierra Nevadas; not 
only is it full of fish, but they are of good 
size. 

The fishing was good from the start, and 
as the boys are all experts they had no 
trouble in catching all the fish they could 
use. The day before their return, as each 
had a circle of friends hungry for trout, 
they determined to get fish enough for 
everybody. 

It.must have been a great day, because at 
night 4 tired fishermen counted out 600 
trout, of an average size of 10 inches. 
When the townspeople saw this immense 
catch and were told it had been made in a 
day, many were incredulous, and openly 
accused the boys of netting the fish or of 
killing them with dynamite When shown 
the hook marks in every fish, their doubts 
vanished, and they could but congratulate 
the lucky ones 

E. B. Schaiffle, Valley Springs, Cal. 


If this story is true, these 4 men deserve 


to be sent to jail for at least 6 months each. 
—EDITor. 


136 RECREATION. 
UNSPORTSMANLIKE. caught 180 in one day’s fishing.—Yarmouth, 
The fishing party that went up to Big Bend N. 5S., Light. 


caught 150 bass, 14 catfish, and one eel. The 
arty was composed of Jim Mitchell, Tom Sharp, 
Maxiect Whorley, Bill Maupin and Alphonse Ep- 
pler. They are much elated over the catch.— 
Hinton, W. V., Mail. 


To my inquiry regarding the truth of this 
report I received the following reply: 


Four friends and I went on a fishing 
trip around Big Bend tunnel and were gone 
4 days. Two of these days the water was 
too muddy for us to fish. We only fished 
4 hours the first day and 7 hours the 
last day. We caught about 100 bass, and 
a few catfish on trot lines at night. We 
used live minnows for bait and fished 15 
miles of Greenbrier river. 

W. R. Maupin, Hinton, W. Va. 


It does not appear that you and your 
friends caught more than a_ reasonable 
number of fish, but you should all be hear- 
tily ashamed of the manner in which you 
took them. o real sportsman ever uses 
a trot line in these days. Neither does he 
set his rod over night. He fishes only in 
daylight, with a rod and line, and if he 
can not get fish in that way, he lets them 
stay in the water until some other time— 
EpiTor. 





MR. FEE PLEASE NOTE. 


David Cotton and Daniel Roy, in the employ 
of the Northern Pacific Railway, went to Battle 
lake Sunday on a fishing trip. They caught 138 
pike within 2 hours.—St. Paul Dispatch. 


Concerning this Mr. Roy writes: 


You have been correctly informed as to 
the number of fish caught and the length 
of time consumed in catching them by Mr. 
David Cotton and me in Otter Tail lake, 
near Battle lake, Minnesota. 

Daniel Roy, 

Northern Pacific Railway Co., St. Paul, 

Minn. 


It is fair to assume that the fish would 
average 2 pounds each and that you caught 
in all 278 pounds of pike in 2 hours.. Truly 
you have earned a place in RECREATION’S 
fish hog pen and you shall have it. 

Your brands read as follows: Daniel 
Roy, No. 962; David Cotton, No. 963. 

Mr. Fee, General Passenger Agent of 
vour road, is a firm friend of the cause of 
game and fish protection, and I trust that 
‘when he reads this he will give you a 
month off in midwinter, in order that you 
may have plenty of time to think over your 
cussedness.—EpITor. 





A SWINISH GUIDE. 
_ George W. Butler is satisfied that Nova Scotia 
is good enough for him at present. He with his 
brother, T. V. Butler, and James Goucher are 
trying to rid the streams of this country of trout, 
having caught 103 in an afternoon. Laves they 


I wrote Butler, asking if this was true, 
and he replied: 


The report is perfectly true. 
S. V. Butler, Hebron, N. S. 

It appears from portions of Butler’s let- 
ter which I have not printed that he poses 
as a. guide, and, like many others of his 
calling, he believes in making all he can 
out of the trout streams to-day, letting to- 
morrow take care of itself. At the rate at 
which he and his companions are hooking 
the trout, the supply will soon be ex- 
hausted. It may as well be so, for men of 
such swinish proclivities should be com- 
pelled to earn their living by plowing, dig- 
ging potatoes or some other equally hard 
work. S. V. Butler’s number in the fish 
hog book is 964; George W. Butler’s js 965, 
and James Goucher’s is 966.—EpITor. 





ALL THEY WANTED. 


The enclosed clipping is from the White 
Hall, Ill., Register. What is the use of 
the Government’s distributing game fishes as 
long as such brutes are running at large. 

Fishing in White Hall, Ill., West of Pegram, 
has been excellent. Mytinger and if E. 
Wyatt caught about roo black bass, weighing 
a pound to a pound and a half. 

Mytinger’s confession is: 

Mr. John Wyatt and I caught 100 black 
bass in 3 hours. We could have taken as 
many more, but we had all the bass we 
wanted for ourselves and friends. 

F. M. Mytinger, White Hall, Ill. 


I am surprised at your statement that 
you had all the bass you wanted. Men with 
such bristles as you and your friend seem 
to wear rarely quit until compelled by 
darkness, or the exhaustion of the supply, 
or some similar condition. Any gentleman 
who goes after bass quits when he gets Io 
or 15, but it seems to require about 50 to 
satisfy you and the other chap. 


Your number in the fish hog book is 


967, and John Wyatt’s is 968.—EprTor. 


DYNAMITER FINED. 


Surday, June 21, a gang of Italians was 
discovered dynamiting fish in Big Sandy 
creek. Marshal Gruber was informed and 
went for them. He succeeded in getting 5. 
Mayor Stands called on them for $25 and 
costs a man, or $148 for the bunch. They 
paid the fine. It was a good haul for Sun- 
day, but the wish is generally expressed 
that the whole gang, about a dozen, had 
been caught and fined $50 each. We once 
had good black bass fishing here and 
many a fine catch I have made, but dyna- 
mite has heen getting in its deadly work 
jor several years and, I am sorry to say, 
with no loss of life, except to the fish. 

Sandy, Waynesburg, O. 








GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


Anybody can shoot all day, but a gentleman always quits when he gets enough. 


THEY WRITE WINCHESTER, 


Chicago, IIl. 
The Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 

Dear Sirs—I have before me a copy of 
November Recreation, which I regard ,as 
a real sportsmen’s magazine and good auth- 
ority regarding our outdoor life. In it I 
see an article about automatic shot guns 
which interests me much.* I am a true 
lover of nature, American wild animals and 
game birds, and I enjoy seeking the wild 
creatures in their native haunts. I regret 
to learn that you contemplate making a 
shot gun which will discharge 6 shells in 2 
seconds. You will agree with me that there 
are already too many game hogs at large 
slaughtering birds and game with the shot 
guns of the present day, and should an 
automatic gun be put on the market, it 
would mean that the birds and game will 
soon disappear as the buffalo has gone. 
For instance, a game hog encounters a 
covey of quail; if he gets a pot shot that 
means a decrease of about half their num- 
ber. When they rise he has 5 shells left, 
and will clean out the whole covey, as most 
of these fellows are good shots and go 
for the game, not the sport. With a double 
barrel gun the birds have a show. 

This is a suggestion to protect our game. 
I shall do all in my power to discourage the 
use of an automatic shot gun among my 
many field friends. That such a gun is not 
intended for real sportsmen is recognized 
by all. 

Mr. Shields has the right idea regarding 
automatic shot guns, and may success fol- 
low him in his endeavor to protect our 
American game. 

An automatic gun may be more modern 
in construction than others and perhaps 
equally as powerful, but just place a fire 
arm of this nature in the hands of a game 
hog and all the game laws in the Union 
will be of little use. I sincerely hope that 
this gun will not be manufactured, but that 
you will see this important fact before it is 
too late, as I think there must be a few 
sportsmen in your company. 

Truly yours, 
A. S. Miller. 


Hampton, Va. 
The Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 

Dear Sirs—I call your attention to an 
editorial in RecrEATION for November re- 
garding the manufacture of automatic 
- shot guns. I wish to go on record as en- 
dorsing everything contained in that ar- 
ticle, and sincerely trust that you are not 


137 


contemplating the manufacture of any such 
gun, which you would never sell to decent 
sportsmen. Only the lowest class of pot 
hunters would use such a weapon, and as a 
rapid exterminator of game it would sur- 
pass anything ever known. This, it appears 
to me, would in the long run injure your 
business greatly, for if there is no game 
what chance have you of disposing of shot 
guns? A man has no use for a mousetrap 
after the mice are all caught. I have al- 
ways entertained the highest regard both 
for your firm and the goods you manufac- 
ture, and each year use numbers of your 
shells; but should you make the mistake of 
putting such a weapon as an automatic 
shot gun on the market I should not only 
condemn it in the strongest terms, but 
should never again use anything made by 
you. I believe you would be made the 
subject of the most scathing condemna- 
tion by the L. A. S. and by all who deserve 
the name of sportsmen. You surely wish 
to cater to the majority, and the feeling in 
regard to game protection is growing rap- 
idly. If you have had any serious intention 
of manufacturing this arm you will do well 
to abandon it. 
Yours truly, 
Chas. H. Bentley, L. A. S., 3610. 


New Market, N. J. 
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 

Dear Sirs—I have noticed recently 
that you are about to place on the mar- 
ket a new Winchester gun, an automatic 
weapon, calculated to be more destructive 
than anything now in general use, and I 
write you to protest against this gun. My 
individual protest may not carry any weight 
with you, but you should and probably do 
know that the sentiments expressed in this 
letter are the sentiments of every real 
sportsman in the country. 

It is a notable fact that the game of this 
country is fast being killed off, and any in- 
vention that tends to destroy game more 
rapidly is nothing short of a public calami- 
ty. The guns of the Winchester Arms 
Company are sold almost exclusively to 
hunters, and you should be able to see that 
if this new gun of yours’gets in the hands 
of pot hunters it will only be a few years 
until there will be no sale for your guns 
of any description. 

As I have owned and sworn by Win- 
chester rifles and ammunition for the past 
Io years, I feel fully justified in making 
this protest, and sincerely hope you will 
not cause your admirers and customers to 


138 


blush for you because of your lack of re- 
gard for our animal and bird life. 
Truly yours, 
Joseph E. Kelly. 


Richmond, Va. 
The Winchester Arms Company, 

Dear Sirs—The members of our gun 
club having read in RECREATION a statement 
to the effect that you intend to put on the 
market an automatic gun, have instructed 
me to write you and ask you not to do so. 
I am also instructed to advise you that they 
will do all in their power to discourage the 
sale and use of such a gun. Hoping you 
may decide not to ae any such 

n, I am, yours respectfully, 
=~ ety: “ Jj. H. Pugh. 





DEFENDS THE SMOKELESS. 


I noticed in REcREATION an article by E. 
H. Kern, wherein he condemns the smoke- 
less rifle for its wounding of game, and 
mentions 500 yards as being as far as one 
can kill deer except by chance. Not more 
than one man in 10 who goes to Colorado to 
hunt can guess the distance, and hit one 
deer in 3 shots at 500 yards. Were it pos- 
sible to enforce such a law, there should 
be a fine imposed on any man who shot at 
deer at any such distance, unless it might 
be an animal that had been wounded at a 
shorter range. It is not necessary to try 
long shots in the country North of Rifle. I 
have hunted there and found no trouble in 
getting short shots. 

Mr. Kern says 50 does are killed to one 
buck; that nearly every deer killed bears 
marks of previous wounds; and that more 
deer are crippled with smokeless powder 
than are killed. What particular mark 
does smokeless powder make, that he 
can distinguish it from a black powder 
wound? 

He also mentions the crippled and dead 
deer he saw North of Rifle. There never 
has been and never will be a gun that 
cripples no game, unless built on the Mar- 
lin line, for any gun that shoots may be 
misaimed. Still, if long guesswork shots 
were stopped it would prevent much crip- 
pling. 

In all my hunting in Colorado I did not 
see one dead deer that had been wounded 
and got away to die. I like smokeless pow- 
der, for I wish to see if I hit a deer and 
not have to wait for the clouds to roll 
away. 

The law of Colorado was much im- 
proved last winter in making the open deer 
season September 15 to September 30, and 
in limiting each hunter to one deer and 
that a buck. I can easily see how that 
buck clause might mean a dead deer left to 
rot. 


RECREATION. 


Anyone not used to hunting big game 
might kill a doe in cover, mistaking it for 
a buck. In that case, as the law stands 
now, the doe would probably be left to rot 
where it fell. 

I think too much is expected of the game 
wardens, The hills were full of hunters 
and if there were wardens enough to see 
that the law was lived up to in every case, 
the woods would be so full of men that 
game would go to the open country. 

Smokeless guns heretofore have been too 
light in weight and too small in bore. The 
last objection has been met to a great ex- 
tent in the new 35 and 38. Like T. S. 
Van Dyke, I prefer a deer killed stone 
dead by a 3 or 4 inch wound, to a deer that 
gets away and dies a slow death from a 
wound that might have been made with a 
fence wire. I have had no trouble with 
deer getting away, but last fall I lost a 
silvertip that perhaps would have remained 
down had I used the 35 instead of the .303. 

Stubb, Orwell, Ohio. 





RESULTS WITH A 50 CALIBER. 


I have been an enthusiastic reader of 
RECREATION over 5 years. Guns and am- 
munition have my first attention and I can 
neither eat nor do anything else until I 
have absorbed all that department contains. 
I am in accord with the policy of roasting 
game hogs and will help all I may. 

On the subject of the best all around 
rifle I must say a word. At the risk of be- 
ing called an old fossil I will say my favor- 
ites are 50 calibers. I have owned a 23 
Remington-Lee, a 30-40 Winchester, a 30-40 
Marlin, a 303 Savage, a 25-36 and several 
other high power guns. Their chief points 
of excellence seem to be the power to kill a 
squirrel without tearing or kill a bear in- 
stantly; also to shoot less than 300 yards or 
more than 3 miles simply by using different 
ammunition. 

All this I find can be done with the 50 
as well or better. I give results which can 
be proven: 

Gun, an old style Sharps carbine; shell 
loaded with a hollow base ball with a bear- 
ing of % inch and weighing 97 grains; pow- 
der, 7 grains Gold Dust shot gun. At 200 
yards this load put 10 shots in a 2% inch 
circle, and with it I have killed squirrels 
without mangling; 200 yard trajectory, 7.31 
inches at 100 yards. 

Gun, 50-110 Winchester single shot; 
shell loaded with 215 grains hollow base 
ball; 30 grains Gold Dust powder; 300 
yard trajectory, 23.75 inches at 150 yards. 

Same gun: shell loaded with 450 grain 
ball and 50 grains powder gave a penetra- 
tion of 31 inches in pine boards, and I have . 
shot with it through a telephone pole 17 
inches in diameter. This caliber, especially 





GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


if using a hollow point ball, would not be 
llikely to let a deer or even a bear run far. 
When an amateur attempts reloading he 
should know about dense and bulk pow- 
ders, and the initial or breech pressure dif- 
ference between nitro and picric acid pow- 
ders. I think it would be an excellent 
thing if everyone reloaded his shells, but 
until the average shooter learns these points 
it would be folly for him to do so. 
Reloader, Batavia, N. Y. 





RECREATION FAIR. 


Regarding your editorial remarks in De- 
cember, 1902, RECREATION, I read the arti- 
cle you mention and received the impres- 
sion that you intended to pay the Winches- 
ter people a compliment by conveying the 
idea that, in view of the character of RE- 
CREATION and the fair play observed toward 
all parties, they would not be so narrow as 
to take offense and withdraw their ad in 
consequence of such an article. A re-read- 
ing of the article does not alter my impres- 
sion. 

As to the criticism that the Gun and 
Ammunition department of RECREATION is 
“comparatively obscure,” it seems that the 
contrary is true, at least so far as rifle, re- 
volver and shot gun shooters are con- 
cerned. Neither can I see anything unfair 
in submitting questions which arise con- 
cerning guns or ammunition to acknowl- 
edged experts on those subjects. 

As to the Winchester people having good 
reason for withdrawing their advertising 
from RecrEATION from anything that has 
appeared in its pages, I do not think such 
grounds exist. I have always been proud 
of such splendid companies as the Win- 
chester and the U. M. C., and have used a 
great deal of ammunition, and I confess to 
considerable disappointment at missing their 
reading matter in the only sportsmen’s mag- 
azine which I see regularly. Nothing that 
has been printed in RecrEATION has influ- 
enced me against their goods, although as 
an ardent advocate of greater game pro- 
tection, I do share some of the opinions 
which have been expressed concerning the 
pump gun, no matter by whom manufac- 
tured. These views are in no way due to 
anything that has appeared in RECREATION 
or any other magazine. It would seem that 
a sportsmen’s magazine which permits the 
honest criticism of its readers to be pub- 
lished must expect to get along without the 
support of the gun and ammunition makers. 

Howard W. Carter, Norfolk, Conn. 





ANSWER STANLEY WATERLOO. 
In repiy to Stanley Waterloo’s letter in 
September Recreation I tender my mite of 
advice. Living in New York City and fi- 


139 


nancially unable to go on any kind of a 
hunting trip, 1 do the next best thing. 
There is a 100-yard range near my home 
where I shoot every Sunday, and where I 
meet all kinds of cranks. 1 was surprised 
one day to see a man there using a tele- 
scope sight. It seems he had lost the use 
of one eye. After studying catalogues and 
having different rifles made, he settled on 
this gun I saw him use, which he says com- 
pletely meets his requirements. The drop 
of the stock is 4 inches and the telescope is 
a Malcolm with side mountings. The 
glass is the wide angle pattern of 2 power. 
I think such an outfit as this would be 
just what Mr. Waterloo wants, as it brings 
the eyes in natural position for shooting. 

I use a 22-7-45 for all shooting up to 200 
yards. A more accurate little rifle is hard 
to imagine. 

Is there any way of letting the hammer 
of a Savage down without discharging the 
gun, so that the action may be opened? 

I should like to hear from some readers 
of RECREATION who are interested in target 
shooting for the sport there is in it and who 
live near New York. 

Wm. J. Marshall, New York. 


The inquiry made by Stanley Waterloo, 
who wished suggestions as to how to shoot 
well when deprived of the use of his right 
eye, reminds me of Captain Robert, a re- 
tired French officer, who formerly lived 
here. The Captain had lost his right eye, 
and had had a special stock made for his 
gun, with a proper twist known to gun 
makers, which brought the barrels easily 
in line with his left eye, enabling him to 
shoot with remarkable speed and accuracy. 

Joen Doux, Utica, N. Y. 





PETERS CARTRIDGES CALLED IN. 
HEADQUARTERS, 
DIVISION OF THE PHILIPPINES. 
Mania, P. I., November 11, 1903. 
Circular No. 49. 
The following is published for the infor- 
mation and guidance of all concerned: 


“War DEPARTMENT, 
“ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE, 
“WASHINGTON, October 2, 1903. 

“The Commanding General, 
“Division of the Philippines, 
“Manila, P. I. 

“Str: The Chief of Staff having been 
advised by the Chief of Ordnance that the 
calibre .38 revolver cartridges manufac- 
tured by the Peters Cartridge Company are 
loaded with black powder which has dete- 
riorated since its purchase, he directs that 
all Post Commanders in your Department 
be required to turn in all such ammunition 
to the nearest arsenal, reporting date of 


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140 


shipment promptly to the Chief of Ord- 
nance of the Army. 
“Very respectfully, 
SW. ©. eiALIy 
“Acting Adjutant-General.” 


In the Division of the Philippines the de- 
fective ammunition will be turned in to the 
Manila Ordnance Depot and the reports of 
shipment sent through the Chief Ordnance 
Officer of the Division. 

By Command of Major-General Wade. 

W. A. Simpson, 
Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General, 





GAS OPERATED FIREARM. 


735,131. Gas Operated Firearm. Samuel 
N. McClean, Washington, Iowa. Filed 
Jan. 20, 1898. Serial No. 667,361. 


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Claim.—In a breech loading gun, the 
combination of a barrel and a receiver, with 
a reciprocatory and rotary breech block, a 
slide operatively engaging said block to re- 
ciprocate and rotate said block to lock and 
unlock it, and means actuated by the gases 
of explosion and imparting movement to 
said slide, etc. 





ANSWERING HENRY WIGGIN. 
I have had a 25-20 carbine, and have used 
it constantly more than a year with no trou- 
ble whatever. I made over the carbine 


RECREATION. 


stock and put on a Swiss plate, removed 
carbine rear sight and put on a Lyman 
No. 2 with cup, also removed carbine 
front sight and put on a windgauge, with 
aperture pinched and ivory bead. I cut 
off forearm and magazine; took off the 
strap holding magazine and fastened it to 
the barrel with a dowel. Have eased up 
trigger pull to about 3% pound. This made 
considerable slashing, but the result ob- 
tained is gratifying. 

I have used this gun for woodchucks, 
and had no trouble getting them, within 
reasonable range. Have also shot it over 
200 yard range, loading bullet in barrel 
separately, using 22 or 23 grains semi- 
smokeless, with 75 or 86 grain bullet, with 
good results, taking into consideration that 
st a light weight gun and not a target 
rifle. 

For a gallery load I use 1%, 3 or 4 grains 
Laflin & Rand Infallible, with 65, 75 or 86 
grain bullet, preferably 75 grain, made fairly 
hard. This powder should be weighed, as 
a slight variation will raise or lower the 
bullet accordingly. I also use nitro primer 
and crimp bullet well in shell. 

Altogether it makes a fine all around gun 
and a good caliber to experiment with. 

H. B. Johnson, Syracuse, N. Y. 





ADJUSTABLE GUN STOCK. 
Adjustable Gun Stock. Joe C. 
Filed Jan. 9, 

138,374. (No 


729,030. 
Yount, Thayer, Iowa. 
1903. Serial No. 
model. ) 





Claim.—In a gun, the combination with 
the stock having a semicircular concavity 
in its outer end, of a lock chamber having 
a semicircular shaped end adapted to en- 
gage the semicircular concavity in the end 
of said stock, circular depressions formed 
in the sides of the end of said lock cham- 
ber, plates having one end fixed to said 
stock, their cpposite ends being adapted to 
engage the circular depressions formed in 
said lock chamber, serrations formed in 
the faces of said depressions and similar 
serrations formed on the contiguous faces 
of said plates, whereby said parts are pre- 
vented from slipping, and means for clamp- 
ing said plates in said depressions. 


GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


SMALL SHOT. 

I greatly enjoy the friendly discussions 
in RECREATION’S gun and ammunition de- 
partment. To discuss a subject with a view 
to bringing up new points or studying de- 
tails is a good and practical way to diffuse 
knowledge. The way Dr. J. A. Elliott, of 
Northumberland, Pa., has of settling some 
of the mooted questions is the most scien- 
tific. His report is clear, decisive and I 
believe unprejudiced; and is the only one 
that has completely satisfied me on just 
those points I wished to know. Such ef- 
forts should be encouraged and should be 
accepted without debate. If there were 

more of such investigations and less natu- 
ral gas explosions on other debatable ques- 
tions, we should arrive at perfection much 
sooner. It has a discouraging effect on 
scientific investigators to receive idle, base- 
less criticism when they have given their 
time, talent, money and reputation to learn 
facts. 
demonstartors, and a higher standard of 
sportsmanship. 

Geo. M. Clouse, M. D., Columbus, O. 





Please give dimensions of the German 
ring target. Does it differ from the target 
used by the American rifle team? 

O. J. Axtell, Hambletville, N. Y. 
ANSWER. 

The dimensions of the German ring tar- 
get are as follows: Diameter of bulls eye 
12 inches, embracing the 18 ring; highest 
circle of count, 25, 14% inches diameter in 
center of bulls eye. Concentric circles %4 
inch apart counting from 25 down to tf. 
This target is used for offhand 200 yard 
shooting. 

The military targets, such as used by 
the U. S. Army and Militia in the interna- 
tional contests, are as follows: Third class 
for 200 and 300 yard shooting; Outside di- 
mensions, 4x6 feet, bulls eye 8 inches, 
counting 5. Second class target for 500 
and 600 yard shooting; Outside dimensions, 
6x6 feet, bulls eye 22 inches in diameter, 
counting 5. First class: Outside dimen- 
sions 6x12 feet for 800, 900 and 1,000 yard 
shooting; bulls eye 36 inches in diameter, 
counting 5.—EnpIrTor. 





Will some one interested in revolver 
shooting tell me of some brand of clean 
smokeless powder that will give good 
results in a 44 cartridge? 

L. H. L., Hackberry, Kans. 


ANSWER. 

Good results are obtained with the Haz- 
ard smokeless rifle powder No. 2. In using 
this powder the same charge cup as is used 
for black powder will give the proper quan- 


I long to see more investigators and 


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tities, that is, using the same bulk. The 
shells should be well crimped on the bul- 
lets to get good results. This will involve 
opening the mouth of the shells each time 
they are reloaded. The Ideal reloading 
tool is suitable for this work. Good re- 
sults can also be obtained with Laflin & 
Rand Bulls-eye powder, using a shell with 
a crease near the mouth to prevent the bul- 
let from slipping too far into the shell. The 
proper charge of this powder for the regu- 
lation 44 is 3% grains by weight. The 
shells should also be crimped when using 
this powder.—Ebiror. 





Will a shot gun with a 4o inch barrel 
shoot farther than one of 32 inches? Has 
the larger barrel any advantage? 

Adrian Valdos, Ambler, Pa. 
ANSWER. 

There is no advantage in any shot gun 
having a 40 inch barrel. By common con- 
sent large gauges are made with longer 
barrels than smaller ones. Guns of 28, 24 
and 20 gauges are best 26 to 28 inches long; 
16 and 14 gauge, about 28 inches; 12 gauge, 
either 28 or 30 inches. Some 12 gauge 
brush guns are built with 26 inch barrels, 
and when properly bored give surprisingly 
good patterns. Ten and 8 gauge seem pre- 
ferable in 32 to 36 inch barrels. Assuming 
that all barrels must be long enough to 
properly consume the powder gases, the 
quantity of metal in the barrel and its dis- 
tribution, coupled with the method of bor- 
ing, have much more to do with the ef- 
ficiency of the gun than the length of bar- 
rel has.—Ep1rTor. 





Four years ago I was on a bridge over 
the middle branch of Root river in this 


State. The bridge is 22 feet above the 
water. I was shooting suckers with a 38 
caliber. A water snake about 4 feet long 


came swimming up stream; when he was 
about 20 feet above the bridge I lined up 
on his neck and cut loose. To my utter 
astonishment, considerable water flew 10 
or 15 feet above the bridge and with it came 
the snake’s head, cut off as clean as with 
an axe. The water was about 12 inches 
deep, with solid rock bottom. Can any one 
explain what brought the snake’s head up 
there? I use a 22-7%4-45 and think it far 
superior to the common 22. I have just 
seen the first 22 Savage rifle that has been 
brought here. It is the neatest arm of that 
caliber on the marget. Marlin is now beat- 
en on the only gun he had on the market 
that was any good, namely his 22 caliber. 
W. S. Jones, Albert Lea. Minn. 





The Grand Haven Gun Club was or- 
ganized in this city September roth, 1903, 


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and has since built a comfortable and 
commodious club house on the banks of 
Stearns bayou, in Robinson township, 
5 miles from Grand Haven, ‘The officers 
of the club are, Conrad Vanden Bosch, 
President; Wm. Pelleyrom, Vice-Presi- 
dent; William Thielman, Secretary and 
Treasurer; Peter Wieringer, Martin Van- 
den Bosch, and Henry Hubert, Directors. 

We have, adjacent to the club house, a 
large tract of open ground, which is shad- 
ed by several large trees, and which we 
shall use for trap shooting. We already 
have 20 members and hope to add largely 
to the number in the near future. Nearly 
all our members are regular readers of 
RECREATION. Sportsmen who may visit 
Grand Haven are cordially invited to call 
on us. 

Peter Wieringer, Grand Haven, Mich. 





732,406. Firearm. Matt Goss, Duluth, 
Minn. Filed July 24, 1901. Serial 
No. 69,561. (No model.) 





Claim.—A firearm, comprising a barrel 
and a stock, the stock having a recess and 
channel formed therein for receiving car- 
tridges, a cartridge case adapted to be in- 
serted in the recess, and means carried by 
the stock and projecting into the case, for 
forcing the cartridges into the channelway, 
together with means for presenting the car- 
tridges to the barrel and firing mechanism 
of the piece. 





Will some reader of RECREATION who has 
had experience give me some information, 
which may also be useful to many others. 
How can Mauser shells of German make be 
decapped ? 

What primers will suit 7.65 mm. Mauser 
shells ? 

How can a good surface be put on a gun 
stock without the glossy finish produced by 
varnish? 

What will restore the blue finish on the 
barrel of a rifle, or be a fair substitute? 

How is it done at the factory? 

Will someone write an illustrated article 
for RECREATION describing the different 
kinds of twist in gun barrels, how they are 
made, and how they may be recognized? 

Which is the more popular method of at- 
taching a telescope to a rifle, by top or side 


mount? . 
F. A. G., Woodstock, N. B. 


_ RECREATION. 


I am greatly pleased with Mr. Savage’s 
letter in Recreation. He certainly looks 
on the comments made in your’ magazine 
about his arms in the right light. He would 
no doubt take advantage of any good ideas 
advanced for the improvement of the Sav- 
age arms. Mr. Savage has certainly made 
many friends by his kindly reply. There 
is a great difference between his point of 
view and that of the Peters Cartridge Co. 

Jno. H. Dawson, Joplin, Mo. 





My experience with the 30-30 has not 
been satisfactory; I have sold out and am 
going back to the old black powder rifle, 
which I believe is far ahead of the high 
power guns for accuracy. ; 

_ There is not a page in RecrEATION that 
is not interesting, and I do not see how 
any lover of the gun can get along without 


it. 
M. W. Hodge, Dayton, Ore. 





What is regarded as good penetration 
for a 12 gauge shot gun when loaded with 
one ounce No. 8 shot and the appropriate 
charge of smokeless powder? How, with- 
out complicated apparatus, can penetration 
be fairly determined? 

Penetration, Pottsville, Pa. 


Will some reader please answer.—Ep1rTor. 





The shells put on the market by the 
Robin Hood Powder Co. are the best I 
ever used. The members of our camping 
club all use and praise them. Robin Hood 
is a particularly clean powder. 

Dan Rifenburgh, Bennington, Vt. 





Doctor—Ah! out for a constitutional ? 

She—Yes; I walk 2 miles before break- 
fast every morning for my complexion. 

“Is the drug store so far as that?”— 
London Tattler. 





I am a printer and like to see good, neat 
work. Typographical appearance counts 
for a great deal in a magazine, and yours is 


Al. Edw. Bush, Buffalo, N. Y. 





“Papa, what is a coquette?” 
“Any girl, my son, that a man wants 
but can’t get.”—Exchange. 





RECREATION is the best sportsmen’s guide 
W. N. Green, Kearny, N. J. 





In family hotels they sing it .“Home, 
suite home.”—Life. 





NATURAL HISTORY. 


When abird or a wild animal is killed, that is the end of it. 


its educational and scientific value is multiplied indefinitely. 


SHOULD THE ROBIN BE KILLED OFF? 

I am in receipt of your letter of 24th, and 
am in full sympathy with your work for the 
protection of game and birds, excepting 
the English sparrow and the thieving and 
destructive robin. When the association 
will advocate and influence the sentimental 
women, and the men as well, to allow the 
penalty for killing a robin removed, I will 
contribute toward the funds of the asso- 
ciation. The robin is a marauder and a 
thief, as well as the boy or man who would 
invade your orchard, garden or lawn and 
destroy or steal your berries, cherries, etc. 
The robin you protect, but the man you 
would arrest and punish. The man or boy 
might come once, but the robin is not satis- 
fied until he has completed the destruction 
of the fruit. 

I own a farm and am fond of raising 
every luxury in the way of fruit. I share 
it with my neighbors and friends. It costs 
money and labor. After all this, the pes- 
tiferous robin comes and destroys it, and 
the owner dare not protect his own prop- 
erty. This is not in keeping with good 
sense, much less sentiment. 

The robin is not an insect-destroying bird. 
His food is the glow or ground worm, one 
of nature’s provisions to perforate the soil, 
so the moisture can penetrate to the roots 
of the growing plant. This is an estab- 
lished fact and corroborated by all horti- 
culturists. 

I say raise a fund to exterminate the 
sparrow and kill the robin, so as to dimin- 
ish the chances of losing an entire fruit 
crop by his marauding, thieving propensity. 
Every farmer in New Jersey will support 
and corroborate my statement. Kill the 
robin and the sparrow and I am with you. 

J. A. Krunkel, Pennington, N. J. 


Here is an extract from Farmers’ Bul- 
letin, No. 54, issued by the United States 
Department of Agriculture, which should 
convince Mr. Krunkel that he is wrong in 
Sie aie the wholesale destruction of the 
robin: 


_ The food habits of the robin some- 
times cause apprehension to fruit 
growers, for he is fond of cherries and 
other small fruits, especially the earlier 
varieties. For this reason many com- 
plaints have been lodged against him, 
and some persons have gone so far as 
to condemn the bird. The robin is, 
however, too valuable to be extermi- 
nated, and choice fruit can be readily 
protected from his depredations. 


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An examination of 330 stomachs 
shows that over 42 per cent of the 
robin’s food is animal matter, princi- 
pally insects, while the remainder is 
made up largely of small fruits and 
berries. Over 19 per cent consists of 
beetles, about 1-3 of which are ground 
beetles, taken mostly in spring and fall, 
when other insects are scarce. Grass- 
hoppers make up about I-10 of the 
whole food, but in August comprise 
over 30 per cent. Caterpillars form 
about 6 per cent, while the rest of the 
animal food, about 7 per cent, consists 
of various insects, with a few spiders, 
snails and angleworms. All the grass- 
hoppers, caterpillars and bugs, with a 
large portion of the beetles, are injuri- 
ous, and it is safe to say that noxious 
insects comprise more than 1-3 of the 
robin’s food. 

Vegetable food forms nearly 58 per 
cent of the stomach contents, over 47 
being wild fruits, and only a little more 
than 4 per cent being possibly cultivated 
varieties. Cultivated fruit amounting 
to about 25 per cent was found in the 
stomachs in June and July, but only a 
trifle in August. Wild fruit, on the 
contrary, is eaten in every month, and 
constitutes a staple food during half 
the year. No less than 41 species were 
identified in the stomachs. Of these, the 
most important were 4 species of dog- 
wood, 3 of wild cherries, 3 of wild 
grapes, 4 of greenbrier, 2 of holly, 2 
of elder; and cranberries, huckleberries, 
blueberries, barberries, service berries, 
hackberries, and persimmons, with 4 
species of sumac, and various other 
seeds not strictly fruit. 

The depredations of the robin seem 
to be confined to the smaller and earlier 
fruits, and few, if any, complaints 
have been made against it on the score 
of eating apples, peaches, pears, grapes, 
or even late cherries. By the time these 
are ripe the forests and hedges are 
teeming with wild fruits, which the bird 
evidently finds more to its taste. The 
cherry, unfortunately, ripens so early 
that it is almost the only fruit access- 
ible at a time when the bird’s appetite 
has been sharpened by a long contin- 
ued diet of insects, earthworms, and 
dried berries, and it is no wonder that 
at first the rich, juicy morsels are 
greedily eaten. In view of the fact that 
the robin takes 10 times as much wild 
as cultivated fruit, it seems unwise to 


If photographed, it may still live and 


144 RECREATION. 


destroy the birds to save so little. Nor 
is this necessary, for by a little care 
both may be preserved. Where much 
fruit is grown, it is no great loss to 
give up one tree to the birds; and in 
some cases the crop can be protected by 
scarecrows. Where wild fruit is not 
abundant, a few fruit-bearing shrubs 
and vines judiciously planted will serve 
for ornament and provide food for the 
birds. The Russian mulberry is a vig- 
orous grower and a profuse bearer, 
ripening at the same time as the cherry, 
and, so far as observation has gone, 
most birds seem to prefer its fruit to 
any other. It is believed that a num- 
ber of these trees planted around the 
garden or orchard would fully protect 
the more valuable fruits. 

Many persons have written about the 
delicate discrimination of birds for 
choice fruit, asserting that only the fin- 
est and costliest varieties are selected. 
This is contrary to all careful scientific 
observation. Birds, unlike human _ be- 
ings, seem to prefer fruit like the mul- 
berry, that is sweetly insipid, or that 
has some astringent or bitter quality 
like the chokeberry or holly. The so- 
called black alder (Jlex verticillata), 
which is a species of holly, has bright 
scarlet berries, as bitter as quinine, 
that ripen late in October, and remain 
on the bushes through November; and 
though frost grapes, the fruit of the 
Virginia creeper, and several species of 
dogwood are abundant at the same 
time, the birds eat the berries of the 
holly to a considerable extent, as shown 
by the seeds found in the stomachs. It 
1s, moreover, a remarkable fact that the 
wild fruits on which the birds feed 
largely are those which man neither 
gathers for his own use nor adopts for 
cultivation. 





MIKE AND BEELZEBUB. 
G. E. KASTENGREN. 


Mike was only a monkey, it is true, but 
as full of concentrated deviltry, race preju- 
dice, and loyalty to his many masters as are 
usually allotted to a dozen of -his human 
relatives. He was a member of the 14th 
U. S. Infantry and particularly of Company 
F, in whose corner of the cuartel he was 
compelled to make his headquarters. A 
light, 8-foot chain made fast to the corner 
fence post allowed him to skip into an old 
sentry box, but while in there he had to 
hang on to sundry nails and pegs, for he 
could not reach the floor. 

As to his race prejudice, he would no 
more dream of making friends with a Fil- 
ipino than of taking a bath in boiling oil. 
As long as he was securely fastened, they 
would tease him until, in sheer disgust, he 


would slip into his sentry box. A few 
yanks on the chain would bring him out on 
his fence post, where he would swear fear- 
ful oaths in simian volapuk. On one such 
occasion | happened along the fence, and 
when Mike spotted me he yelled in his own 
lingo that he was in sore trouble. No one 
could have failed to understand that ap- 
peal, for he was gesticulating like a wild 
Frenchman. I hurried up, and gave Mike 
a chance to take revenge into his own 
hands, by letting him loose. In about 5 sec- 
onds Mike had all the Filipinos in the vicin- 
ity shut up in their shacks; and then he 
tried the impossible task of doing sentry 
duty at every door at the same time. He 
almost succeeded, for I could only see 
a brown streak in the air. After a while 
he came back thoroughly exhausted, but he 
had gained the respect of the Filipinos. 

Mike had many relatives in the cuartel, 
but they all belonged to a smaller species, 
while Mike was the size of a terrier. One 
of these little ones, Baby by name, had se- 
lected Mike as his protector, a task the lat- 
ter accepted with much dignity. While he 
was engaged in picking over his ward he 
would allow no one to interfere, but if I 
let him understand that I had peanuts in 
my pocket he would drag Baby along and 
search me for edibles. He would never 
treat Baby until his own paunch and cheek 
pouches were filled to bursting. 

Beelzebub belonged to the small species, 
but for deviltry he could hold his own 
against an African elephant. He escaped 
soon after his adoption by a misguided 
American soldier, who made a chain fast 
to the monkey but failed to make it fast to 
anything else. At the approach of anyone 
Beelzebub would skin up the water spout in 
no time and dance a can can on the hot 
corrugated iron; the rattling chain mean- 
while preventing enjoyment of the siesta. 
Even at night he would suddenly remember 
that there was a better place to roost at the 
other end of the cuarte?, and he would im- 
partially distribute his rattling chain sere- 
nade to the whole regiment. Regulations 
and taps were nothing to him, and he 
seemed to enjoy being the cause of many 
a muttered midnight curse. 

Beelzebub was the cause of the downfall 
of the whole Cuartel de Malate monkey col- 
ony. One day he invited the tribe to join 
him in a predatory expedition to the com- 
manding officer’s room. A pile of official 
papers on the desk was awaiting signa- 
ture to become effective, including the pa- 
pers of 2 court martials. Beelzebub led the 
raid through the open windows. On the 
desk were red and black ink in bright cut 
glass ink wells. With these 2 colors the 
monkeys painted a gorgeous tropical sun- 
set on the court martial papers, and quietly 
departed. Their tracks were clearly out- 


NATURAL HISTORY. 


lined in black, carmine, and intermediate 
tints on floor and window sills. Their guilt 
was so evident that a blanket death sentence 
was pronounced. 

Now comes the peculiar part of the yarn, 
No one had the heart to kill Mike, but 
somebody turned him loose and told him to 
find a safer place for permanent residence. 
He took the hint, and made his headquar- 
ters with the First Idahos, about 3 blocks 
away. Mike would always recognize his 
old friends, but a carload of peanuts would 
not induce him to return to Cuartel de 


Malate. 





OUR TENANTS. 


The first year they were a pair of song 
sparrows which built a nest in a tussock of 
grass by the brook. There was not a tree 
nor shrub on the place, and but little 
grass; but in the fall, after our land was 
graded, we put a hedge of good sized hem- 
locks in front of the house, and planted 
maples, elms and other rapid growing 
trees. Behind the house we made a small 
orchard, and set out berry bushes. We 
kept neither cat nor dog, and before the 
end of this first summer, robins and other 
birds were in the habit of flying across to 
our lot to pick up the crumbs and seeds 
we scattered about the door. After the 
young sparrows became large enough to 
fly they frequently joined their neighbors 
in these morning visits to the house. 

The second year there were several spar- 
rows nests along the brook, presumably 
the pair of the previous year and their chil- 
dren, now gone to housekeeping for them- 
selves. In the hemlocks were 2 robins’ 
nests, a catbird’s nest, and a cedar bird’s. 
Besides these, a purple martin had shown 
her confidence in us by building a nest 
on one of the rafters of our porch. 

At first the birds showed considerable 
shyness. When we were out of sight they 
would fly boldly about the door and on the 
porch, but as soon as we appeared would 
beat a precipitate retreat. Gradually this 
suspicion wore off, and by the time our 
strawberries were ripe the birds would eat 
from one end of the bed while we picked 
at the other. 

This year more birds flew across to us 
from neighboring yards and from the 
woods, seeming to have communicated to 
each other the fact that seeds were to be 
found about our door, and that there were 
no dogs nor cats to molest them. Occasion- 
ally an oriole or a wood thrush would ap- 
pear among them, and once a scarlet tanager 
flew from the woods, and, after a sharp 
scrutiny of the house, made a hasty meal 
from the seeds. When food became scarce, 
the birds grew bolder, and would even hop 
inquiringly into our kitchen. During the 
winter several sparrows and a pair of blue 


145 


jays took our hospitality for granted, and 
came regularly each morning for breakfast. 
Among our visitors was always a good 
sprinkling of snow buntings and stragglers 
that had failed to go South. 

As our maples, and elms, and apple trees 
grew, other birds came and took pos- 
session of them, and before long we found 
ourselves in the midst of a select commu- 
nity of rare songsters. It is now our fourth 
year in the country, and we have only to 
open our windows in the morning to be 
treated to sweeter music than any trained 
orchestra could furnish. 

F. H. Sweet, Palm Beach, Fla. 


PROBABLY MR. PARK’S BEAVER. 


I was interested to see in the December 
issue of RECREATION an account of a beaver 
which Mr. Park had seen traces of on a 
recent trip to Indian river. In September, 
in company with a friend, I explored much 
of the same territory, and during our stay 
at Kennell’s old camp, on the Little Moose, 
our guide, Frank Baker, told me of a bea- 
ver dam which he had seen on a tribu- 
tary not more than 2 miles from our camp. 
Baker is a careful observer of animal life, 
and he told us in such a way that I have 
every reason to believe it is the same beaver 
Mr. Park speaks of, and the one that 
gnawed through the wire grating and es- 
caped from Governor Woodruff’s place 
about 2 years ago. Baker had noted cut- 
tings at several points along the Sumner 
stream, and on the still water above the 
old dam of Little Moose, near where the 
trail leads over to Beaver lake. He had 
also seen cuttings on Indian river and on 
Beaver lake itself. He found one tree 10 
inches in thickness which was all but 
gnawed through. Whether it was the 
beaver’s desire to find a remote region 
where he could live out his days unmolested 
by man, or whether he was seeking vainly 
a companion, I do not know; but at any 
rate I visited the dam the next morning and 
am convinced he had found the former. 
We spent most of the morning in care- 
fully going over his work. He certainly was 
a busy little fellow, and it was evident from 
numerous trees and chips we examined that 
he had done all this work unaided. I feel 
sure there was but one beaver, because we 
observed no other tooth marks. The leaves 
of a large poplar tree, which he had felled 
near one of the skidding trails, were still 
fresh, and I judge the cutting had been done 
the night before. Not having a boat we 
were unable to discover his house. The 
dam raised the water 2 feet, and was strong 
enough to enable us to walk across. 

This lone worker is what is commonly 
termed by trappers and woodsmen a bache- 
lor beaver, although in this case he had not 
been ostracized by his kinsmen, as those 





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familiar with the habits of the animal assert 
is often the case. On my return from the 
woods I saw Mr. Middleton, the commis- 
sioner, and I trust that at the next meeting 
of the board they will decide to put in some 
more beavers. 

Kensett Rossiter, Cambridge, Mass. 





ANSWER BUCK SHOT. 

Buck Shot, Milnor, N. Dak., asks how to 
. poison coyotes. As a boy in the valley of 
the South Platte, in Colorado, I poisoned 
many in the following manner: [I would 
take say a quarter of the carcass | wished 
to poison and drag it in a circle 2 or 3 
miles across, and every few hundred yards 
would drop a small piece of meat with a 
killing dose of strychnine inserted in a 
gash, so the animal would not taste it. The 
drag always ended at the carcass. We 
would sometimes get 6 or 8 coyotes, some 
foxes, skunks, and occasionally a wolf. 

D. M. P., El Paso, Tex. 


Buck Shot, of Milnor, N. Dak., can 
poison coyotes in this way: Take fresh 
eggs, drill a small hole in the end of each 
and through the hole work strychnine into 
the contents of the shell. Then, after dip- 
ping the poisoned eggs in the white of an- 
other egg to seal the holes, leave them 
where a coyote will find them. You will 
surely get him. 

W. A. Stoner, Priest River, Idaho. 





NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 


Are there 2 kinds or species of mallard 
ducks? What work on natural history 
would you advise me to get, to set myself 
and others right on questions of this kind? 

J. V. Myers, Larned, Kan. 


ANSWER. 


There is but one kind of mallard duck. 
The drake is marked by a conspicuous me- 
tallic-green head and neck and a gray body. 
The female is brown with black lines run- 
ning lengthwise of the body. In appear- 
ance, the male and female differ widely; 
just as many other ducks do. 

The best natural history will appear 
about February first, written by W. T. 
Hornaday, and published by Charles Scrib- 
ner’s Sons. Its title will be “The American 
Natural History,” and it will be advertised 
in RECREATION.—EDITOR. 





Please tell me if the whip-poor-will and 
the night hawk are the same bird. 

E. E. Aplanalp, Hancock, N. Y. 
ANSWER. 

The whip-poor-will and the night hawk are 
birds of different species, but they belong 
to the same family and their habits are 
much alike. In flight, the night hawk may 
always be recognized, in the daytime, by the 


RECREATION. 


large white spot underneath each wing. At — 
night, the whip-poor-will is of course re- 
cognized by its cry. The night hawk is 
much more given to flying by day for the 
purpose of catching insects in the air than 
is the whip-poor-will. The scientific name 
of the whip-poor-will is Antrostomus vo- 
ciferous; that of the night hawk is Chor- 
deiles virginianus.—EbITor. 





I recently saw, in low bushes at the edge 
of a wood, a bird with grayish black back 
and tail, grayish white under parts, light 
brown throat, and a brown spot on top of 
head. Can you tell me its name? I took a 
shot at it with a camera, but have not de- 


‘veloped the plate. 


F. M. J., Gloucester, Mass. 


It is impossible to identify the bird from 
the description you give. If you have suc- 
ceeded in getting a good picture of it, please 
send me the print, and I shall then no 
doubt be able to tell you what the bird is.— 
EpITor. 





I notice in August RECREATION an in- 
quiry from L. M. Badger about deer horns 
found in a crotch of an oak. Most likely 
the horns were placed there by some In- 
dian hunter. It is common among some 
tribes to hang up horns of deer, elk and 
moose, and the paws of bear in this man- 
ner. I once found a set of moose horns 
embedded in a poplar tree. Red squirrels, 
chipmunks, wood rats, weasels, and, in fact, 
almost any of the smaller forest animals, 
will gnaw deer and moose horns. 

F. L. Wilson, McEwen, Ore. 


‘Don’t you suppose it is possible for a 
man to go through the world without tell- 
ing a lie?” 

“T doubt it. Almost every man has been 
in love at some time in his life.”—Life. 





I like RECREATION more than any maga- 
zine I have ever taken, and like it all the 
more because you place the rooters where 
they belong—in the pen. 

A. E. Dabney, Staunton, Va. 





The melancholy days have come, 
The saddest of the year, 
When man goes out and shoots a friend, 
And thinks he is a deer. 
—Yonkers Statesman. 


I cannot do without Recreation. My 
sisters take as much interest in it as I do, 
and that is saying considerable. 

E. L. Cole, Pelican Rapids, Minn. 








I never read a magazine that pleased me 
better than RECREATION. 
’ Arthur E. Gage, Schenectady, N. Y. 





THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 


GENERAL OFFICERS 


President, G. O. Shields, 23 W. 24th St., 
New York. 


1st Vice-President, E. T. Seton, 80 West 


4oth St., New York. 

2d Vice-President, W. T. Hornaday, 2969 
Decatur Ave., Bedford Park, N. Y. 
* 3d Vice-President, Dr. T. S. Palmer, 
Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 

4th Vice-President, A. A. Anderson, 80 
West 4oth St., New York. ~ 

5th Vice-President, Hon. W. A. Rich- 
ee General Land Office, Washington, 

Secretary, A. F. Rice, 155 Pennington 
Ave., Passaic, N. J. 

Treasurer, Austin Corbin, of the Corbin 
Banking Co., 192 Broadway, New York. 

STATE DIVISIONS 


ALASKA 
Dr. E. M. Rininger, Chief Warden, Nome. 
ARIZONA. 
M.J. Foley, Chief Warden, Jerome. 
ARKANSAS 
W. R. Blocksom, Chief Warden, Eureka Springs. 
CALIFORNIA. 
Dr. David Starr Jordan, Chief Warden, Leland 
Stanford University. 
COLORADO. 


A. Whitehead, Chief Warden, 303 Tabor Building, 
Denver. 

CONNECTICUT, 

Hon. F. P. Sherwood, Chief Warden, Southport; 
Dr. H. L. Ross, Vice-Warden, Canaan; H. C. Went, 
Sec.-Treas., Bridgeport. 

> DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
C. H. Townsend, Chief Warden, U. S. Fish Com- 
mission. 
FLORIDA, 
W. W.K. Decker, Chief Warden, Tarpon Springs. 
GEORGIA. 
J.J. Doughty, Chief Warden, Augusta. 
IDAHO, 
L. A. Kerr, Chief Warden, Kendrick. 
_ ILLINOIS. 

M. D. Ewell, M.D., Chief Warden, 59 Clark St., 
Chicago; F. M. Taber, Vice Warden, 144 Kinzie 
St., Chicago; G.C. Davis, Sec.-Treas., 123 S. Central 


Ave., Austin. 
INDIANA. 
John J. Hildebrandt, Chief Warden, a ag ek 
O. RK. Moore, Vice-Warden, Anderson; Dr. M. L. 


Humston, Sec.-Treas., Goodiand. 
IOWA. 
Carl Quimby, Chief Warden, Des Moines; C. C. 
Proper, Sec.-l'reas., Des Moines. 
KANSAS. 
O. B. Stocker, Chief Warden, Wichita. 
KENTUCKY. 
Geo. C. Long, Chief Warden, Hopkinsville. 
MAINE. 
Col. E. C. Farrington, Chief Warden, Augusta. 
MARYLAND. 
J. E. Tylor, Chief Warden, Cxford. 
MASSACHUSETTS. 

Heman S. Fay, Chief Warden, Hazleton Block, 
Marlboro; d: E. Tweedy, Vice-Warden, North Attle- 
boro; A. C. Lamson, Sec.-Treas., 194 Maan St., 
Marlboro. 

I MICHIGAN. 
J. Elmer Pratt, Chief Warden, Grand Rapids; k.S. 


Woodliffe, Vice-Warden, Jackson; A. B. Richmond, 
Sec.-Treas., Grand Kapids. 
MINNESOTA. 

Dietrich Lange, Chief Warden, 2294 Commonwealth 
Ave., St Paul; H. A. Morgan, Vice-Warden, Albert 
Lea; Prof. O. T. Denny, Sec.-Treas.,St. Paul. 

MISSOURI. 
Ree Snyder, Chief Warden, 726 Central Bldg., 
. Louis. 

MONTANA. 

Professor M. J. Elrod, Chief Warden, Missoula; 
Sidney M. Logan, Vice-Warden, Kalispell; R. A. 
Waagner, Sec.-Treas., Bozeman. 

NEBRASKA. 

Fred. E. Mockett, Chief Warden, Lincoln; P. 

O’ Mahony, Sec.-Treas., Lincoln. 
NEVADA. 

Dr. W. H. Cavell, Chief Warden, Carson; Geo. W. 
Cowing, Sec,-Treas., Carson. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

Dr. A. F. Barrett, Sentinel Bldg., Keene; Sidney 
Conant, Sec.-Treas., Keene. 

NEW JERSEY. 

Percy Johnson, Chief Warden, Bloomfield; Dr. 

. 5S. Colfax, Vice-Warden, Pompton Lakes; I. 
V. Dorland, Sec.-Treas., Arlington. 

NEW MEXICO. 
P. B. Otero, Chief Warden, Santa Fe. 
NEW YORK. 

John R. Fanning, Chief Warden, Powers’ Bidg., 
Rochester; Col. R. E. Moss, Vice-Warden, Wallack’s 
Theatre, New York City; Dr. C. C. Curtis, Sec.- 
Treas., Columbia College, New York City. 

NORTH DAKOTA, 
Dr. W. D. Jones, Chief Warden, Devil’s Lake. 
OHIO. 
W.E. Gleason, Chief Warden, Mitchell Bldg., 
Cincinnati; A. C. Thatcher, Vice-Warden, Urbana. 
OKLAHOMA. 
W. M. Grant, Chief Warden, Oklahoma City. 
ONTARIO. 

C. A. Hammond, Chief Warden, Box 7o1, St. 

Thomas; D. L. Mells, Sec.-Treas., St. Thomas. 
OREGON. 

Robert F. Kelly, Chief Warden, Box 188, The 

Dalles; C. B. Cushing, Sec.- Treas., The Dalles. 


PENNSYLVANIA. 

C. F. Emerson, Chief Warden, 189 N. Perry St., 
Titusville; Hon. C. B. Penrose, Vice-Warden, 1720 
Spruce St., Philadelphia. 

RHODE ISLAND, 

Zenas W. Bliss, Chief Warden, 49 Westminster St., 
Providence. 

SOUTH CAROLINA. 
C. F. Dill, Chief Warden, Greenviile. 
SOUTH DAKOTA. 

D. C. Booth, Chief Warden, Spearfish; John C. 

Barber, Sec.-Treas., Lead. 
TENNESSEE. 

Hon. G. C. Martin, Chief Warden, Clarksville 

Hon. Austin Peay, Jr., Sec.-Treas., Clarksville. 
TEXAS. 
Prof. S. W. Stanfield, Chief Warden, San Marcos; 
W. E. Heald, Sec.-Treas., San Angelo. 
UTAH. 
Hon. John Sharp, Chief Warden, Salt Lake City. 
VERMONT. 
S. C. White, Sec.-Treas., Woodstock. 


VIRGINIA. 

R. G. Bickford, Chief Warden, Newport News. 
C. O. Saville, Vice-Warden, Richmond; M.D. Hart, 
Sec.-Treas., 1217 East Main St., Richmond. 

WASHINGTON. 

F. S. Merrill, Chief Warden, Spokane; F. A. Pon- 
tius, Sec.-Treas., Seattle; Munro Wyckoff, Vice-War- 
den, Pt. Townsend. 


147 


148 RECREATION. 
WEST VIRGINIA, County. 

E. F, Smith, Chief Warden, Hinton, Allegany, 
roome, 


WISCONSIN. 


Name of Warden. 


G. A. Thomas, 
ohn Sullivan, 


- R. Mathewson yp neg 

Frank Kaufman, Chief Warden, Two Rivers;Dr. Cayuga, .M.H ” Weedsport. — 

A. Gropper, Sec.-Treas., Milwaukee. Chemung,  Fred.Uhles Hendy Cre Creek, 
= tenes Columbia X 7 “Mlle % et Cc 
H. E. Wadsworth, Chief Warden, Shoshone Cortland, James Edwards, penn pees 
Agency; Frank Bond, Sec.-Treas., Cheyenne. Dutchess, A. B. Miller Pawling. 
Applications for membership acid orders for badges M as. H. DeLong aw 
shouid be addressed to Arthur F. Rice, Secretary, 23 W. . bane Tompkins, Bi + pe 
24th St., New York. Hen Marvin BS utle r, M 
ssex, : 
LOCAL WARDENS Franklin, as. Eccles, Pe ora Falls. 
CONNECTICUT. Fenton Daan rd. Jr hog 
County. Name of Warden. Address. Herkimer, D. FS ry, x d Forge. P 
Fairfield, George B. Bliss, 2 Park = Stam- Jefferson, a Smith, Watertown. 
ord. “sp 
“ Harvey C. Went, 11 Park Si., Bridge- Ts ‘Northrup, Alexandria Bay, 
port. ivingst 
r; Samuel Waklee, Box 373, Stratford. sae K.-S. De La Vergne, rg tae 
Litchfield, Dr. H. L. Ross, - Box 100, Ca- ~~ Henry a, Springwater. 
Middlesex, Sandford Brainerd, Ivdryton: M bok Re an pt me 
Oo 
New Haven, Wilbur E. Beach, 318 Me Se Street, ae lok oe Nee uk City. 
Ps aven. Oneida, . M. Scoville, Clinton. 
. D. J. Ryan, 188 Elizabeth St.. Onondaga, ames Lush Memphis. 
Derby. Orange, . Hampton Kidd, ees 
FLORIDA, % “homas Harris, aoe Jervis. 
Brevard, C. H. Racey, Waveland. Orleans, i:# . Fearby, E. Shelby. 
ILLINOIS. Oswego, . E. Manning, 154 wet "Utica St. 
Iroquois . L. Peacock, Sheldon. Swego. 
: Putnam, H. L. Brady, Mahopac Falls. 
Rock Island, - M, Slottard, — ae 17th Queens, Gerard Van Nostrand Flushing, L.I. 
IOWA. = om: W.S. Mygrant, 40 Elton Street, 
Clinton, D.L.Pascol, Grand Mound. “ chore par 
Pottawattamie, Dr. C. Engel, Crescent. Pit ARO he a yy — 
KANSAS. pine L. B. Drowne, 119 Somers Street, 
Ness, Frank Lake, Ransom. a Lewis C. Att, Broad Chaska Ho- 
MASSACHUSETTS. tel, Rockaway,L.I. 
Norfolk, Orlando McKenzie, Norfolk, Richmond, Lewis Morris, Port Richmond. 
a 21s a Wrentham. St. Lawrence, Dr. B.W.Severance, Gouverneur. 
. W. Fuller East Milton. A.N. Clar Sevey. 
Suffolk, Capt. W. J. Stone, 4 Tremont Row, Schenectady, J. W. Furns Schenectady. 
Boston. Schoharie, . E. Eigen, Sharon Springs. 
Worcester, B. H. Mosher, Athol. Schuyler, G.C. Fordham, Watkins 
uffolk, F. J. Fellows, Central Islip, s OH 
seep P. F. Tabor Orient 
Berrien, W. A. Palmer, Buchanan. Tioga, Geo. Wood, wego. 
ass, Thomas Dewey, Dowagiac. Ulster, M.A. DeVall, The Corners. 
Hillsdale, C. A. Stone, Hillsdale, m. S. Mead, Woodstock. 
ore Ton, Powel] pent Warren, £m McEchron, Glens Fait. 
Ottawa, mf Dunham, Spencer . = vy, gton, J. a ponent aa B 
paypneray: Westchaiter, “Geotga Fuk i= Pieaanten 
: estchester, George Po easantville. 
Hall, E. C. Statler, Grand Island - Chas. Baartie: sy Pelham Road, 
NEW HAMPSHIRE, New Rochelle. 
Cheshire, S.C. Ellis, Keene. a M. W. Smith, Croton Falls, 
Sullivan, G. A. Blake Lempster. Sed re Gorham, Mt. Kisco. 
ashe Davidson, Charlestown. Yates, B. L. Wren, Penn Yan, 
NEW JERSEY. Seymour Poineer, Branch Port. 
Hudson, A. W. Letts, 51 Newark St., OHIO. . 
ken Allen, S. W. Knisely Lima. 
Mercer. Edw. Vanderbilt, Dentzville, Clark, Fred C. Ross, 169 W. Main St., 
renton. Springfield 
. Roland Mitchell, 739 Centre St., Cuyahoga, A. W. Hitch, 161 Osborn St., 
Trenton f Cleveland. 

ne F. C. Wright, Trenton, Erie, David Sutton, 418 hase St., 

Monmouth. Dory-Hunt, Wanaque. . andusky. 
orris, Joseph Pellet Pompton Plains. Franklin, Brook L. Terry, 208 Woodward Av., 
< Chas. W. Blake, Dover. Columbus. 

5 Francis E. Cook, Butler. Fulton, L.C. Berry, Swanton. 

S Calone Orr, Hibernia. Hamilton, W.C. Rippey, 4465 Eastern Ave., 
Somerset, G. E. Morris Somerville. Cincinnati. 
Sussex, Isaac D. W illiams, Branchville. Knox, Grant Phillips, Mt. Vernon. 
Union, A. H. Miller, Cranford. Lorain, T. J. Bates, Elyria. 

C. M. Hawkins, Roselle. Muskingum, Frank D. Abell, Teneeviltle. 
Warren, om Young, Phillipsburg. Ottawa, Frank B. Shirley, Lakeside. 
as euben Warner, ‘ Scioto, J. F. Kelley, Portsmouth, 
NEW YORK. Stark, _A. Dangeleisen, Massillon. 
Albany, C.D.Johnson, Newtonville. OKLAHOMA, 
~ Kenneth E. Bender,Albany Kiowa and be se Nation, : 
° W.S. Swift, ‘Voorheesville. . Cooper, Ft. Sill. 





THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 


PENNSYLVANIA, 

County. Name of Warden. Address. 
Allegheny, S. H. Allen, Natrona. 
Beaver, N. H. Covert, Beaver Falls. 

W.R. Keefer, 
Bradford, Geo. B. Loop, Sayre. 
Butler, F, J. Forquer, Mistinadiie. 

ye - McGill, Harrisville. 
Cambria, H. Lambert, 720 Coleman Ave., 

Johnstown, 

Cameron, pany Hemphill, Emporium. 
Carbon, As Hontz, East Mauch Chunk. 
Clarion, aes ) Sasol New Bethlehem. 
Clinton, epler, Renovo. 

Geo. i Repler, Tae: 

= Antes, Pine Station 
Crawford, is pes Tillotson, Tillotson. 

> T. Meyers, ‘Titusville, 

* . Lamb, Buel. 
Cumberland, J. c Gill, Mechanicsburg. 
— alter Lusson, Ardmore. 

a B.. Lobaugh, Ridgway. 
ate, as Cope Cadwallader. 
Fayette, ohn Noli, Sykesville. 
uniata, lifford Singer, Oakland Mills. 
Ezra Phillips, McAlesterville. 
Lackawanna, Wm. Weir, Moosic. 
Wm. Major, 
¥ Frank A. Saris, Wimmers. 
Lycoming, as. J.Brennan, Oval. 
a - D. Kurtz, Cammal. 
McKean, C. A. Duke, Duke Center. 
a L. P. Fessenden, Granere. 
cs Wm. Holsinger, Stickney. 
Montgomery, L.C. Parsons, Academy. 
Northumber- , W. Roher, 
land, §05 Anthracite Sth Shamokin. 
Perry, Samuel Sundy, 
Potter, Ira Murphy, Giealiewpert: 
_ Wiley Barrows, Austin. 
* Chas. Barrows, _ Austin. 
Tioga, E. B. Beaumont, Jr., Lawrenceville 
ae G. Hie Simmons, Westfield 
Venango, G. D. Benedict, Pleasantville. 
Warren. F. P. Sweet, Goodwill Hill. 
ne Nelson Holmes, Cornplanter. 
Wyoming, Cyrus Walter, Tunkhannoc’ , 
TENNESSEE. 
Madison, H.T. Rushing, ackson. 
Montgomery, ak Humphrey, Clarksville. 
Robertson, C. Bell, Springfield. 
Stewart, Yoba H. Lory, Bear Spring. 
Sumner, G. Harris, Gallatin. 
UTAH, 
Washington, S.C. Goddard, New Harmony. 
cs J. A. Thornton, Pinto. 
VERMONT. 
Essex, H, S. Lund, Granby. 
Orleans, E.G. Moulton, Derby Line. 
Rutland, Wm. J. Liddle, Box 281, Fair Haven 
Windsor, F. A. Tarbell, West Bridgewater. 
VIRGINIA, 
Henrico, W. J. Lynham, 412 W. Marshall, 
Richmond. 
King & Queen, R. D. Bates, Newtown. 
King William, N. ag fA Samy Palls. 
Louisa, i Harris, Applegrove. 
ees ee tap South Hill. 
Smythe, ughes, Chatham Hill. 
pes sone 
Okanogan, ames West, Methow. 
Stevens, acob Martin, Newport. 
bdgvs Lee, Northport. 
Yakima, iF “Brachmann, N. Yakima. 
WYOMING. 
Carbon. Kirk Dyer, Medicine Bow. 
Fremont, Nelson Yarnall, Dubois. 
Laramie, eae Ce aaa Cheyenne. 
Uinta, {e. t. Pekaaal. } Jackson. 


LOCAL CHAPTE 
Albert Lea, eo - 
Anadarka, O. T., Bert Smith, 
Angelica, N. Y., C.A 


H. A. Morgan, 


RS. 
Rear Warden. 


A. Lathrop, tT 


Augusta, Mont., 
Austin, Minn., 
Austin, Pa., 
Boston, Mass., 
Buffalo N.Y., 
Cammail, Pa.,’ 


H. Sherman, 

G. F. Baird, 
W.S. Warner, 
Capt. W. I. Stone, 
Hi; .. Gardiner, 

. Ovenshire, 


BR} 


Champaign Ca: 0; Hy. i. Mi MacCracken 
nat ecte we, N.H., W. M. “Hanwell, 


v2 at beans Nd 
hoteau, Mont: 
Cin Ohio, 
Couders ort, re... 
Cresco, lowa, 


Es Hennessy, 
G. A. Gorham, 
B.W. Morris, 
& - Murphy, 
Li Piatt, 


Cross Village, Mich., “Job Rohr, 


Davis, W. Va., 
Dowagiac, Mich., 


. Heltzen, 
. F. Hoyt, 


East Mauch Chunk, Pade okt, 


Evansville, Ind., 
Fontanet, I nd., 
Ft. bide Sa Ind., 
Great Falls, Mont., 
Heron Lake, Minn., 
1 Soames A Pa., 
ee orm tee Ky., 
anapolis, Ind., 
prea Ariz., 
ohnsonburg, Pa., 
alispell, Mont., 
Keene, N. H.. 
Kingfisher, Okla. ig 
Lake Co., Ind., 
Lawton, O. = 
Lincoln, Neb., 
ogansport, Ind., 
udington, Mich., 
a eee aus 


Mechanicsburg, Pa., Dr ts 


Minturn, Colo., 


- Morgantown, W. V 


New Albany, Ind., 


F. "M. Gilbert, 
- H. Perry, 
W.L. Waltemarth 
_M. Gaunt, 
, Buckeye 
‘Es Js ‘Hemphill 
Hunter Wood 
oseph E. Bell, 
ae L.A A. Hawkins, 
W. J. Stebbins, 
john Eakright, 
Beedle, 
A. C, Ambrose, 
Dr. R.C. Mackey, 
Marion Miller, 
A. J. Sawyer 
E. B. McConnell, 
G. R. Cartier, 
A.B. bs raemcereih 
. Swartz, 
. Walter, 


atin T% White, 


Dr. 12 F. Weathers, 


New Bethlehem, Pa. .. Isaac Keener, 


Oklahoma “ -. 


Penn Yan, N 
Phillips, Wis. 
Princeton, Ind., 


Reynoldsville, Pa., 


Ridgway, Pa., 
Roc ester, N. H., 
N.Y 


St. Paul, Minn., 
St. Thomas, Cake 
Schenectady, N 
Seattle, Was 
Syracuse, N. Y,, 
Terre Haute, Ind., 
The Dalles, Ore., 


af a Gates, 
H. R. Phillips, 
. Randall, 


ee. 
.Denpy, 
.Ha ll, 

. Furnside, 

: Kelly, 

- Truesdell, 

. Thiede, 

. Cushing, 


Zonk 


FO 


Two Harbors, Minn., Ca Budd, 


Walden, N.Y., 
Wichita, Kas., 
Winona, Minn., 


LIFE MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE. 


Anderson, A. A., 80 W. goth St., 
204 Amity St., 
Blackstone, Lorenzo, Norwich, 


Beard, D. C., 


. W. Reid, 
erald Volk, 
C. M. Morse, 





Conn. 


Buzzacott, "Francis F. , Chicago, Ill. 
Brown, J. Stanford, "489 Fifth Ave., New York 


City: 
Butler, C. 
Carey, Hon., H. 


Carnegie, Andrew, 2d, 


Carnegie, George, 
Carnegie, Morris, 
Corbin, Austin, 


Dickinson, E. H., 


Edgell, 
Ellis, W. D., 


E., Jerome, Ariz. 
W., Eastlake, Mich. 
Fernandina, Fl 


Fernandina, Fla. 
Fernandina, Fla. 


Fearing, D. B., Newport, R. 4% 


Perry, ©... Hi; 
Ferry, Mansfield, 
Chicago, Ill. 


Fraser, A. V., 478 Greenwich St., 
2 Wall St.. 
Figdson, E. J... 34 Es 
158 State St., 


Gilbert, Clinton, 
McClure, A. J., 


Flushing, 


149 


Rear Warden. 


New York City. 
| Fae & 


192 Broadway, New York City. 
Moosehead Lake, } 
G. S., 192 Broadway, New York City. 
136 W. 72d St., New York City. 


1720 Old Colony Bldg., Chicago, Ill. 


183 Lincoln Park Boulevard, 


AEtH te, 


Mershon, W. B., Saginaw, Mich. 


Miller, 


F. G., 108 Clinton St., 


Defiance, 


O. 


New York City. 
New York City. 
Bayonne, N. J. 
Albany, N. Y. 


150 


Morton, Hon. Levi P., 681 Fifth Ave., New York 


ity. 
Nesbitt, A. G., Maple St., Kingston, Pa. 
O’Conor, Col. J. C., 24 E. 33d St., New York 
City. 
Pierson, Gen. J. F., 20 W. s2d St., New York 
City. 
Prescott, A. L., 90 W. Broadway, New York City 
Rice, A. F., 155 Pennington Ave., Passaic, N. J. 
Seton, E. T., 80 W. goth St., New York City. 
Seymour, J. H., 35 Wall St., New York City. 
Smith, E. B., Bourse Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Smith, W. H., Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
Thompson, J. Walter, Times Bldg., New York 
City. 
Towne, E. S., Care of National Blank Book Co., 
Holyoke, Mass. 
Underwood, W. L., 52 Fulton St., Boston, Mass. 
vo Dr. W. A., 5 W. 35th St., New York 
ity. 
H. Williams, Box 156, Butte, Mont. 





DISCOUNTS TO LEAGUE MEMBERS. 

The following firms have agreed to give 
members of the L. A. S.a discount of 2 
per cent. to 10 per cent. on all goods bought 
of them. In ordering please give L. A. S. 
number: 

Syracuse Arms Co., Syracuse, N. Y. Guns 


Davenport Fire Arms Co., Norwich, Conn. Shot 
ns, rifles 


Gundlach Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y. Photographic 


oods. 
Blair Camera Co., Rochester, N.Y.Photographic goods 
James Acheson, ‘lalbot St., St. Thomas, Ontario, 
Sporting goods. 





THE ANNUAL MEETING. 


At this writing there is an excellent 
prospect that the annual meeting in Colum- 
bus, O., February roth, will be a great event. 
We already have assurance from the fol- 
lowing League officers and delegates that 
they will be present: 


Dr. T. S. Palmer, Vice-President, Washington, D.C, 
W. W. K. Decker, Chief Warden, Tarpon Springs, 


Fla. 
Col. Geo, C. Long, Chief Warden, Hopkinson- 
ville, Ky. 


G. C. Martin, Delegate, Brooksville, Fla. 

W. Van Irons, Delegate, Bliss, Idaho. 

Dr. F. Schavoir, Delegate, Stamford, Ct. 

W. H. Duncan, Delegate, Barnwell, S. C. 

C. H. Chapman, State Fish and Game Warden, 
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 

C. E. Brewster, Deputy Fish Warden, Grand Rap- 
ids, Mich. 

Homer Sheridan, Delegate, Mount Clemens, Mich. 

C. A. Cooper, Rear Warden, Fort Sill, O. T. 

T. E. Dawson, Delegate, Midvale, Mont. 

W. F. Scott, State Fish and Game Warden, Helena, 
Mont. 

M. J. Elrod, Chief Warden, Missoula, Mont. 

Hon T. R. Kershaw, State Game Commissioner, 
Whatcom, Wash. 

E. P. Dorr, Delegate, Chicago, Ill. 

S. L. N. Ellis, Chief’ Warden, Visalia, Cal. 

Sam Fullerton, Executive Agent, State Fish and 
Game Commission, St. Paul, Minn. 

Hon. L. T. Christian, Delegate, Richmond, Va. 

C. W. Robinson, Delegate, Newport News, Va. 

H. G. Smith. Treasurer State Board of Fish and 
Game Commissioners. Winona, Minn. 

W. E. Gleason, Chief Warden, Cincinnati, O. 

A. C. Thatcher, Secretary-Treasurer, Urbana, O. 

George Lilienthal. Delegate, Zanesville, O. 

Hon. J. C. Porterfield, State Game Warden, Colum- 

bus, Ohio. ; 
C. F. Emerson, Chief Warden, Titusville, Pa. 
W. H. Gardner, Delegate, Hollidaysburg, Pa. 


RECREATION. 


C. H. Pond, Delegate, Scranton, Pa. 

Dr. Jos. Kalbfus, Secretary State Game Commis. 
sion, Harrisburg, Pa. 

A. F. Rice, Secretary, Passaic, N. J. ~ 

P. H. Johnson, Chief Warden, Bloomfield, N. J. 

W. T. Hornaday, Vice-President, New York. 

Wm. Benton, Delegate, Holmes, Wyoming. 

F. C. Wright, Delegate, Trenton, N. J. 

G. A. Lincoln, State Fish and Game Warden, 
Cedar Rapids, lowa. 

Hon. P. B. Otero, Chief Warden, Santa Fe, N. M. 

Dr. E. M, Rininger, Chief Warden, Nome, Alaska. 

D. C. Nowlin, State Game Warden, Lander, Wyo. 

j W. Baker, State Game Warden, Portland, Ore. 

7. J. Hildebrandt, Chief Warden, Logansport, 


nd. 
Hon. Frank Littleton, Ex-Chief Warden, Indian- 
apolis, Ind. 
. EB ig wet Chief Warden, Baltimore, Md. 
rnest Russell, Delegate, Worcester, Mass. 
Dr. A. Gropper, Secretary-Treasurer, Milwaukee, 


is. 
Valentine Raeth, Delegate, Milwaukee, Wis. 


Officers in several other States are plan- 
ning to attend, but have not yet completed 
arrangements. The Ohio officers and mem- 
bers are making elaborate preparations to 
entertain visitors, and there is every indi- 
cation that this meeting will surpass all its 
predecessors in numbers and in interest. 








BALLADS OF BAD BABIES. 


Harry P. Taser, sf the Saturday Evening 
ost. 


Rodolph Mortimer McPhee 
Chopped his papa’s apple tree; 
Took it to the shed and hid it. 
When his papa asked who did it, 
“T don’t know,” said Rodolph, “I 
Ain’t afraid to tell a lie. 

I won’t tell you what I’ve done. 
I ain’t no George Washin’ton.” 


Little Heinie Hassenpfeffer 

Saw a gentle Jersey heifer 

Eating up her noonday fodder. 
“Ha!” he said, “I’ll go an’ prod ’er 
With a pitchfork, so’s to show ’er 
She can’t do so any more.” 

But the gentle Jersey heifer 
Prodded Heinie Hassenpfeffer. 


Once when little Jimmy Binner 
Had some custard pie for dinner, 
He saw Uncle Joseph Tate 
Coming through the garden gate. 
Jimmy threw his custard pie 

And hit his uncle in the eye. 
“Gee!” said little Jimmy Binner, 
“Pretty good for a beginner!” 


Wilhelmina Mergenthaler 

Had a lovely ermine collar 
Made of just the nicest fur, 
That her mamma bought for her, 
Once, when mamma was away, 
Out a-shopping for the day, 
Wilhelmina Mergenthaler 

Ate her lovely ermine collar. 





FORESTRY. 


EDITED BY DR. B. E, FERNOW. 


It takes 30 years to grow a tree and 30 minutes to cut it down and destroy it. 


WHAT IS FORESTRY? 


In a former issue of REcREATION I defined 
a forest as a piece of woodland placed under 
man’s care for the purpose of producing 
wood crops and incidentally serving the fur- 
ther purposes of soil protection, regulating 
of waterflow, and pleasure. The care of 
such woodlands is forestry. 

Forestry has to deal with aggregates of 
trees, stands, acres, all devoted to one end, 
namely, the production of a wood crop. It 
"does not, therefore, deal with the individual 
trees, except as they are components of a 
crop, any more than the farmer deals with 
the single potato plant. It is a misnomer to 
speak of “city foresters,’ unless a _ city 
really own a forest and have a manager 
employed; a commendable thing to have. 
To apply to the guardians of the park 
and street trees, the tree wardens, the 
appellation of “forester” is, to say the least, 
unfortunate. Indeed, it has been mischiev- 
ous; it has misled the public, befogged its 
intellect as to the real meaning of forestry 
and foresters. It has, like the misused arbor 
days, introduced the esthetic and the senti- 
mental side into the discussions of forestry, 
and has clouded the economic, much more 
important, questions of forestry in the minds 
of newspaper writers and the public. 

The beauty and shade of trees are good 
things to take care of, and the tree warden 
is a laudable institution, but his work has 
nothing to do with forestry, which is after 
the substance of the tree, and, like the lum- 
berman, after logs. . 

Even those who realize that forestry has 
to do with the forest as a crop, have still 
in mind that their duty as citizens is to 
insist on forest preservation, and they be- 
lieve this is obtained by preventing the bad 
lumberman from cutting altogether, or, at 
least, cutting below certain sizes. 

Some years ago a group of gentlemen in 
New York proposed to secure the passage 
of legislation restricting the lumbermen in 
the State of New York from cutting below 

a certain diameter, and they called on me, 
‘d an expert, to tell them what, under proper 
forestry principles, would be the right 
diameter to lay down as a law. Great was 
_ their astonishment when I declared that 
any diameter which paid best, even down to 
the size of the little finger, would satis- 
fy the demands of forestry. There is only 
one obligation which distinguishes the for- 
ester from the lumberman, and that one 
makes all the difference in method between 
the 2, namely, the obligation or reproduc- 


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tion; replacing the harvested crop. Both 
forester and lumberman are in the business 
of supplying the industries with wood ma- 
terial, only the lumberman does it by har- 
vesting the accumulations of the past with- 
out reference to the future. The logger is 
merely a converter into useful shape of 
what nature unattended has grown. He 
works for the present only. 

The forester prepares himself to do the 
same thing, namely, to convert nature’s 
accumulations for man’s use; but he con- 
ceives that the need for this material will 
continue, and he provides for that continu- 
ance by securing a new crop of serviceable 
timber to replace the harvested one. Finan- 
cially the 2 forest managers—lumberman 
and forester—are also to a certain extent in 
the same boat. Both carry on their business 
for profit, and not for zxsthetic purposes; 
but the lumberman is handling only “call 
money.” He seeks only present profit. The 
forester treats his forest as an investment; 
he calculates his profits from and for the 
long run. Continuity is the keynote of aa 
est management by the forester. 

There is absolutely no difference Rawies 
rorester and farmer except as to the kind of 
crop each raises on his soil, and the manner 
in which he treats his crop. The forester, 
like the farmer, raises a crop, the wood crop; 
but, of course, he also harvests the crop. 
Hence, when a legislative committee found 
fault with the Cornell Forest demonstration, 
because the old, over-mature crop of nature 
was harvested to be replaced by a better 
crop, the committee simply exhibited its ig- 
norance as to what forestry implies. The 
forester preserves the forest not by abstain- 
ing from cutting it, but, as all life is pre- 
served, by reproducing it. 

There are various methods of doing this, 
and only an expert can decide which, under 
given conditions, is the best. These meth- 
ods of producing a wood crop and of tend- 
ing it after it is produced until harvest time, 
are called silviculture. from the Latin words 
silva, forest, and cultura, cultivation. 

Why should we apply cultivation to a 
crop which evidently can be grown by na- 
ture alone in satisfactory quality? For the 
same reason that the farmer applies cultiva- 
tion to his crop, namely, to secure a better 
result than nature alone can produce; bigger 
potatoes, more of them to the acre: larger 
apples of better taste, and just so, more and 
better wood per acre in a shorter time! 

If Nature were left alone she would re- 
produce all the forests we have cut, provid- 


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ed she had time allowed her, and she would 
produce as much wood per acre as she can; 
but she would not make a selection of the 
useful kinds alone. She would give the tree 
weeds just as much chance as the valuable 
trees, and she would not care whether it 
took I00 years or 1,000 years to pro- 
duce a desirable log. It is this time ele- 
ment which is of moment toman. Economy 
of time and economy of space are his re- 
quirements in all production. To grow the 
most useful, the most valuable wood in 
largest quantity in the shortest time is what 
the forester sets out to do, and thus he 
improves on Nature’s wasteful way. As 
long as there are virgin stores to draw from 
his art may be despised, for it is not needed; 
only when these stores are exhausted or 
nearly so, and when the realization comes 
that a serviceable log can not be grown by 
Nature in less than 150 or by man in less 
than 60 to 120 years, does the care of the 
forester appear desirable. Forestry is a 
child of necessity. 





FORESTRY TESTS AT ST. LOUIS. 

The following, which has been making 
the rounds of the newspapers, this particu- 
lar clipping to be credited to the New York 
Times, is worth reprinting to show what 
utter nonsense regarding forestry matters 
is being served to the gullible public. 

If this statement had been printed in the 
comic columns, and, especially, if it had 
had the benefit of Mr. Dooley’s inimitable 
method of presentation, it would probably 
have done immense service in showing the 
absurdities of certain alleged friends of 
forestry. But no, this is given as a piece 
of news in sober seriousness! 


The United States Government will participate 
in a competitive exhibit at the St. Louis Fair, 
and will have for a rival the German Empire. 
Which nation’s method of forest management 1s 
best and most practical is the problem to be solved. 

This competitive exhibit will have especial in- 
terest for the State of New York on account of 
the experiments in forestry which New York has 
been making with a view to the preservation of 
the forests of the Adirondacks. The New York 
experiments have been made under the auspices 
of the Cornell University, to which State lands 
were ceded for the purpose. : 

The experiments have been so unsatisfactory that 
they are now the subject of investigation by the 
Legislature of New York. It is expected by 
those who will be in charge of the United States’ 
forestry exhibit at St. Louis that the Legislature 
of New York at the coming session may see fit 
to appoint an expert on forestry to go to St. Louis 
to study the experiments in forestry methods to 
be made there. with a view to affording the Legis- 
lature light on a problem which has been vexing 
the officials of New York for several years past. 

Two tracts of land, each about 5 acres in ex- 
tent, have been assigned to each Government as 
the laboratory for the tests to be made in St. 
Louis. The 2 lie side by side, so that the visitor 
may walk through what the Americans call an 
“arboretum” and observe all American methods 
of forestry, and then step across into what the 
Germans designate as a “forest garden” and learn 
the German method. 


RECREATION. 


No trees will be cut from either tract. Rather 
transplanting will be resorted to, and when the 
exposition opens miniature forests, perfect in 
every detail, with narrow gravel walks winding 
in and out, may be seen. Every tree that thrives 
in the latitude of St. Louis will be represented, 
and the specimens can be easily designated. At- 
tached to each tree will be a label on which will 
be stamped the botanical and common names. 

Each display will embrace the same number of 
trees, and they will be practically of the same 
varieties. Here all similarity ceases. The treat- 
ment will accord with the practices in vogue in the 
Tespective countries. In the American arboretum 
the trees will be treated according to the Amer- 
ican idea. In the German forest garden will be 
reproduced, in miniature, the effects that obtain 
in the forests of the Fatherland, and the story 
of how the wonderful forests of that country have 
been preserved through ages, and renewed from 
time to time, will be told by practical demonstra- 
tion. ? 

The exhibits will be in charge of the most ex- 
pert foresters to be found in the 2 countries. 
Interest will not centre in the exhibits merely 
because they represent all that is best in the for- 
estry of these countries, but because of the prac- 
tical demonstrations and tests that will be made 
every day of the exposition. Trees will be trans- 
planted, and the most approved apparatus for 
this work will be shown in actual operation; trees 
also will be pruned and trained, and all imple- 
ments used will be part of the exhibit. 

Furthermore, trees will be inoculated with dis- 
ease, and when the disease is fully developed the 
most approved treatment will be accorded. Care- 
ful data will be kept on all such experiments, and 
the results will be made known, together with a 
full description of the treatment, in order that 
the preservation of the forests may be accom- 
plished. 

Forests have deadly foes in the insect world. 
Collections of the insect enemies will be gathered 
and kept carefully isolated. On occasions best 
adapted to experiments that will reveal all the ef- 
fects of the destroying powers of the insect, and 
the efficacy of the treatment to be given, the in- 
sects will be released and permitted to attack the 
trees. Then sprays, washes, and other treatments 
will be resorted to. Some valuable experiments 
will be made every day, and full details may be 
had of the process and results. 

Much rivalry exists between the German and 
American foresters, and each class will do all in 
its power to prove that its methods are the best. 


The intelligent readers of RECREATION 
will readily perceive the ridiculousness of 
the proposition, knowing that forestry, or 
tree growing, is a matter of time, which 
can in no way be compressed into weeks 
or months.—Ebiror. 


PRESERVE ADIRONDACK FORESTS. 


The public in general understands that 
the forests are being rapidly depleted, and 
the sentiment in favor of preserving the 
Adirondack forests is strong throughout the 
State. In fact the 5 governors preceding 
Odell were all in favor of protecting the 
forests and acquiring lands for the State; 
and his action in taking issue against the 
Sentiment of a majority of the people of 
this State is not endearing him to them, es- 
pecially the sportsmen, for it is generally 
conceded that the true sportsman has a bet- 
ter idea of and more regard for the forests 
than politicians have. It is to be hoped that 





FORESTRY. 


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without much further delay, authority will 
be given to buy for the State all the land 
-available in the Adirondacks before more 
of it is secured by the lumbermen. 

To give an idea of the destruction that 
is going on, I will note that a gentleman 
from this city is reported to have recently 
bought 60,000 cords of pulp wood for one 
papermaking company, 10,000 cords of 
which are to be delivered for Watertown 
paper mills. If this wood were in a pile 
one cord high, this quantity would extend 
16 miles. I am informed that there are 50,- 
ooo cords now at Dexter, Jefferson county, 
both in the stream and on the bank, and 
that one pile on the bank represents 13,000 
cords. 

It is reported that 9 successful novels 
recently published in the United States had 
a total sale of 1,600,000 copies. Since the 
average weight of each book sold was prob- 
ably 20 ounces, calculation will prove that 
these 1,600,000 books contained 2,000,000 
pounds of paper. 

As trees 4 inches in diameter are cut for 
pulp, a paper manufacturer observes that 
the average spruce tree yields a little less 
than half a cord of wood, which is equiva- 
lent to about 500 pounds of paper. In other 
words, these 9 novels required 4,000 trees, 
and they form but a small portion of the 
fiction so eagerly read by the American 
public. 

S. E. Stanton, 


This is only one of several instances 
in which Governor Odell has shown a hos- 
tile attitude toward the game and the for- 
ests of this State. The sportsmen, and that 
means the friends of the Adirondack for- 
ests, will have another reckoning with 
Odell at the ballot box, if he should ever 
run for office again.—Eniror. 


Watertown, N. Y. 


SOME PHILADELPHIA TREE HOGS. 


Frightened at the prospect of an overstocked 
market and a serious financial loss, the Christmas 
tree syndicate here late this afternoon decided 
on the destruction of 30 carloads of spruces and 
pines that were lying in the West Philadelphia 
yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad, thereby cut- 
ting the supply in half. 

At dusk this evening a locomotive started out 
of the switchyard with 15 cars. These were run 
to a dump some distance from the city, where 
the 15 loads of trees were saturated with oil and 
a torch was put to them. A second string of cars 
loaded with trees, was afterward taken to the 
same place. 

Altogether 4,000 trees were burned between 
dusk and midnight. There are now in Philadel- 
phia about 3,000 trees to supply a normal de- 
mand for 5,o00.—Philadelphia paper. 


I should like to call the attention of all 
true sportsmen to this outrage. Such ruth- 
less waste of pine and spruce trees, which 
are among our most beautiful conifers, is 
scandalous. These syndicate men are worse 
than game hogs. 


153 


RECREATION is doing a great good by 
roasting such brutes. 
J. N. Farson, Plainfield, N. J. 


The object in burning these trees was, of 
course, to compel people to pay 3 or 4 times 
as much for their Christmas trees as they 
would have had to pay if this generous sup- 
ply had remained in the market. In other 
words this Christmas tree syndicate de- 
stroyed 4,000 young trees in order to get a 
chance to rob their customers, 

This is the soft of thing that makes anar- 
chists and socialists. 

The proper medicine for the tree burners 
would be a good large dose of whipping 
post.—EpITor. 





FOREST MANAGEMENT. 


Under the direction of A. F. Potter, the United 
States Bureau of Forestry has begun an exam- 
ination of the lands withdrawn from public sale 
in the Northern and Central parts of the State 
of California, the object being to determine what 
proportion should be included within permanent 
forest reserves and what portions excluded; and, 
in connection with other work to be done by the 
Bureau of Forestry, in co-operation with the 
State, to outline a State forest policy. The fol- 
lowing points will be especially investigated: 

The distribution and character of the forest, 
with a description of the varieties of trees and 
brush covers; the condition of the forest, to 
what extent devastated areas are being again for- 
ested by natural production, what protection is 
needed and where planting will e necessary to 
reforest the lands; the extent of damages by 
fire, its usual causes and the season at which 
fires are most likely to occur; the extent of lum- 
bering in the past and at present and its effect 
on the forest; the effect which the creation of 
forest reserves will have on lumbering; the quan- 
tity of merchantable timber and its accessibility 
to market; the nature and relative importance 
of industries in the proposed forest reserves and 
adjacent regions and their dependence on the tim- 
ber lands and water supply; the effect of the 
forest and brush cover on the water flow; the 
lecation, size, importance and industries of towns 
and settlements within or near the proposed for- 
est reserves; the means of transportation, roads 
and railroads; the extent of mineral lands and 
mining and the demand on the timber by this 
industry; the demand on the range for pastur- 
ing live stock; to what extent the prosperity of 
local residents depends on the live stock industry; 
the number and kind of live stock being pas- 
tured; the length of season; the condition of 
range; where grazing should be allowed and 
where restricted.—Exchange. 


My business prevents my taking many 
trips; but RECREATION well read is almost 
as good as really getting into the woods. 

Karl O. Balch, Lunenburg, Vt. 


In 18 years I have taken a great many 
papers and magazines, but find none equal 


to RECREATION. en 
S. S. Dice, Ligonier, Pa. 





I take several other magazines, but Rec- 
REATION beats them all. ; 
Geo. F. Norris, Torrington, Conn. 


PURE AND IMPURE FOODS. 


Edited by C. F. Lancworrny, Pu.D. 
Author of “On Citraconic, Itaconic and Mesaconic Acids,’”’ “‘Fish as Food,” ete, 
“What a Man Eats He Is.” 


DIET FOR THE AGED. 

In his recently published “ Diet in Rela- 
tion to Age and Activity,’ Sir Henry 
Thompson, who at the time of writing it 
was in his 82d year, gives, on the basis of 
experience, excellent advice regarding the 
food best suited to old age. Some of his 
statements follow: 

“I advise -more emphatically than ever, 
simplicity in diet. Not only should the 
quantity of food taken be gradually dimin- 
ished in proportion to decreased activity 
of body and mind, but not more than 2 or 
3 different forms of food should be served 
at any one meal. There is no objection to 
variety in the choice of provisions. On the 
contrary, it is neither necessary or desira- 
ble to make use of the same kinds of ali- 
ment every day. Moreover, these neces- 
sarily vary with the season of the year, 
both in the animal and vegetable kingdoms. 
From the profusion which nature gives 
should be selected those which each individ- 
ual, at the time of life supposed, has dis- 
covered, by personal experience or other- 
wise, to agree best with his constitution. 
I say advisedly ‘with his constitution,’ 
rather than with his stomach. There are 
notable examples of the stomach easily di- 
gesting material§ which are highly injurious 
to the constitution. For instance, many per- 
sons readily digest and assimilate fatty or 
fat-forming elements in their food and be- 
come unduly corpulent in consequence. 
Such a condition should be avoided as 
most undesirable in advancing years, and 
as one of the most certain to prevent long- 
evity, and give rise to complaints which 
entail discomfort and even suffering during 
later life. No one should permit himself 
to become the subject of obesity in ad- 
vancing years; and almost invariably it 
is his own fault if he does. The pre- 
vention may be insured by largely re- 
ducing the use of fatty foods, as fat of 
meat, bacon, ham, etc.; by renouncing all 
pastry which contains that element largely; 
also cream, and much milk, as well as all 
starchy matter, which abounds in the po- 
tato and other farinaceous products of the 
vegetable kingdom; and especially in those 


combinations so popular and so universally — 


met with at the family table, as rice, sago, 
tapioca and corn-flour puddings, made with 
milk and eggs, of which the yolks contain 
much fat, the whole being sweetened with 


sugar and making a combination of carbo- 
hydrates of the most fattening kind. Ad- 
mirable for childhood and middle life, and 
afterward, during the years of maximum 
activity, they must ‘be completely _re- 
nounced if corpulence appears in later life. 
In this condition also large quantities of 
liquid are undesirable at meals; indeed, no 
liquid should be taken during the meal, 
and only in moderate quantity soon after 
it. If any wine is taken it should be a 
light Moselle, while ale or beer in any 
form is wholly inadmissible. Pure water 
alone is probably the best, or as used in 
tea, coffee, and cocoa-nibs. 

“Respecting the act of eating, itself, it 
is desirable to add a few words. The pro- 
cess of masticating affects the food in 2 
ways during the period it is retained in the 
mouth, before the act of swallowing it 
takes place. 

“First, it is essential that ,all food 
whether formed of meat, fish, bread, or 
vegetables, should be thoroughly divided 
into minute fragments by the teeth, so that — 
the animal portion may be _ properly 
subjected to the action of the gastric juice 
when it arrives at the stomach; also 
because for all starchy foods already spok- 
en of as the carbohydrates, complete and 
prolonged mastication is, if possible, even 
more necessary, although they are gener- — 
ally soft and easily swallowed. The act 
of mastication excites a constant flow of — 
saliva into the mouth. This fluid contains 
a specific chemical agent known as “ptya- 
lin,’ by means of which the actual diges- 
tion of all the starchy products is per- 
formed in the mouth. These starchy prod- 
ucts are completely insoluble in water, 
but saliva converts them into glucose, 
which is quite soluble; and on being swal- 
lowed they can therefore be absorbed as 
soon as they reach the stomach. This fact 
should never be forgotten; that the mouth 
is the cavity in which that large portion 
of our food which consists of bread, far- 
inaceous foods and vegetable tubers ought 
to be digested by means of mastication and 
insalivation, that is, thorough mixing with 
the saliva. If, however, this process be 
neglected, as unhappily is too often the 
case, the stomach, which is capable of di- 
gesting animal food only, of course includ- 
ing milk and eggs, and has no power what- 
ever to digest starchy matters, is liable te 





PURE AND IMPURE FOODS. 


be deranged by the presence of much un- 
digested bread and pudding. ‘These, if not 
well masticated, must be detained there 
until the animal products are dissolved, 
when the entire contents reach the small 
intestine (duodenum), where digestion of 
the starchy matters is effected by contact 
with the pancreatic juice which renders 
them soluble and capable of being absorbed 
as nourishment to the system.” 





SOME COOKING EXPERIMENTS. 


Scientific studies of the changes brought 
about in food by cooking, the effect of dif- 
ferent methods of cooking on the composi- 
tion and digestibility of food, the losses in 
‘weight in cooking, and similar topics, are 
not numerous, and especial interest attaches 
therefore to the recent work of Richter, a 
German investigator. 

He was himself the subject of digestion 
experiments, each of 2 days’ duration, in 
which about 600 grams of cooked peas were 
eaten each day. In the first test the peas 
were cooked to a purée in distilled water, 
and in the second in hard water, and in 
both cases the material was passed through 
a sieve. The peas cooked in distilled water 
were better borne and caused less digestive 
disturbance than the others. When cooked 
in distilled water the peas had the following 
coefficients of digestibility: Dry matter, 
92.86; protein, 89.84; fat, 87.56; and ash, 
81.09. When the peas were cooked in hard 
water the coefficients were as follows: 
Dry matter, 91.08; protein, 83.40; fat, 58.92; 
and ash, 51.78. The observed inferior as- 
similation of peas cooked in hard water was 
attributed in part to the formation of alka- 
line earth albuminates and alkaline earth 
soaps which are not broken down by cook- 
ing or by the digestive juices, and in part 
to digestive disturbances caused by the alka- 
line earth salts, especially magnesium chlo- 
rid present in the hard water used. 

In an article recently published in a Bel- 
gian journal, Carpiaux reports some studies 
of the composition of eggs and the losses in 
weight in cooking, selecting for his tests 
the eggs of a number of breeds of hens. 
In every case the eggs were cooked for an 
hour in a steam bath. It is stated that the 
loss in weight during cooking was insig- 
nificant, ranging from 0.03 to O.I gram 
per egg. As was to be expected, the weight 
of the eggs varied within rather wide lim- 
its, the Braekel eggs weighing on an aver- 
age 66.45 grams each, being the -heaviest, 
and the eggs of bantams (Barbu d’Anvers), 
weighing 209.55 grams, being the smallest. 
It was found that the proportion of yolk 
is greatest with the eggs of bantams and, 
generally speaking, with the eggs of the 
breeds best suited for fattening. Both the 


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yolk and the white of the eggs of the dif- 
ferent breeds varied somewhat in compo- 
sition, and the author discusses the differ- 
ences at some length, attention being called 
especially to the lecithin content of the yolk 
and its importance in nutrition. 





ADAPTING FOOD TO BODILY NEEDS. 


All persons are alike in that they must 
have protein for the building and repair of 
the bodily machine and fuel ingredients 
for warmth and work, but individuals dif- 
fer in the quantities and proportions they re- 
quire, and even among those in good health 
there are many who are obliged to avoid 
certain kinds of food, while invalids and 
people with weak digestion must often have 
special diet. 

For people in good health and with good 
digestion 2 important rules are to be ob- 
served in the regulation of the diet. The 
first is to choose the things which agree 
with them, and to avoid those which they 
can not digest and assimilate without harm. 
The second is to use such kinds and quan- 
tities of food as will supply all the nutri- 
ents the body needs and at the same iime 
will not burden it with superfluous mate- 
rial to be disposed of at the cost of health 
and strength. 

For guidance in this selection, Nature 
provides us with instinct, taste and experi- 
ence. Physiological chemistry adds to 
these the knowledge, still new and far from 
adequate, of the composition of food and 
the laws of nutrition. In our actual prac- 
tice of eating we are apt to be influenced 
too much by taste; that is, by the dictates 
of the palate. We are prone to let natural 
instinct be overruled by acquired appetite, 
and we neglect the teachings of experience. 
We need to observe our diet and its effects 
more carefully and to regulate appetite by 
reason. In doing this we may be greatly 
aided by the knowledge of what our food 
contains and how it serves its purpose in 
nutrition. 

Though there may be differences among 
abnormal persons, for the great majority 
of people in good health the ordinary food 
materials—meats, fish, eggs, milk, butter, 
cheese, sugar, flour, meal, and vegetables— 
make a fitting diet, and the main question 
is to use them in the kids and proportions 
fitted to the actual needs of the body. 

When more food is eaten than is needed, 
or when articles difficult of digestion are 
taken, the digestive organs are overtaxed, 
if not positively injured, and much energy 
is thus wasted which might have been 
turned to better account. The evils of over- 
eating may not be felt at once, but sooner 
or later they are sure to appear; perhaps 
in excessive fatty tissue, perhaps in general 
debility, perhaps in actual disease. 


BOOK NOTICES. 


PIONEER DAYS IN OHIO, 

Dr. Zane Grey has written what I regard 
as one of the strongest and most thrilling 
historical novels of the day. It deals with 
the history of the first settlement on the 
Ohio river, where Wheeling now stands, 
and recounts vividly the perils, the hard- 
ships and the privations of the sturdy pio- 
neers who hewed out a hole in the forest, 
built a block house and defended it, time 
and again, with their lives. The last battle 
of the Revolution was fought on _ that 
ground, and had it proved a victory instead 
of a defeat for the British arms, the strug- 
gle would no doubt have lasted several 
years longer. 

Dr. Grey is a direct descendant of Col- 
onel Zane who built Fort Henry, and who 
for several years commanded the troops 
stationed there. The heroine of the story 
is Betty Zane, a sister of Colonel Zane, 
and the author tells in a most stirring way 
how that young girl ran through a hail 
storm of British bullets and Indian arrows, 
a distance of some 200 yards, to the maga- 
zine, and brought a keg of powder 
to the defenders of the Fort, reaching them 
at a moment when the last charges they 
had were being fired from their guns. But 
for the heroic bravery of this girl, the Fort 
would have been compelled to capitulate 
within another hour, and a victory for the 
British at that point would have meant 
an entire change in the tide of the war. 

There is just enough of a love story run- 
ning through the book to hold the sym- 
pathy and to rivet the attention of the 
reader to the more serious and_ tragic 
phases of the drama. 

Among the other historical characters 
who figure in this story are Simon and 
James Girty, Jonathan and Isaac Zane, 
Lew Wetzel, and Wingenund, Thunder 
Cloud, Logan, and other Indian chiefs. 

Wetzel was a friend and companion 
of Daniel Boone, and next to him was 
probably the greatest and most successful 
Indian hunter that ever trod the virgin 
soil of the middle West. 

Dr. Grey is himself a big game hunter 
and a careful student of the science of rifle 
shooting, and is thus enabled to analyze 
the charactaers of such men and to describe 
in detail their wonderful feats of marks- 
manship in a manner that few other writers 
of this day could. There is not a man liv- 
ing, who knows the power and _ the 
deadly accuracy of the old Kentucky rifle, 
who will not hold his breath while reading 


some of the accounts of Wetzel’s wonderful - 


feats of marksmanship. 


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Here is an extract that will give the 
reader an idea of the treat in store for 
pe when he gets a copy of Dr. Grey’s 
ook: 


Wetzel’s keen gaze, as he looked from 
left to right, took in every detail of the 
camp. He was almost in the village. A 
tepee stood not 20 feet from his hiding 
place. He could have tossed a stone in the 
midst of squaws, and braves, and chiefs. 
The main body of Indians was in the cen- 
ter of the camp. The British were lined 
up farther on. Both Indians and soldiers 
were resting on their arms and waiting. 
Suddenly Wetzel started and his heart 
leaped. Under a maple tree not more than 
150 yards’ distant, stood 4 men in earnest 
consultation. One was an Indian. Wet- 
zel recognized the fierce, stern face, the 
haughty, erect figure. He knew that long, 
trailing war bonnet. It could have adorned 
the head of but one chief—Wingenund, the 
sachem of the Delawares. A British offi- 
cer, girdled and epauletted, stood next to 


Wingenund. Simon Girty, the renegade, 
and Miller, the traitor, completed the 
group. 


Wetzel sank to his knees. The perspi- 
ration poured from his face. The mighty 
hunter trembled, but it was from eager- 
ness. Was not Girty, the white savage, the 
bane of the poor settlers, within range of a 
weapon that never failed? Was not the 
murderous chieftain, who had once whipped 
and tortured Wetzel, and who had burned 
Crawford alive, there in plain sight? Wet- 
zel reveled a moment in fiendish glee. He 
passed his hands tenderly over the long 
barrel of his rifle. In that moment as 
never before he gloried in his power—a 
power which enabled him to put a bullet 
in the eye of a squirrel at the distance these 
men were from him. But only for an in- 
stant did the hunter yield to this feeling. 
He knew too well the value of time and 
opportunity. 

He rose again to his feet and peered out 
from under the shading laurel branches. 
As he did so the dark face of Miller turned 
full toward him. A tremor, like the in- 
tense thrill of a tiger when about to spring, 
ran over Wetzel’s frame. In his mad de- 
light at being within rifle shot of his great 
Indian foe, Wetzel had forgotten the man 
he had trailed for 2 days. He had forgot- 
ten Miller. He had only one shot, and 
Betty was to be avenged. He gritted his 
teeth. The Delaware chief was as safe as 
though he were a thousand miles away. 
This opportunity for which Wetzel had 





PUBLISHER’S NOTES. 


waited so many years, and the successful 
issue of which would have gone so far 
_ toward the fulfillment of a life’s purpose, 
was worse than useless. A great tempta- 
tion assailed the hunter. 

Wetzel’s face was white when he raised 
the rifle; his dark eye, gleaming venge- 
fully, glanced along the barrel. The little 
bead on the front sight first covered the 
British officer, and then the broad breast 
of Girty. It moved reluctantly and searched 
out the heart of Wingenund, where it lin- 
gered for a fleeting instant. At last it 
rested on the swarthy face of Miller. 

“For Betty,’ muttered the hunter, be- 
tween his clenched teeth as he pressed the 
trigger. 

The spiteful report awoke a thousand 
echoes. When the shot broke the stillness 
Miller was talking and gesticulating. His 
hand dropped inertly; he stood a second, 
his head slowly bowing and his body sway- 
ing perceptibly. Then he plunged forward 
like a log, his face striking the sand. He 
never moved again. He was dead even 
before he struck the ground. 

Blank silence followed this tragic shock. 
Wingenund, a cruel.and relentless Indian, 
but never a traitor, pointed to the small 


bloody hole in the middle of Miller’s fore- — 


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head, and then nodded his head solemnly. 
The wondering Indians stood aghast. 
Then with loud yells the braves went for 
the cornfield; they searched the laurel 
bushes; but they discovered only moccasin 
prints in the sand, and a puff of white 
smoke drifting away on the summer breeze. 


I predict for this book a sale of 100,000 
copies. 

“Betty Zane” is published by the Charles 
Francis Press, of 30 West 13th Street, New 


York, and sells at $1.50. In ordering please 
mention RECREATION. 





Charles A. Sterling, Broadwater, Vir- 
ginia, has published a small book, giving a 
history of Hog island, on the coast of Vir- 
ginia. The object of the book is to inter- 
est sportsmen in a plan to organize a club 
and lease the shooting privileges on this 
island. It is said to be a popular resort 
for ducks, geese and brant, and I am in- 
formed the settlers on the island are near- 
ly all willing to lease the shooting rights 
on their lands, at nominal prices. Anyone 
interested in such a proposition would do 
well to communicate with Mr. Sterling. 
The book sells at 25 cents. 


PUBLISHER’S NOTES. 


EXPERT ENDORSEMENT. 


U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, 
Station at Viento, Oregon. 
J. R. Buckelew, 
111 Chambers St., N. Y. 


Dear Sir: 

I have tried the Collan Oil on 2 pairs of 
shoes, with better results than I expected. 
On my heavy hunting shoes, which I wear 
when engaged on work along the rivers 
and in the wet, I put a heavy coat of the 
oil, or rather 3 heavy coats. First I applied 
it to them’ thoroughly, then allowed them 
to dry; after which I coated them in the 
same manner twice again. On all occasions 
I was careful to get the oil well into all 
the seams, along the top and sides of the 
sole and on the bottom of the sole. Since 
its application 2 weeks ago I have had oc- 
casion to wade almost to the tops of the 
shoes in the Columbia and Little White 
Salmon rivers, and have worn the shoes 
through mud while it was raining hard. 
During this time they have not leaked at 
all, and have remained soft and pliable; so 
I can say the use of the oil is gratifying, 


for I have hitherto been forced to wear rub- 
ber boots on almost every occasion. 


Truly yours, 
(Signed) J. N. Wisner. 


TWO HANDSOME CALENDARS. 

The Horton Manufacturing Company, 
Bristol, Conn., is sending out a beautiful 
calendar for 1904. It represents a 20th cen- 
tury girl in the act of stepping out of a 
birch bark canoe on the shore of a river, 
holding in one hand a 5 pound black bass, 
which she is supposed to have just taken 
from the water, and in the other hand one 
of the famous Bristol steel rods. The work 
is beautifully lithographed in natural col- 
ors, and a glance at the picture will set the 
nerves of any angler tingling. Every lover 
of the woods and the waters should have 
a copy of this calendar. 


Another beautiful work of art in the cal- 
endar line comes from the Harrington & 
Richardson Arms Co., makers of the well 
known revolvers and shot guns, Worcester, 
Mass. The picture in this case represents a 
typical American beauty, with golden hair, 





158 RECREATION. 


arrayed in evening costume and lavishly dec- 
orated with violets. The color scheme is 
superb, and there is sure to be a great de- 
mand for this calendar. Any reader of 
RECREATION who will write the company, 
mentioning this magazine, can get a copy of 
the calendar free—while the supply lasts. 





GAME ALONG THE GRAND TRUNK. 


In a recent conversation with an officer 
of the Grand Trunk Railway, he stated 
that the deer and moose hunting sea- 
son in the Province of Ontario for No- 
vember last was even better than previous 
seasons, as returns from the express com- 
panies and other channels demonstrate. 
The Canadian Express company carried a 
total of 2,950 deer, weighing 309,101 pounds. 
This number shows an increase of 682 car- 
casses over last season. These figures, of 
course, do not give any idea of the total 
number of animals killed, as the major por- 
tion of them are carried home by other 
conveyances, and many of the hunters bring 
home the heads only as trophies. It is esti- 
mated that about 10,000 deer and 100 moose 
were killed during the 15 days open season 
in the Highlands of Ontario. It has also 
been noticed that many more sportsmen 
from the United States have gone into the 
hunting regions this year. The grouse and 
duck shooting has also been good through- 
out the Highlands, but quail have been 
more scarce than in past years. 





A NEW BUZZACOTT BOOK. 


Buzzacott, Racine Junction, Wiscon- 
sin, has recéntly issued a book entitled 
“The Anglers’ Manual.” It is scarcely 
necessary to say more of this than that it 
is on a par with his Campers’ Manual. 
That is, it gives more information, for a 
smaller price, than any book I have ever 
seen. This Anglers’ Manual sells at 10 
cents a copy, and contains $10 worth of 
information, at a conservative estimate. 
The text is terse and is condensed to a 
minimum of space. The illustrations, over 
200 in number, show nearly every device 
that fishermen ever have occasion to use. 
Among these illustrations are accurate por- 
traits of most of the species of game fishes 
found in this country. 

There are many other valuable features 
in the book, but it is scarcely necessary to 
enumerate them here. No man or woman 
who is interested in fishing would ever 
hesitate to pay 10 cents for a book that 
tells all about it, and this one does that. 
In writing for it please mention RECREA- 
TION. 





HISTORY OF GREAT FLOOD. 
The Passenger Department of the Chi- 


cago & Alton railway has issued a book, 
entitled “The Flood of 1903,” which is one 
of the most remarkable publications that 
has ever come to me from any railway 
company. The book is a pictorial history 
of the great Mississippi flood, which, as 
everyone knows, carried away millions of 
dollars’ worth of property, and inflicted un- 
told misery and suffering on thousands of 
people. Several of the cuts in this book 
are made on the panoramic plan. They are 
4% inches high by 25 inches long, and 
show the terrible expanse of water and the 
fearful loss of property in the most graphic 
way that these could possibly be portrayed 
by the camera. 

Mr. Charlton is entitled to great credit 
for the ingenuity and enterprise displayed 
in this matter, for “The Flood of 1903” 
is a great book. Any reader of RECREATION 
can get a copy of the book by enclosing 
25 cents in postage to Mr. George J. Charl- 
ton, G. P. A., C. & A. Railway, Chicago, II. 





A LESSON IN ADVERTISING 


In their 1904 calendar just received, N. 
W. Ayer & Son have adhered to their 
popular conception of a business calendar, 
but have changed the design and coloring. 
The size is the same, about 14 by 28 inches, 
with large readable dates, but the clay 
modeling design printed in sepia tints, 
gives more prominence to their well known 
motto, ,, Keeping everlastingly at it brings 
success”; not a bad idea for people to have 
before them throughout the year. 

The blank spaces occurring each month 
contain suggestions on business getting, ad- 
vertising in general, and N. W. Ayer & 
Son’s methods of advertising in particular, 
the whole forming an interesting and in- 
structive lesson in productive publicity. 

Requests for this calendar addressed to 
their Philadelphia office, accompanied by 
25 cents to cover cost and postage, will be 
taken care of for the present. Last year 
the supply lasted barely to days. 





ONLY ONE CLUB BRAND. 


Judge Colt, of the Circuit Court of thr 
United States, District of Massachusetts, 
deserves the congratulations and thanks of 
the American people for the broad and 
sweeping decision rendered Nov. 9, 1903, 
restraining Adams, Taylor Co., of Boston, 
Mass., from using the word “Club” in 
connection with bottled Cocktails. The 
complainants, G. F. Heublein & Bro., have 
spent much time and money in introducing 
the celebrated Club Cocktails, which like 
all well known and staple articles have 
been more or less-imitated. This decision 
means not only protection to the maker of 
the goods, but affords equal protection to 
the purchaser, and simplifies the matter of 


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PUBLISHER’S NOTES. 


' getting what you want and pay for. We 
trust the courts will continue this good 
work and protect known and established 
brands from the piracy to which they so 
long have been subject. 





DISEASES OF DOGS 

The Sergeant dog remedies, made by the 
Polk Miller Drug Co., Richmond, Va., are 
compounded by a veteran, who all his life 
has been an owner and lover of fine dogs. 
He believes in treating ‘these faithful ani- 
mals as members of the human family; 
has studied their diseases in every phase; 
has experimented until now his remedies 
are known all over the United States as 
the best on the market. Veterinary sur- 
geons everywhere use them and say of 
them: “It is no experiment to use Ser- 
geant’s dog remedies, for they have become 
the standard medicines in our practice.” 
If anybody wishes to know anything about 
dogs,. their varieties, their ailments, their 
treatment, 3 cents postage and a request 
to Polk Miller Drug Co., Richmond, Va., 
will bring a handsome free book on dogs. 





REVIVAL OF BICYCLE INDUSTRY 

The re-issue of the Pope bicycle daily 
leaf calendar may be considered the open- 
ing gun proclaiming the natural and health- 
ful return of bicycling. Col. Albert A. 
Pope, the founder of our bicycle industries 
and the pioneer in the good roads move- 
ment, is again at the head of the bicycle 
industry. On the 366 calendar leaves are 
freshly written lines from the pens of our 
greatest college presidents, doctors, clergy- 
men, statesmen, and other eminent men and 
women, all of them enthusiastically sup- 
porting bicycling. Half of each leaf is 
blank for memoranda. This calendar is 
free at the Pope Manufacturing Company’s 
stores, or any RECREATION reader can ob- 
tain it by sending 5 2-cent stamps to the 
Pope Manufacturing Co., Hartford, Conn., 
or 143 Sigel Street, Chicago, Ill. 





The Malcolm Rifle Telescope Co., 
Syracuse, N. Y. 

Dear Sirs: Great credit is due your 
Company for putting on the market such 
an excellent telescope rifle sight as the lit- 
tle Rough Rider. I have carried one to 
the woods 2 seasons for a month each trip. 
I have used rifles, both large and small 
bore, since I could hold one, and the use of 
your hunting ’scope of 3 powers much more 
than doubles the pleasure I get out of my 
rifles. 

Your A side mounts are all anyone could 
wish, compact and neat, up and down and 
sidewise. The Rough Rider ’scope simply 
makes a rifle of any size complete. 

J. D, Berdan, Roselle, N. J, 


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Benton Robbins, Cassville, Mo., has se- 
cured Patent No. 728,302 on a gun barrel 
protector. This is described as an absor- 
bent sheath, open at one end and closed at 
the other, with a tightly fitting, closely 
coiled spring arranged within the sheath, 
and a plug adapted to screw into the open 
end of the sheath. A ring is attached to 
this plug so that a string may be fastened 
to it and dropped into the barrel. Then the 
sheath is to be drawn into the barrel and 
left there. 

With all the cleaning devices being man- 
ufactured, in the way of wick plugs, oils, 
sheathes, &c., there will be no excuse here- 
after for any man who may carry a dirty 
gun. 

Watkins, N. Y. 
D. M. Tuttle Co., 
Canastota, N. Y. 
Sirs: 

I am much pleased to say that the 18 
foot launch, 1% H. P. motor, bought of 
you in July last, has proved entirely satis- 
factory. We often have rough water at 
this end of Seneca lake, and I have had 
her in big waves. Was out to-day with a 
party of 8, and she rode the swells like a 
duck. The motor works perfectly. In 
short, we are well pleased and satisfied with 
the investment and made no mistake in se- 
lecting a Tuttle boat. 

Respectfully yours, 
Edward Hanner. 





‘Sportsmen and others will be interested 
in the November issue of the Baker Gun 
Quarterly, published by Baker Gun and 
Forging Co., Batavia, N. Y. It contains 
articles on the subject of buck shot and 
its use in choke bore guns, a system of 
bookkeeping for the Rose system at tour- 
naments, essays on duck shooting, and 
other instructive matter, besides full de- 
scriptions and prices of the Baker Guns. 
The Quarterly will be sent free to any ad- 
dress on request. In writing for it please 
mention RECREATION. 





Reading, Pa. 
West End Furniture Co., 
Williamsport, Pa. 
Dear Sirs: 
The gun cabinet you sent arrived safe 
and it more than meets my expectations. 
I do not see how any sportsman can be 


without one. 
E. R. Schaeffer. 





A. W. Phillips, of Providence, R. I., has 
received Patent No. 724,931 for an animal 
trap, intended for the trapping of rats, mice 
and other small rodents, and which has 
some good points, 


EDITOR’S CORNER. 


WHAT AN INDIANA EDITOR SAYS. 

Here is more hot stuff “ferninst” the 
game hogs and the automatic gun. It is 
from the facile pen of the Editor of the 


Indianapolis Sentinel. 


With these frosty October mornings 
there comes to the dweller in town and 
city a desire to get out in the stubble 
fields with dog and gun; that instinct 
reasserts itself which centuries of civ- 
ilization have yet been unable to erad- 
icate; the “call of the wild,” the wish 
to go out and kill something. In all 
the shooting districts is heard the bang 
of the shot gun, and soon we shall 
have the sportsmen back in_ town, 
boasting of their prowess and enumer- 
ating with gusto the immense number 
of birds they have been able to slaugh- 
ter. Among them will, of course, sing 
loud that most self satisfied and shame- 
less of brutes, the game hog. e 

It is to protect our birds and animals 
against this species of swine that all 
game laws have been enacted, but the 
game laws only serve to make him 
more alert and to reduce the competi- 
tion. He shoots for the pleasure of 
slaughtering, and his pleasure is in- 
creased in direct ratio to the size of 
his bag. He argues that if a dozen 
birds make a good day’s sport, a hun- 


dred would make a better, and a thou- - 


sand would constitute perfect happi- 
ness. His brother, the fish hog, has 
done his best during the summer to 
rid our lakes of bass and trout; those 
he could not use he has thrown away, 
not back in the water, and now the 
game hog will emulate his example. 

A sturdy crusade against the Sus 
americanus venator has been taken up 
and is being vigorously prosecuted by 
G. O. Shields, better known as Co- 
quina, the veteran editor of REcREA- 
TIon. Those who turn sport into 
slaughter and the hunting fields into 
shambles he arraigns by name, and 
whenever he can he publishes their 
pictures, a veritable rogues’ gallery. 
Coquina’s latest kick is against the au- 
tomatic gun which is now being intro- 
duced by one of the big arms com- 
panies. The arm he refers to has al- 
ready been seen in the form of a revol- 
ver, which fires 7 to 10 cartridges in 
about 2 seconds. The mechanism as 
applied to a shot gun bids fair to pro- 
duce a deadly machine for the use of 
the pot hunter. Mr. Shields describes 
it as “a gun with a magazine holding 


a number of cartridges which may be 
discharged as fast as a man can pull 
the trigger. The shooter jumps a bunch 
of quails, ducks or geese, cocks his gun 


and fires. The recoil of the first shot 
throws out the empty shell, throws a 
new one into the chamber and cocks 
the gun ready for another shot. From 
that on, all the shooter has to do is to 
swing the muzzle of his gun from one 
bird to another and pull the trigger 
until the last shot is fired. Pistols 
built on this plan hold 7 to 10 car- 
tridges, and it is possible to fire all of 
them in less than 2 seconds. The mag- 
azine of an automatic shot gun, holding 
6 cartridges, could be emptied as quick- 
ly, and if the shooter were an expert, as 
many of the game butchers are, it 
would be possible to kill 10 or more 
birds out of a covey before they could 
get out of reach.” 

All the game laws in the world can 
not hold the game hog, for brutes 
know no law but that of their own 
swinish nature; but decent people and 
true lovers of sport may do their share 
toward creating such a_ sentiment 
against game butchers that their trade 
will be followed with ever increasing 
difficulties. It is hardly to be expected 
that the company which has paid a 
large amount for a new engine of de- 
struction will be moved by principle 
to withdraw the gun from the market. 
It is the brute instinct that must be 
conquered. 


No doubt Mr. Bennett, of the Winches- 
ter Co., will also accuse the Editor of the 
Sentinel of mud slinging, even as he 
accuses me. But the impartial reader, the 
real friend of game protection, will hail the 
Editor of the Sentinel as a stalwart ally 
in our good work 





AN IOWA EDITOR’S OPINION. 


Here is a red hot editorial from the Sioux 
City, Iowa, Journal, of Sunday, November 
Ist. The man who writes this article is a 
sportsman and, of course, a gentleman. I 
commend this wholesome advice to brother 
editors throughout the country: 


November REcrEATION directs atten- 
tion to a new automatic shot gun which 
has just been placed on the market, 
and which, if generally adopted by 
sportsmen, is likely to neutralize all the 
good effects which have come from re- 
cent legislation for protection and pres- 
ervation of game birds. The new 
weapon works on the same principle as 





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EDITOR’S CORNER. 


the automatic guns used in modern 
warfare. It is provided with a maga- 
zine amd is equipped with a contrivance 
by which the recoil of one shot throws 
out the first cartridge and automatically 
replaces it with another. In this way 
the gun may be fired as rapidly as the 
holder can pull the trigger, 6 shots in 2 
seconds being made possible. Armed 
with such a weapon a hunter could turn 
loose on a flock of birds and slaughter 
the game at will. RECREATION appeals 
to all true sportsmen to refuse to use 
the automatic gun and to try to induce 
the manufacturers to withdraw it from 
the market. Men who have the best 
interests of real sport at heart will be 


- quick to see the force of the appeal. 


There used to be an idea that the 
only test of a sportsman’s ability was 
the size of the bag he secured. It was 
in consequence of this idea that the 
repeating rifle and repeating shot gun 
came into vogue. The use of these more 
destructive weapons brought about 2 
important results. They greatly in- 
creased the handicap under which the 
game birds were competing, and they 
taught the sportsman that big bags 
were no longer a test Of sportsman- 
ship. Generosity and selfishness both 
played a part in the learning of this 
lesson. The shooter ascertained that 
the element of difficulty cut a large 
share in the enjoyment of game shoot- 
ing. He found that ease of killing did 
not furnish an excuse for wholesale 
slaughter. Moreover, he discovered 
that, with all sportsmen taking all the 
birds they could secure, the supply was 
being so depleted that there was immi- 
nent danger of total extinction. 

Thus it was that a new code of ethics 
was established. The better class of 
sportsment no longer consider it good 
form to take everything in sight merely 
because opportunity is presented. After 
securing a reasonable quantity of game 
they prefer to leave some for others. 
Also they are found in hearty co-opera- 
tion with the authorities in the enforc- 
ment of laws for the protection of 
game. The game hog and the pot 
hunter are now equally in disfavor 
among legitimate sportsmen. 

It is to this policy of enlightened self- 
ishness that the argument against the 
automatic shot gun will appeal. If the 
new weapon shall come into general 
use not many open seasons of the pres- 
ent length will be required for the ex- 
tinction of the limited number of game 
birds now remaining. If necessary the 
use of such destructive weapons could 
be prohibited by law, just as the use of 
devices for the wholesale slaughter of 


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game fishes is prohibited. It would be 
more creditable to sportsmanship, how- 
ever, if its devotees would of their own 
accord refuse to countenance the use 
of the weapon and compel the manu- 
facturers to cease making it because of 
lack of demand. The automatic gun 
should be tabooed by every organiza- 
tion of self-respecting sportsmen. 





TO PROHIBIT AUTOMATIC AND PUMP 
GUNS. 

When there were no other guns than 
muzzle loaders in use game was abundant 
all over this continent. The wild pigeon 
swarmed through the Southern and Middle 
States; buffalo and antelope covered the 
Western plains; the elk and the mule deer 
were almost congested in the Rocky moun- 
tains and in the Cascades; and the river 
valleys were alive with them far out on the 
plains. 

Then came the breech loading rifle. This 
made it possible to kill game so fast that 
it paid men to kill and skin buffalo and 
other large animals for the market. Soon 
after the beginning of this commercial 
slaughter game of all kinds began to de- 
crease in numbers. Closely following the 
single shot breech loader came the repeat- 
ing rifle and the breech loading shot gun. 
Later the repeating shot gun followed, and 
every man and woman who reads knows 
the sequel. The wild pigeon and the buf- 
falo are gone. The antelope is nearly ex- 
tinct. The elk is entirely wiped out of 
Arizona and New Mexico. There are 
scarcely more than 50 remaining in Col- 
orado, where Io years ago they could be 
counted by thousands. They are cleaned 
out of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, ex- 
cept in the vicinity of Yellowstone Park. 
They are practically extinct in Oregon, 
though a few stragglers may still be found 
in the high mountains of that State. 

The mule deer is also being rapidly killed 
off. Twenty years ago the Virginia deer 
was abundant in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 
Iowa and Kansas, but not a single wild 
deer could be found in any one of these 
States to-day. There are not 10 per cent of 
the deer in Pennsylvania that were there 
20 years ago. All this is due to the so- 
called improvement in hunting rifles. 

Birds of all kinds have disappeared rap- 
idly and several important species of game 
birds are verging on extinction. 

In spite of this tragic condition of af- 
fairs, we are now confronted with an au- 
tomatic repeating shot gun. It is generally 
conceded that no decent sportsman will 
use one, but there are thousands of game 
hogs who will use them if permitted. Near- 
ly all the market hunters now use pump 
guns. They will discard them and buy auto- 
matic guns, because they can kill more game 


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with them. These men used swivel guns, 
and 4 bore and 8 bore shoulder guns until 
stopped by law. Let us now bring them 
back again by law, to the double barrel gun 
of 10 bore or smaller. 





GAME LAW BREAKERS CONVICTED. 

State Game Protector. J. E. Overton, 
Port Jefferson, N. Y., has just completed 
a successful year’s work in the enforcement 
of the game and fish laws, and in punishing 
law breakers. I have had occasion to re- 
port several cases to him during the year, 
which have been brought to my attention, 
and which for various reasons the League 
could not prosecute. Mr. Overton has fol- 
lowed all these to a finish, and has bétn 
successful in convicting several of the men 
in question. 

Here are some extracts from his report 
to the Commission at Albany: 


Rufus Morris, netting in Pelham Bay, 


fed ie 5s BAS SUE ae ee $25 
Andrew Joslin and Frank Cegal, kill- 

ing deer out of season...........--- 100 
H. V. Schmeelk, taking oysters illegal- 

By. Sis ts tare. ote ies es ee guessed 50 
Haight and Wright, offering gulls for 

S018 Us PEAR! Ce ORE I 25 
John Minugh & Co., selling pike and 

pickerel out of season and without 

ewaae Woes c ee eek oie ea ee. 125 
Carl J. Recknagle, having Bald Eagle 

ith. POSHOBRIG oo eres ys 3 FT. eet 35 
Flint Smith, killing bittern, sentence 

suspended 2c. ng. tes sha wewces — 


John F. Nagel, Ed. Bedell, Benj. 
Churchill and Clifford Clark, shoot- 
ing ducks from launch.............. 20 

Arthur Nolan, Geo. Nolan and Frank 


Bennett, same offense ............. 45 
Wm. L. Young and Albert Wend, same 

Obemae {Ak aceon ds sakes kim Ort 6 30 
Ferdinand Downs, same offense ...... 25 
Max Single, shooting at a deer on pro- 

tected grounds, «sis >-muuen poe seeee 10 


Mr. Overton has several other cases 
pending in the courts, and altogether he has 
made an excellent record for himself— 
EpITor. 





ANOTHER WESTERN EDITOR CONDEMNS 
IT. 


An automatic shot gun is the latest alleged im- 
provement in the way of fire arms. The Win- 
chester Arms company is about to manufacture 
a shot gun which any decent and self respecting 
sportsman ought to be ashamed to use. RECREA- 
tion, for November, describes this automatic gun 
as follows: 

“A gun with a magazine holding a number of 
cartridges which may be discharged as fast as a 
man can pull the trigger. The shooter jumps 
a bunch ms quails, ducks or geese, cocks his gun 
and fires. The recoil of the first shot throws 
out the empty shell, and throws a new one into 
the chamber and cocks the gun, ready for another 


RECREATION. 


shot. From that on, all the shooter has to do 
is to swing the muzzle of his gun from one bird 
to another and pull the trigger until the last shot 
is fired. Pistols built on this plan hold 7 to 10 
cartridges, and it is possible to fire all of them 
in less than 2 seconds. The magazine of an auto- 
matic shot gun, holding 6 cartridges, could be 
emptied as quickly, and if the shooter were an 
expert, as many of the game butchers are, it would 
be possible to kill 10 or more birds out of a covey 
before they could get out of reach.” 

Laws have been passed in all the States and in 
all parts of the civilized world for the protection 
of game. The Winchester automatic shot gun is 
designed to work unwarranted butchery among 
birds and small game. A sportsman could not pride - 
himself on his ability as a gunner if he went 
duck hunting with one of these repeaters. The 
most stringent game laws in the world would be 
ineffective to preserve the species of wild birds 
that remain in this country if the use of these 
automatic guns became general. A sentiment ought 
to be aroused against the use of such a gun 
strong enough to discourage the gun makers from 
placing it on the market. No sell seboedae hun- 
= would ever use one.—Tacoma, Wash., Daily 

ews. 





The practice of using postage stamps for 
small remittances in the mails has grown 
to enormous proportions. The result is 
that the Department loses heavily, not only 
because of improper sales by postmasters 
for that purpose, thereby increasing their 
compensation wrongfully, but in imposing 
on postoffices, especially in the large cities, 
the labor of handling mail matter the rev- 
enues from which are derived by other 
postoffices. It encourages trafficking in 
postage stamps, and this encourages the 
robbery of postoffices. Many plans have 
been proposed for obviating this evil, but 
none which have come to my attention 
equal in simplicity, effectiveness and eff- 
ciency, the post check proposition. With 
such a simple means of making remit- 
tances, merchants would soon be compelled. 
to refuse postage stamps as currency. The 
postage stamp would then lose its value for 
the purpose of remittance. This system of 
transmitting money in the mails should be 
authorized, at least in an experimental way. 
I hope readers of RECREATION may see fit 
to write their Congressman urging this. 








I frequently get a partial description of 
some bird, with a request for identification. 
I am always glad to give information of 
any kind. to any reader of RECREATION ; but 
it is difficult to identify a bird without a 
complete description of it. In fact it is 
better to have the skin of the bird; or at 
least the head, wings and tail. I do not 
mean by this to encourage the killing of 
birds for the mere sake of finding out what 
they are; but if you kill a bird and then 
want to know what it is, it would be well 
to skin it carefully, so it can be mounted, 
and then if no one in your vicinity can 
identify it send me the skin and I will re- 
turn it to you with the information desired. 


RECREATION. 


Schlitz Beer 


Receives 
World’s Highest Endorsement 





European government scientist awards 
Schlitz the highest honor. 


From Weihenstephan, Bavaria, the most 
renowned school of brewing in the wotid, 
comes this triumph for Schlitz. 


The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famo-is 
pronounced best American Beer by the Bava- 
rian Government’s famous scientist, Prof. Dr. 
Hans Vogel, Director of the Scientific Station 
for the Art of Brewing, subventioned by tle 
Royal Bavarian Government. Bavaria is the 
cradle of the art of brewing. 


ScientiFic STATION For THE ART]OF BREWING 
WEIHENSTEPHAN, NEAR FREISING 


(Subventioned by the Royal Bavarian Gov't) 


PROF. DR. HANS VOGEL, 
ACADEMICAL DIRECTOR 


WEIHENSTEPHAN, Nov. 22, 1903. 
Schlitz Brewing Co., Milwaukee, U. S. A. 

Through the courtesy of Commerzeinrath (Counsellor of Commerce) 
Dr. Datterer, I have received several bottles of your beer. I have not 
only partaken of same, but have also made a searching chemical analysis, 
the result of which I enclose. ‘The analysis, as a matter of course, can give 
no idea of an important feature—the flavor of the beer. I frequently 
receive samples of American beers for analyzation, but I can truthfully 
say without flattering that I never drank a better American beer than yours. 
The beer tasted full (round) and fresh, and no trace. of the usual dis- 
agreeable pasteurization flavor was discern- 
ible. Once more permit me to express 
my recognition, Very respectfully, 

HANS VOGEL, 











Sele Made Milwaukee Famous: 


164 RECREATION. 





LIVER-EATING JOHNSON. 
R. H. 


John Johnson, of Montana, is the modest 
name of the man who is better known to 
fame as Liver-Eating Johnson. | first 
met him in the ’60’s. He gained his san- 
guinary title in the stockades on the Mus- 
selshell, where for many weeks he, in com- 
pany with Crow Davis, Jesse Mabbitt and 
a few others, kept the Indians at bay and 
almost every day sent one or more of them 
to join the other good Indians. Even be- 
fore that time Johnson was known as a 
fearless scout and Indian fighter, a good 
hunter and a skilful trapper. He was invaria- 
bly cool, even in the greatest danger; and 
though fearless he was never reckless. Even 
in his old age Johnson had a wonderful phy- 
sique. He was gray haired, over 6 feet tall, 
weighed about 270 pounds, wore number I2 
shoes and had hands the size of average 
hams. His voice gave forth fog horn tones, 
and over his expressionless face no smile 
was ever seen to flit, but in his eyes the 
close observer could notice an almost per- 
petual twinkle. It was nis delight to have 
around him a circle of tenderfeet who hung 
spellbound on his blood curdling tales. On 
these occasions he showed a strong aver- 
sion to the truth, and seldom allowed it to 
obtrude. A few years ago I heard him tell 
the following: 

“It makes me tired to hear people say 
there is any danger or excitement on the 
ocean. I sailed all over the world when I 
was a kid, just looking for tough times, and 
couldn't find them. I was shipwrecked 6 
times, but there wasn’t any excitement 
about that. I only floated around a little 
for a few weeks on a leaky raft, seeing 
nothing but sky and water. The only 
lively time I had was when I jumped 
into the loop of a lariat and towed a raft 
with 7 men and 8 women aboard into 
Charleston harbor, a little swim of about 
385 miles. 

“But I never could find any real excite- 
ment on the ocean, so I came out to the 
mountains to see if I could kick up some 
among the Indians. Now, you folks might 
not believe it, but I did find some with the 
Indians, wounded bears, cloud bursts, snow 
slides and that kind of cattle. After pros- 
pecting 10 years, Wild Cat Bill, Flap- 
Jack Dick, Sour Dough Ike and I made a 
big cleanup in Boomerang gulch and dis- 
solved partnership. Bill struck out for the 
Whoop Up country, Dick and Ike loafed 
around until they were taken in by the In- 
dians, while I ran down the trail to Bos- 
ton, to take another look at the ocean and 
see if it was all there. I tried to put up at 
a place they call Harvard, but the boys 
were sassy and wouldn’t let me camp there. 
Guess old man Harvard was out at the 
time. I went down to Mr. Parker’s tavern 
and hadn’t taken a dozen cocktails when I 
met a man who had sailed with me when he 
was a kid. His name was Ebenezer Higin- 
botham. I had taught him all about navi- 


gating the trails and he kept right on until 
he became captain of a whaler. He told me 
the ship was hitched somewhere outside and 


begged me to go with him hunting whales. 


I studied over this through 20 cocktails, and 
then made up my mind to go. 

“We struck up North, rubbed out all the 
lines of longitude and shortitude, and many 
a whale did we sight. I wanted to set a 
bear trap or 2 for them, but Eb laughed at 
me, One day the fellow that was roosting 
up among the lariats yelled out, “A whale, 
a whale!” as if it was going up there to 
bite him. The men got 2 boats over the 
side, and rowed away as if a lot of Apaches 
were hot on their trail. The captain watched 
them through a glass. I never use a glass 
except for whiskey and then only when I 
can’t get at the bottle. The fellows rowed 
out and stuck 2 pike poles into that whale. 


He just swung his rudder round, sort of 


careless like, and smashed one boat into 
splinters. Then he opened his mouth and 
chawed the other boat up in one chaw. The 
men swam around a little and finally got 
into a boat the captain sent out to them. 
At last I says, “Lower the biggest Mack- 
inaw you have, put in your stoutest and 
longest lariat, my express rifle, and the 
whiskey bottle. Lively now!” They jumped 


to obey orders. I got into the boat, struck. 


out for that whale, and got up pretty close 
to him. You ought to have seen the look on 
that critter’s face! He acted as if he had 
never been in a school of whales. I swung 
the lariat a time or 2 about my head and 
let drive. It caught him in the upper jaw 
and tight over the nose. I hauled in the 
slack and fastened the end to my belt. Why 
didn’t he dive? How could he? Didn't 
I just tell you I was rowing? I kept up a 
lively gait and the whale just laid back on 
the lariat; but at last he saw it was all up 
with him, so he came along as gentle as a 
calf. I got ashore and snubbed him to a 
tree. Then I rowed out, and putting up my 
rifle, shot him through the brain. I didn’t 
want to risk a shoulder shot, as he was so 
deep in the water. Then the captain and 
crew came to tow the varmint to the ship. 

The captain cried when I told him I was 
not going back with him, but was going to 
row down to Boston, some 4,500 miles by 
the nearest cut off. Then he knew what I 
wanted the whiskey and crackers for. He 
said anyway I must share in the proceeds. 
I told him I only wanted as much as the 
other men got; no more. Three weeks af- 
ter I got to Boston a banker sent me word 
I had to my credit in gold, $30,000—my 
share of the whale’s lard. Big whale? Say, 
Mister! Do I look like a man who would 
tackle a little one?” 


“Miss Passé was kissed in a dark hall- 
way the other night.” 

“Is that so?” ; 

“Yes, and there hasn’t been a light in 
her house since.”’—Life. 


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PRESIDENT Povade a VICE PRESIDENT 


HENRY B HYDE 


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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. © 


“For sport the lens is better than the gun.” 

J wish to make this department of the utmost 
use to amateurs. I shall, therefore, be glad to 
answer any questions and to print any items sent 
me by practical amateurs relating to their experi- 
ence in photography. 





THE WINNERS. 


REcREATION’s 8th annual photo competi- 
tion closed November 30, and is now a 
matter of history. Nearly 500 entries were 
made, and among these were over 100 high 
class pictures. As usual, the judges had 


great difficulty in deciding which of these . 


should be awarded the first prize, which 
should have second, third, ete.; but after 
careful deliberation they finally placed the 
prizes as follows: 


Ist prize, Rail Shooting on the Susque- 
hanna, U. C. Wanner. 

2d prize, At Home in the Rushes, J. E. 
Stanley. x. 

3d, Bob White by Flashlight, S. L. Bee- 


gle. 


Lucky, Chas. Vandervelde. 
5th, The Golf Girl, George Worth. 


6th, A Good Pair to Draw to, E. F. Pope. c 
7th, Don’t Bother Me, I’m Busy, A. SS. 


ss. 

8th, I’m Trying to Look Pleasant, Flor- 
ence Molique. ; 

oth, Saved, by Gum! G. Wilbur Wood. 

1oth, Three Black Crows Sat on a Tree, 
R. H. Beebe. 

Special prize for best photo of a live wild 
animal, On a Newfoundland Marsh, Mrs. 
W. B. Lee. 

11th, The Skater, Rud Engelmann. 

12th, The Army and Navy, Chester A. 
Reed. “sf 

13th, At Breakfast, John H. Fisher, Jr. 

14th, Yes, Sir, S. G. Jameson.- 

15th, A Good Catch, George Hartmann. 

16th, A Morning Snooze, J. E. Tylor. 

17th, Pin Cushions, Wallace J. Bundy. 
18th, Good Bye to Trains for 30 Days, 
Thos. C. Martindale. 

19th, Right on Them, Wm. H.: Fisher. 

2oth, Defiance, Geo. W.. Fisk. Fr. ) 

21st, Humming Bird, Geo. J. Newgarden. 
22d, Caught Once More,’ B. T. Boies. 
23d, A Flying Leap, Chas. F. Tess. 
24th, American Goshawk, C. V. Oden. 


25th, A Cozy Retreat, name of photog- 


rapher unknown. 

26th, The Foster Mother, F. Spittal. 

27th, The Eagle’s Gibraltar, A. J. Brun- 
quist. 

28th, Canada Edward A. 
French. 

29th, Antelope in the Bad Lands, Mrs. T. 
F. Roberts. 


30th, Stepping High, E, F, Cowgill, 


Goose, Dr. 


4th, The Fisherman Who is Always. 


RECREATION. 


- 31st, A Corking Good Story, R. C. W. 
Lett. 

32d, Goose Shooting on the Big Sioux, 
E. W. Edgington. 

- 33d, Blue Heron in His Favorite Haunt, 


’ J. P. Hambly. 


34th, Young Night Hawk, W. Stark. 
35th, Ruffed Grouse, Fred L. Libby. 
30th, Pine Grosbeaks, Robert Stevenson. 
37th, Honeysuckle Camp, W. D. Gay. 
38th, Family of Screech Owls, O. J. Ste- 
venson. 
39th, Young Robins, H. C. Markman. 
’ goth, Chicken Thief, A. J. Lewis. 
41st, Feeding the Baby, J. B. Parker. 
42d, A Sun Bath, F. S. Andrus. 
43d, Great Blue Heron, Frank C. Nash. 
44th, Making Friends, G. N. Waterbury, 
Jr 


4sth, Coon, Homer W. Squier. 
40th, Hawk Eggs, Geo. C. H. Warner. 


_ 47th, Patching the Canoe, W. E. Lurchin. 


48th, Round the Camp Fire, Leonard F. 
Weston. 

49th, The Angler, S. G. Jameson. 

soth, Grouse, F. J. Angier. 

sist, A Moonlight Sail, Albert Haanstad. 

52d, I’m Busy, C. M. Whitney. 

53d, Nest and Eggs of Ruffed Grouse, H. 


~H. Fraser. 


. 54th, Midwinter Recreation, Chas. Mars- 
den. 


The following were highly commended : 


The Coon. Wins; Snake in Full Retreat ; 
Something Doing: Stick a Tater in His 
Mouth; Rescued; The Reptile Strikes; A 
Black Climber prepares an Attack; Mutton 
Up and Mutton Down, and a River Shore 
Feast, J. E. Tylor. 

Posing and Top Line Work, U. C. 
Wanner. 

The Early Bird; Trying Their Muscle; 
Who Wants Me? R. H. Beebe. 

At Bay and Fly Casting on Williamson 
River, Oregon, E. C. Cross. 

Confidence and a High Jump, Chester A. 
Reed. a . 

A Sour Old Customer, Wm. H. Fisher. 

A Good Start and the Turkey Hunters, 
Frank H. Shaw... 

Defending His Castle, A. J. Brunquist. 

The Ski Girl, George Worth. 

Turtles, James E. Stanley, Jr. 

A Faithful Mother, J. B. Parker. 

Woodchuck Prospecting, F. S. Andrus. 

A Bad Case of Snakes, C. L. Fulstone. 

The Skaters and the Old Oaken Bucket, 
C. Vandervelde. 


The judges were Joseph T. Keiley, © 
lawyer and expert amateur photographer, 
and Frank P. Dwyer, General Eastern agent 
of the Grand Trunk Railway. Both these 
gentlemen are well equipped in every way 


~ for the performance of the difficult task 





AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 


assigned them, and both did what they 
considered right and fair to all concerned. 

Many readers will be disappointed at 
not finding their names in the list, and 
others at not finding theirs as far up as 
they had expected; but all such should re- 
member the peculiar conditions that enter 
into a contest of this kind. No man or 
woman can possibly appreciate the difh- 
culty under which the judges labor, without 
being themselves placed in such a position. 

I trust that all who were successful in 
this competition may be even more so in 
the next, and that those who did not win 
prizes this time may get good ones the next 
time. 

Only 40 prizes were offered in this com- 
petition, and, of course, only this number 
were awarded by the judges. I have, 
however, decided to send RECREATION one 
year to each of the persons named on the 
list and numbered 41 to 54 inclusive. 





PSEUDO STEREOSCOPIC PICTURES. 
BARON PAUL TCHERKASSOV. 
Anyone who has looked at a photograph 
through a magnifying lens must have no- 


hs 
1 eRe gaals! 


— ee Oe ee 


a Ye decrm.— Em, 


ticed how much more lifelike it tooks ; how 
all the objects stand out in strong relief ; 
how much more natural the perspective ap- 
pears. It must be obvious that if one pic- 
ture, seen through one magnifying lens, 
gains so much, a binocular contemplation 
of 2 identical pictures through 2 lenses is 
bound to produce a still more striking effect. 
This is shown to the utmost perfection at- 
tainable with pictures in monochrome, in 
stereoscopic pictures, taken with a properly 
constructed stereoscopic camera. It seems 
strange, therefore, that, as nearly as I can 
judge by my personal experience, hardly 
20 per cent of amateur photographers do 


167 


stereoscopic work. I have taken it up re- 
cently and during this brief time it has af- 
forded me much more enjoyment than I 
formerly got out of photographic work with 
a half plate stand camera and a quarter 
plate hand camera, with which I have 
taken many pictures in the last 12 years. 
One day in 1go1, while going through some 
old prints, the idea came to me that it might 
be possible to get a stereoscopic effect with 
some of them. After a few trials, I learned 
how to dispose the 2 separate prints, and 


‘what sizes to give them, as well as a few 


minor points the knowledge of which facil- 
itates the work. The results having proved 
satisfactory, a brief outline of my methods 
may interest other photographers. 

Two conditions must be fulfilled in or- 
der to attain good results: The focal dis- 
tance of the lens should be between 4 and 
5 inches; and prominent objects in close 
proximity to the camera should be avoided. 
This may require some explanation. In 
genuine stereoscopic work, it is o.1 the ut- 
most advantage to get some prominent ob- 
jects in as close proximity to the lens as 
the latter’s construction permits, for such 
objects, appearing on the 2 separate prints 


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in different positions relative to objects sit- 
uated farther from the lens, are of great 
value in bringing out the stereoscopic ef- 
fect; but, in pseudo stereoscopic work, 
where they necessarily stand in the same 
relation to other objects, in both prints, 
they are not of such value in enhancing 
the effect of the stereoscopic iamge, while 
they reveal to the careful observer the 
imitation. 

It is strange how differently people re- 
gard the same picture when they think it 
is genuinely stereoscopic and after they 
learn that it is what they call faked. I 


- once showed my collection to some friends. 


168 


who admired them greatly and did not 
criticize those views among the lot which 
were imitations. Afterward I said that 
some of the pictures were made up from 
photos taken with an ordinary hand cam- 
era; and they went over the whole collec- 
tion again, but could not find out which 
were which till I pointed them out. Then 
it was a case of: “Well, it is wonderful 
we did not notice it before! Now we see 
the difference clearly.” After that, they 
seemed not to care for my made up stereo- 
scopic pictures, though some of them are 
exceedingly beautiful. 

Given a pair of perfectly matched prints, 
that is, identical in depth and in tone, the 
next question is what size to cut them, 
how to trim and how to mount them so as 
to obtain the desired stereoscopic effect. 
I take 3 inches wide by 3% high as about 
the standard. Selecting some point in the 
picture from which to take the necessary 
measurements for the width, trim one print 
so as to get that point 3-16 of an inch 
farther from the left edge than in the 
second print. In the second print, add this 
space of 3-16 inch to the right margin, 
measuring, of course, from the same fixed 
point. That is, designating the different 
parts of the print thus: A, the strip to 
the left of the arbitrarily chosen starting 
point X; B, the strip to the right of that 
point; and C, the 3-16 inch wide strip; the 
right hand image has the following for- 
mula: C -+ A +B; and the left hand 
image, A + B+ C. See diagram. 

Mount the 2 prints on the stereoscopic 
blank. To do this properly requires but 
average care and ability. The most impor- 
tant operation is to get the base lines of 
both prints perfectly true. Next comes the 
trimming of those edges which will come 
into juxtaposition in the center of the 
blank. A _ space a trifle over 1-16 inch 
wide may be left here, but I usually mount 
the edges close together. 

There is, perhaps, no novelty in this 
style of making up stereoscopic prints from 
single ones. If this should happen to be 
the case, I can only say that I never have 
come across a description of it, or heard of 
it. All there was to learn about it I have 
worked out by myself, “rule of thumb” 
fashion. The deductions came afterward. 





MAKING THE PRIZE WINNERS. 


Regarding the winner of 3d prize, Bob 
White by Flashlight, reproduced on page 
104 of this issue, I wrote Mr. Beegle as 
follows: 


Will you kindly tell me all about the 
conditions under which the quail picture 
was made? Was the photo made from a 
live bird or from a mounted specimen? 


RECREATION. 


, 


It appears to me to be from a live bird, but 
if you have been reading RECREATION, you 
will know that as soon as the picture 1s 
published some critics may bob up and 
claim it is from a mounted specimen. 

The second question is, if the bird was 
alive, was he in his wild state or in domes- 
tication, or in confinement. If at large, 
you have been exceedingly fortunate in get- 
ting so fine a picture of him. 

The judges, in awarding the prizes, would 
immediately raise all these questions, and it 
will be well to have a full statement from 
you with the picture. 


To this, Mr. Beegle replied. 


My photo of a quail was made from a live 
wild bird, not domesticated, although it 
was a captive several days, and after the 
photo was made flew away, perhaps to be- 
come the prey of some gunner. To assert 
or imply that it was a snap shot of a quail 
in the grass, taken by going afield with a 
camera, would be more than ridiculous; but 
it is exactly what it represents, a live wild 
bird, free and unhampered, released and 
photographed in a tuft of grass, without 
any strings or other contrivances to keep it 
confined. It seems to me that any man 
who ever saw a quail can tell from the nat- 
ural expression of the bird, the alertness, 
etc., that no taxidermist could duplicate it. 
Those who might think it a photo of a 
mounted specimen I should under no cir- 
cumstances try to convince. They would 
not have the intelligence to know a live 
quail from a stuffed one, and they deserve 
no consideration whatever. To those who 
have done any of this work I stand ready 
to demonstrate that possibly even better pic- 
tures may be made than the one submitted. 

This photo was taken with a Goerz lens, 
I-10 second exposure, and printed on Velox 


paper. 
S. L. Beegle, Orange, N. J. 


The photo of the caribou stag on the bar- 
rens of Newfoundland was taken October 
24, 1903, at 50 feet, as the animal was com- 
ing slowly toward me. The camera used 
was an Eastman Cartridge Kodak, No. 4. 

Mrs. William B. Lee, Rochester, N. Y. 


This photo is reproduced on page ror of 
this issue. —-Eprror. 


Ernie: No, shé€ isn’t going to marry 
Claude, after all. 

Ida: But they say he can quote Emerson 
and Browning. 

Yes, but the other young man can quote 
Sugar and Steel—Chicago Daily News. 





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COONING IN DELAWARE. 


Jack and I drove to the branch to try 
our new coon dog, Trueman. While we 
were tying our horse my pup Moscow 
struck in the branch, the new. dog gave 
tongue, and in less than 5 minutes both were 
barking to a tree not far off. When we 
got there all we could see was Trueman’s 
tail sticking out of a hollow stub about 4 
feet high. He had jumped up on the stub 
and gone into it head first. The hollow was 
too small for him to turn around in and 
too deep to back out of. We grabbed the 
dog by the tail and hind legs and pulled 
him out. He brought the coon with him 
and never let go until it was dead. 

Farther up the branch Trueman struck 
another trail and ran it about half a mile. 
He finally lost the scent, either because of 
the thick brush and wet ground or, more 
probably, as I have since learned, through 
my bad handling. On the way back to 
where we had tied the horse the dog com- 
menced to bark. We found he had another 
coon in a hollow log. It took about an 
hour of hard chopping, punching and pry- 
ing to get the rascal out. He is now living 
in my coon cage, as contented as can be. 

W. L. Barnes, Seaford, Del. 





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RECREATION. 


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A PROSPECTOR’S HOLIDAY. 
GEO. F. WRIGHT. 

_Last winter, while encamped on Snake 
river about 100 miles above Lewiston, we 
saw bighorn sign. We were prospectors; 
but it was our off season and there was 
plenty of grub in the cabin. Moreover, 
as we could not get back across the Seven 
Devil mountains until spring we could well 
afford to put in a day or so after sheep. 
The pursuit of that variety of game is 
usually beset with difficulties that make it 
more work than sport; but it was different 
with us. : : Ly 
_ For 100 miles or more Snake river Tuns 
In a canyon which is relieved here and 
there by flats a few acres in extent»at the 
mouth of some mountain stream. =,These 
flats yield fine gold, as does all the dirt 
along the river. Travel beside the stfeam 
is exceedingly dangerous; so we had crossed 
the mountains, a few weeks before, to 
reach our flat. Although shut out from 
civilization, we were happy. There. was 
no snow on the flats and but little on 
the lower slopes of the mountains. The 
richness of the soil in that region makes 
amends for its scarcity. There the bunch 
grass loses its destinctive feature. It does 
not bunch, but forms a carpet that brings 
joy to the heart of a hungry cayuse. Nor 
is there lack of animal life. The morning 
after we got settled I found, across the 
steam and not a stone’s throw from our 
shack, the remains of a bighorn buck, with 
cougar sign around it. 

When ready for our hunt we started 
afoot, leading a pack horse, for the moun- 
tain summit. The trail was badly uptilted 
at the farther end, but after 3 hours’ climb- 
ing we bumped into zero weather. Just 
inside it stood the Grand Patriarch of all 
the bighorn bucks on that range. Not 
long did he stand, and out of sight he went 
before we could get a shot. A thousand 
yards away he came into view again, going 
23 feet at a jump and not rising in the air 
an inch. 

My partner had recovered his breath by 
that time, and blazed away with a .45-70. 
The first shot struck 100 feet too low, and 
the second was worse. I was so complete- 
ly out of breath that I knew I could not 
shoot standing. Running to an opening, 
I threw myself flat on what I too late 
found was a snow bank. When I had res- 
cued myself I began pumping pug-nosed 
bullets into the vacuum th: buck was mak- 
ing. I scored clean misses with my first 
2 shots. The third was a scratch on the 
white patch the buck wore on his trousers. 
What was left of his heart after the fourth 
shot, we had for lunch. The horns were 
14% inches around. 

A few minutes later we reached the 
summit of the mountain. The top, sliced 
off by glacial action, is a plateau of about 
200 acres, exposing a rich deposit of gold- 
bearing gravel. Miners who visit the 
place in the spring can, with the little 


snow water they are able to save, rock out 
$10 to $20 a day for a few weeks. 

In one of the cabins on the summit we 
ate a light lunch of 2 quarts of pink beans, 
the same quantity of coffee, dashed with 
canned cream, and, last and greatest, the 
heart of the buck. 

Then we looked across Snake river at 
Oregon and range after range of golden, 
green, red and snow-capped mountains. It 
was worth living 32 years just to stand 
there and look. Almost under our feet, 
far below winter, we could see summer 
and our cabin in the valley; and every- 
where about us, amid kinnikinnic brush and 
mountain mahogany, was mule deer sign. 

We continued the hunt after exchang- 
ing rifles; my partner saying that having 


‘seen a full Lyman rigged Savage at work, 


he was disgusted with his smoke-maker. 
Coming presently to a little mound cov- 
ered with mahogany, he took one side and 
I the other. In a few minutes I walked 
out of the brush and almost into 2 mag- 
nificent bucks facing each other and paw- 
ing the snow. In the same instant they 
saw me and were off down the mountain. 
When I had fired 3-times one was out of 
sight and the other lay, 300 yards away, 
with a hole in his head and one of his 
prongs shot off. He was a beauty, and so 
heavy I.could not drag him. I called my 
partner, and we cut off the buck’s head and 
hung it up after making a second count of 
the 10 points it sported. 

The fact that impressed us most was 
that though we had eaten game meat of all 
kinds, from the Arctic circle to any old 
place, we had never enjoyed anything else 
as we did the flavor of that buck’s liver. 
Large thick slices of it, well done with 
bacon on the side, sour dough bread and a 
ravenous appetite combined in the making 
of a gastronomic triumph. How so much 
tenderness got inside such a hunk of 
gristle as that deer was, I have not yet 
figured out. We could not stick a knife 
in gravy made from the rest of the beast. 





Detroit, Mich. 


The Peters Cartridge Co., 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 


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ESQUIMAUX 


ULLNESS, is a racial characteristic of the 
only people who do not cook their food, 
viz-the Esquimaux. segs 

Cooking is simply a stage in pre-digestion. 

The more pre-digested a food is, before it is 
eaten, the less energy will it take from Brain-power, 
during the after process of digestion. 

Why do you feel ‘‘dull’’ aftera heavy dinner? 

Every bit of steam taken away from the 
engines of a Ship, on a winter voyage, to heat the 
state-rooms, is so much loss of speed which she 
might have made, in warmer weather, with the same 
boilers, and the same Coal consumption. 

Digestion is work, just like sawing wood, or 
thinking out a knotty problem. 

The energy put into it can be economized for 
Intellectual effort, by the liberal use of ** Grape- 
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Not half the food we eat, is ever fully diges- 
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The Peters Cartridge Co., A RARE OFFER 


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No, gentlemen, you are wrong. Your Publi sree any cee 
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XXViil 


RECREATION. 





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TO COQUINA, THE ROASTER. 
V. S. FITZPATRICK. 


We were camping in the mountains by a 
sparkling little brook, 

When, one day, we got to argting about 
our favorite cook. 

I said mine was Coquina, and I sang his 
praises loud; 

For when it comes to cooking he can do 
himself right proud 

At frying, boiling, stewing and at making 
up a toast; 

But to do him right and justice, 

You should let him make pork roast! 


First he heats the pan and oils it well, 
with League of Sportsmen grease, 

Then he grabs the filthy game hog and pre- 
pares him for the feast. 

How that hog does squeal and holler as 
Coquina plies the knife! 

For to make him fit for roasting he must 
skin the brute alive. 

Then he jams him in the bake pan, REcRE- 
ATION sauce spreads thick, 

Puts him in an oven piping hot and bastes 
him with a stick; 

Bring him out all nicely roasted; then we 
drink the cook a toast, 

For the dish he’s made so savory, is a sure 
*nuff game hog roast! 





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it to their honor to do right by me if I do 
right by them. 

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DR. G. B. SANDEN 
1155 Broadway, New York 


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made to your measure, by the 
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success with it. 
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Cured to Stay Cured in 5 Days. 


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Ht is what you want. I give a legal guaranty to cure or refund your money. 
Certainty of Cure What I have done for others I cau do for you. Ican cure you at home 

7 HI One personal visit at my office is preferred, but if 
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P. D. ARMOUR, 


Head of the great Armour Packing Company, Chicago, IIL, 
(in a personal letter to Dr. Keeley) said: 


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had to use it as a repeater. I have hunted 
through Maine, New Hampshire and New 


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RECREATION 


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Listed at $20 
[lade by W. H. Talbot, Nevada, [lo 


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Theodore H. Seavey, Aldan, Pa. 


This is one of the finest pieces of fishing 
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In Tournaments, Always a Victor 
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I have but a few of these reelsin stock 
and this offer will be withdrawn as soon as 
the present supply is exhausted. 


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XX XVIli RECREATION. 


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RECREATION. XXXIX 


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Something Special — Playing Cards 
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Kalamazoo, Mich. 


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I am glad to see your magazine increas- Every engine is connected to its propeller and given an actual 
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sportsmen’s magazine published SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. ADDRESS DEPT. C 
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WITH THE YOUNG LADYS AID 


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Motors and~- Launches 
Operated by Gasoline Vapor 


The Fay & Bowen Marine Motor is a revelation to those 
who have used others. Reliable, safe, durable and easy 
to operate. emarkable speed cont ol. Best of al it 
starts when you start it. No handle or crank is used. 
Our patent igniter is 
absolutely unique and 
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positive in action. It 
is really the only per- 
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Motors complete 
from 1% to 25 ac- 
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We also build a line of the finest launches afloat, com- 
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We make these in either the usual round stern model or 
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We can furnish large cabin launches on special order. 
For excellence of workmanship and beauty of finish and 


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RECREATION. 


Ghe 
“Bristol’”’ 


Calendar 


THIS illustration gives but a faint 

idea of our beautiful calendar, which 
is printed in ten colors, making it a 
handsome and striking design, Hang 


one in your office, den or home, and 
when you wanta fishing rod be sure to 


geta‘* BRISTOL.” Sold by all dealers. 
Calendar sent to any address on receipt 
of ten cents (stamps or silver) to cover 
cost of mailing provided you mention 
this magazine. 

Ask for Catalog ‘‘D,’’ describing 25 
stylesof ‘‘ Bristol’’ Steel Fishing Rods 
—it is free. 


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Fly Rods 57 cents Bait Rods 


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for an assorted sample doz. 
Regular price, 24 cents. 


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Quality B Flies 
Quality C Flies 
Bass Flies 


for an assorted sample doz. 
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for an assorted sample doz. 
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for an assorted dozen 
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Portland, Maine, Dec. 28, 1 : 
Mr. Geo. F. Webber, Detroit, Mich. sah 
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Date, 190 





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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 3 EP, 
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OE MOONE SEMUNIGUNEIDS dd52 nas os oseseescnste cham, adansdnce's eapeeccdndecdanscsecencesesseeeccces W.J. 171 
Where the White Goats Get Their Salt. Illustrated.... ....-....2.2. cececececveeeeeeees G.O.SHIELDs 175 
cM Ak ale sits. 0 oy cota ais ac tay Ge vnans <> aos ecasacdee se CHARLES S. Moopy 177 
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An Eye for An Eye. Illustrated . Se cath ae Se oie held Pal nin dnt witiice die edeeavbarok\ MELEAGRO 18: 
mmo Modern Squirrel Hunter. Poem.... ......cccsscecccccee ccc ceessccteeeeves cvccsse Joun L. Wooppury 183 
re raat od fia eae aa Sie EEO ibnn cacccade de oceeseeecdaesec eeceve CHARLES T. MurRRAY 184 
A Florida Fishing PREG, onan nacre raccn ae os elbeae scaseennte ncssscencesancccnaccscescceccses E.M, LEETE 187 
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His Change of View. Foca a ES a MOM ah Mie tee ye RO CANDICE A, BRAMBLE 208 
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MARCH, 1904 


Numter 3 


G. 0. SHIELDS (COQUINA), Editor and Manager 


A* TALE OF ALASKAN HARDSHIPS. 


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J. A. Ritchie, of Montreal, D. A. 
McPhee, of Winnipeg, Roy Moffatt, 
of Pembroke, Ontario, Philip Billneau, 
of Duluth, and Alec Holmes, of Fres- 
no, California, found themselves at the 
headwaters of the Porcupine river in 
the season of 1898, too late to attempt 
its descent by boat. With no other 
guide than one of Ogilvie’s charts, 
they started, some time after winter 
had set in, to make a Southward cross- 
country trip of about 200 miles, to 
reach the Yukon. 

Holmes froze both feet at the out- 
set, though not seriously. Believing 
himself unequal to the long trip, he de- 
cided to turn back and trust to getting 
enough salmon at a previously found 
hole in the ice to keep off starvation 
until help should come, Holmes and 
Billneau were partners, independent of 
the other 3 men, but the 2 parties had 
joined for the trip up the Porcupine 
and overland. Moffatt and Billneau 
decided to remain with Holmes, Mof- 
fatt being the best hunter of the party, 
while Ritchie and McPhee continued 
the journey as already planned. They 
were to return with help as soon as it 
could be secured. 

Holmes, Moffatt and Billneau went 
into camp at Fish branch on the upper 
Porcupine. Holmes fished while Mof- 
fatt and Billneau hunted. They had 7 
dogs ; the other 2 men pushed on with 
4. All the party were poorly provided 
with clothing for cold weather, but 
they were stout young fellows, 25 to 
35 years old. 

Ritchie and McPhee left the others 
October 31. They crossed the 3 lakes 


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at the head of the Porcupine, 
crossed a mountain range, with snow 
2 feet deep, traversed a wide, uneven 
valley drained by 3 tributaries of the 
Ogilvie river, crossed another low 
range, and found themselves on the 
head of the left fork of Big Sheep 
creek, which pours into the Yukon a 
few miles below 7o-mile river, and 130 
miles below Dawson. They reached a 
cabin at the mouth of Big Sheep a few 
days later, having been 10 days on the 
trip, about half of that time without 
food except some beaver hides. They 
had lost one dog and were on the point: 
of killing one of the survivors for 
food. They had seen some game on 
the way, but were unable to get any. 

The young men _ found good 
friends at the cabin. It was occupied 
by 4 old timers: Al and Lee Pate, 
George Stiller and Julius Sternberg. 
These men at once volunteered to re- 
turn and help the others of the party 
out of their predicament. McPhee had 
an incipient attack of scurvy and a 
frost-bitten toe. Ritchie, who, despite 
the hardships he had undergone, was 
in good shape to travel again, acted as 
guide for the rescue party, his compan- 
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berg. With several extra pairs of 
snow shoes they set forth November, 
13, with 30 days’ food supply. As the 
young men had come through in Io 
days, the relief party expected to make 
the round trip in a month. 

Over 6 weeks passed and no word 
was heard from them, The people of 
70-mile began to talk of sending after 
them. Finally, December 19, they re- 


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turned, exhausted, having been 
6 days practically without food. Un- 
fortunately they had not found the 
men whom they had gone to relieve. 
They had found the camp at the sal- 
mon hole, near Fish branch, and a note 
left by Moffatt, saying his party had 
been unable to replenish their supply of 
game or fish, and, fearing assistance 
might be delayed in reaching them, 
had decided to attempt the return trip 
to La Pierre house, 200 miles down the 
Porcupine. 

La Pierre house is an abandoned 
trading post, but a few Indians usually 
winter in that vicinity, and from them 
the men might get help. Otherwise, 
they might be able to make the portage 
to Fort McPherson, 80 miles farther, 
where some of the party had a large 
stock of provisions cached. Though 
the note did not so state, it was evident 
that Holmes was able to travel, doubt- 
less with some aid from the dogs. 

“It is to be regretted,” said Mr. 
‘Pate, “that they did not come on our 
way, instead of turning back. Had 
they done so, they would have met us 
half way and both parties would have 
probably been saved considerable hard- 
ship. However, they knew their way 
back over the trail they had come and 
were ignorant of the country this way. 
They had no means of knowing if their 
partners had reached the Yukon.” 

The members of the relief party 
were reluctant to go into details of 
their experiences; they had no desire 
to pose as heroes and made light of 
their hardships, remarking that they 
had discovered the needlessness of car- 
rying provisions on an Alaskan winter 
trip. 

“You don’t feel hungry after the 
second or third day,” said Pate, 
“though you do feel yourself getting 
weaker all the time. A little tea 
and tobacco we had helped out won- 
derfully. The worst feature about 
going without food is that it makes 
you more susceptible to cold. We were 
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going. Yes, of course, we had the 
dogs, and had we not known that we 
should probably hold out, one or 2 of 
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That the men had gone without food 
almost too long was made plain when 
they attempted to eat. Sternberg faint- 
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the animal but failed. Sleds and snow 
shoes were in bad shape. The snow 
shoe lacings and all spare bits of hide, 
even to the dog whip, had been fed to 
the dogs on the return trip. 

Narrating his experience, Ritchie 
said : “We left Edmonton early in Sep- 
tember, 1897, having been induced to 
try that route largely by the advertis- 
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article written by A. A. Hemming, of 
Hamilton, Ont., who had never made 
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and difficult. 

“Our party wintered on the Macken- 
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Granite Rapids a pistol costs $50. At 
Smith’s Rapids it cost $15 to $100 
to have a boat taken through. At 
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cupine waters. There Indians are in- 
dispensable if you wish to get an outfit 
over; the packing charge is $7 a hun- 
dredweight. . 

“It was July before McPhee, Mof- 
fatt and I finally arrived on the Porcu- 
pine, with but a few hundred pounds 
of food. We were joined by Holmes 


A TALE OF ALASKAN HARDSHIPS. 


and Billneau, who, like ourselves, had 
decided to try the extreme headwaters. 
We prospected all summer, but found 
no gold; I believe there is no pay dirt 
on the headwaters of the Porcupine. 
During the summer there was plenty 
of game and we got along well. It 
was not until both flour and tobacco 
had given out that things began to 
look blue; yet we were making good 
progress toward the Yukon, and all 
would have got out of the country had 
not Holmes frozen his feet.” 

Mr. Ritchie told in detail the story 
of the trip out by McPhee and himself; 
that their food gave out in 4 or 5 days; 
that they were threatened by a band 
of wolves, which were finally driven 
off ; that bad luck followed 2 efforts to 
shoot game they saw, and that they 
were finally reduced to the necessity 


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of eating in succession 5 beaver 
hides. 

“How did we manage to eat them? 
Oh, we singed off-all the hair, 
then toasted pieces of the hide to a 
crisp and chewed.” 

Both McPhee and Ritchie had little 
doubt that Moffatt, Billneau and 
Holmes were able to reach La Pierre 
house, though it was a long, hard trip 
to make inside the Arctic circle, in 
midwinter, on short rations. | 

It was not the case, however. The 3 
men were never again seen alive. The 
next summer Indians found 2 skele- 
tons on the Porcupine, 80 miles from 
Belle river, and showed them to the 
N. W. mounted police. The bones 
were supposed to be those of 2 of the 
missing men. Where the third one met 
his death is unknown. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY ©, C. SPEIGH1. 


SCREECH OWL. 
One of the 20th Prize Winners in Recreation’s 7th Annual Photo Competition, 





A MOUNTAIN GOAT TRAIL, 


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WHERE THE WHITE GOATS GET THEIR SALT. 


G. O. SHIELDS. 


Photos by the Author. 


There is in the Canadian Rockies one of 
the greatest goat licks to be found any- 
where. It appears to have been used hun- 
dreds of years, and in that time many 
tons of earth have been eaten and 
carried away by these strange animals. 
The formation is a light, chalky clay, and 
appears to contain a large percentage of 
some form of salt that the animals require 
in the summer, when eating young grass 
or other plants. 

This clay was deposited by the river ages 
ago, when it was a much larger stream than 
now, and when the normal stage of 
water was probably 20 or 30 feet above 
where it is at the present day. The bank 
has an average height of 30 or 40 feet above 
the present water line and is about 200 
feet long. It is covered with spruce and 
pine trees, some of which are a foot in di- 
ameter, and among them is a heavy growth 
of grass and weeds. 

There are trails leading into the lick from 
the surrounding mountains, which average 
a foot to 2 feet in width, and which are in 
places worn a foot deep in the hard earth. 

As we traveled up the river on which this 
lick is situated, we saw goat tracks any- 
where from a week to a month old, 20, 30 
and even 40 miles away, all headed up 
stream. These indicated that the goats 
were making their spring migrations to 
their Saratoga, so to speak. It is not un- 
reasonable to suppose that goats living 100 
miles distant gather about this lick and 
spend the summer there, ranging back each 
day 5 to 10 miles to get their food. Their 
trails can be followed 4 or 5 miles back 
before the animals seem to scatter out to 
feed. One of these trails leads up the river 
about a mile, to where a big drift has 
formed, which extends entirely across the 
stream. Trees of all sizes have jammed 
in there and piled up, one on another, form- 
ing a complete bridge across the stream, 
and the goats walk these foot logs night 
and morning, as they go to and from their 
salt feast. 

We were seriously in need of fresh meat 
when we arrived at our camp near the lick, 
and Wright went up there to get a young 
goat. There was nothing doing at the lick 
at that time, so he followed the trail up 
the river, crossed the drift on the same 
logs the goats used, picked up the trail on 
the opposite side and followed it up a 
mountain 2 or 3 miles away. There the 
animals habitually scattered out and roamed 
in search of the food they needed to carry 
on their business. 


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Wright climbed to an altitude of about 
1,200 feet above the river, when he landed 
on a sharp ridge, and looking up, saw a 
band of 22 goats, old, young and middle 
aged, big, little and middle sized. He 
slipped up to them, picked out a goat that 
would make a few square meals for us, 
killed him and brought him to camp. 
Wright said he could have loaded the pack 
train in 5 minutes if he had been disposed 
to use his opportunity. 

At the first shot, some of the goats trotted 
away, but most of them stayed about, or 
walked toward him and tried to find out if 
the thing was still loaded. He was within 
40 feet of some of the big old Billies, but 
had meat enough for present purposes, so 
did not disturb them. Unfortunately, he 
did not take his camera with him that day. 

The goats have eaten into the side of 
the hill in places, so far that the roots 
of the trees hang down over the excavation. 
The eager and hungry animals keep on dig- 
ging and eating clay until now and then a 
large chunk of the overhanging bank falls 
on them, crumbles and tumbles down into 
the river. They have loosened some large 
rocks which have rolled down part way. 
Many standing trees and several old logs 
that had lain on this hill for years have 
been undermined and have slid down into 
the river. 

The cupidity of these poor brutes has 
proved the destruction of most of them. 
The time has evidently been when thou 
sands of goats used the lick, where but a 
few, perhaps 100, use it now. All about 
there on the river banks are remains of old 
Indian camps, and in each of these is a veri- 
table bone yard. The Indians have evi- 
dently made a practice of going there every 
summer, for perhaps too years past, killing 
goats and drying the meat for winter use; 
yet the poor brutes crave the salt so eagerly 
that they keep on going back every summer 
to get more, just as an old toper will keep 
going back to a saloon for more whiskey, 
even though he may have been kicked out 
of it a dozen times. 

There are unprincipled pot hunters who 
go to these licks now, and kill 10 or 20 
goats, where each man should be satisfied 
with one. It requires no hunting whatever. 
If a man is too lazy to climb the hills, he 
can simply sit down anywhere within rifle 
range of the cut bank an hour before sun- 
set, or at daybreak, and pot his goats when 
they come in to get their supper or break- 
fast of salt mud. 





A GOAT LICK. 


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THE SAGE GROUSE. 


There are several other goat licks or 
sheep licks in the Canadian Rockies, but 
none I have heard of are so large, nor have 
any been used to such an extent as this 


177 


one has. The Canadian Government should 
enact a law prohibiting the killing of any 
goat or sheep, elk or deer within 2 miles 
of any salt lick. 


THE-SAGE ‘GROUSE. 


CHARLES 


My first acquaintance with the sage 
grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, was in 
the early spring of 83, when on a visit to 
the Big Bend of the Columbia. In my 
youthful verdancy I mistook these birds for 
turkeys strayed from some _ farmhouse. 
Where the farmhouse was, I had not paused 
to ask myself. In all that immense plateau 
there was only one human habitation. Wild 
Goose Bill, a squaw man, held dominion 
over the whole country, a region that is now 
one great wheat field. The grouse were 
sitting beneath the sage brush lining the 
dim wagon trail, and with my new Fox gun 
I slew one, congratulating myself that we 
should have fresh meat for supper. We 
had it, but somehow we did not enjoy it 
as I had expected. They say it is all right 
when you get used to it, but it takes any- 
body except a Siwash a long time to get 
used to it. 

When the spring sun has brought new 
life to the sleeping vegetation, Mr. Sage 
Grouse dons his courting garments, tunes 
his lyre, and goes forth to seek a mate. He 
usually finds one, for it has been my obser- 
vation that the softer sex are within hail- 
ing distance whenever there is any wooing 
on hand. Having made his advances and 
been accepted, the twain repair to some ele- 
vated spot, bare of vegetation, that, during 
the nesting season, is used as a trysting 
place. There, at early morning, and late 
evening, the ardent swain, with wings 
spread, tail and head erect, struts to and 
fro before his demure dame, all the while 
giving vent to a series of gutturals that 
may be particularly fetching to the object 
of his amours, but are anything but har- 
mony judged by human standards. How 
long this performance is continued I am un- 
able to say; probably, however, throughout 
the laying time and until the mother bird 
takes up the task of incubation. 

The nesting site is some swale grown 
with rye grass, or some hillside underneath 
a large sage. There are laid 8 to 10 beau- 
tiful, dark brown eggs, deeply mottled and 
streaked with black. The nest is a mere 
depression in the light, alkali soil. The 


S. MOODY. 


period of incubation corresponds to that 
of the other Galline, that is, about 21 days. 
When the little downy, cream colored 
chicks first make their appearance they re- 
semble those of the domestic hen; and like 
the hen, the mother bird is extremely solici- 
tous for their welfare. So intrepid is she 
in their defense that she has been known 
to beat off a great barred owl which was 
seeking a young grouse for dinner. 

It has been suggested, owing to the fact 
that these birds inhabit the dry, arid plains 
of our Northwest, that they do not drink. 
Such is not the case. When the country 
was new and unsettled, at evening the 
hunter could see thousands of them wing- 
ing their way to some distant spring. Visit 
the springs, of which there were a few, and 
the noise of the wings was as distant thun- 
der, as the birds rose in myriads. 

Late in the fall, after the winter winds 
have begun to blow, the male bird who has 
spent the summer with some of his cronies 
boasting about the size and excellency of 
his brood, a habit he probably learned from 
some human fathers I know, rejoins his 
flock. Together they seek a sheltered val- 
ley, where their winter food of sage grows, 
and there pass the cold months. It is the 
sage that gives them a taste like concen- 
trated sausage seasoning. 

The sage grouse is an unwary bird. It 
can be approached within a few rods. These 
birds possess a curiosity akin to that of the 
antelope, which impels them to investi- 
gate anything new. Once on the wing, 
however, their flight is graceful and swift, 
much like that of an English pheasant. 
When a sage grouse starts for the next 
county it takes a good marksman to bring 
him down. I deeply regret that pot hunt- 
ers have been permitted to slaughter this 
magnificent bird, so little fit for the table 
yet so picturesque a figure in the landscape. 
In a few more years the lover of Nature 
will be compelled to visit some museum of 
natural history or some zoological garden 
for a sight of the birds that were once door- 


yard visitors at every ranch on the Western 
plains. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY G. W. WOOD. 


SAVED, BY GUM! 


Winner of goth Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 
Made with Bausch & Lomb Lens 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY R, H. BEEBE. 


THREE BLACK CROWS SAT ON A TREE. 


Winner of roth Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. Made with Goerz Lens. 
178 


BEARS AND THINGS. 


FRANK MOSSMAN, 


A black bear will eat anything, from a 
honey bee to a well greased sawmill. He 
is an epicure on honey. He will knock 
over a hive and fight off bees with one 
hand while he helps himself to tenderloin 
honey steaks with the other. 

He is also fond of pork. He will gather 
a hog in his arms as mamma does her 
baby, and cuff it into silence if it yells. 
When he has reached timber with it, he 
will sit on his haunches and cuff it till 
Porkie is converted into chops, spare ribs, 
sausages and other convenient  deli- 
cacies. 

I remember some fun I once had with 
a bear which was trying to carry off my 
winter’s supply of spareribs. I had danced 
all night at a country hop and on my 
return at daybreak to my palatial resi- 
dence, half wickyup, half cyclone remains, 
I found Bruin at his work. I had neither a 
gun nor son of a gun, so grabbing the first 
thing within reach, a pitchfork, I went 
after him and poked him in the dining car. 
I was handicapped by my swallowtail coat, 
though it eventually proved useful. 

The bear paid no heed to me till I poked 
him; then he turned on me. We both 
sparred cautiously for an opening. Think- 
ing he had caught one the bear made a 
swipe at me, and caught me on the hash 
machine. Feeling that I could fight freer 
in my working clothes, I started to the 
house for them. The bear removed all 
those little difficulties, and my _ clothes. 
Five to one on Bruin and no takers, when 
2 young ladies happened along. The sight 
of a bear chasing a wild eyed man, whose 
only raiment was a pair of poorly matched 
side whiskers was too much for their 
nerves, and they unbuckled a few yells, 
which caused my pursuer to break for the 
timber. I did likewise, having always 
been noted for modesty when my wardrobe 
was not handy. 

My clawhammer coat undoubtedly saved 
my life. When the fight was the hottest 
the tails of that garment displayed almost 
human intelligence. I could see_ better 
fighting grounds on a tree a mile away and 
started for it. That’s where the coat tails 
got in their work. They flapped up and 
down so fast in the bear’s face that he 
could see nothing but coat tails and the 
dust I kicked up. I finally reached the tree 
but the bear had lost hope of lunching on 
me and dropped out of the race. 

On one occasion my dog ran a bear into 
a big hollow cedar. Coming up, I sent one 
of my dogs into the hole at the ground. 


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As he did not get hurt I went in. Peering 
up into the darkness above me and seeing 
nothing, hearing no sound, | concluded the 
dog had been fooled. 


Just then something slipped, and_ it 
wasn’t the bark. It was the bear. I made 
for the hole; so cid the bear. The fellow 


was so delighted at the meeting that he 
took me in his arms and folded me to his 
bosom. He hugged me so close, and with- 
al was so awkward with his claws, that 
for a moment I contemplated sending for 
a suit of clothes. At last, through a slight 
inadvertence on the bear’s part I got out 
and with a lucky shot laid him low. 

I was so changed in appearance that 
my dogs didn’t know me at first. I was 
a second Rip Van Winkle, as far as clothes 
and rips were concerned. If you wish to 
know how the tail end of a cyclone feels 
just get fast in the hollow of a tree in 
company with a healthy bear and 4 or 5 
dogs. 3 
In my youthful days it was my dearest 
ambition to own a menagerie. ‘The great 
lack was for material. One fortunate day | 
I chanced on 2 bear cubs, gathered them , 
in my arms and started joyfully homeward. 
Unluckily the old lady bear came on the ™ 
scene and.asked to be included in the col- 
lection. As my project did not embrace 
a 3 ring attachment I dropped the cubs, 
also the menagerie scheme, and fled for 
life, making more noise and tracks than 
2 menageries. I reached my long legs in 
front of me, pulled the distance under me, 
and kicked it out behind, like a streak of 
small boys 100 yards long. 

I once set a trap for a bear: several 
traps, in fact. A stout pen was made in 
the timber and a hog put in. This bait was 
fed once in 2 days, and the way he yelled 
for rations was a caution. The bear heard 
the rumpus, came up to pay the hog a visit, 
and began by taking a walk around the 
pen. In that way he put his foot in it, a 
No. 5 Newhouse. There was another trap, 
but the bear seemed satisfied; didn’t care 
to look up any more; so he tarried there till 
I went out and called on him socially, 

Late in the fall the bears here fill up on 
salmon, then crawl into a hole and pull 
it in after them. I found a bear hole once, 
and crawled in. The bear had hired a 
family of skunks to ’tend door. As I had 
no ticket they refused me admittance, but 
generously presented me a bouquet. I re- 
tired. I may get old and gray, but the 
scent of that bouquet will linger in my 
whiskers forever. 





Geo A King = 


THE FOX, STRAINING EVERY MUSCLE, FLEW OVER THE WHITE SOFTNESS. 
180 








AN EYE FOR AN EYE. 


MELEAGRO. 


It was a clear cold night late in Janvary. 
A full moon, shining on the fields of snow, 
unbroken save by patches of evergreen and 
maple forest, made the night almost as light 
as day. A hardly perceptible wind drifted 
from the North, causing the tall tree tops 
to sway lazily to the accompaniment of a 
gentle moaning. In a hollow among some 
young hemlocks, with the large, dark woods 
on both sides, sat a rabbit, attentively lis- 


ATTENTIVELY LISTENING. 


tening to something moving in the depths 
of the gloomy forest. The spot was a na- 
tural enclosure. 
everything was in another world, for all 
that human senses could detect. The rab- 
bit, however, was greatly interested in 
something there in the woods, and signi- 
fied his curiosity by his fixed position. Sit- 
ting on his haunches with his ears inclined 
slightly forward, he looked much like the 
stump near which he was stationed. He 
remained thus several minutes, and then 
quietly resumed his feeding, digging holes 
in the snow wherever his nose told him 
there lay some delicate morsel. Still he 





Beyond its hemlock wall ' 


seemed ever on his guard, keeping one ear 
in a listening attitude. 

On the other side of the border of ever- 
greens, in the dark woods, crouched a 
larger form. It lay at full length on the 
snow, its whole attitude showing intense 
excitement. Slowly and with utmost pre- 
caution it glided forward. So steady were 
its movements that they were almost im- 
perceptible. It raised one dark fore foot, 
placed it before the other, keeping its head 
pointed in the same direction and its tail 
and back on a level. It was a fox, witha 
dinner in sight, or, more correctly, in 
scent. Never did animal take more pains, 
and never was there a more beautiful crea- 
ture than this fox, stalking his dinner; 
every line of his body a natural curve, and 
the whole the emblem of crafty grace. 
Slowly he approached the border of the 
moonlit glade. Carefully he placed his feet, 
that they might make no sound; for the 
slightest misstep would mean the loss of 
his dinner, and he was hungry. <A low 
murmuring arose from the forest, a gentle 
swaying of the tree tops, although below, 
where fed the rabbit, all alert, but still un- 
conscious, and where crouched the fox, 
all eagerness, not a breath stirred. From 
the distance the long, faint howl of a fox 
hound restrained in his kennel and anx- 
ious for the hunt, came drifting. The fox 
heard, and the hair above his shoulder 
blades rose slightly, but otherwise he cared 
not. He was at the edge of the open, his 
nose moving restlessly and glistening in 
its moisture, beyond the protection of the 
guarding hemlock boughs. A few feet dis- 
tant sat the rabbit and the sight of that de- 
liclous morsel made the fox’s eyes glitter 
more savagely. Slowly he crept from out 
his covering, and crouched for the spring. 
An owl in the distance uttered its quaver- 
ing whistle, the rabbit sat up to listen. 
There was a quick rustling near the hem- 
locks, and a great, furry object hurled it- 
self at the surprised rabbit, which quickly 
turned and fled. The snow was deep and 
the rabbit was thus handicapped; while the 
fox, a personification of feathery swift- 
ness, straining every muscle, flew over the 
white softness and came up with the pur- 
sued. There was a scream, a snarl, a sig- 
nificant crunching and then all was quiet, 
while from the distance came again the 
owl's querulous moan. 

Then, without a sound the fox stalked 
back to the edge of the woods, something 
hanging from his jaws. As the howl of the 
restless hound came again to his ears, he 


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182 RECREATION. 


as he 
riendly 


stopped to listen, and then as silent] 
had come, he disappeared in the 
forest. 

Slowly the moon crept across the heay- 
ens until it neared the Western horizon. 
During all those hours not a living creature 
moved within the limits of that natural 
enclosure. The owl circled in the woods 
beyond but did not invade the loneliness of 
that spot. The shadows of the young 
hemlocks lengthened until they were cov- 
ered by the darker shadows of the main 
woods, which in turn threw the whole 
place into deep and obscure darkness. The 
moon, reddening as it neared the horizon, 
at last sank behind the distant hills and 
the stars again came forth in their splendor. 
Silence reigned supreme. The fitful breeze 
had died, the stiff hemlocks stood like 
sentinels, tireless watchers of the varying 
phases of nature. The coldness increased 
until the frost made the woods resound 
with the occasional crack of one of its 
monarchs, 

‘The stars in the East began to disappear, 
one by one, until only the morning star was 
left. This grew dimmer as the grey light 
of dawn became stronger, until it, too, said 
good morning and vanished. The light 
increased, the deep woods threw off their 
gloom and once more became suited to 
human eyes. A beautiful, reddening glow 
suffused the Eastern sky, increasing in 
strength until it became bright yellow. 
Then suddenly the sun leaped over the 
pure, white, glistening hills, changing every- 
thing into dazzling glory. The~ opening 
in the heart of the woods was transformed 
with its gladsome brightness and only the 
tracks in the snow told of the murder that 
had been committed there. Squirrels and 
other animals of the day called through 
the forest, and birds, awakening from their 
rest, voiced their thanksgiving, while at 
breakfast among the seeds. 

Suddenly all natural sounds of the wilder- 
ness were silenced by the long howl of a 
fox hound. It was repeated once and all was 
again quiet. Then without a sound, as if 
he walked on air, and as lightly as if 
upheld by some unseen power, a beautiful 
fox stepped out into the open. 

His rufus coat shone like gold in the 
bright sunlight as he stood with one fore 
foot slightly raised and looked back over 
his shoulder, listening for the hound which 
had intruded on his domain. What a pic- 
ture! A bright red, wild creature, every 
line of his body graceful, black legs, black 
ears, inclined sharply forward, and rufus 
tail tipped with white, outlined against the 
dazzling snow and the dark green hemlock! 

Could a more beautiful object be imagined 
than this wild creature, dependent on his 
own wits for a livelihood, responsible to 
none, and free? If the hound were to pur- 


sue him he was ready for the chase! The 
evening meal of rabbit had given him 
strength, so he cared not for the clumsy 
dog. He forgot the man and his gun. The 
fox never killed except for need; the man 
killed for gain and pleasure. 

While thus the fox stood, the hills once 
more resounded with the baying of the 
hound and Reynard trotted silently away, 
to try his ingenuity on the foolish dog. He 
had hardly vanished into the opposite side 
of the woods, when the hound’s tonguing 
took on another tone, more eager, as he 
struck the fresh scent and leaped ahead. 

The chase was on! The fox sped away 
across country, running easily, but swiftly, 
over stone walls and rail fences as he 
came to the fields. Then he halted and 
listened to the excited baying of his pur- 
suer. QOut in the open, half a mile distant, 
stood the fox hunter, leaning against 
the bars, where he might get a_ shot at 
the unsuspecting fox; but the quarry, as 
if guided by an unseen guardian, after 
running along the top of a rail fence for 
several hundred feet, leaped back into the 
brush and sped away. On came the hound, 
racing along on the fresh scent until he 
reached the fence. Then he was at fault 
for several minutes, but at length regained 
the trail. Away he went until his loud 
voice became barely audible, and then was 
lost to hearing. 

Once within an hour the hunter saw the 
fox race across a distant meadow, and sev- 
eral minutes later he saw and heard the 
hound pursuing. Again a long period 
elapsed before aught was heard of the 
chase, for the fox had led away and seemed 
willing to rely simply on his speed and en- 
durance to escape. Several times in the 
afternoon the man thought he heard his 
dog, far to the Southward, but was not 
certain. At last when there were still some 
2 hours of sunlight left, the hound’s voice 
sounded faintly from the South, slowly 
and uncertainly growing louder. Now it 
was almost inaudible as the fox led him 
down into the valley, now distinct as he 
trailed along the ridges. The man heard, 
put out his pipe, and prepared to lay out the 
fox which had caused his hound so much 
exertion. He was angered that he had 
been kept out in the cold all day and had 
not had a chance to shoot. He was angry 
to. think he had lost a day’s wages and 
might have to return empty handed; but as 
the hound’s music drifted to his ear visions 
of the bounty and the price of the silky fur 
came into his mind. Perhaps he would not 
go home empty handed, after all, and deep 
down in his hardened heart he rejoiced. 
He was not poor, nor did he need the 
money. Nevertheless, his lust for killing 
was intensified by his desire for gain. 

The fox, unconscious of danger, was 


THE MODERN SQUIRREL HUNTER. 


speeding back to the deep forest whence he 
started. He was nearly half a mile ahead 
of the dog, and running easily when the 
hunter saw him stop to listen. On he 
came again after a moment’s pause, straight 
for the bars which sheltered the man. The 
fox did not know that as he flew along 
a pair of gun barrels were leveled at his 
graceful form. He did not know the man 
behind them was only waiting until he 
should come in range, so he might change 
this beautiful creature to a mere mass of 
carrion. As the fox flew onward, going 
straight as an arrow to his death, he 
thought of the hound, tired and hot as he 
labored, and, perhaps himself a little weary, 


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he stopped to look around. Again he heard 
the hound behind and must have laughed 
to himself as he thought of the trouble he 
had made. Then, resuming his course, he 
leaped straight toward the gun. 

He was so close that there could be no 
chance of missing. A streak of fire belched 
from the gun. The fox leapt high into the 
air and turning struggled away, a front and 
a hind leg broken. Without a sound he 
struggled on, pain and hate gleaming from 
his yellow cyes, until the second barrel 
put an end to his suffering and he was at 
peace with everything; a mass of silky red- 
ness on the pure, white snow. 


THE MODERN SQUIRREL HUNTER. 


JOHN L. WOODBURY. 


A rustling among the branches, 
By the autumn sun gold-crowned; 
A patter of ripe nuts falling 


In a shower on the leaf-strewn ground, 


And the heart of the hunter quickens, 
As his keen glance upward steals; 


While his way through the tangled brush- 


wood 
To’rd the wary game he feels. 


Like a statue amid the forest, 
He waits till the feast is done; 

Till the squirrel glides from his cover, 
And blinks in the dazzling sun. 


Down the tree he swiftly scurries, 
With never a fear nor doubt, 

Till he reaches a branch that suits him, 
Where he stops and peers about. 


And he sees not the silent hunter, 
Who his piece to a ready brings; 
A swift, sure aim and a pressure, 
But no roar through the forest rings. 


No thud of a falling body, 
But only a clicking sound; 

No wounded and bleeding creature 
Lies gasping on the ground. 


Like a flash the startled squirrel 

Flies back up the tree’s rough face, 
Away, like a glancing sunbeam, 

All unharmed in his beauty and grace. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY JNO H. FISHER, JR, 


LITTLE GREY BROTHER. 


Highly Commended in Recreation’s 8th Aunual 
Photo Competition. 


And the hunter’s heart is swelling 
With a pleasure that lacks the pain 
Which must ever come to the sportsman 
When a woodland creature’s slain. 


For we read in RECREATION 
Of the modern sportsman’s fun 
When he learns to hunt with a camera, 
And cares no more for the gun. 


A TALE OF THE WOODS. 


CHARLES T. MURRAY. 


This is the story of Francois, the guide. 
He told it one night when, after a day’s 
tramp, we had encamped on the shores of 
a lake, deep in the heart of the wilderness. 
The lake was dark and gloomy, surround- 
ed, save on the side where we had built 
our camp, by great forests of pine. As we 
lay back on our beds of hemlock, with 
pipes well alight and the gleam of the 
camp fire in our eyes, the cry of a loon, 
wild and quavering, came floating over the 
dark waters. Francois started so quickly 
that he spilled the lighted tobacco from his 
pipe, and I heard him whisper to Sam, the 
Indian, “I no lack dis place, me, she seem 
too mooch lak Devil lac.” 

“Tell us about Devil’s lake, Francois ;” 
I said, half dreamily; and he did, while 
Sam and I lay back and listened, soothed 
by the murmur of the wind in the trees 
and the lisp of the waves as they washed 
the pebbly beach. 

“T been there once, me,” began Francois, 
“but, Mon Dieu, no! I nevaire go thare 
gin; not if I been live so old as Messu 
Methusilum, not after all de moose or car- 
ibou or deer what live roun’ dat lac. 
She was good many year ago dat I come 
on dat place, but ever tam I hear loon 
holler lak she did jess now, I ’member 
dat tam lak she was yisteday. I was 
young mans, me, den, not ‘fraid notting 
*tall—jess leve fight mans or bear as not; 
but when you come see Ole Nick, heesself, 
den you know what scare is. I was been 
guide dat summer for Messu Georges, 
heem dat’s dead now. Hees die rat on 
shore dat lac; heart disease, de doctaire 
say, but, me, I know bettaire, I was been 
there maself an’ see.” 

Then I remembered having heard or 
read of the tragic death of Georges in the 
heart of the woods, and how his faithful 
guide had carried the body miles through 


an almost pathless wilderness, that it 
might have decent burial. 
“And you were with him, Francois, 


when he died?” I asked with some curios- 
ity, for I had heard great things of 
Georges’ guide. 

“No, no, Messu,” said Francois; “I not 
be right there, me, cause then I be daid 
too, but I hear and see, yes, I see plain- 
tee. Messu Georges an’ me have been 
hunt on de woods 2, 3 week dat tam. Had 
plaintee game an’ fish an’ have nace tam. 
One day we come cross beeg crick, ver’ 
black an’ cole and full of trout. 

“Not ver’ beeg trout but jess many. I 
doan lak look dat brook, but when Messu 


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Georges, he say we folla heem up, I muss 
go too. Dat crick she’s beeg almose lak 
de rivair, but Messu he tink it only leetle 
way to de start. So we hide our stuff on 
de bushes and teck de rifle an’ fresh pole 
an’ start. All dat day we tramp, tramp, 
an’ dat stream she’s get beeger an’ beeger 
an blacker. Den Messu he feel mooch en- 
courage an’ he say, ‘Only leetle furder 
now, so on we go an’ jess as de sun she’s 
goin’ down, we come on dat lac. Soon 
as I see dat black lac, I get scare, cause 
I know dat’s de place where de Devil, 
heemself live. ’*Twas beeg lac, mooch 
gin so beeg as dis one, but de rocks an’ 
de trees was black, also, same lak de wa- 
ter. On one side dat rivair we go up was 
sandy beach, ’bout so beeg as de canal; 
ever where else, great, beeg pine tree 
growed down on dat lac clear to de 
watair, an’ some growed rat in de watair, 
lack de tree grow on de mill pon’ some 
tam. Bymeby, when I teck look roun’ an’ 
see dese ting, I say to Messu Georges, ‘I 
no stay here, me, I go back.’ 

“*Non, non, mon ami,’ he say, ‘we camp 
here. Muss be mooch feesh on dat lac.’ 
So I have stay. 

“T cut down some brush for meck de 
house, an’ feex de bed, den Messu he git 
hungry an teck hees Il'ill pole an’ go down 
on dat lac an’ trow hees fly. By gar! 
dat fly no more tech dat watair dan 3, 4 
feesh jump for ’em. He ketch 2 at de 
firs’ cass. Not ver’ beeg fish, them. So 
Messu he go up de shore IJ’ill furder an’ 
trow way out whare beeg rock shes stick 
up lak de mushrat house. He trow 3, 4 
tam an’ when hees mose discourage, he git 
big raise. Way go de line, de reel she 
sing, an’ de feesh he jomp far out on de 
lac. But Messu got heem fass an’ by- 
meby reel heem in. I git hole on hees gill 
an’ den we have our suppaire. 

“After we been eat lot, we lay down an’ 
smoke on de pape. Ever’ting she’s ver’ 
still, only some tam we hear de loon yell 
lak she do to-night. De sun she’s gone 
down an’ dat lac she’s so black lak de 
tundir cloud. Messu he smoke, smoke on 
de pape, den he say, quick lak. ‘Fran- 
cois’; an’ you bet I jomp good. Messu, 
he laff, den he say: 

“What all foolishness *bout dis lac?’ 

“T tole him “bout Ole Joe, an’ how de 
Devil heemself come up outen de watair 
an’ got heem, an’ I say we better move 
our camp back on de woods. Messu he 
laff more an’ shack hees head. Den we set 
dare for long tam’. Messu he say notting 


A TALE OF THE WOODS. 


*tall, an’ I say same ting, but keep look on 
dat black lac. Den Messu he say: 

“*What dat out yender?’ 

“I look an’ look, but doan see notting. 

““T think I see canoe,’ said Messu, an’ 
mon gar! I look gin an’ see someting lak 
canoe, but so dark can’t be sure. 

““Ver’ strange,’ say Messu. ‘Some Injun 
or trappair, mebby.’ 

“T say notting but keep tink mooch. Den 
de moon she’s begin come up an’ dat meck 
me feel bettair, cause dat lac not so black. 
Messu he say hees tired an” we go on de 
bed, so we crawl in dat brush house, an’ 
pull de branch on top ourselve. I do’no for 
sure, but I tink I go sleep, cause me, I’s 
ver tired. Nex’ ting I know somebody 
poke me on de rib an’ when I wake up, 
Messu he set up an’ pint hees fingair an’ 
say: 

“ “Francois, look dare!” 

“T look where he say an’ way over nex’ 
odder side dat lac, I see canoe plain, wit 
someting all white on it. Den de moon 
she’s hit a cloud an’ de light mose go out 
an’ I feel Messu reach for hees rifle. I 
begin say prayer mighty fass, me, for what 
good Vill rifle do on de Devil heemself. 
Den cross dat lac come one loud cry 
jess lak woman she’s meck when she’s 
fear mooch. I tink den Messu, hees begin 
get scare also lak me, cause he say: 

““For God’s sack, Francois, what dat?’ 

“Den de moon she come out gin, an’ I 
see dat canoe come near an’ in it was a 
woman an’ she’s paddle fass, fass, an’ Holy 
Mother! jess behine her come nudder 
canoe wit someting beeg an’ black on it 
an’ dat boat move fass too, an’ gain on de 
firs’ one quick. Dare was pint of lan’ wit 
trees on heem thar, an’ bimeby bote canoe 
he go behine dat pint. Den Messu he say: 

“Mon Dieu. Francois! Did you see what 
was in hine canoe?’ 

“T so much scare I can say notting but 
pray, cause I know what dat ting be. Byme- 
by dat bote come out in de light gin. De 
secon’ canoe she’s mooch near den, an’ dat 
woman she turn her head roun’ an’ shriek 


Father: 


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an’ shriek awful, jess lak loon, an’ I see 
Messu cover up bote hees ear. Dat ting 
in de secon’ canoe he stan’ up den an’ I 
see heem plain, plain. Mon Dieu, I been 
try be good mans, me, since that day. Hees 
ver beeg an’ tall an’ hairy lak de black 
bear. I hear Messu cock hees rifle an’ fore 
I can stop heem, bang, go de gun, an’ I 
can’t see for de smoke. Wen I look gin, 
dat woman she’s disappeare—gone up on de 
smoke, an’ de ting in odder canoe was come 
at us fass, an’ he doan have paddle, de boat 
go himself. Den he turn hees face an’ look 
for see us—” 

Here Francois paused and repeatedly 
crossed himself, then continued: 

“Hees face was jess lak de picture of 
de Devil you seen on de book. Beeg black 
horns, nose lak de eagle and long tushes 
lak de wolf hound. ‘Mon Dieu, Messu, 
run quick!’ I yell, but he begin shoot 2, 3 
tam. I see de bullet splash roun’ de boat, 
but she doan stop ‘tall but come rat on. 
Jen I jomp quick and run fass on de 
woods an’ hide me. Bymeby, pretty soon, 
when I doan hear notting, I say to maself, 
‘Francois, you beeg coward, you dam fool. 
De moon she’s high on de sky den an’ 
mooch light, so I begin creep on dat house. 
Messu Georges hees set up straight jess 
lak notting happen, an’ I tink firss hees 
gone sleep, so I crawl up soff, so not wake 
heem up. Den I see hees chin drop way 
down on hees bress; an’ see beeg track on 
de san’ leading down to dat lac from 
where Messu he set. Gre’t, deep footprint 
lak de moose she meck, only, Mon Dieu 
days lak a man’s wid beeg nail prints. I 
look at Messu den gin’ an’ I see hees eyes 
wide open. Hees mout drop down, an’ I 
know hees daid. Den de scare she teck 
hole on me gin’ an’ I run fass from dat 
plass. Next tam I go back de sun hees 
way up on de sky. I took Messu on ma 
back an’ carry heem down dat crick way 
from dat plass. Messu Doctaire, down on 
de village, who look at him say hees die 
by heart disease, but Francois, me, he 
know bettaire. 





“Tt seems to me Freddie, that 


everything I say to you goes in at one ear 


and out at the other.” 


Freddie: “Well, I s’pose that’s what I’ve 
got 2 ears for.’—Exchange. 





THE ARMY. 





AMATEUR PHOTOS BY C. A REED. 


THE NAVY. 
Winners of 12th Prize in RecrEATION’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 
150 


A FLORIDA FISHING PARTY. 


E. M. 


A bright day in March, 189—, found my 
wife and me driving slowly through a 
Florida pine forest. Our outfit was queer 
to our Northern eyes. Our little Florida 
pony was hitched to the skeleton of a 


wagon, and a small round _ bottomed 
row boat was loaded on to the 4 
wheels. We sat in this boat, my wife 


on a tent tightly rolled in the bow, and 
I in the stowsheets, driving the horse. 
We had with us in the boat a basket of 
luncheon, cooking utensils, rods, lines, an 
ax, bedding, and feed for our horse. We 
had been in the South a month and had ex- 
hausted all near resorts, when someone 
told us of a lake 12 miles out in the coun- 
try, where bass, or trout, as they are called 
in Florida, were abundant. To this lake 
we were headed, and were then more than 
half way there. The sand was deep and 
the sun was hot. Our horse was tired, so 
we let him take his own gait, as time with 
us was of no account. We had come from 
mid-winter in New England, and the 
transition from snow and ice to summer in 
so short a time was a marvel which we 
thoroughly enjoyed. There were houses 
only at rare intervals, and no fences; only 
the trail leading through seemingly endless 
pine woods. We came once to a turpentine 
camp, and passed hundreds of pine trees 
gashed to get the turpentine, somewhat as 
maple trees are tapped in the North. We 
found dozens. of small lakes set like jewels 
in the forest. In the town, where we were 
stopping there were 21 within the corpora- 
tion limit, a tract 2 miles square, and most 
of them with neither inlet nor outlet. It 
was a long pull, but about 3 o’clock we 
reached the lake we were bound for. 

On a point jutting out into the water, 
and covered with pine trees, we pitched 
our tent with the open end facing the lake. 
We cut palmetto leaves to spread our 
blankets on, gathered wood for a fire and 
made ready for the night. Then we 
launched our boat, to catch a fish for sup- 
per. The lake was bordered by pine for- 
ests and in places a dense growth of un- 
derbrush, the home of alligators, moccasins 
and water snakes. I had learned when 
blue fishing on Long Island sound that I 
could often get fish on a long line when 
boats using shorter ones could not get a 
bite, and soon found that the same rule 
worked in Florida. When we were half 
way across the first bay we had a strike 
and my wife hooked a fish and _ boated 
him, a trout weighing about a pound; and 
this was followed by others, until we had 6. 


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LEETE. 


Not wishing to waste any we started back 
to our little tent, gleaming white against 
the dark green of the woods. 

The sun was nearly down when we 
pulled the boat up on the bank and stepped 
out. Taking our fish, we went up to camp 
and started a fire. It is wonderful what 
a fire will do to make a spot look home- 
like. In the gathenng darkiness. before 
the blaze lit our camp, it did look a trifle 
lonesome, away out there in the pine 
woods, and both of us, for a moment, 
thought of our bed back in town. The fire 
made all the difference in the world, and 
from a lonely spot in the woods the little 
camp was changed into our home. After 
supper there was the horse to feed and 
water, wood to split for the night, and 
then it was bedtime. People who have 
always slept in a bed indoors have no idea 
of the pleasure of a night in camp. Our 
couch was, to be sure, laid on the ground, 
but it was soft and we had plenty of blank- 
ets. The fire made it as light as day and 
cast a grateful warmth in at the open door 
of our tent. Listening to the call of the 
night birds and the sighing of the wind in 
the trees, we fell asleep, to be awakened 
by the sun shining in on us the next morn- 
ing. 

It was worth much to look out on the 
picture spread before our eyes that mori- 
ing. The mirrorlike lake, set in the green 
fringe of the pine trees, lay at our feet, 
with the light morning mist rising from 
the water, while in the blue arch of th- 
sky an occasional buzzard swung in endless 
circles through the still air. It was a 
typical Florida morning. Birds were sing- 
ing in the trees, the air was fresh and cool, 
and it was good to be alive. After break- 
fast we took some live bait, rowed out to 
what looked like a good spot, and anch- 
ored. Rigging our Bristol rods and hook- 
ing On a minnow, we made the first cast 
of the day. For myself, I can scarcely 
wait until I get my line over the first time. 
There is a feeling about the first cast that 
I never lose, even after having fished 
many years. The bait slowly sank in the 
clear water, while we both stood ready for 
the first fish; but he did not arrive We 
moved the boat and tried again, with no 
better success. Not a bite could we get. 
Again we made a change and that time 
found some fish. First the Mrs. hooked a 
lively one, that put a beautiful curve into 
the little Bristol, while the slender line 
cut through the water in a way to delight 
the heart of any angler. The little lady at 


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the reel end of the rod, however, knew 
her business, and played the fish until after 
a short fight we put him in the boat. Then 
I had one and then another. The Mrs. 
was keeping up her end too, and together 
we had 16 fish when they stopped biting. 
Not another one could we get. Lifting the 
anchor and taking the oars we again put 
out our spoons, and keeping in 6 or 8 feet 


RECREATION. 


of water we rowed clear around the lake. 
We took 6 fish in making the circuit. 
These made 21 in all, and we put back to 
camp, tired and hungry. A luncheon and a 
short rest made us all right, however, and 
we returned to town. We had had no rec- 
ord fishing, but the whole trip was a 
novelty and a pleasure. The fishing was 
an excuse for it. . 


CAPTAIN JOE MUFFRAU. 


H. W. BRADLEY. 


Wot’s dat you'll hask? Wot’s dat you'll 


say? 
Did I know Joe Muffrau? Well! a good 


many day. 

Ah know two Joe Muffrau. Wan of it is 
name Pete. 

Capitaine Joe Ah'll s’pose ees de wan you 
meet. - 

Ware he was born Ah don’t know, but 


respec’ 

Eet was hon Canadah, down behine Quebec; 

But she’s leeve hon dees State, sail de 
Lak’ ’Uron shore, 

Lak’ San Clair, Hanchor bay, down to 
Baltimore. 


REFRAIN, 
Joe Muffrau was de stronges’ man 
Dat hever was leeve hon Michigan. 
W’en she’s strike hon de air de bes’ he can 
De win’ off hees fis’ would kill a man. 


W’en we pass hon de lak’ de win’ bloaw 
from de heas’ 

Bimeby she bloaw more, wip de watter 
laike yeas’. 

We was load wit’ hooppole, tan bark an’ 
cord h’wood. 

We try to make Swan creek de bes’ wot we 
could. 

“T’row de h’ank!” Capitaine yell. 
got no cabil!” Ah say. 
“T’row he hout,’ said Muffrau; “She’ll do 

some good hanyway.” 


“She’s 


Mr. 
before my wife? 
Indignant 


Chauffeur—How was 


But she hain’ co some good. We was 
wreck on de shore. 

We'll walk h’out h’on de bank an’ pass 
Baltimore. 


Ah was sail hon de lak’ wit hole’ Capitaine 


Joe, 

Hon de hole’ Julie Plante, wen she’s wreck’ 
down below; 

Hup to hole’ Mackinac hon de hole’ Julie 


Plante, 
Capitaine Joe take hout, w’en somebody 
We sil clos de shore, we strike hon san’ 
De sieht OF was dark, we han’t see wan 
Cap Joe, he’ jump hout. Am’m tell dees 
He push, san bar an’ boat hout into de 
ai’ 


Hall dose odder skipper, dey’ll come to 
hask Joe, 

“Eas she goin’ for storm?” 
tink boaut she’s bloaw.” 

Cap Joe says, “Stay here, eets no use for 
stir,” 

Ah jus’ had a look hat my bar-om-e-ter. 

Joe was maken’t heemself molasses alc’hol, 

An’ some more kin’ of stuff ’e haint tell 
it hall. 

Wan ve ’e was dry, hees tongue was laike 
ur; 

"E’ll jus’ drink hit hall, hees bar-om-e-ter. 


“W’at you 


Newlywed—How dare you swear 


I to 


know your wife wanted to swear first ?— 


New Yorker. 


BAITING A BEAR. 


WILLIAM J. LAMPTON. 


“T never was much of a hunter for ani- 
mals,”- said the retired prospector, “but I 
have hunted for more mines than would 
buy all the millionaires in America if they 
had panned out right; and I am here to 
say it is about as dangerous kind of hunt- 
ing as going after tigers with popguns, un- 
less a man knows his business mighty well. 
There’s danger of starvation, of freezing, 
of drowning, of falling over precipices, of 
running against wild animals and wilder 
men. It’s no bed of roses, this business of 
prospecting. Every prospector, who knows 
what’s what, carries a good supply of mor- 
phine, so if he happens to break his leg 
somewhere beyond civilization, or runs out 
of chuck and can’t get to a new supply, 
he can just swallow some dope and go to 
sleep for keeps. It’s easier than to lie flat 
on your back and let the wolves eat you. 

“I’ve had my share of experiences, and 
since you fellows have been telling bear 
stories, I'll tell you what happened to me 
in the "Rocky mountains. I had been nos- 
ing around where there were signs of met- 
al, and was alone, because I thought I 
was sure to find it and wanted an 
undivided interest in the find. I had a gun 
along, of course, but I was always care- 
less about guns, ‘and sometimes I'd get in- 
terested in my work and leave the gun 
standing against a tree while I went pok- 
ing around for signs. 

“One day I found something promising, 
and got out my pick and went on the chase 
for it. I hadn’t located it up to the time 
I ran into a grizzly bear that looked as big 
as an elephant. The weather was getting 
cold, and I thought the bears had retired 
for the winter, but I guess I was mistaken. 
Maybe this one had got caught out in the 
cold against his will. Anyway, there he 
was and there I was, and he looked as if 
he hadn’t had a meal of victuals since ber- 
ries were ripe. He made for me, and I 
went up the nearest tree, which wasn’t 
nearly so high as I would have wished; but 
a grizzly can’t climb, so I was safe enough 
for the time. If I’d had my gun I’d have 
had fun with that bear, but the blamed 
gun was around the hill, resting against 
a big stone, as harmless as a crowbar. 

“Tt was getting toward the shank of the 
evening, and I thought when night came 
on, the bear would trek for home, so I 
made myself as comfortable as circum- 
stances would permit and waited for my 
chance to go, too. But it didn’t come. 
The moon came out shortly after dark, 
and it was so light that I guess the bear 


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didn’t know what time it was. Whether 
he did or not, he staid at the foot of the 
tree watching me. At first he had ripped 
off the bark in wild attempts to get at me, 
but as time wore on, he wore out and set- 
tled down to a quiet life. In the mean- 
time I began to get cold, and then a good 
deal colder, but the bear, cuddled up in his 
fur down below, didn’t seem to be suffer- 
ing much. Finally I got so cold and so 
cramped and tired hanging on to a limb 
not so thick as my arm, that it was all I 
could do to hold on at all. Then I was 
real scared, and I tried to scare the bear. 
But he wouldn’t scare. He knew his busi- 
ness, and he was looking for fresh meat. 
At last it got to the point where I couldn’t 
hold any longer, and I began to say my 
prayers before letting go and dropping into 
the grizzly’s gizzard. At that moment I 
thdught of my morphine. I had a bag of 
things I always carried over my shoulder, 
and there was a ball of twine in it, and 
with this I proposed to tie myself to the 
tree and swallow the morphine. Then, 
when I went to sleep, I wouldn’t fall out. 
I didn’t want that measly bear to get my 
remains, though I don’t suppose he would 
have eaten much of me. 

“IT was winding off the twine when a 
great idea presented itself. If the morphine 
would put me away, why wouldn't it do 
as much for the bear? Possibly he could 
take more, but I had enough in my inside 
pocket to kill 40 men, and that ought 
to do for a bear, even as big as a grizzly. 
The thought put new life into me, and I 
braced up. I had some dried meat and 
other eatables in my little bag, and I had 
the morphine in my inside pocket. I got 
out the meat, a piece not bigger than my 
fist. I cut a hole in it and put in a few 5 
grain pellets of the sleepy stuff. I had 
more, but I thought I would try that much 
for a starter. Then I tied the loaded meat 
to the string and let it down before the 
bear’s nose. He was taking things easy at 
the time and the meat smelt good to him. 
Instead of getting mad and rising up to 

paw holes in the tree, he sniffed a minute 
st the meat, made a grab at it and down it 
went. I suppose I might have played fish 
with him, by pulling on the other end of 
the twine, but I wasn’t feeling that way. 
I let the twine go, and, after shaking his 
head and pawing at his face, he got the 
string down where the meat was. Then he 
lay down again, with a look up my way. 
as if to say, ‘When are you coming down?’ 

“IT could hang on a good deal better then, 


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and I took a new hold, and waited for the 
dope to act. I didn’t know the dose for a 
bear, but I hoped I had given him enough. 
For an hour I waited, and then the bear 
began to show signs of languor. He 
stretched out sleepily, and at last tumbled 
over limp, as if he hadn’t any more use 
for himself. I thought it was my time, 
and down the other side of the tree I went 
as fast as I could. The way I got out of 
that neighborhood was a caution to snakes. 


RECREATION. 


I ought to have been too stiff to make 
good time, but the scare took all the stiff- 
ening out of me, and | hustled like a cata- 
mount. I had sense enough to head for 
where my gun was, and I took that along. 
Next day I went back, prospecting for 
bear. I got him. He was deader than 
Julius Cesar, from which I have always 
suspected that 20 grains of morphine is an 
overdose for a grizzly.” 





AMATEUR PHOTO By J, E. TYLOR. 


AN EARLY MORNING SNOOZE. 


Winner of 16th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition, 
Made with Eastman Kodak, 


Financier—I told me boss I couldn't af- 
ford to work for t’ree dollars a week. 


Merchant—What did he say? 





Financier 
tryin’ to.—Judge. 


Said he 


hadn’t noticed me 


tARLY DAYS ON THE YAKIMA. 


J. E. NEWTON. 


We had finished our work, and sitting 
in the dim light of the smoky lamp, we 
drifted into talk of early days. I was 
comparatively a tenderfoot, while Pard had 
come over the plains when a mere boy. 
We both owed our living to the Pacific 
railroad. He handled a big Klondike en- 
gine. I was known as the “cow coroner.” 
To find how he had happened to hit a 
bunch of 3-year-olds on a straight track 
was what brought us together. 

“Things have changed mightily since I 
came out here in ’72,” he said. “I don’t 
recall much of the trip overland, though 
I have a vivid recollection of reaching our 
promised land, a beautiful spot on the 
Yakima, where it winds down Kittitas 
valley on its way to the Columbia. We 
worked hard putting up the log home, 
barn, hay skids and corral. There was 
timber without end, but it had all to be 
worked by hand.. We had plenty of horses 
but of people there was only father, moth- 
er, 2 girls and I. However, we were all 
under cover, with plenty of hay for the 
stock, before snow covered the range. 

“There was much discussion as to what 
we should plant on the bottom land. It 
was finally decided to plant hops. That 
meant considerable preparatory work, 
principally splitting poles for the vines 
to run on. 

“When the hops were nearly ready to be 
gathered, the problem of who was to pick 
them presented itself. It seemed a stickler 
until it occurred to father that Indians 
might be utilized. There were many 
near, and with little effort a dozen or 
more were secured. They did the work 
well, living in their tepees a short distance 
from the hop field. I never tired of watch- 
ing them at work or lounging about their 
camp. I came to know them by name and 
as they came year after year I gradually 
mastered their tongue, until at 17 I spoke 
Yakima as well as the best of them. 

“About that time 2 Indians died; one a 
small boy, the other an old man. That 
broke up the camp, as this tribe will not 
live where one of their number has died. 

“The mother and father of the boy asked 
my father for permission to bury the body 
on our land. It was given. The burial 
to me seemed pathetic. Father read the 
burial service while we and a few Indians 
stood with bowed heads about the grave. 
After the interment the parents of the 
dead boy moved away, and I learned they 
had gone to the Big Water (Pacific). A 
year Jater they returned, tired and travel 


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stained, and before eating or resting, they 
repaired to the little grave among the wil- 
lows. Lying on the ground they gave vent 
to their grief in tears and sobs. Two days 
and 2 nights they kept that up, ceasing at 
noon each day to break their fast on dried 
elk meat, washed down by river water. 

“Three years they returned to mourn 
beside the grave of their son; the fourth 
year they did not come, nor did I ever see 
them again. 

“I saw many strange ceremonies during 
my years on the ranch; the potlatch at the 
termination of the fall hunt, the salmon 
dance, the rain dance and many others. 
The actions of the Indians when one of 
their number fell sick were amusing. 
They used the sweat bath in the skin house, 
then the sudden douche in cold water, ac- 
companied by the beating of drums and 
boards and the howling of the family. 

“It was during one of these treatments 
that a tall, giant Indian, who claimed to be 
a Umatilla from Oregon, said to me: 

“*These Irrdians are foolish. We have 
good doctor, he cure pretty near every 
time; use grass, rocks, roots. He cure 
me consumption, I have him 2 year. You 
don’t believe, do you? Look!’ 

“He drew off over his head his cheap 
cotton shirt, disclosing his brawny, muscu- 
lar breast marked with 3 hideous circular 
scars. They were evenly placed, one on 
each side and one in the center. They 
were, perhaps, 34 of an inch across, whitish 
in the middle, the edges red and angry 
looking. The adjacent flesh lay in creases 
and folds, a sight to make one shudder. 

““You see,’ said the Indian, ‘he cure 
him that way. He get um 3 cottonwood 
root, dry, straight. He light um and 
smoke like cigar. When him good fire he 
push one here. He smoke hard and push 
him hard; pretty soon him go clear in. 
Then he make him squaw blow him hard. 
The doctor light him other one; pretty 
soon he go in, too, and squaw blow him, 
too. Pretty soon 3 squaw all blow him 
hard and smoke come out my mouth fast. 
Then I choke and go sleep; wake up in 
little while, pretty soon. Next day doctor 
do him again. Then he say pretty soon 
I get well. Dat 5 year ago. Umatilla, him 
never die consumption; doctor fix ’em all.’ 

“Truly he was then a picture of health, 
and from appearance as far removed from 
disease as is possible to imagine. Hop 
picking over, he went the way he came. 
I have never seen him since, nor have I 
ever heard of a similar cure.” 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY GEORGE HARTMANNe 


A GOOD CATCH. 


Winner of 15th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 


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HOW SAM FLYNN WAS CURED OF OFFICE-SEEKING: 


JENNIE P. 


“You want to know how I got cured 
of orfis seekin’?” asked Sam Flynn, gulp- 
ing down his inclination to stammer with 
a mighty heave of his larynx. “Well, I'll 
tell you, ef you can stan’ my stuttering,” 
he said with a stress of sibilation not in- 
dicatable by type. 

“Sence I was er small boy I always hank- 
ered to hold an orfis, an’ arfter I growed er 
man, an’ see how comfortable people was 
what lived onter the public corncrib I jes- 
felt bound to git er public job. I knowed 
my stammerin’ was agin my running’ for 
orfis, but then I ’membered everyone had 
sumpin to pull him back. Besides, thar 
was er man up North what guaranteed I 
would never stammer so long ez I follered 
his advice, and all he wanted was $5. 

“I reasoned this er way: Ef I got an 
orfis I could afford to pay to get cured, 
so I made up my min’ to run for the orfis 
of magistrate in my destric. 

“°Fore the spring ‘lection I zerted my- 
self uncommon. I sat up all night any 
time with sick neighbors; I took er class 
in the Sunday school; an’, for all I was 
born tired, I went to 3 log-rollin’s. Arfter 
people foun’ out I was goin’ to run they 
was sholy kind. The encouragement they 
give me steadied me might’ly. Some of 
‘em would come over an’ hear me speak my 
speech I had ter make at the barbecue, an’ 
they helped me so I could get it off ’ithout 
stuttering a stut. 

“At larst I was ‘lected by a majority of 3 
over that slick, likely nigger, Sol Stanback. 
This was er plenty, for, ’lowin’ 2 for cheat- 
ing, which is always claimed in this dees- 
tric, I felt purty safe that there would be 
no contest. Now, I thought, I can risk 
that $5 an’ git cured an’ serve my fellow- 
citizens all the better. I borrowed $5 from 
my wife’s egg money, an’ sent it off the 
night after ‘lection to that feller up North 
what advertised that he could sho cure ef 
I’d do what he told me. Guarantee is a 


BUFORD, 


mighty big word, an’ that feller said p’int- 
edly he’d guarantee a cure ef I’d sen’ along 
$5. ’Twarn’t more’n 3 days arfter I sent 
for my cure ’fore I had a case to try. "Twas 
that same slick nigger what had run agin 
me; he was up for fightin’ another nigger. 
I allers will b’lieve ‘twas a put up job, for 
nobody looked mad at all. 

“Somehow, I seemed to get natchally 
confused an’ stuttery. Still, as I had noth- 
in’ agin Sol for runnin’ agin me, so I 
thought he oughtn’t to have anything agin 
me for beatin’ him. Sol sat lollin’ in his 
seat, showin’ no respec’ whatever to the 
court, so I said, quiet an’ composed, ‘Stan’ 
up,’ lookin’ plum’ at him. 

“He sot stark still, an’ laughin’ imperti- 
nent, he says, ‘My name ain’t Stan’up, it’s 
Stan’back.’ 

“*Stan’ up and behave youself,’ I said 
again; but I stuttered turrible this time, for 
I was gettin’ mad. Then he says, ‘Ef you 
talkin’ to me, you call me by my right 
name,’ and’ he jes’ wallered in his seat to 
make me madder. 

“By this time I was bilin’ an’ I far’ly 
roared out to him, ‘Stanback!’ Would you 
b’lieve it, that nigger jumped up so sudden 
an’ so straight that he tuk ’way all my 
senses? Thar I stood, sayin’, “Stan’— 
Stan’—Stan’ ’—an’ I couldn't get any fur- 
ther. All of er sudden I got giddy like 
an’ didn’t know any more. When I come 
to, I was at home, feelin’ pretty weak. That 
night I got my letter from the feller what 
was to cure my _ stutterin’.. My _ han’s 
fumbled, I was so anxious to get cured an’ 
get even with that impident Sol Stanback, 
but I got it open somehow. The letter 
looked mighty light an’ no ’count, but I had 
the guarantee on him an’ I felt right safe. 
Your dicsurnery ain’ got the words in it 
I said when I read this flabbergastin’ ad- 
vice : 

““Keep your durn mouth shet.” 


Stranger (overtaking native)—What’s the 


matter here? 


Every house for the last 10 


miles is closed, and you're the first person 


I’ve seen. 


Got the plague here? 


Native (whipping up his horse)—Nope. 
Autymobile race ter-morrer, an’ we're git- 


tin’ out o’ danger. 


Gedup !—Judge. 


THE TRUMPETER SWAN. 


ALLEN BROOKS, 


This, the largest and noblest of American 
game birds, is now rarely found East of the 
Mississippi valley. Westward to the Pacific 
coast it is more common, in some localities 
being much more numerous than its smaller 
congener, the whistling swan. From the 
latter species it can always be distinguished 
by its greater size, and the absence of yel- 
low on the bill of the adults. 

The breeding range of the trumpeter 
swan extends from Northern British Co- 
lumbia to far North of the Arctic circle. 
In August the old birds lose all the flight 


tone. It can be heard at an astonishing 
distance, though when close to the birds it 
does not sound extremely loud. 

I have found the trumpeter a far more 
difficult bird to call than the whistling swan, 
probably due to the call of the trumpeter 
being more difficult to imitate. 

Trumpter swans take an astonishing 
amount of killing. I have known them, 
several times, to fly right away with 30 
caliber soft nose bullets through them. To 
kill them with shot is difficult, I have | 
found it best to use No. 2 or 3, and shoot 





TRUMPETER SWAN. 


feathers by moult, and can then be run 
down and captured. In Southern British 
Columbia the trumpeter arrives about the 
end of October, frequenting certain locali- 
ties year after year, and remaining through- 
out the winter as far North as open water 
and suitable feeding grounds occur. The 
flocks generally are composed of one or 2 
pairs of adults and double that number of 
gray plumaged young. Where numerous, 
the flocks do not mix except when feeding. 
When put up they fly away 1n separate 
strings, following their respective leaders. 

The note of the trumpeter swan is a low 
pitched, hornlike call, with a decided nasal 


OLOR BUCCINATOR. 


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at the head. The larger sizes of shot more 
generally used, seldom penetrate sufficiently 
to kill, and their pattern is too scant to try 
at the head. 

When properly roasted, trumpeter swans 
are delicious eating, except probably the 
oldest birds. . 

The head and neck feathers are generally 
much stained with a golden rusty tipping, 
no doubt caused by water impregnated 
with iron. The iris is dark brown; bill 
and feet in the adult are black, in the young 
brownish, or grayish, irregularly marked 
with yellowish flesh color. 





HOW I LOST MY GUN. 


OTTO VON STOCKHOUSEN. 


A few years ago I saw an offer in REcrE- 
ATION of a single barre! shot gun as a pre- 
mium for 10 subscriptions to RECREATION, 
and being a boy 15 years old this offer, of 
course, appealed to me. I went out among 
my friends and soon got the subscriptions 
necessary to secure the prize. I sent them 
in, and in due time the gun arrived. It was 
a beauty, and I was eager to try it on game. 
As soon as the ducking season opened I 
started with a friend for Pewaukee, where 
we arrived early in the morning. We ate 
our breakfasts as quickly as possible and 
were out on the lake a little after sunrise. 

Game was scarce, but I was fortunate 
enough to get a mallard with the first shot 
I ever made at.a bird on the wing. You 
may imagine how rapidly my head grew in 
size. 

We had fairly good shooting during the 
forenoon, and after dinner I was anxious to 
go out again. My friend at first declined, 
saying he preferred to rest a while; but he 
finally yielded to my persuasion, and we 
started, that time in 2 boats. 

I followed the shore of the lake some dis- 
tance and finally got one teal. Then I 
pushed into a cove among the rushes, hoping 
to jump other birds. A big mallard got up. 
I dropped my paddle, picked up my gun and 
let go at him. He had passed me so far 
that when I fired I lost my balance, and in 
order to save myself I dropped my gun, the 
first and only one I had ever owned! A 
few air bubbles that came up. showed where 
it had gone, and my heart sank within me as 
if it had suddenly turned to lead. I called 
lustily for help but none came. I began 
fishing for the gun with my paddle, but the 
water was 5 feet deep, and though I could 
occasionally touch the gun I could not raise 
it. 

Finally my friend heard one of my yells 
and came to my assistance as fast as pos- 
sible. He thought I had failen overboerd 
and was about to drown. 

As soon as he came within hailing dis- 
tance he asked what was the trouble. 

“T’ve lost my gun.” 

wie (hat ‘alte 

“Yes, that’s all. 
kill anybody?” 


Isn’t that enough to 


By that time he was alongside and began 
fishing for the gun with his paddle, which 
fortunately was longer than mine. He soon 
located the gun, and said if he could only 
get his paddle under the muzzle he thought 
he could raise the gun. He worked a long 
time without success, and finally advised me 
to undress and dive for the gun, but that 
was late in October, and the water was al- 
most ice cold. However, I took off my coat, 
vest and shoes and started, but when I put 
one foot in the water I weakened. Then 
the boss continued his efforts to raise the 
gun. Finally he said, 

“T have it, it’s coming.” 

Sure enough, the muzzle came slowly in 
sight, but .was still 2 feet beneath the sur- 
face of the water. When he got it up as 
far as he could I made an eager grab for it, 
but just before I reached it, though I 
thrust my arm in up to my shoulder, the 
gun slipped and went back. 

Then another long course of prodding, 
praying and trying. At length the coveted 
ee again came in sight, and the boss 
said, 

“Now then, Otto, go after it easy this 
time.” 

I waited as patiently as possible until 
the gun stood upright and the muzzle was 
within about 18 inches of the surface. Then 
I reached down slowly and carefully and 
finally succeeded in grasping the steel tube. 
I uttered a yell that would have frightened 
a wooden Indian, but I landed my gun in 
the boat all right. 

All that time the cold October wind had 
been blowing through my shirt and skin 
and was chilling my bones. I had not real- 
ized it, but when the trouble was over I 
discovered that I was nearly frozen. I 
jerked on my coat and vest, caught up my 
paddle, and pulled for the shore as fast as 
I could drive the boat. When the bow 
struck the ground, I made a jump and lit 
out down the trail for the house, touching 
only the high places. 

When I thawed out, I took the gun apart, 
cleaned and dried it thoroughly, oiled it, 
put it together again and it was just as 
good as new. 


“Your salary isn’t enough to support my 


daughter, sir.” 


“I’m glad you’ve come to that conclusion 
beet 
so early, sir.”—Detroit Free Press. 


195 





AMATEUR PHOTOS BY FREME ROHEBOUGH 


ON THE RIVER, LOOKING FROM CAMP COQUINA. 


SIGNS OF SPRING 


E. C. M. RICHARDS. 


When the ice has started melting, Then the old grey bearded woodsman, 
And the snow is almost gone; With his rifle and his traps, 

When the skunks have started mating, And his old, but knowing, mongrel hound, 
And the trout begin to spawn; All cut and scarred from scraps, 

When the geese come honking Northward, Leaves his cosy winter quarters, 
Over valley, hill and fen; Nestled close beneath the hill, 

When the woodchuck leaves his burrow, And starts his muskrat trapping, 
And the chipmunk leaves his den; By the river, brook, and rill. 


196 


Ne 


THE DISSOLUTION OF ABIJAH DUSENBURY. 


DR. G, A. MACK, 


From far above the timber line, the snow- 
born Occamo comes, in puny turbulence, to 
seek tranquillity in the Columbia and ulti- 
mate Nirvana in the broad Pacific. It 
reaches the evergreen scrub a brawling 
little torrent, leaping sheer cliffs, boiling 
furiously around obstructing boulders. In 
the timber it broadens beyond the leap of 
the most agile deer. Though foam-flecked 
always, its waters flow in ever lengthening 
reaches from ledge to ledge, pausing a mo- 
ment in the deep pool at the foot of each 
fall to gather energy for another rush. 

The trees of the second growth forest 
through which it speeds are already large 
enough to tempt the lumberman. Soon they 
will follow the great conifers that shad- 
owed the stream when the Wenatchee range 
was a fastness for the warriors of the 
Lummi. Here and there, standing for the 
most part on inaccessible cliffs that saved 
them from the ax, giant pines still lift 
their age-gnarled branches. The tallest of 
these pines can view, beyond the woodland 
and beyond an ever widening champaign, 
the shimmer of the sea. 

What they may no longer behold, is the 
wood life of their prime. The last bear 
and mountain lion of this region exist only 
as moth-eaten pelts. The deer are gone, 
’ save an occasional fugitive driven into the 
valley by a pack of hounds or string of 
howling beatcrs. A few grouse remain, 
but they no longer strut and dust them- 
selves in the disused lumber roads. They 
keep to cover; for the market is not far, 
and they have learned their value. 

Yet to that stream there came, one sum- 
mer day, 2 men. One, long limbed and 
ramshackly, carried a scap net and an emp- 
ty feed bag. The other, a chunky, red 
faced chap, carried himself only, but with 
an air of might. 

“T tell you, Cal,” he was saying, “this 
rod-and-line business makes me tired. The 
feller’s a fool that will wade all day for 
a few fish.” 

“But, *Bijah,” returned the tall one, 
“we'll have walked all day by the time we 
get home.” 

“Mebbe,” said Abijah; “but by night 
you'll have all the load you want to tote.” 

“They say a feller at Moquash got his 
arm blown off last week,” remarked Cal 
dubiously. 

“Then he didn’t understand himself,” re- 
plied Abijah. “I’ve played this trick before 
and know how to do it. We'll start in the 


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big pool by the dead pine, and then try 
higher up.” 

Reaching the pool, the men sat down to 
rest. Pipes were filled and lit, and the 
tall man passed a flask to his companion, 
after taking a pull at it himself. 

“We must go light on this,” said the 
chunky one; with an appreciative smack; 
“you'll need it going home.” 

Presently he produced from his pockets 
2 things like hypertrophied firecrackers. 
Observing that he handled them rather gin- 
gerly, his friend rose suddenly and walked 
along the ledge, as though to view the 
stream. This maneuver did not escape the 
red faced man; his eyes twinkled. 

“Come here,” he cried, “and sit down 
while we arrange this thing.” 

Cal turned and came toward him—not 
too near, however—and remained standiny. 
Abijah chuckled. 

“Pooh!” he said, “when you’ve bust as 
many of these as I have, you won't be 
afraid of ’em. Now you go down the 
creek to the first riffle. All the trout we 
knock silly will float down there and you 
can gather them in with a net. Never 
mind the small ones. When you get there, 
holler. Then Ill chuck in the sudden 
death and let her zip.” 

“All right,” said Cal, evidently relieved at 
his assignment, and he disappeared in the 
direction of the riffle. Soon his voice an- 
nounced that he was on guard. 

The red faced man went to the edge of 
the rock overhanging the water. There he 
put one of the bombs in his pocket, short- 
ened the fuse of the other and, lighting it, 
tossed it deliberately into the center of the 
pool. Then he turned to run. In doing so, 
he stepped on a pebble and it rolled under 
his foot. He lost his balance, and, wildly 
flourishing his arms, fell headlong into the 
water. His splash was followed almost in- 
stantly by a muffled explosion, with a pe- 
culiar dual quality of sound. A _ great 
white column rose from the brook, hov- 
ered an instant above the tree tops, and fell 
back into the pool with a sullen roar. 


Down the single street of the hamlet of 
Blagden came, that night, a man, tall and 
loose jointed. The moon shone on his 
flushed face and lighted his eyes with a 
vitreous sheen. The limber eccentricities 
of his gait were greater than could be ac- 
counted for even by his shambling build. 
In one hand he had a long handled scap 
net; in the other, a partly filled bag, which 


198 


he carried with care well away from his 
legs. Occasionally he used the net handle 
to arrest his little involuntary excursions to 
one or the other side of the road. Coming in 
this devious fashion to the village store, 
then closed for the night, he stopped and 
looked about. He laid the bag and the net 
on the stoop, and, with a weary sigh, seat- 
ed himself between them. For a time he 
sat motionless and silent, thinking deeply. 
Finally he raised his head, and, with a 
wide, inclusive gesture, addressed a row of 
pickle barrels. 

“Come,” he said, “lesh reason ’bout thish 
thing. Puts me in mosh embarrashin’ po- 
shition. Me an’ ’Bijah Dusenbury went 
fishin’. There was a ’splosion, an’ ’Bijah, 
wishout statin’ any teshtamentary wishes, 
went to that bright bourne where they don’t 
need punk. 

“Now, ish my bounden duty,” he con- 
tinued, with a sidelong glance at the bag, 


PORTRAITS OF 


Enclosed I send you photographs of a 
little wren that built a nest near our house. 
When I first tried to 
take the photos the 
wrens were much 
afraid of the camera. 
I put a black cloth 
over the camera and 
stood quietly by the 
tripod until the wren 
came to the post to 
see what was taking 
place. Several times 
I practiced this until 
one bright morning, 
with stop No. 6, 1-50 
second, medium plate, 
DO I SEE A WORM! J[ took both of the 





RECREATION. 


“to take thesh few remainsh eisher to cor- 
oner or to bereaved family. If I go coroner 
he’ll shay, ‘whersh resh of ’im? Howsh 
jury goin’ formulate theory on thish mea- 
ger data? If thish is ’Bijah, who’sh goin’ 
know what killed him? Pr’aps you poi- 
shoned thish man; pr‘aps thash why didn’t 
bring his stomach.’ 

“An’ if I take ’Bijah’s relics to his relict, 
it'll be worsh yet. Howsh she goin’ put his 
besht black suit on ’im? Howsh mourners 
going press kish on pallid lips of departed 
or drop tear on’s alabaster brow, when | 
couldn’t fin’ his durn ole head? Howsh 
they goin’ put hic jacet over’s ashes, lesh 
they dynamite a tombstone factory? 

“Nosher thing; lesh ’Bijah begins get 
himself togesher d’rectly, he’s bound de- 
lay the reshurrection!” 

And, wagging his head dolefully, the tall 
man resumed his burdens and his way. 


A NEIGHBOR. 


photographs. I made 
6 exposures before I 
succeeded in getting 
one print that would 
develop clear. J tried 
first to use the back 
combination of the 
lens, but the subject 
being so close and the 
plate so far from the 
lens it was under ex- 
posed. 
W. S. Olcutt, 
Lyndon, Kas. 





AMATEUR PHOTOS By 
W. S. OLCUTT, 


GRACE AFTER MEAT, 


——- -— — 


A girl in the arms is worth 2 in the 
push.—Life. 


“You never applaud at a concert.” 


“No,” answered Mr. Cumrox. 


“If I en- 


joy a piece well enough to applaud it, I 
know it isn't the sort of music mother and 
the girls would approve of my applauding.” 


—Washington Star. 


ON A RUSSIAN RIVER. 


BARON 


The remarkable reflection of a_ bridge, 
appearing in the September issue of Rec- 
REATION, reminds me of a similar case of 
perfect reflection, a photograph of which 
I mail you herewith. This was taken on 
the river Kama, in August, 18908. It is 
nothing to boast of in technique, and not 
to be compared with Mr. Burritt’s produc- 
tion, but it was taken under peculiar con- 
ditions of light, etc. 

In the early part of August, 1898, I was 
on my return journey from the Altai dis- 
trict of Siberia, where I had spent nearly 
2 months. Branching off at Tcheliabinsk 
toward Yekaterinburg and Perm, we had 
to travel all the time through large tracts 
of forest, some parts of which were ablaze. 
The scene, at night, was weird and grand 
beyond description, but made one’s heart 
ache for the forests thus devastated. At 
Perm we left the rail and took the splen- 
did steamer Berezniky, of the Lubimov 
line of steamers, for Nijni-Novgorod. 
The weather’ was glorious, and I spent 
most of the 24 hours on the promenade 
deck, breathing the balmy air wafted from> 
the pine clad slopes of the high right bank. 
The scenes of destruction, the reek of the 
fires, were forgotten till we neared the 
mouth of the White river, Belava. There 
the air was laden to such an extent with 
the smoke of distant forest fires that the 
sun stood out like aé_ dull, orange 
disc; so dull, in fact, that one could look 
at it with little inconvenience, as at the 
moon. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY WM, H FISHER. 


RIGHT ON THEM. 


Winner of 19th Prize in Recreation’s 8th An- 
nual Competition. Made with Eastman 
Kodak. 


PAUL TCHERKASSOV. 





AS IN A LOOKING GLASS. 


The surface of the river was perfectly 
calm; not a ripple, not a breath of air; 
not a sound beyond the throbbing of the 
steamer’s engines and the churning of her 
powerful wheels. Of a sudden, from be- 
hind a bend of the bluff on the left bank, 
another steamer appeared, going up stream 
and keeping close to the left bank. Her 
reflection in the water struck me as excep- 
tionally clear and fine, and I risked a snap 
shot at her, while our steamer was tearing 
along, full speed, toward her in her course 
down stream. 


A small boy in a Pennsylvania school 
produced the following as his contribution 
to the closing exercises in English com- 
position: “King Henry VIII. was the 
greatest widower that ever lived. He was 
born at a place called Annie Domino, and 
had 51 wives, besides children and 
things. The first was beheaded and after- 
ward executed, and the second was re- 
voked. Henry the eighth was succeeded to 
the throne by his great grandmother, the 
beautiful Mary Queen of Scot, sometimes 
called the Lady of the lake, or the Lay of 
the last Minstrel.”—The Pilot. 


An optimist falling from a toth story 
window, called out cheerfully as he passed 
each story, going down, “All right so far!” 
—Exchange. 


199 


BRISTLEBACKS IN THE YOSEMITE VALLEY. 


It remained for a trio of anglers, Claude Shafer, 
Gus Gobel and Harry Edell, the Jatter a well 
known sportsman of this city, to shatter one of 
the traditions woven about the trout fishing in 
the Yosemite Valley. 

For years sportsmen have seldom caught more 
than one or 2 trout a day in the valley, but Messrs. 
Shafer, Gobel and Edell were equipped with a 
knowledge of woodcraft and with skill as ang- 
lers. The trout were not rising to the fly during 
their recent visit, but they soon found what bait 
would tempt the shy fish from the deep pools. For 
2 weeks their daily catch averaged more than 8o0 
fish. These ranged in weight from half a pound 
to 2 pounds. After supplying their own table 
the remainder was distributed among friends who 


caught, as the streams were whipped to 
death by anglers for miles all through 
the valley. The water was clear, which 
made the fish shy. The enclosed picture 
shows you our last day’s catch. 

Harry Edell, San Francisco. 


It would be interesting to know just how 
these men really did get their fish. If the 
stream in question was whipped to death, 
as Edell states, and if other men were get- 
ting only 2 or 3 trout a day, how could these 
chaps possibly make an average, in any 





GUS. GOBEL, HARRY 


were enjoying a visit to the valley.—San Fran- 
cisco Call. 

To my inquiry regarding the truth of this 
report I received the following letter: 


San Francisco, Cal. 


We had great sport in the Yose- 
mite valley and it is true that we caught 
an abundance of trout, although we met 
any number of anglers with not over 2 or 3 
fish as the result of a day’s work. We fished 
about 6 of the 10 days we spent in the val- 
ley and averaged over 80 a day, or over 500 
in all. We had to work for every one we 


EDELL, CLAUDE SHAFER, SAN 


FRANCISCO. 


legitimate way, of 80 fish to each man for 
the 6 days? I have no doubt they got the 
fish, but every honest man who reads Edell’s 
letter will wonder how they got them. Men 
who will slaughter fish at such a rate and 
then string them up and be photographed 
with them, would not hesitate to use a net 
or even a stick of dynamite occasionally ; 
and although these men parade their fly 
rods and their fish baskets. in the picture, 
suspicion will lurk in the mind of every 
reader of RECREATION. 

Shafer’s number in the fish hog pen is 
969, Edell’s 970, and Gobel’s 971. 


Aspiration + perspiration = inspiration.— 


Life. 


200 


ae 


MY TRIP TO WOOD'S CANYON. 


{(Report of Edward Cashman to Captain Abercrombie, U. S. A.) 


I left Valdez October 18th with 4 com- 
panions, to recover 13 horses left in Wood’s 
canyon. One of these men, Charles An- 
derson, made the trip from Sawmill camp, 
on Klutena river, to the soldiers’ camp on 
Low river in 1% days. We had 2 days’ 
supplies. Our first stop was at Dutch 
camp on Low river. The second day we 
camped with the soldiers who were cutting 
trail. The trail from Valdez to their camp 
was good. The third day we left camp at 
8 o’clock and at 10:30 were on top of the 
divide. The trail up the divide was clear 
of brush, and on the top was level. On our 
left was a bluff and a small lake. 

We were about half way around the lake 
when we saw a bear. Going through the 
pass we saw another bear sitting on a rock. 
We arrived at the banks of a large river at 
one o’clock, and camped the rest of the day. 
We looked for some flour which the sol- 
diers: told us was there, but found none. 
The next day we broke camp at 8 a. m., 
went down the valley 2 miles and started 
through a small canyon to our left. We 
broke through the ice several times, my 
boots getting full of water. Beyond the 
canyon we found a small glacier. It took 
us from 11 until 4 to cross it, traveling 
through 2 feet of snow, which was falling 
all the time. Beyond the glacier we entered 
a small valley, all rocks. We could go no 
farther, as it was dark. We walked around 
a large rock all night. At daylight we 
started out and at to o’clock found some 
wood. We built a fire to thaw out. It took 
half an hour to get my boots off, and I 
found all the toes of my left foot and the 
great toe of my right foot frozen. 
rubbed them with snow and went on down 
the valley. It began to snow, and we could 
not see Io yards. We traveled 4% hours, 
then came back to our camp fire again. 

About that time we concluded we were 
lost. In the morning we climbed the moun- 
tain, but could not see because of the thick 
weather. Several days were lost in that 
way. One clear day while I was on the 
mountain I saw a large lake. I suggested 
that we go to the lake and find out where 
we were. We started down a stream which 
came from the glacier, crossed it and fol- 
lowed it several days, walking on the ice, 


struck what I recognized as the Quartz 
creek trail. We were so weak by that time 
we could hardly travel. When I told the 
boys we could get to the rapids in a day, 
it braced them up; but it took us 1% days 
to get there. 

When we arrived at the camp the people 
could not do enough for us. Through the 
kindness of Dr. Townsend, who treated my 
toes, and Mr. Fishline, who gave us pro- 
visions, we were soon on our feet again. 


“ My companions stopped there and I left 


We > 


* 2 miles wide. 


as the stream was freezing. The streams. 


freeze from the bottom, then from the side. 
In going down we saw tracks of bears and 
wolverines in the snow, and found where a 
bear had been fishing for salmon. Both 
stream and lake were full of large salmon. 
We saw 9 bears in the woods. It took us a 
day to oe ‘around the lake, when we 


for Copper Center. We had been 8 days 
without eating. It had taken us 11 days 
to make the trip, but I could do it again in 
4. We kept too far to the Northwest. In 
my opinion a good trail can be made to 
Copper river via Low river. 

I left Copper Center November Ist with 
Jack Stewart and Joe Ham. We were 2 
days getting to Nicolai No. 2 wigwam, 
and stopped there 2 hours. 

We left Copper Center Monday. The river 
was full of mush ice. Wednesday we 
stopped at the mouth of Tonsena river to 
deliver a Jetter to Mr. Fritts, who was win- 
tering 12 horses there. We had a hard time 
on account of cold and ice. Friday we were 
caught in the ice jam, and our boat was 
lifted 8 feet in the air. We had to use the 
seats of the boat for snow shoes to reach 
a shoal 100 yards from us, as the ice was 
not solid enough to hold us. We camped on 
the shoal and at 3 the next morning were 
awakened by the ice moving. We were 
like rats in a trap. Our boat was gone and 
the ice was moving all around us. It piled 
up, cake on cake, 15 feet high in the middle 
of the river. It was forced up on the shoal 
and stopped within 3 feet of our tent. At 
daylight the ice stopped moving and was 
solid enough to walk on. 

Some Indians came over and helped us 
pack what was left of our stuff to the bank 
of the river, which there was about 
We were almost opposite 
Kotsena river. It took us till Monday 
morning to pack our goods to where we 
found the horses. Nine were alive and 3 
dead, and one was missing. We found 
him later on the river flats. One leg 
was broken and his tongue hung from 
his mouth, which was _ frozen _ shut. 
We shot him. Stewart and I left 
Ham to watch the horses and went down to 
Wood’s canyon to find a crossing to Taral. 
The Chittyna river was about one mile above 
and was open as far as we _ could 
see. We found a place where the ice had 
jammed, crossed to Taral and found the 
old squaw of whom you bought fish when 


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202 . RECREATION. 


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we went down the river. She remembered 
me. There was also a buck who had iust 
come up from Algonick. We could scarcely 
make them understand what we wanted. 
When we asked for the saddles they thought 
we meant Seattle. They could sabe San 
Francisco and Seattle, but not saddles. 
The Indian whose cache they occupied lived 
at the mouth of the Chittyna, and as he 
had the cabin locked and was away, we had 
to wait. 

We took the Indian who was at Taral, 
and tried to cross to the horses, but the 
ice was gone and there was no way to get 
across. The Indian invited us into his 
shack and we were glad to go, as it was 
extremely cold and we had left our blank- 
ets on the other side. This Indian could 
talk good English, as he had worked at 
Eyack in the summer. The Indians treated 
us well. They brought out their chinaware 
and gave us beans, fruit. bacon, tea, sugar, 
lard for butter, and baking powder bread. 
They also had boiled salmon. The old 
squaw, in honor of having white men in her 
shack, put on her best sack, made of a 
red handkerchief. She was prouder of it 
and her chinaware than white women are of 
their sealskins and silver. We slept that 
night on the floor, rolled in a moose skin. 
For breakfast we had beans, tea, berries, 
and their last piece of bacon. After break- 
fast the old woman took the platter from 
which we had eaten beans and licked it 
clean. She then boiled some salmon and 
had her own breakfast. She offered us 
some, but we declined. When we were 
ready to start she fell over herself trying 
to thank us for sleeping in her house. She 
said, “Tanks, tanks! White man hi-yu; you 
good white man sleep here,” etc. She would 
not let us thank her or give her anything. 

We had to go down about 3 miles from 
Taral in Wood’s canyon before finding a 
crossing. The Indian with us had never 
seen a horse. He saw the one we shot and 
wanted to know if we would “pot catch 
hima” the skin. We did so, I letting him 
have my knife to skin it with. He stopped 
with us that night, unwillingly, as, for some 
reason, they do not like to visit this side 
of the river. We helped him pack the 
horse skin and by the time we reached 
Taral the other Indian had returned from 
Chittyna. He gave us 4 pack saddles, 2 
riding saddles, 14 halters, one saddle bag, 
2 bridles and a lot of rope. They helped us 
pack them to the other bank, but would not 
go up where the horses were. When we 
bade the Indians good bye, they asked 
whither we were going. We told them up 
to the Tasnuna. They said we could not, as 
it was “hi-yu rock and 5 sleep.” They would 
take nothing from us, because we had so 
little ourselves. They told us to come back 
to them if we were short of grub and they 


would supply us. They said, “White mati 
ha-lo muck-a-muck. Indian hi-yu muck-a- 
muck. One moon hi-yu cold white man no 
muck-a-muck. Indian potlatch hi-yu muck- 
a-muck. One moon hi-yu cold, hi-yu wind, 
white man die’; which we found nearly 
right, 

We had hard work to catch the horses, 
as they were half wild. Built a rope cor- 
ral and got them in it, but they broke 
through 3 times. We then felled trees and 
built a log corral and drove them in. We 
had to pen them in a corner and pile logs 
around them before we could get the halt- 
ers on. We then started down the river, 
but the horses could not walk on the ice. 
They kept breaking through and slipping. 
We started over the hills, but after 10 days 
hard traveling had to turn back, as the 
country was full of canyons running at 
right angles to Wood’s canyon. By that 
time all our supplies were gone, except one 
pot of beans. We used to stay up at night 
to do our cooking, as the days were so short 
we did not have time to cook. It became 
dark about 2:30 p. m. and light about 8:30 
a. m. Every night we would secure a 
rope between 2 trees and then tie the horses 
on each side near the fire. When we pulled 
the halter of one of the horses he would 
pull back. Once a horse pulled back and 
fell on the fire and our last pot of beans. 
We could not get him up and had to pull 
the fire out from under him. He was badly 
burned around the legs. We lost our beans 
and had to go hungry that day and the 
next until we came to an Indian shack 
where they gave us salmon and tea. They 
did not have anything else. We slept in 
the shack. 

In going up the hill at Wood’s canyon 
a horse caught his pack in the roots of a 
falien tree and fell. He rolled over and 
over like a rubber ball. We heard him 
coming and had to hustle to keep out of 
his way. He went by us like a shot, heels 
over head. We thought he would be badly 
injured and took a gun down to shoot him, 
but when we arrived at the foot of the 
hill he was standing drinking at a hole in 
the ice, his pack in place and not a scratch 
on him. The weather at that time was ex- 
ceedingly cold and growing colder. Our 
fingers and faces were frost-bitten. Then 
the horses began to give out. They would 
lie down and not get up. We lifted one 


up 4 times, but he could not go over 50 


yards before he would drop again. We 
were compelled-to shoot 4 horses in one day. 
One broke through the ice and we had to 
go back to an Indian shack to get an axe 
to cut the ice around him. We hitched 2 
horses to him and pulled him out. As soon 
as he got out he froze hard as a rock. 
As the Indians up this part of the river 
were short of grub we cut this horse up 


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MY TRIP TO WOOD’S CANYON. 203 


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and lived on him for 4 days till we arrived 
at the Tonsena, where Mr. Fritts made us 
stop 2 days to rest and thaw out. He told 
us it was 35 and 40 degrees below zero. We 
had 3 horses and a mule, but had to shoot 
one horse there, as it could go no farther. 
Mr. Fritts treated us very kindly, giving us 
all the flour he could spare. He was short 
himself’ and as his cache was at Copper 
Center he could not give us much. We had 
lost all track of time. He told us it was 
about a week before Thanksgiving. 

We left there with 2 horses and the mule. 
We packed our grub on one horse and our 
bedding on the other horse and the mule. 
The first day in going down a hill from the 
Tonsena, Stewart led a horse half way 
down, when the mule slipped and rolled 
down on him, knocking him and the horse 
over. All 3 ‘went to the bottom together, 
but without damage. . The other horse 
turned and ran back on the trail, scatter- 


ing our grub and what was left of the. 


horse meat. I headed him off 3 times, but 
he dodged me and got away. We found the 
most of our grub. The horse meat we could 
not find. It was a very cold day and the 
night was much colder. We made Nicolai 
No. 2’s house at dark and were glad enough 
to sleep there. The next night we camped 
at an abandoned Indian shack. When we 
stopped we were so cold we could hardly 
light a fire’ My moustache and whiskers 
were frozen solid and as my mouth was 
open I could not speak until we started a 
fire and thawed out. 

The next day we had nothing to eat ex- 
cept 2 flapjacks, made of flour and water. 
At night we built a big fire. It was so cold 
we did not go to sleep, being afraid we 
would freeze. We had 8 large trees ablaze. 
Stewart froze his legs sitting on a log, 
and my heels froze. The next day we had 
half a flapjack each, and only flour enough 
left for another in the morning. The night 
was colder than the previous one. We built 
2 fires and stood between them. About 4 
o'clock in the morning we were half asleep 
when we heard a noise among the camp 
outfit and looked out just in time to see 
the mule eating the last of our flour. We 
got nothing to eat for the next 2 days un- 
til we came to Stickman’s house. The In- 
dians at that shack could not do enough for 
us. All they had was dried salmon and 
tea. They gave us all we could eat. They 
even tried to get the horses into the shack. 
We asked them how far it was to Copper 
Center. They said “halo sleep,’ meaning 
we could make it in less than a day. We 
were glad, as we were knocked out and the 
horses were in poor condition. We arrived 
opposite Copper Center Thanksgiving eve, 
and were obliged to leave the horses, as 
the Klutena river ice would not bear them. 
As it was, when we crossed, we broke 
through several times. When we got to Mr. 


Amy’s cabin they told us it had been 65 
degrees below zero the last 3 nights. We 
ate supper at Mr. Amy’s, then went to Mr. 
Fisher’s cabin and had another good sup- 
per. Then we went to the hotel and had 
another supper. ‘Notwithstanding this, we 
still felt hungry. The next day, Thanks- 
giving (and we felt thankful, too,) we 
took the horses over and left them in charge 
of Mr. Flynn. 

We then started for the Rapids camp, 
arriving at 5:30 p. m. As our cache was 
at the Rapids, we stopped 4 days and filled 
up on all the good things they had to 
eat. We then started over the glacier 
after some grain. It took us 2 days to get 
to Twelve Mile camp at the foot of the 
glacier. Klutena lake was frozen over. 
From the upper end of the lake we broke 
trail on snow shoes, the snow being one to 
12 feet deep. When we arrived at Twelve 
Mile camp the snow was so soft we would 
sink to our hips at every step. We stopped 
at Saw Mill camp for dinner and to thaw 
our moccasins. In going from Saw Mill 
to Twelve Mile camp, 3 miles, Stewart froze 
his feet so badly he could not move the next 
day. The people at the camp were glad to 
see us. They heard we had gone down 
for the horses, and, as the weather was so 
cold and stormy, they did not expect to see 
us again. I stopped with Mr. Nolan, of 
Jefferson City, Missouri, who treated me 
kindly and cautioned us not to go over the 
glacier. He showed us a Norwegian 
named Evyan, who had frozen his feet try- 
ing to cross and whom Dr. Logan, who 
afterward lost his life trying to get 2 sick 
men out in February, was treating. Dr. 
Logan came in that evening and I.helped 
him dress the frozen feet. He advised us 
not to try to go over the glacier. The 
doctor also treated Stewart’s feet. The 
next day, while Stewart was resting, I 
started to go to the foot of the glacier, a 
distance of 4 miles. It took me 4 hours to 
go 200 yards. The snow was 14 feet deep, 
and was light and dry. I would sink to my 
waist at every step. When I returned to 
camp, Dr. Logan told me that he would 
not allow us to make the attempt if he had 
to stop and watch us. That night Evyan 
died. The next day Stewart and I hit the 
back trail, as we were afraid of getting 
caught in a snow storm. Every snowfall 
averaged 3 or 4 feet up there. It was well 
we started at the time, as the next day it 
began snowing and it was a week before 
anyone could get from Saw Mill to Twelve 
Mile. We went back to the Rapids and we 
moved our cache to Copper Center. 

Christmas day I parted with Stewart, who 
went up the river to Forty Mile. I stopped 
at Copper Center for a time and helped a 
friend up as far as Gakona river with his 
outfit. The weather at Christmas averaged 
35 degrees below zero at Copper Center. 


204 RECREATION. 


While I was up the river in January it 
dropped to 55 to 60 degrees. I froze my 
fingers and feet again. When I left Cop- 
per Center February Ist, there were a num- 
ber of men sick in the hospitals and cabins. 
It took me 5 days to get to Valdez. I spent 
one night on the glacier at the fourth 
bench. The next morning I left there at 8 
o’clock in a snow storm. It was 6 when 
I arrived at Valdez. I reported to Charlie 
- Brown, the Quartermaster, the next morn: 
ing. 

I left a mule and a horse at Copper Cen- 
ter. I also left 2 pack harnesses and 2 halt- 
ers. The mule died January 16th. The 
horse came over the glacier and is now at 
Valdez. I left all the other gear at Mr. 
Fritt’s place on the Tonsena, as we were 
not able to carry it. Joe Ham, who went 
down with me, also stopped at that place. 

All the Indians whom we met down the 
river treated us most kindly. They would 
come 3 or 4 miles to meet us and invite 
us to their houses, where they would share 
their food with us. They make excellent 
tea by mixing a native leaf with English 
breakfast ‘tea. They make their tobacco by 
rolling a piece of gunny sack in wood ashes. 
They prefer this to our tobacco. When- 
ever we went to their houses, they would 
seat us Close to the fire and look us over. 
If our mittens or moccasins were torn, they 
would take them from us and repair them. 
Stewart’s moccasins, which were worn out, 
were replaced by a new pair, made of moose 
hide in half an hour by a woman, who 
would take no pay from him. She seemed 
happy, however, when I gave her a large 
safety pin, such as we use in fastening 
horse blankets. Another night, after thev 
had repaired our stockings and mittens, I 
showed one of the Klutches where Ste- 
wart’s trousers were torn. She wanted 
him to take them off so she could fix them, 
but he was bashful and would not do so. 
Before he realized it, 3 Klutches caught 
' Stewart by the arms and held him while 
one pulled off his trousers. He yelled to 
me for help, but it was such a funny sight I 
could do nothing but laugh. The Klutch 
fixed the trousers in good shape and was 
well pleased when I presented her with 3 
old red handkerchiefs. We found them 
very pleasant and sociable. We would sing 
and they would sing. 

The Indians knew such songs as John 
Brown’s Body, Marching Through Georgia, 
and A Hot Time in the Old Town. They 
had some cheap accordeons. Some of them 
had cast iron cook stoves, which they did 
not use, preferring the camp fire. The wo- 
men do all the work. No matter how often 
a buck goes out, he must have a cup of tea. 
When he returns, he eats first; then the 
women. What is left is flung to the chil- 
dren and the dogs. I saw a child about 4 
years old fighting with a dog for a piece 


of dried salmon. One of the bucks got mad 
because I took the salmon from the dog 
and gave it to the child. They think more 
of their dogs than of their children. In 
cold weather the bucks live in stone houses, 
about 8x1o, dug out and covered with logs 
and earth. You have to go in feet first, and 
once in with 10 or 12 naked Indians you 
are glad to get out. Their women sleep 
in the living room with the dogs and chil- 
dren. We always slept on top of the bench- 
es over the Klutches. The only Indian we 
found living like a white man was the one 
at Taral. All have their own chinaware 
anda box to keep it in. There are 8 or 10 
families in each shack. The Indian whose 
bench is on the right side of the camp fire 
as you enter, considers you his guest, and 
will feed you, but the one on the 
other side will not. All the bucks 
look like consumptives. The women, as 
a rule, look healthy. They wear but 
one garment, a long skirt, open at the breast 
or as far down as the waist, extending a 
little below the knees, and a pair of mocca- 
sins reaching above the knees. This is the 
dress of the women and children. The 
bucks dress in various styles, some with 
mackinaw cloths, picked out of the river, 
others with what white men give them. One 
buck had on 3 hats, one on top of the other. 
They all have 45-90 rifles and cheap 32 
caliber revolvers, but no cartridges for the 
latter. 

The uniform you sent with me was 
as good as a pass for us. All we did was 
to show it and ask for Nicolai, and they 
could not do enough for us. They wanted 
to know if McKinley was hi-yu white chief. 
Nicolai was 25 miles up the Chittyna river 
when I arrived at Taral. I gave the uni- 
form to the Indian who helped us over the 
river with the pack saddles. It was about 
4 sizes too small for him, but he managed 
to squeeze into it. The Indians at the 
mouth of Katsina river had some good 
pieces of copper, which they told me they 
got on the Katsina and Chittyna rivers. 

The country traveled through at Wood’s 
canyon was rough, but well wooded, with 
large quantities of grass in places. When 
I left Copper Center, for Valdez, the snow 
was 39 inches deep. At the lake it was 5 
feet deep, at Twelve Mile camp 15 feet, and 
at the foot of the glacier I could not reach 
bottom. It must have been 20 feet deep. 
Compared with last winter, I found little 
snow on the glacier when I crossed it. 
Coming over the-fourth bench the ice bridge 
was not covered. I broke through in one 
place between 2 ridges and found only 2 to 
3 inches of snow bridging the crevasse. I 
came out to Valdez with the same rig I had 
on at the Center, and felt the cold more 
than I did on the inside, yet they told me 
the lowest temperature at Valdez was 8 de- 
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THE REGENERATION 


OF WINDY. 


CHARLES A, HARMON, 


Windy was the original Mr. Prevaricator 
from Deceptionville. Nature had built him 
for a literary genius, but a rudimentary 
education jammed his cogs; so, instead 
of committing his dreams to paper and 
taking the print line to fame, he became 
a mere vocal hot air jammer, without 
honor in his own community and habitually 
without the price. 

Concerning the usual affairs of life he 
was as truthful as the average; that is, 
whenever he found a lie convenient, ex- 
pedient or necessary he told it circum- 
spectly and discreetly. His voluntary ef- 
forts at misrepresentation were confined to 
stories of hunting scrapes and tales of his 
own fearlessness. That was his specialty; 
and, when pursuing it, he wore the prob- 
able to a frazzle and was a systematic, 
elaborate and enthusiastic liar. 

About 1885 there were more brindle 
wolves to the square mile in Oscoda coun- 
ty, Michigan, than on any other like area 
exposed to the weather. From sunset to 
sunrise, especially in the fall, the night was 
one long, hair-raising horror. The brutes 
nearly drove the deer out, sheep were a 
losing investment for the settlers, tree- 
roosting poultry never attained pot-pie ma- 
turity, and many a good hound fell a vic- 
tim to his wild brethren. More than one 
lonely land-looker and belated hunter dis- 
appeared in the dead of winter to be found 
the next spring, a mere heap of gnawed 
bones and shredded rags. 

Windy came up one fall with a party of 
hunters. They were met at Beaver lake 
by a settler who drove them across the pine 
barrens to the Ausable where they were 
to camp. It was Windy’s first hunt in the 
wilderness, and his ¢ompanions conspired 
with the settler to the end that the vital 
machinery of a defunct hog and a little bag 
of asafetida were tied by a long string to 
the reach of the wagon when they halted, 
at sundown, at Loon lake, to water the 
team. 

Windy was in his finest mood. He sat 
between the rear wheels on the grub box, 
his hat cocked up behind and pulled rakish- 
ly over his eyes. He absorbed quantities 
of red pepper whiskey. He took pot shots 
at squirrels and porkies and yearned for 
In the 
course of things, it did. 

Away off to the right, a mile or more, 
a wail as of a lost soul shuddered over the 
landscape. Hank Root grabbed the settler 
by the arm and demanded, in the name of 
an extra geographical locality, to know 


what cussed thing was yowling. Windy 
butted in and said that it was only a 
measly wolf amusing himself. Back toward 
Loon lake the stillness was convulsed by 
a hideously blended reply. The settler 


glanced uneasily along the back track and 


urged his team. The wheels chucked on 
their worn skeins, the sand screamed softly 
off the tires and the men glanced sharply 
into the closing darkness. There is a 
great loneliness of long standing invest- 
ing those Northern wastes. The plaintive 
cry of a melancholy fox came to the men 
with a softened distinctness which seemed 
somehow to fit into the rest of the big lone- 
someness. The narrow surrounding hori- 
zon, enclosing squat little pines and dis- 
couraged scrub oaks, seemed capable of pe- 
culiar atrocities. 

These men, with the exception of Windy, 
had hunted this country for many falls 
and, to them, objects and sounds would 
soon slip into their rightful places; but 
that night guns were held in hand, nerves 
tingled and the long dormant alertness of 
a savage ancestry manifested itself in 
gleaming eyes, and quick, shifty move- 
ments. Howling ringed them in. It came 
from every point of the compass, but often- 
est and most fiercely from the rear. A rab- 
bit sprang from a bunch of dried grass, 
making racket out of all proportion to his 
size and importance; the men rose as one 
and stood leaning and peering. They con- 
versed in laconic gutterals. The driver 
ental his team up, and taking 2 lanterns 
rom beneath the seat, hung one on each 
horse’s hame. 

“Don’t s’pose ther’s any danger of ’em 
tacklin’ us at this time o’ year, but I ain’t 
takin’ no chances,” he said, as he climbed 
back in. He swung the lash and drove on. 
“Feller used to drive tote team fer Loud’s 
2 years ago, wus comin’ in on runners with 
a load of beef fer the camps. He allus car- 
ried a light on the end board, one on each 
side 0’ the seat and one on each hoss; but 
he forgot to fill ’em an’ they went out an 
him jest as he got along by Lost crick. 
The wolves lit on to him an’ killed him an’ 
the hosses, an’ chawed things up gen’ly. 
Course that was in the dead of winter, but 
—g’long thar; git out 0’ here!” 

“Well, they’r follerin’ us, all right;” said 
one of the party. Windy moved un where 
there was more company. Judging by the 
sound there were anyway 7 to 17 
wolves snuffling at the scent between the 
wheel tracks behind them. They were so 
close that the undertone of protest at be- 


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206 RECREATION. 


ing jostled and snapped at could be plainly 
heard. The infernally cruel howling was 
incessant. 

When they reached Damon, Windy com- 
plained of feeling sick. He laid it to the 
whiskey. When they crossed the county 
line and the pack had again picked up the 
scent after swinging wide of the settle- 
ment, he lay down in the bottom of the 
wagon, explaining that he felt as if he 
would heave up his boots. He frequently 
assured the others, however, that there was 
no danger. 

“Don’t you s’pose you'd feel better to 
git out and walk a little, Windy?” asked 
Hank Root compassionately. 

“Naw, I'll be all right after a spell ;” re- 
plied Windy. 

The hills and gully thickets South of 
Big Creek swamp were wolf headquarters 
in those days. When the team wound in 
among them with the winking lanterns, 
they were greeted by a large and demon- 
strative mob which kept always at an in- 
distinct distance, swirling like phantoms, 
threatening, taunting, playing Indian tricks 
of fiendish humor. 

“Helofa tight job gittin’ through that 
swamp,” said the settler as he cracked 
the blacksnake over the wheezing horses. 
“You fellers had better git lined up where 
you kin do the most good in case they try 
to pull the hosses down.” 

Every body fired and yelled. They 
ploughed down the last sandy hill and 
crashed through the narrow rift in the 
cedars with the horses on the dead run. 
The pursuing pack took grand stand seats 
at the entrance and screeched bloody terror 
after them. There was another settlement 
within a mile, and Windy said he felt quite 


a lot better. He said the bumping over the 


crossway had kind of shook the sickness 
all out of him. 


“Aw, hell! Sick yer grannie!” sneered . 


Hank. “You're skairt; that’s all’s the mat- 
ter with you!” 

Windy ridiculed the idea. 

“Why didn’t you git out ’n kick a few 
of ’em in the ribs then?” Hank demanded. 

“He dassent git out of the wagon now,” 
taunted another; “an’ ther ain’t a wolf this 
side the swamp.” 

Windy hesitated, then jumped out and 
ran along beside the team. 

“Git out into the brush, why don’t you?” 
they yelled at him. He veered off and 
skulked along through the widely scattered 
trees. 

There were 2 hounds in the wagon, and 
Hank put a painful kink in the tail of one, 
while Bob Stevens operated on the other. 
Charley Arand and the settler tucked the 
stocks of their Winchesters beneath their 
arms and worked the levers for dear life. 
All yelled at the top of their voices. The 
horses broke into a mad gallop. 

“Git into a tree, fer Gawd’s_ sake, 
Windy!” roared Hank; “they’r tryin’ to 
climb the wagon.” Windy shed his rifle, 
then his coat, and lit indiscriminately into 
the side of the most promising jack pine. 
The ki-yi-ing, shooting, cursing load went 
reeling around a crook in the road and 
pulled up breathless at the settlement. 
Windy roosted all right in that ridiculously 
inadequate tree. . 

When they came out in the morning to 
rescue him he slid sheepishly out of the 
branches and said: 

“That’s all right. I’m one of the damn- 
dest liars on Gawd’s footstool; but if you 
fellers "11 promise not to say anything about 
this when we git home, I’ll swear off right 
now an’ do all the cookin’ while we're 
here.” 

They all swore never to tell, and, from 
that time, Windy was a changed man. 


Phrenologist—Here is a man out of his 
proper sphere. His head betokens high 
intellectual and spiritual qualities, yet he 
is spending his time behind a_ grocer’s 
counter. Sir (to the grocer), I wish to 


ask you a question. 
tions 





Have you any aspira- 


Grocer (calling to clerk)—John, have we 


any aspirations ? 


Clerk—All out, sir. 


Have some in the 


last of the week.—Kansas City Journal. 





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FISHING AFTER DARK. 


MAY MC HENRY, 


There are several kinds of cowards, but if 
Uncle Elias was a coward, of which I have 
never felt sure, he belonged in a class of 
his own; in that, as in everything else, he 
was utterly and entirely original. He used 
to say that not to be afraid of the dark 
was to lack imagination. No one ever ac- 
cused Uncle Elias of lacking imagination. 
It was because of his generous endowment 
of this ability that when he went fishing 
for trout in the dusk of the evening, he al- 
ways took Aunt Sally Ann along. 

Aunt Sally Ann’s daughters, married and 
important, protested that it was bad for 
their mother’s rheumatism, and that it did 
not seem proper for an elderly lady to be 
wandering along the creek at night. Aunt 
Sally Ann smiled calmly at the protests. 
She liked to be taken along; it made her 
feel young, er rather it reminded her of her 
youth to be out under the dim sky of night ; 
it reminded her of her youth to walk home 
across the firefly-bedecked meadows and 

own the straggling village street, with 
Uncle Elias, because of that imagination of 
his, keeping very near to her. 

On account of the tanneries and the big 
sawmills and the lumbermen who strip the 
mountains of their forests, Fishing creek 
bids fair to have only an Irish reason for 
its name. A few years ago there were 
plenty of fish. In the lower reaches of the 
stream in deep, shaded pools, there were 
big trout, wise, reserved old aristocrats that 
were not for the common angler, not for 
any one, in fact, but the initiated. 

“Brother Elias, what kind of bait do you 
use that makes you so successful a catcher 
of fish?” the Methodist preacher asked. 

“The kind of bait, Parson, that might 
make you a successful fisher of men—un- 
ee ane and sympathy,” Uncle Elias re- 
plied. 

It was in the balmy dusk of a June 
evening that Uncle Elias caught his big 
trout. Last summer at the close of a sultry 
day Uncle Elias and Aunt Sally Ann went 
up to Swartwout’s dam with the fish bas- 
ket, the birch pole and the little bag of 
grasshoppers. A New Yorker who edits a 
paper about hunting and fishing and things 
was getting out of the stage in front of 
Boyd’s hotel. He laughed as he saw the 
chubby old sportsman with the big fish 
basket strapped over the long and ample 
linen duster, little knowing that he would 
soon be begging that same hayseed fisher- 
man to teach a New York expert how to 
catch trout. 

Swartwout’s dam is the spookiest place 
along the creek, It is in something of a 


9°7 


pocket at an angle of the steep, hemlock- 
covered hills, and only the sun at midday 
and a few ambitious stars climb high enough 
to look down into the deep, dark pool. On 
one side there is a row of dead sycamores, 
gaunt, naked, white as chalk, like a proces- 
sion of stark ghosts knee deep in the water. 
Back of the trees is a swamp, where the 
fox-fire glows and jack-o’-lanterns flicker 
when it is dark. The big trout linger 
there at the base of the hill where springs 
bubble between rocks. 

Aunt Sally Ann sat on a log near the 
dead sycamores. Uncle Elias tied the tails 
of his linen duster about his Santa Claus 
stomach and waded in his high rubber boots 
across the broken comb of the old dam. 
There is a narrow, slippery ledge of rock at 
the bottom of the hill. Uncle Elias stepped 
silently, carefully ; no abrupt moves, no rat- 
tling stones to jar the nerves of those serene 
big fellows down below. He threw out 
a grasshopper or 2 to test the temper and 
appetite of the fish. They took food eagerly. 
There was no hurry; infinte patience, infin- 
ite care in selecting and arranging the bait. 
After a wait meant to pique the curiosity of 
the fish, the grasshopper at the end of the 
line sailed out to exactly the right spot, 
dropped lightly, and almost before it 
touched the water was seized with a swish 
and a rush. The thrill passed through the 
birch pole to every fiber of Uncle Elias’ 
being. 

The trout bit well that evening. When 
Uncle Elias had as many fish as he needed 
for immediate use it was his custom to 
stop, as he deprecated greediness; but up in 
the little eddy beyond the pile of driftwood 
a trout turned a somersault for sheer joy 
and deviltry. No angler could resist the 
invitation of that mighty splash, that gleam 
of big white belly. “He’s an old resident- 
er,” Uncle Elias commented as he climbed 
over the driftwood. 

The old residenter was coy. Uncle Elias 
tried all his tricks and wiles, his choicest 
bait, his most practiced throws. In the ab- 
sorption of the true sportsman he took no 
note of time. The roll of distant thunder 
aroused him. Darkness had closed in swift- 
ly; the outlines of the opposite shore were 
lost and the tall sycamore ghosts seemed 
to be wading across toward him. A sinis- 
ter silence hung over the black pool. 

“Sally Ann! Sally Ann!” Uncle Elias 
raised his voice to his faithful wife. There 
was no answer. The roots of his hair 
turned cold. 

“Sa-a-lly! Sa-a-l-ly !” 

There was not even an echo; nothing but 


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that awful stillness of the universe holding 
its breath in suspense. 

“‘Wo-o-0-0-00!” went a hoot owl on the 
hill. Souse! went Uncle Elias, 6 feet out 
into the middle of the deep hole. The water 
closed over his head and the spray sprinkled 
the tall hemlocks. The old residenter bur- 
rowed under a stone, where for 3 days and 
nights he did not venture to wave a fin. 
Uncle Elias rose to the surface and struck 
out for the shore. Snorting and blowing 
like a porpoise, he waded in under the dead 
sycamores. 

There on her log he found the partner of 
his joys, his sorrows and his fishing, writh- 
ing in merriment, doubling in convulsions 
of unholy and unconjugal laughter. 

“Woman! Woman!” sputtered Uncle 
Elias feelingly. 


RECREATION. 


They went home at a little trot. Even in 
June the night air has a chill for one who 
has been drenched with spring water. Aunt 
Sally Ann tied her little shoulder cape over 
Uncle Elias’ head that he might not take ear 
ache. The attention was received in grim 
silence. 

As they entered their gate in the light 
that shone through the big window of the 
post office across the way, Aunt Sally Ann 
stuffed her apron in her mouth. She was 
not quick enough. Uncle Elias heard the 
smothered sound and tore off the little 
shoulder cape. 

“Woman,” he said: with dignity, as he un- 
tied the clinging duster, “woman, a few 
more such light minded pranks and I will 
be justified in applying for a legal separa- 
tion.’ 


HIS CHANGE OF VIEW. 


CANDICE A, 


There was a man in our town, and he was 
wondrous wise. 

The things that man knew how to do would 
fill you with surprise. 

He said his wife should be ashamed to talk 
of overwork; 

She had scarce anything to do, and only 
wished to shirk. 

*Twas men, he said, who toiled and moiled, 
from rise to set of sun; 

Their wives just bustled round a bit and 
all their work was done. 

One day this man, in pleasant mood, de- 
clared his wife should go 

Upon a visit to a friend and stay a week 
or so. 


And when she spoke about the work, he’d 
do it all, he said; 

It wouldn’t take a man all day to sweep 
and make a bed. 

And so the wife went on her way and left 
her spouse alone; 

The story of the next two days would melt 
a heart of stone. 


BRAMBLE, 


He tried to wash the dishes first; oh, yes, 
he truly tried! 

He burned his hand and spoiled his coat 
before the cups were dried. 

To tell of all that followed then, would be, 
I think, unkind; 

But long before the day had passed that 
wise man changed his mind. 


And ere the second day went by, a weary, 
jaded man, 

He sent this message to his wife: “Come 
home, soon as you can.” 

And when she came. Oh, me! Oh, my! 
What chaos met her sight! 

Her tidy house was all upset and in a 
dreadful plight. 

Her husband, wilted and unstrung, met 
her with visage grim, 

And she—I think I’ll have to skip the 
things, she said to him. 

But now he never brags at all about his 
wisdom rare, 

And says he thinks of toil and care a 
woman has her share. 


Mother—What are you crying for, child? 


“Johnny hurt me.” 
“How ?” 


“IT was going to hit him with my fist, 
when he ducked his head and I struck the 


wall.” —Exchange, 





real 
=“ 


A PILFERING GRIZZLY. 


FRANK R. GROVER. 


John Gilbert, of Cooke City, Montana, is 
a bear hunter. In the fall of 1902 he intro- 
duced 2 Chicago lawyers to a family of 5 sil- 
vertips and a job lot of blacks and cinna- 
mons. The lawyers, true to the instincts of 
their profession, carried home the hides of 
the whole silvertip family and of 2 or 3 of 
their black and brown cousins, and the feat 
was the talk of all Northern Wyoming. I 
heard of it in Chicago and engaged Mr. 
Gilbert to duplicate the job. 

In the early part of September my friend, 
Carl Leopold, of Burlington, Iowa, and our 
2 young sons, with Gilbert as guide, were 
camping in Yellowstone park, seeing the 
sights and waiting for the open season in 
Wyoming, September 15th. If all the 
true bear stories that have been told around 
camp fires in Yellowstone park could be 
put in a book, the readers would all agree 
that the author had lost the intellectual 
partition between memory and imagina- 
tion. The reminiscences of our camp fires 
would make one chapter in such a book. 

The evening of September 2d, 1903, we 
were camped in a canyon about 2 miles 
from the great falls of the Yellowstone, and 
the discussion of Bruin in all his aspects 
was the evening’s entertainment; the feroc- 
ity of the grizzly, the shyness, slyness and 
swiftness of foot of the black bear, the 
docility of the Yellowstone-park-garbage- 
pile-hotel bear, the nonsense of the lying 
stories about bears coming tnto camp and 
stealing provisions, were all argued pro and 
con. Gilbert was a modest, unassum- 
ing man, and we were never annoyed 
by the usual guide tales of his own exploits ; 
but on that occasion, we were much inter- 
ested regarding a patriarch of the grizzly 
tribe, weighing some 800 pounds, which 
the season before, near the park line and 
but a few miles from our camp, had left 
about 6 inches square of his right front 
foot in one of Gilbert’s traps. Gilbert’s re- 
mark, “TI’d like to get within 10 rods of 
him and I’d fix him,” was given but pass- 
ing notice at that time. Bedtime arrived 
and after a fina! look at the saddle and pack 
horses and a peering into the darkness in 
the direction of the coyote chorus that had 
been rehearsing all the evening on the 
mountain side, we were ready to crawl into 
the sleeping bags. Gilbert declared he had 
heard so much fiction that evening about 
camp-robbing bears that he and his son 
Clarence would sleep on the ground around 
the wagon and he “should like to see the 
bear that could climb over him and get the 
bacon out of that wagon.” 


About one to 2 o'clock a. m. I awoke 
twice, aroused once by the clatter of a tin 
plate on the dinner table and again by the 
neighing of one of the horses, 

“A bear in camp,” I suggested, but I was 
lulled to sleep by some sarcastic references 
of Mr. L. regarding a similar midnight 
alarm a year before in a Michigan forest, 
when a common wood hare, or snowshoe 
rabbit, was found to be the intruder. 

“Can’t ycu hear Gilbert snore,” said Leo- 
pold. “He is a bear hunter. Do you sup- 
pose a live bear would catch him with his 
eyes shut? Don’t bother me.” 

What was known as the alarm clock in 
camp, namely Gilbert chopping wood for 
the breakfast fire, was usually heard at day- 
break or at latest 6.30 a.m. That morning 
the first sound was the exclamations of the 
Gilbert family, with intervals between deé- 
voted to investigation. 

“The bacon is gone!” “The prunes are 
gone!” “Took the sugar!” “See his tracks!” 
“Say, he took that loaf of bread, too!” “He 
made 5 trips!” “And there I was snorin’ 
like a tenderfoot !” 

The investigation that ensued showed be- 
yond question that Mr. Bear, with his velvet 
feet, had come softly into camp, stepped 
lightly over Gilbert and son and had com- 
mitted 5 distinct burglaries, taking out of 
the wagon and the-panniers and from our 
camp table, and carrying off in turn a sack 
of bacon, a bag of prunes, a loaf of bread, 
baked in camp for breakfast, 1o pounds of 
sugar and a yard or 2 of summer sausage. 
The few uneaten remnants of these supplies, 
found in a heap a few rods from camp, as 
well as the deep prints of Bruin’s teeth 
in the sausage, which did not seem to 
suit his taste, would have convicted him 
of the robbery even before a Chicago jury; 
and the tracks plainly told us he was no 
dwarf. 

This account of stock had just been com- 
pleted when Gilbert began to examine with 
greater care the tracks which this ancient 
marauder had left behind. Both the tracks 
and the expression on Gilbert’s face, to say 
nothing of his exclamations, indicated that 
he had found an old acquaintance, for about 
1% of the tracks were made by a club 
foot that would just make good that part 
of a bear which Gilbert’s trap failed to 
hold the year before. Someone was unkind 
enough to remark: 

“Say, Gilbert! did you get within to rods 
of him?” To which our pilot replied: 

“No, but that durned bear got within 10 
inches of me.” 


FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


The man who quits when he gets enough, with plenty of game still in sight, is a rea] sportsman. 


COL. DUNN’S TRIP TO TIA JUANA. 


Colonel Dunn, of San Bernardino, has returned 
from a hunting trip at Tia Juana. The trip lasted 

3 days and there were 5 in the party. The Times- 
Vadex assures its readers that ‘‘in that short time 
they killed 2,480 quails, 150 doves and 100 cot- 
tontails, and made meat a drug on the market 
among the Mexicans and cholos. As a result of 


their liberality the village meat market closed 
during their stay. It was all wing shooting, 
too, barring the cottontails—San Diego (Cal.) 


Union. 
I wrote to Mr. F. W. Dunn, as follows: 


I am informed you and 4 friends recently 
killed 2,480 quails in 3 days. Will you 
kindly let me know if this report is cor- 
rect, giving full particulars. 


Here is his answer in part: 


Your inquiry I will answer as _ intelli- 
gently as possible. The shooters in the 
party were Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Black, Mes- 
srs. D. P. Doke, Fred Doke, E. A. Fano, 
George Garretson and I. With us, but not 
shooting, were Mrs. Garretson, the 2 
Mrs. Dokes and Mrs. Fano. There were 
7 shooters the first day and 5 the other 2 
days, Fred Doke and Mr. Fano and their 
wives having to return to San Diego. The 
result of the first day’s shoot was 824 
quails, 165 doves and 42 rabbits. The other 
2 days filled out the gross bag of 2,480 
quails, 423 doves and 192 rabbits. 

I am aware you want the information in 
order to roast us as game hogs. Being 
conversant with all the conditions from 
New York to California and from Washing- 
ton to Florida, I have some conception of 
the justice of your efforts. 

No man is more of a gentleman than any 
one of the several in our party and none 
would go farther to uphold the laws; but 
there are places where even law is in error 
as to game seasons. Still our party assists 
in upholding them. 

T. A. Brown, of Mafivel, Calif., S. H. 
Black and | took another trip into Mexico 
2 weeks after the one above mentioned, 
partly to shoot and partly to examine a gold 
mine. We shot the first day, bagging 418 
quails, 65 doves and 18 rabbits. The ‘next 
day we drove 20 miles, looked over the 
mine and left that camp to go back to Tia 
Juana Hotel, 30 miles. We carried to the 
hotel on our return trip 402 quails, 31 
doves and 19 rabbits. Now don’t think 
this is pot shooting. There was scarcely a 
chance in a day when we could get a pot 
shot on the ground. California quails flush 
easily and they run light, to high brush. 
A covey scatters in ail directions, and 
it is single bird flight shooting entirely, 


the birds resembling more the jack snipe 
than the Eastern quail in flight; so it is 
no pot hunter that can make a bag, and no 
common cold blooded dog that has nose 
enough to point. The country on both sides 
of the line is a rugged one, covered with 
brush. 

All our game was given away to poor 
people in Tia Juana, where the butcher was 
charging 60 cents a pound for beef. We 
have made an eternal enemy of the butcher, 
as we threw the game out on the porch and 
told everyone to help himself. You 
should have seen the little half-clad ur- 
chins taking away as many quails as their 
hands would hold. In 5 minutes there was 
not a head’ of game in sight. 

Being 54 years old and having shot thou- 
sands of head of game in nearly every State, 
and spent 30 years helping hew out the 
American frontier I believe I am not really 
required to apologize to any one on this 
subject and shall not do so. 

F. W. Dunn, San Diego, Cal. 


Mr. Dunn writes a 9 page letter, all of 
which I should have been glad to print if 
I could spare the room for it, as it is 
really interesting. It will be noticed that 
Mr. Dunn says in conclusion he will not 
apologize for his act, yet at least 7 pages 
of his letter are devoted to making what 
could only be properly termed an apology 
for this reckless killing.. He undertakes 
to show that the pcor little quail of Mexico 
is a pest to the ranchmen and fruit growers 


_of that country, and not only a pest but a 


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pestilence as serious and as destructive in 
its nature as the grasshopper ever was in 
Kansas, and he classes himself and friends 
as philanthropists who went down to Mex- 
ico and helped clean out the quails purely 
in the interest of the aforesaid ranchmen 
and fruit growers. He says in effect that 
he and ‘’s companions deserve the grati- 
tude of the people whom they benefited, as 
much as auy grasshopper fighters ever de- 
served the gratitude of Kansas farmers. He 
recounts to me as he did to the newspaper 
reporter the fact that the quails were given 
to the starving, suffering inhabitants of Tia 
Juana and tells how these people thanked 
the donors with tearful eyes for the strings 
of birds which they carried away. Mr. 
Dunn furthermore says that he and his 
party incurred the everlasting hatred of 
the butcher in that town, who was unable 
to sell any meat for a week after each of 
the 2 visits made by these quail butchers. 
If this story was new, it might have 
mitigated the offenses of these quail butch- 





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FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 211 


ers to some extent, but unfortunately it 
is not. Men who have killed wagon loads 
of geese in California and ducks in Ore- 
gon and deer in other States have, when 
called to account for their wickedness, put 
up the plea that they gave the game away 
to poor half starved babes in infant hos- 
pitals, or to lung sufferers in other hospi- 
tals, or to some other charitable institutions. 
It is a mystery to me that the so called 
cloak of charity has not been torn into 
shreds long ago by being stretched to cover 
the crimes of so many thousands of game 
butchers. Mr. Dunn and his friends may 
be charitable men, but I would bet Io to 1 
that if any man asked them to go down to 
Mexico and kill 1,000 or 2,000 birds to 
feed the suffering children of any town 
there, the aforesaid hunters would decline 
the invitation with thanks. Still, these same 
men go down there, kill 2,480 quails in 3 
days and then in order to try to square 
themselves with their consciences and with 
possible accusers at home, distribute their 
birds among these poor people; but it does 
not go. No decent man will be hoodwinked 
into forgiving them for such disgraceful 
slaughter, simply because they could not 
eat all these birds and because, therefore, 
they gave them away. . 

It was simply the love of slaughter and 
the vanity these men felt in being able to 
make great records, that prompted this 
merciless destruction of bird life. 

Here is a copy of an entry I have just 
made in the game hog register. 

F. W. Dunn, No. 972; S. H. Black, No, 
073; D. P. Doke, No. 974; Fred Doke, 
No. 975; E. A. Fano, No. 976; Geo. Gar- 


retson, No, 977; T. A. Brown, No. 978.— _ 


EDITOR. 





SUGGESTIONS FOR QUAIL HUNTERS. 


When you are ready to go quail shooting, 
drive around to the corner saloon and load 
up 2 or 3 kegs of beer, depending on the 
room you have in your conveyance. Ask 
all the loafers you run across to go with 
you. They will be useful for advertising 
purposes, if you like to advertise that way. 
They will also help to make noise, but do 
not put them in the end of the wagon con- 
taining the beer. Better take a bottle of 
bug juice, too, as the good old farmer may 
like it better than beer. 

Take at least 300 loaded shells for each 
man, not forgetting the loafers. They are 
not men, of course, but will probably want 
to shoot. Don’t buy anything smaller than 
No. 2 shot. The birds are wild these days, 
and have to be persuaded with heavy shot. 
Besides, with large shot you may be able 
to shoot the eyes out of a cow or a horse 
over in the next county. 

As soon as you get clear of the police, 


do as you damn please. Law and order are 
all right for the city, but everything goes 
in the country. Shoot at all the chickens 
you see, and sing and yell all you want to. 
Country people enjoy noise and riot. 

hen you arrive at the home of the far- 
mer with whom you have made arrange- 
ments for dinner, drive into his yard and 
yell some more. This will please and im- 
press the worthy agriculturist, and make 
him glad to entertain you. Then tumble 
out of your wagon. Of course, the farmer 
did not expect such a crowd, but never 
mind that. He may appear a trifle gruff, 


_ but pay no attention to him. He probably 


hasn’t been up long, and feels cross and 
sleepy. His gruffness will wear off before 
noon. 

Don’t forget to turn your dogs loose as 
soon as you reach the barn. They can 
limber up on the poultry and stock while 
you are putting out your horses and get- 
ting the beer out of the wagon. This is 
good for the dogs, and they will be in 
shape to work as soon as the hunting 
grounds are reached. Pay no attention to 
the fuss made by the poultry; they will set- 
tle down in a week or two; those that are 
not killed. 

When you get down to business, shoot. 
No matter what you see, shoot. It doesn’t 
pay to take chances of losing game when 
you are hunting. No matter if you do kill 


a hog or a sheep. It might have been a 


rabbit, you know, and the more you shoot 
the more you may expect to kill. If you 
chance on a farmer gathering corn, go 
up close to him and fire 2 or 3 shots as 
fast as you can. He will not mind it. His 
horses may run away, but they will soon 
stop. If he asks you to go over on the 
other side of his farm, fearing you may 
shoot him, don’t go. There is no use of it. 
Farmers must get over being so timid. 
About an hour after you begin hunting, 
your loafers will want to.go back and 
look after the beer keg. Let them go, and 
tell them to enjoy themselves. Tell them 
not to be afraid to make a noise around 
the farmhouse. The sight of a few well 
jagged bums will afford much amusement 
to the farmer’s wife and her daughters. 
At noon come in and see how your partners 
are getting on. At this time interview the 
bug juice bottle. This will give you an 
appetite for dinner. Don’t pay for your 
dinners if you can avoid it. See if the 
farmer won’t accept 3 or 4 rabbits, those 
that are shot up the worst. Bird hunters 
generally bag plenty of rabbits, though in 
town they will tell you they never shoot 
at anything but birds. When hunting, al- 
ways throw down all the fences you can. 
This gives the worthy farmer something to 
do the next day, and the work helps his 


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digestion. Leave all gates open, and do 
everything you can to show that you are at 
home on the farm. Many other pleasan- 
tries besides those enumerated will suggest 
themselves to the thoughtful hunter, help- 
ing him to put in a glorious day afield. Fi- 
nally, start for home about dark, and spend 
the next 3 days beguiling your town friends 
with stories about the uncouth hayseed and 
his amusing ways. 
Farmer, Markleville, Ind. 





SOME BEAR FACTS. 


M. S. Whitney, of this place, visited his 
bear traps recently and found that one was 
gone. He took the trail, which led up 
under Tumbledown mountain and soon saw 
by the signs that he had a large bear to 
deal with. It was hard trailing among the 
rocks and ledges, and in the afternoon it 
rained. Whitney had to leave the trail and 
go home. The next day he enlisted the 
service of a neighbor and started again to 
look after his traps, as he had others set 
in that section. He soon found that an- 
other had been sprung and carried away, 
but could not find much sign. Both men 
went home and reported 2 bears in traps 
somewhere in Township number 6, Frank- 
lin county. 

The next morning Mr. Whitney started 
with A. S. Yorm and his son, Clifton, with 
rifles in hand and lunch in their sack, deter- 
mined that the bears must come down that 
day. About 9 a. m. they came to where 
one bear had taken a trap from his bed. 
After looking about carefully they struck 
the trail, but the showers of the previous 
week had blotted it some. They succeeded 
in trailing the bear about half a mile and 
found the trap with a bear’s toe in it. They 
took the trap and started for the other trail. 
In about an hour they found where the 
bear was dragging another trap. We had 
no trouble in following him as his tracks 
showed he was no cub. In a short time we 
found fresh tracks and the word was passed 
along the line to be ready to drop the bear 
when they found him hitched up. 

Clifton was ahead, with his rifle in hand, 
the others following up the side of the 
mountain. Suddenly up sprang the bear 
from behind a rock. Clifton gave him one 
from his 44, Whitney came in with his 
44 and Add with his 45-70 Sharps. All 
were snap shots and the boys did not 
need any one to say shoot. Every time the 
bear showed himself among the rocks and 
trees a ball went for him. Did you ever 
see a black bear run? This bear did run, 
with trap and chain, which weighed about 
40 pounds. Clifton took after him and the 
woods fairly rang with rifle shots and the 
jingle of the trap and chain. Whitney and 
Add followed as fast as they could. They 


RECREATION. 


soon found that the bear was bleeding 
fast. The bushes and trees were spattered 
with blood, but on the party went. The bear 
ran along a vulevice in the ledge where, if 
he had made a false step, he would have 
slid off 100 feet; but he ran it all right. 

At the end of half an hour they heard 
Clifton shout. They answered him and 
followed the trail, picking up his hat and 
lunch bag, which they took along with 
them. They found him seated on a rock 
with the perspiration rolling off his face. 
He said the bear was too much for him on 
a long run and he could not get up to him. 
They then followed about half a mile 
farther and came to a little brook where 
they stopped to lunch, but the water smelt 
a little of bear tracks so they started on 
again. 

That time the word was “keep still and 
make good time.” They trailed him an 
hour and not a word was spoken. The 
bear had stopped running and was making 
a good trail to follow. They found an- 
other brook. Clifton stepped up stream to 
drink. Whitney and Young crossed the 
brook and as they reached the opposite side 
the water was roiled. A few more long 
strides and the bear was sighted. Then 
there was some sharp shooting. Six ‘shots 
were fired and all took effect. The bear 
ran into the brook and stretched out. 

He was a big one and would have 
weighed 400 or 500 pounds. Out of the 14 
shots fired 10 had taken effect. The chain 
had been broken and the clog was gone; 
the pan and crossbar were off the trap. 

The men were 10 miles from home but 
they took off the pelt and one of the fore- 
paws, knocked out 2 of the tusks and left 
the bear to his haunts, to go back to dust. 
His skin is on Whitney’s barn. It stretched 
in length 7% feet and 6% feet from arm to 
arm, without his gloves on. 

A. S. Young, Byron, Me. 





THE DUCK HOGS OF PORTLAND. 


If the L. A. S. has a representative at 
Portland, Ore., it might be well to investi- 
gate conditions reported by 2 business men 
of this city, recently returned from there. 
From their story and from information 
from other sources I infer that an ex- 
tremely low standard of sportsmanship ex- 
ists in Portland. The large and influential 
clubs, owning private shooting marshes, 
and having members supposedly representa- 
tive of the latter element, seem to be the 
worst offenders. 

One man here says he was recently in- 
vited to the marshes of one of the big 
clubs in Portland and gladly accepted. 
There were 7 or 8 present, including him- 
self. Between 700 and 800 ducks were 
killed in the morning’s shoot, of which 34 





FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


fell to his gun. He said he was heartily 
ashamed of his kill, but the others laughed 
at him for not getting more. When about 
to take his 34 ducks to distribute to friends, 
he was informed that no birds could be 
taken away, but that all must go to the 
Portland market and be sold for the benefit 
of the club treasury. Upon expressing’ mild 
surprise, he was told that this is the com- 
mon practice of all the clubs in Portland, 
and on investigation, found it true. 

I have since talked with a man who trav- 
els for a large gun house and who would 
not wish to be quoted by name. He con- 
firmed the report that such conditions exist 
in Portland and, to some extent in Seattle 
also, 

I confess I have not been guiltless my- 
self in years gone by, but since readinz 
RECREATION, and especially since joining 
the L. A. S. several years ago, I am con- 
tent with the legal limit or with less. I 


think any community should be shown up . 


that permits wholesale slaughter of game by 
clubs of so-called sportsmen, which, if done 
by a market hunter, would doubtless land 
him in jail and would be called a crime. » 
P. D. W., Spokane, Wash. 


There are 2 cities on this continent that 
are especially notorious for the large num- 
ber of game hogs who root in their streets. 
These ase Denver and Portland, and while 
there are many respectable sportsmen in 
both places, the bristleback element is so 
largely predominant that it would really 
be a blessing to the game protective inter- 
ests of the country at large if both cities 
should be swallowed up by earthquakes. You 
should not mention the members of the 
Portland ducking clubs as sportsmen. By 
so doing you degrade the term. A gang of 
men who will club together and kill ducks 
at the rate of 100 a day each, and then sell 
them, are beneath the notice of any true 
sportsman, and your friend who associated 
with these men for one day should be 
ashamed of the fact as long as he lives. I 
have been invited to shoot with these dirty 
loafers at Portland, but I would rather go 
into a genuine hog corral, anywhere, and eat 
shucks with the 4 footed beasts than be 
found in the club house with such disrepu- 
table and disgraceful 2 legged brutes as 
these who comprise the Portland club you 
tell about.—Enbrror. 





SPORT OR MEAT? 


There is no question as to whether or not 
game should be protected; the question is, 
for what purpose? In days gone by we 
were taught that game was created for 
’ table use. If that be true, then I favor 
still hunting of deer and ground shooting 
of birds, in order that we may secure the 
mést meat with the least labor. Killing an 


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animal for meat is only butchering; and 
when we want to kill a beef do we put dogs 
after it in order to make the task longer 
and more exciting? When we want a 
ae for dinner do we scare it to make it 

Ped readers on seeing this may say 
I am not a sportsman and can not feel 
the thrill of triumph that a successful shot 
brings to the hunter. If they call still hunt- 
ing deer or ground shooting birds sport, 
then°I am not a sportsman. I have killed 
but 2 deer in my life, and only for their 
meat. I still hunted both, and there was no 
more sport about it than about butchering 
a beef. 

It seems to me that game was created to 
furnish sport as well as meat, and in that 
belief I heartily endorse the article by J. 
D. Morley in July Recreation. I am not 
so tender hearted as Mr. Morley, and might 
hunt another deer if I needed his flesh, but 
will never still hunt one for sport. Mr. 
Rodney West, with many other anti-hound- 
ing men, contends that one can kill more 
deer by still hunting than with hounds; as 
if the quantity of venison secured was the 
only object in view. If he is right, hound- 
ing should be a measure of protection to 
the deer. If he is wrong, it will still be 
instructive to compare the 2 methods. 

The still hunter noiselessly treads the 
forest until, warned by the cracking of 
twigs that he is in the vicinity of game, 
he hides to wait for a shot. Presently a 
deer comes in sight. The hunter pulls 
trigger and his mania to kill is, for the 
moment, gratified. The rest of his experi- 
ence is labor. What little sport there was 
he enjoyed alone and it lasted but a mo- 
ment. 

The hounding man, having learned where 
a deer is ranging, invites a number of 
friends to share the sport and enjoy the 
music of the chase. A dozen hounds sweep 
over the trail, a dozen steeds pull furious- 
ly on their bits and as many human hearts 
beat gayly, relieved for the present of all 
worldly care. The chase continues for 
miles and hours until the deer is bayed and 
killed. Then the hunters share the venison 
as they have shared the sport. 

The still hunter has a whole carcass 
hanging in his smokehouse and if he want- 
ed only meat, is doubtless satisfied. The 
hounded deer yields as much meat and, in 
addition, furnished a day’s recreation to a 
whole neighborhood. 

I should like to hear from more RECREA- 
TION readers in regard to what our wild 
game is for. 


H. S. Ferrell, Weiser, Idaho. 


AFFAIRS IN THE TETON RESERVE. 


Having been a guide and trapper on the 
Teton forest preserve in Wyoming since 





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96, I am able to give a fairly accurate ac- 
count of the conditions obtaining here 
since the establishment of the reserve. 

Interest in game protection has increased 
yearly until we now have a well organized 
force of deputy wardens patrolling the 
hunting grounds and rigidly enforcing the 
law; but the question of a winter range 
for game remains to be settled. In extend- 
ing the reserve last spring, withdrawing 
from settlement a large area of land, it 
was the intention to provide safe and suff- 
cient winter range for the different kinds of 
game. Yet in all the country reserved 
there is no locality in which a large herd 
of elk can safely winter. 

Old hunters remember that in the win- 
ter of ’88, when there were only 2 or 3 
ranches and not a fence post in Jackson’s 
Hole, elk had free access to all the range, 
including the large swamps where slough 
grass grows tall and rank. The crusting 
of the heavy fall of snow that winter pre- 
vented the elk from pawing down to the 
grass and thousands perished from hunger. 
Should there come another such winter, 
now that the winter range is grazed all 
summer by cattle and the large swamps 
have been fenced, it would result in the 
death of all elk in the reserve. The atten- 
tion of all advocates of game protection 
seems to have been fixed on the country 
South of Yellowstone park; but for winter 
range one township the width of the park 
on the North boundary would be worth the 
whole Teton reserve. 

In the discussion of protection of wild 
animals there must arise the question of 
the rights of another animal called man. 

Before the setting aside of the original 
reserve there had come into the country a 
considerable number of settlers, some of 
whom squatted on unsurveyed land with 
the intention of building homes. In ’98 
the reserve was finally withdrawn from set- 
tlement with the land still unsurveyed and 
the squatters without filed claims. Some 
have homes and barns, and farms fenced 
and ditched. To take from these people 
their hard earned property seems extreme- 
ly unjust and contrary to the intention of 
the government. 

The many inspectors and supervisors who 
have been sent to report on the condition 
of land, timber, game and people in this 
country have been too much influenced by 
their desire to retain their jobs. They have 
seized on every pretext to justify to their 
superiors the wronging of the settlers on 
the reserve. 

I have a personal interest in this matter, 
and, facing the loss of lands and buildings 
that have been my home for years, I can 
not restrain a feeling of bitterness against 
those directly responsible for this state of 
affairs.. Albert Collins, Moran, Wyo. 


RECREATION. 


AN ADIRONDACK EPISODE, 
J. W. FURNSIDE, 

When John and I decided on a hunt in 
the Adirondacks, we wrote Bill, the guide, 
that if his services could be obtained he 
would see us November 8th. On receiving a 
favorable reply we looked the 2 Savages 
over, and spent our spare time in getting 
things ready. This was John’s first trip 
after deer and although I had hunted 3 
different seasons fortune had never fav- 
ored me with a shot at a deer. ‘ 

Arrived at S— we met Bill, who gave 
us a hearty welcome. After purchasing 
our provisions we retired in order to get 
an early start for camp in the morning. 
Sunday morning broke clear and cold. 
Everything was covered with a mantle of 
white frost as we started with our packs 
for Bill’s camp, 9 miles up the Conganinck. 
At camp we found that all people who live 
in’ the woods are honest. Bill had left a 
bushel of potatoes and some other provis- 
ions there. Someone had used the camp; 
also the potatoes. 

Monday morning Bill cooked flapjacks, 
for camping without flapjacks is out of 
the question. The way we waded into 
them rather surprised Bill. After break- 
fast we set out. Coming to a good loca- 
tion Bill said he and John would get on 
the runways while I beat out that piece 
of woods. I drove out a doe and a fawn. 
John saw them, but did not get a shot. 
We then separated and while going over 
a knoll I heard a deer bleat. I was cau- 
tiously working my way toward the top 
of the knoll when I heard the deer, and 
swinging around I sent a shot after him 
as he disappeared about 150 yards away. 
Bill saw 2 or 3 deer that day and shot 
at one, but missed. We traveled until we 
were so tired we could hardly walk, and 
we did not get in until after dark. 

Next morning John’s feet were so sore 
that we promptly named him Tenderfoot. 
On his account we took only a short hunt. 
We saw one deer but did not get a shot. 
Wednesday Bill shot a large buck. That 
deer was 5 miles from camp and we want- 
ed to get him out without cutting him up. 
He weighed nearly 200 pounds, and there 
was no road by which to get him out. We 
dressed him, and, fastening a rope to his 
head, pulled him in the direction of camp. 
Going down hill he slid along all right, 
but it wasn’t all down hill and then he 
didn’t slide so easy. 

It took us that afternoon, all the next day 
and the forenoon after to get the deer to a 
place where we could drive in and get 
him. John and I were tired, and Bill,— 
but you can’t tire those guides. Yet Bill 
said it was hard work. It is the kind, 
however, that makes a man want to try it 
again at the first opportunity. 





FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


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THE LAKE CHELAN REGION. 


- During the latter part of last June, while 
on a trip to the Northwest, I paid a short 
visit to Lake Chelan, Washington, and 
I advise all who may have the opportunity 
to do so to visit that interesting region. 
Few places that I know of offer so many 
attractions to the lover of nature or the 
seeker after health and recreation. The 
lake lies about 40 miles North of Wenat- 
chee, and is reached by daily steamer on 
the Columbia river, or stage if preferred, 
from that point. 

The lake is a beautiful sheet of remark- 
ably clear, cold water. extending from near 
the Columbia river about 60 miles North- 
west into the heart of the Cascade moun- 
tains, and averaging perhaps a mile and a 
half in width. Small steamers run to the 
head of the lake daily and the trip is most 
fascinating, the scenery becoming more 
grand and -picturesque at each turn in its 
gently curving shores. At the head of the 
lake the mountains rise from the water’s 
edge to 7,000 or 8,ooo feet. There are 
beautiful waterfalls and large glaciers in 
the mountains. Horseshoe basin, about 24 
miles above the head of the lake, in the 
main range of the Cascades, is said to rival 
Yosemite in grandeur. 

There was still much snow on the 
mountains the last of June. Deer, bear, 
goats and grouse comprise the principal 
species of game, and trout of 2 or 3 species 
abound in all the streams and in the lake. 
A State fish hatchery is now being located 
at the head of the lake to keep it and ad- 
jacent waters stocked, and the mountains 
are in a government forest reserve, so the 
' region bids fair to be an attractive one to 
the tourist and sportsman for a long time 
to come. To one interested in natural his- 
tory and geology, or fond of camp life and 
mountain climbing, there is no more de- 
sirable place. The elevation is moderate, 
the lake being about 1,000 feet above sea 
level and the climate in consequence is 
mild and pleasant throughout the greater 
part of the year, the long summers being 
delightful, with dry, pure and _ bracing 
mountain air, and nights always cool 
enough to sleep in comfort. The foot hiils 
and open country around the foot of the 
lake are a paradise for the fruit grower, 
and are beginning to be utilized for that 
purpose, so berries, cherries, peaches, ap- 
ples, etc., can be obtained in abundance in 


season. 
S. E. F., Chicago, Il. 





A VETERAN MOOSE HUNTER. 

I received your letter regarding the re- 
cently published statement that I have killed 
a moose every year for 53 years, and in 
some seasons aS many as 5 or 6. The ac- 


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count was written by my friend, George 
Leaman, who doubtless thought he was 
doing me a favor. 

From 1850 to 1870, when I was a young 
man and there was no game law, I, as well 
as my neighbors, hunted moose with dogs 
when the snow was deep and hard. Some 
seasons I got 4 to 6, and in the spring of 
’56 I helped kill 9. About that time I be- 
came disgusted with hounding, and was 
one of the first to demand a game law. 
Such a law was passed in 774, making a 
close season for 3 years. .The Province 
was divided into 6 game districts, each 
having a commissioner, and, to my surprise, 
I was appointed commissioner for Dis- 
trict No. I, comprising the 5 Western 
counties. I have held the office ever since, 
and my last annual report was the 29th I 
have written. Under the working of the 
law moose have rapidly increased. 

Since the passage of the law, my hunting 
has been confined to calling and still hunt- 
ing. During the last 5 years I have called 
6 moose, getting all but one the first morn- 
ing on the ground. I can not say how many 
IT have killed altogether, probably nearly 
100. I have been fortunate in living in a 
game country and in being able to hunt 
throughout a long life. If I have killed 
many moose, I have worked hard to pro- 
tect them, and the game of the Province 


-has no better friend than I. 


W. S. Crooker, S. Brookfield, N. S. 





WOULD NOT DO IT NOW. 


Your esteemed favor in’ which you ask 
me to tell you if the report is true that 
5 friends and I recently killed over 1,000 
birds in less than a day and a half, is re- 
ceived. I am sorry you have been misled 
in the way I see you have. The facts of 
the case are these: One of our daily papers 
is publishing each morning a number of 
extracts from its local pages of 20 yerrs 
ago, entitling it “ Twenty Years Ago To- 
day.” In October, 1883, 5 friends and I 
killed, in a day and a half, at Long lake. 
North of Letcher, about 8 miles West of 
here, nearly 1,500 ducks, and brought 
nearly 1,000 of them here to Sioux 
Falls and distributed them. During the 
years after the great flood of ’80, this 
whole country was practically alive with 
wild fowl, and it was no trick at all to 
shoot until one absolutely got tired. This 
item has evidently been circulated without 
regard to the time it referred to. There 
was then no limit on the number of birds 
that could be killed, and practically no 
game law. 

I do not wonder at your being startled, 
and no one condemns such slaughter as 
this more than I do at present. However, 
it has given me the pleasure of receiving 


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a letter from you; and like many other 
youthful follies, it happened so long ago, 
that I can only smile at it. 

C. H. Wincor, Sioux Falls, S. D. 





GAME NOTES. 

There is usually plenty of game here and 
in Indian Territory, only 4 miles South; 
there are also plenty of hunters, game hogs, 
and fellows who hunt game out of season. 
The latter are already at work, a month be- 
fore the open season. How can this be 
stopped? We have no game warden. Quails 
are more plentiful than for several years, 
and lots of them are not half grown yet. 
Ducks are beginning to come in fast, mostly 
blue wing teal, with a few pintails and mal- 
lards. They no more than alight before 
there is a volley fired into them by fellows 
who do nothing but hunt for the market. 
We have a few jack snipe and rail, but they 
do not stay long. I like Recreation better 
than any other magazine. I wish you could 
put the hogs in a real pen; then there would 
be some chance for the sportsman who is a 
gentleman. 


J. L. Hitchcock, Coffeyville, Kan. 





I read with disgust the letter, in October 
RECREATION, from the 3 shoats of Ashland, 
Ojegon—Casey, Hogan and Dunn—who 
“shot 193 ducks in 5 hours; mostly big 
ducks.” The game law of their State 
says: “It shall be unlawful for any per- 
son to kill more than 100 of the herein- 
before enumerated ducks in one week, or 
more than 50 in any one day.” Looks to 
me like a case for the warden, if they have 
any in Oregon. Anyway, I'll bet the 
bristles on that trio are so stiff you could 
stick them through an oak plank. 

G. S. Edmunds, Waterville, Me. 





I am much interested in RECREATION, and 
am glad to see the vigor with which you 
roast the game hog. We have our share 
of them here; perhaps more of them than 
the East, as this is a new country where 
game abounds. In spite of the hogs, large 
game is on the increase. The Mongolian 
pheasant does not gain ground and grouse 
are giving way, but deer, elk, bear and trout 
are on the increase, in spite of the dirty 
work carried on in some localities. I hope 
game protection may be firmly established 
here before it is too late. 

Elbert Watt, Salem, Ore. 





A friend said he knew where the woods 
were full of grouse and that they were so 
saucy they would make faces at us as we 
passed; so this friend and I drove out 
there, accomnanied by my English setter, 
Dick. We managed to find 2 grouse just 


before it got dark. One was dropped by 
that Syracuse you gave me last January. 
The-other is still going. Dick found him 
3 times for my friend, but somehow his gun 
was stubborn. Dick is now interviewing 
the bones of the grouse I killed. 

L, N. Van Duzer, Grand Haven, Mich. 





Is there any authentic case on record of 
finding bull moose dead with locked horns? 
I did not suppose it to be possible and never 
heard of it before, but such a case now ex- 
ists. The moose were found near our 
camp, soon after the tragedy had been en- 
acted and the moose were still warm. This 
may be a common occurrence, but is new 
to me and none of our party had ever heard 
of such a thing. 

H. A. Morgan, Albert Lea, Minn. 


Does any reader of RECREATION know of 
such a case ?—EpITor. 





We have excellent duck, goose and chick- 
en shooting here, also some game hogs, 
though not so many as one would expect in 
a country where small game is so plentiful. 
I use a lever action pump gun, and probably 
always shall, but I know. enough to quit 
with a decent bag. A pump gun will not 
make a hog of a gentleman any more than 
a double or single gun will make a gentle- 
man of a game hog. . 

M. C. Johnston, M. D., Hope, N. D. 





Our duck and goose shooting was excel- 
lent last fall. Our flights of ducks and 
geese grow larger every year. The marshes 
are full of mallards and geese about 6 
weeks in the fall. > 

Norman Miller, Virden, Man. 





We have many game and fish hogs around 
here. I was one myself before I read 
RECREATION. They need the L. A. S. to 
pull their bristles. 

G. F. Whitmore, Martinsburg, W. Va. 





Grouse were plentiful here last fall, br ’ 
they were wild and few were killed. I wi \ 
you success in your war against the gary 
hog. 

Lyman Brooks, Charlestown, N. H. 





Does any reader of RECREATION know } 
good way to trap sparrows? If so, will te 
kindly describe same for the benefit of 
RECREATION readers ?—EDITOR. 





Quails are abundant here, also rabbits and 
ground squirrels. I understand that deer 
are plentiful back in the hills. 

E. A. Wright, Los Angeles, Cal. 


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FISH AND FISHING. 


RICKEREL VERSUS SNAKE, , 


We had been fishing, with varied success, 
for some time, and were resting, when the 
still surface of the lake was broken by the 
appearance of a large water snake, its head 
raised about a foot above the water line. 

“A regular Coney Island sea serpent!” 
said Charley, as he calied my attention to 
it. We watched it a few moments as it 
moved swiftly toward a neighboring marsh. 
Suddenly there was a swirl, the water fairly 
boiled and the golden sides of a pickerel 
shone for an instant, then disappeared, to- 
gether with his snakeship. 

While we were wondering at the occur- 
rence, the snake again came to the surface 
and started frantically shoreward. Again 


the water lashed into fury. This time Mr- 


Pickerel missed and the snake seemed to re- 
double his efforts; but it was only a mo- 
mentary respite, and the snake was again in 
the jaws of his foe. He shot out his forked 
tongue and struck viciously at his captor. 

A second disappearance and that time the 
water snake, minus half his length came to 
view and struggled feebly. Then, like a 
crowd of human vampires who watch for a 
victim in distress, a school of small perch 
attacked the mangled remains and pulled 
them hither and thither. 

“Guess those fellows 
trust,” said Charley. 

The foregoing is just another example of 
the voraciousness of the pickerel, of which 
every desciple of the rod is fully aware. 
The snake was over 4 feet in length while 
the fish would probably have weighed 4 
pounds. The instinct of self preservation 
told us to go home before his lordship 
tackled the boat, and we did. 

Gorden Wrighter, Kingston, N. Y. 


On receipt of the foregoing I wrote Mr, 
Wrighter as follows: 


Do you really mean your snake story is 
true, or are you only jollying the other 
fellows? It sounds straight enough up to 
the point where you say the pickerel bit 
the snake in 2. Even that part of it might 
be true, but I scarcely believe a small pick- 
erel could bite a 4 foot snake in 2. His 
teeth are not set for cutting. They straggle 
about in his mouth, ‘and scarcely any 2 of 
them come together so they could cut. 

We often hear stories of pickerel cutting 
a snell or a line as if it had been cut with 
a knife, but that is all rot. The fish breaks 
the snell or line, but does not cut it. 

The second part of your story, about the 
perch attacking the front half of the snake, 
would also be questioned, and even ridi- 
culed by many people. It might be true, 


have formed a 


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but I should like to know more aboutit be- 
fore printing. Will you kindly tell me the 
full name and address of your friend who 
was in the boat with you? 


Here is his reply to my letter: 


I do not blame you for questioning the 
veracity of my fish-snake story as | was 
fully aware when I sent it in, that it would 
be generally doubted. I have been a con- 
stant reader of RECREATION since its early 
issues, and appreciate the fact that its ob- 
ject is not to fill its pages with any Jules 
Verne flights of imagination. The story is 
positively true and | am willing to make a 
sworn statement to that effect. The man 
in the boat with me was Chas. L. Wrighter, 
of Thompson, Pa., a brother of mine, and 
as this is all in the family I request you to 
write the postmaster or any well known 
business man of that place, if you see fit, 
as to the reputation we both bear for truth- 
fulness. I have been a close student of 
fish and their habits and I sent the story 
just as an example of the voraciousness of 
the pickerel. Mind you I do not say the 
pickerel consumed the other half of the 
snake. As to that I do not know. I do 
know that the front half came to the sur- 
face and was immediately surrounded by 
an army of small perch. 

I heartily endorse your care in investi- 
gating the truth of what you publish and 


_ wish all editors of sportsmen’s publications 


were as careful. 
Gordon Wrighter, Thompson, Pa. 





RAILROADING A TROUT. 


There is scarcely an angler. in New 
Brunswick who does not know Mr. John 
Stewart, the genial and loquacious travel- 
ing freight agent of the Canadian Pacific 
railway. Mr. Stewart makes his home at 
Woodstock, and there is not a trout stream 
or a salmon pool between Temiscouata lake 
and the St. Croix river that he has not 
soundly whipped. He is without a doubt 
one of the most enthusiastic and successful 
anglers in Eastern Canada, which does not 
imply that he possesses any of the instincts 
of that unpleasant creature so aften de- 
picted in REcrEATION, the fish hog. 

Mr. Stewart’s duties take him to different 
parts of the Province, and not long ago he 
was present at an informal meeting of the 
Fredericton Tourist Association, a wide 
awake organization composed of leading 
business men of the city, who do a great 
deal to assist American sportsmen and tour- 
ists. During the evening the conversation 


218 RECREATION. 


turned to trout fishing, and one of the mem- 
bers told of having read somewhere how 
a trout had been kept 6 months in a tank 
of water as an experiment, and when taken 
out at the end of that period weighed ex- 
actly the same as when put into the tank. 
The remarkable thing about it was that the 
trout had not been fed during that time, 
and an analytical test showed that there 
was nothing in the water on which it could 
subsist. te 

Mr. Stewart was naturally much inter- 
ested in the story and proceeded to tell of 
a remarkable experience of his own with a 
pet trout. Here is the story in his own 
words as nearly as I can remember them: 

“I once kept a trout in captivity a whole 
year,” said he, “and where, do you think ? 
In the water tank of a locomotive! I 
think it was in the summer of 1869 that 
I caught the fish, I was then a con- 
ductor on the New Brunswick Rail- 
way. We had stopped near a standpipe 
one day to take water, and while the boys 
were loading the engine I dropped a line 
into a brook near and landed a trout, which 
I should judge weighed about half a pound. 
It was the only fish I caught at the time, 
and as the train was getting ready to pull 
out one of the crew jokingly suggested that 
I put my catch into the locomotive tank, se 
it would have a chance to grow. I was fa- 
vorably impressed with the novel idea, and 
raising the cover dropped the fish into the 
water. You may not believe it, but the 
trout flourished and grew fat in that tank. 
It had a fresh supply of water at least half 
a dozen times a day, and during its 12 
months in captivity it increased in weight 
from half a pound to 2% pounds. We 
fished it out once in a while merely to see 
how it was getting along. It was always 
full of life and whenever the cover was 
removed from its prison it would come to 
the surface with a rush and play and splash 
about on top of the water. On one occa- 
sion it splashed water into the face of a 
new fireman, not on to the game, and al- 
most frightened him out of his wits. The 
train hands took a great liking to the fish 
and frequently dropped food to it from their 
dinner pails. No doubt their kindness was 
to a large extent responsible for the trout’s 
phenomenal growth. 

“Well,” said Mr. Stewart in conclusion, 
“the trout remained in the tank until some- 
thing happened to the locomotive, which ne- 
cessitated its being sent to the repair shop. 
The water was then drawn off, and one of 
the workmen, finding the trout, took it home 
and made a meal of it. During the trout’s 
captivity the locomotive was nearly always 
in use, averaging perhaps 150 miles a day, 
so the trout must have traveled nearly 5o,- 
ooo miles. R. P. A., Fredericton, N. B. 


THE PERCH OF THE GREAT LAKES. 
F, M. GREENLEAF, 


I have read with much interest many able 
articles written in praise of that most hunt- 
ed of God’s wild creatures, the game fish, 
and it seems to me that something equally 
interesting could be said concerning the 
less combative habitants of the water. 

Waukegan, Illinois, is a bustling little 
port on the shores of Lake Michigan. Al- 
though it now devotes most of its energies 
to manufacturing, in the days of old, when 
I regarded it as my own burgh, fishing 
was the chief industry. Well it might be, 
for the clean, pure water of old Michigan, 
cooled by breezes from the Northland, gave 
up healthy, firm fish such as we of the 
West seldom taste. 

To rise at 4 in the cool mornings of a 
hot summer, to grope through the wood- 
shed until your hand finally touched the 
old pole, to take the can of worms you 
dug the night before and scurry down the 
road to the lake, all this was pleasant in- 
deed; for out at the end of the long pier 
were the perch. 

A plain bamboo pole, big and long, 10 
feet of strong white line, a sinker, a hook 
and a wriggling worm. That was all; no 
reel, no flies, no landing net. You picked 
out an especially inviting pile for a seat 
and quietly dropped your line into the dark 
green water. Then there was a tug, a jerk. 
You gave a mighty heave upward, and with 
a last, despairing, resisting pull, out he 
came! 

A great lake perch! A big, clean fellow, 
with immaculate golden sides, a_ bristling 
array of fins, a beautiful silvery underside, 
and a firm feeling to the touch. Noth- 
ing dirty or slimy about him. He comes 
from the cold clear water of Lake Michi- 
gan. Below him is pure white sand, above 
him is God’s own air and sky. 

He breathes what we drink. He drinks 
what we breath. He is not “game” because 
it is his nature to be gentle, submissive. 
He lacks the defiant braggadocio of many 
of his brothers because of his personal 
character, not from the absence of strength 
or spirit. 

Tell me, you Nimrod, is the trout or bass 
a daintier or more toothsome morsel than 
a fried perch? Is the trout prettier? Is 
the bass cleaner? You think because you 
are’ fighting that trout, that he has a fair 
chance for his life. Why, Ill bet I lose 
as many fish with my yellow pole off that 
old pile pier as you do with your blue 
hackle fly and automatic reel when pitted 
against the despairing struggle of a lithe, 
strong brook trout! 

Here’s to the great lake perch! I honor 
him, I respect him, I might say I love 
him. I am no fish hog, yet I have caught 





: FISH AND FISHING. 


a string of 40 in a morning, and the family 
ate them every one. It was right, too, for 
Providence provided them for our use. 

If, indeed, “Cleanliness is next to godli- 
ness,” I feel safe in saying there is a fish 
heaven somewhere ahead tor my friend, the 
great lake perch. 





HOW TO STRING FISH. 


When we were boys we secured our 
fish by poking a string through the gills 
and out at the mouth; a process which fin- 
ally ended the life of the little sufferers. 
There are thousands of anglers to-day who 
inflict the. same proloned agony on their 
captives. Some sever the vertebra just back 
of the head, some cut the throat, which, in 
both cases, makes a bloody mess. I have 
fished with comrades who stuffed their fish 
into a sack and kept them quiet by rolling 
them tight. 

While all these methods are capable of 
producing death, they are not thoroughly 
satisfactory, because in many instances the 
angler is desirous of keeping his catch 
alive 3 or 4 days until his departure for 
home. Many, perhaps the majority of that 
class, push the stringer needle through both 
jaws and thus effectually close the mouth 
of the fish, which, they argue, keeps it from 
filling with water and drowning. 

If the stringer is pushed only through the 
thin portion of the under jaw the fish is 
subjected to no pain, the jaw is sufficiently 
strong to hold the fish, and it can open and 
close its mouth naturally. When the boat 
is moved this natural action is interfered 
with, but artificial respiration is set up. Wa- 
ter flows in at the mouth and out through 
the gills and the fish breathes artificially. 
I have caught bass in the early part of the 
day, strung them through the lower jaw 
only, and they were as lively when the day’s 
sport was over as the last ones caught. I 
have kept perch alive in the same way. 

One great source of loss to the angler is 
the constant shuffling of feet on the bottom 
of the boat. Fish, as we all know, are 
wary, unless excited, when there is no rule 
governing their actions.’ 

I once had a strike from a dogfish on a 
frog too large for him to swallow. Fancy- 
ing that I knew what the fish was, I reeled 
him in cautiously, until he was directly un- 
der the boat. Partner and I had been can- 
vassing the question of noise. During our 
conversation doggy was worrying at the 
frog, on the bottom in about 10 feet of wa- 
ter, which was so clear we could both see 
his every motion. Then I said, “If I am 
right, I will make my tackle-box lid snap, 
and he will skip.” The box lay on the bot- 
tom, on the running board. The tinkle of 
the tin, so light as hardly to be heard at 
the bow of the boat, made him drop the 


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frog and dart away as if he had been shot 


Folks who can’t keep their feet still in a 
boat should either go barefoot or wear 


moccasins. 
C. C. Haskins, Chicago, IIl. 





IS THIS A RECORD BREAKER? 


Last week Bellefonte clamed the record for big 
trout. This week Oleona disputes the claim, The 
Oleona fish was caught by Edward Bachman in 
Phelps pond, near Sand Spring brook, a tributary 
of the Lehigh river, near Thornhurst, Lack- 
awanna county. The fish measured 28% inches 
in length;-depth 8 inches; and weighed, dressed, 
7 pounds, 3 ounces. The fish was taken with an 
11-ounce Bristol steel rod, and a light line, by a 
boy 15 years old- He was 40 minutes landing 
his catch. Lving in an isolated region young 
Bachman did not realize the value of his trout. 
Scores of men can be found who will verify the 
above. Young Bachman’s trout is easily at the 
head of any ever taken in Pennsylvania waters.— 
Grit, Oleona, Pa. 


On receipt of the clipping I wrote Ed- 
ward Bachman as follows: 


I am deeply interested in the story of 
your big trout, and should like to have you 
get me letters from 2 or more well known 
business men who saw the fish measured 
and weighed, verifying the newspaper re- 
port. If’you could get at least one man to 
make an affidavit of the fact it would be all 
the better. I have no record at hand as to 
the biggest trout ever taken in Pennsyl- 
vania, but have no doubt this one is it. 


W. J. Bachman replied as below: 


I herewith enclose a letter of verification 
regarding the trout my brother Edward 
caught in May last. The names appended 
to same should be sufficient authority as to 
the absolute truth of the measurement and 
weight of the fish. I hope to see the mat- 
ter published in RecrEATION and thank you 
for your kind interest. 

Walter J. Bachman, Olonea, Pa. 


Thornhurst, Pa. 
To whom it may concern: 

We, the undersigned, do hereby certify 
that the trout caught, out of a branch of 
the Lehigh river, by Edward Bachman, in 
the spring of 1903, was 28 inches long and 
weighed 7 pounds and 3 ounces. 

Clinton Heller, J. P. 
R. C. Drum, P. M. 





WORTH FULL CREDIT. 


Will you kindly decide through REcREA- 
TION an argument on the reply which was 
written to the following question by a 
schoolgirl : 

Name the 3 kinds of life forms that are 
found in the ocean? 

The answer was, the warm blooded class 
that come to the surface to breathe, like 
the whale; the true fish class, as, shark, 


220 


codfish, salmon and trout; and the lowest 
form, as coral, sponge, etc. 

The answer was marked correct, with the 
exception of the salmon and trout, which 
had been crossed off; and the whole answer 
was given a mark of 8. 

What I want to know is, what class do 
the trout and. salmon belong to? 

I get most valuable information and news 
from your magazine. 

Jas. P. Besse, Hartford, Conn. 


ANSWER. 


In the first place, the question is without 
point. Even the most elementary knowl- 
edge of zoology should have kept any teach- 
er from asking such a question. Whatever 
the person asking the question may have 
had in mind, it is evident that the answer is 
as good as any that could be given. If 
shark and codfish are accepted as right, sal- 
mon and trout should also be accepted, for 
they are equally right. Salmon and trout 
_ are found in the ocean, just as ‘sharks and 
codfish are. I should say that the answer is 
much better than the question, and worth 
the full number of credits ——EDITor. i 





FISHING ROD \ 

No. 735,471. Elliott H. Crane, Kalamazoo, 

‘Mich., assignor to O. Le Grand Allen, 

Benton Harbor, Mich. Filed May 18,; 
1903. Serial No. 157,630, 


Claim.—The combination of a suitable 
grip-section A; section B, each section con- 
sisting of a central tapered steel rod‘e; a 
plurality of tapered steel rods e spirally ar- 
ranged about the same; ferrules bb into 
which the ends of said rods are rigidly se- 
cured; ferrules b centrally arranged on said 
sections; and a tip section C formed of a 
tapered steel rod, the taper of said rods 
forming each section being uniform with 
that of the rods of the adjacent sections, etc. 





NIBBLES, 

I have just run up from Catalina where 
the fishing is beyond belief, and so, like- 
wise, is the waste of good fish. Tons on 
tons of yellow tail, albicore, black sea bass, 
etc. are killed and thrown back into the 
ocean. I tried to organize a movement to- 
ward tagging the fish with a small alumi- 
num tag, bearing name and date, and then 
releasing them uninjured, thus increasing 


- where my folks have a cottage. 


RECREATION. 


the interest in future fishing as well as pre- 
serving the fish; but at present the desire to 
be photographed alongside a ton or so of 
25 pound yellow tail is too strong to over- 
come. When people learn to be ashamed, in- 
stead of proud, of such slaughter we may 
hope for something better. 
Herbert Earlscliffe, Santa Barbara, Cal. 





We have a few bass, but nearly all are 

infested with worms. What is the cause? 
Carl Clark, Brownsburg, Ind. 
ANSWER. 

You do not state the nature of the worms 
nor their position, whether in the intestines, 
free in the abdominal cavity, or in the 
muscular tissues. Worms of various kinds 
are common in trout, bass, and other fishes, 
and in the case of some bodies of water, 
like Yellowstone lake and Lake Tahoe, 
practically every fish of a given species will 
be infested: These worms, however, ordi- 
narily do no harm, and the fishes affected 
may be eaten with impunity.—EbiTor. 





} A newspaper clipping sent me some time 
ago stated that Thomas Voorhees and James 
Mulhall, of St. Louis, Mo., had caught 55 
pike, weighing over 225 pounds, in 2 days. 
I wrote these men and Voorhees replies as 
follows: 


We caught the fish, and could have caught 
more if we had worked harder. 
Tom Voorhees, St. Louis, Mo. 


These 2 men are recorded in the fish hog 
book thus: Voorhees, number 979, and 
Mulhall, number 980.—Eniror. 





I spent last July at Lake Massabesic, 
Having © 
learned the haunts of the fish during pre- 
vious visits, I was able to keep our table 
supplied with pickerel and bass. The lake 
is well stocked and the fish are of fair size. 
The lake covers I,100 acres and its greatest 
depth is 60 feet. I caught the largest bass 
taken from it last summer, a 4% pounder. 
H. G. Sanford, Manchester, N. H. 





The biggest trout ever caught in Pennsylvania 
was taken from the waters of Spring creek, with- 
in Bellefonte borough limits, by Al Hoffman, a 
local fisherman. The trout was of the rainbow 
variety and measured 25 inches in length, was 5% 
inches deep across the side, 3% inches across the 
back and weighed 6% pounds. It was caught on 
an eel set line. In its mouth were found 6 fish- 
hooks and pieces of line. The fish is to be mount- 
ed and sent to State Fish Commissioner Meehan. 
~Philadelphia Ledger. 





Can any reader of RECREATION tell me 
where there is a good place for trout fish- 
ing on Beaverkill creek? Is there a good 
boarding house in the vicinity? Is a fee 
required from non-residents for fishing in 
Maine? F. H. L., Monticello, N. Y. 





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GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


Anybody can shoot all day, but a gentleman always quits when he gets enough. 


HOT SHOT FOR THE AUTOMATIC. 

I appeal to the sportsmen of America in 
the name of sportsmanship, in the name of 
common decency, to take a stand against 
that infamous bird exterminator, the auto- 
matic shot gun. This gun is being sold 


_ at a price that places it within the reach 


of every market hunter and farmer’s boy 
in the United States. Its introduction sim- 
ply means the extermination of our quails 
and ducks in a few years. How many 
quails would there be to-day if the quail 
net and the quail trap had not been legis- 
lated out of existence? Do you not know, 
can you not see, that this deadly automatic 
gun, in the hands of market hunters and 
farmers’ boys all over the United States, 
will prove even more of an exterminator 
than the quail net? You will admit the 
quails are scarce enough now. Do you 
think this deadly gun, firing 6 shots before 
the covey can get out of range, will make 
the birds more plentiful? Market hunters 
and game hogs may tell you they will kill 
no more birds with an automatic gun than 
with a double barrel. One market hunter 
said he used a pump and always picked out 
a bird on the outskirts of the covey, and, 
if he missed, kept on firing at that same 
bird. Another said that the majority of 
market hunters use double barrel guns in 
preference to pumps because they do not 
want to kill too many birds. 

Any man who has brains enough to com- 
mit the alphabet to memory knows such 
talk is rot. All market hunters and game 
hogs are built on the same lines. With 
this automatic gun such a man will fire 2 
shots on the ground. He will take aim, 
pull the trigger twice instantly, and 4 more 
times before the covey is out of range. 
Five birds on the ground with the first 2 
shots and 3 out of the covey with the next 
4, total 8 out of a covey of 15, before the 
birds can get out of range! 

Suppose he only gets 3 on the ground 
and 2 on the rise; what do you think he 
will do to the others when they begin 
flushing under his feet, one or 2 at a time? 
What do you think will be left for you the 
next day when you look for this covey and 
other coveys which have had the misfor- 
tune to come within his range? 

Sportsmen all over the country are cry- 
ing for better game protection. “Shorten 
the open season”; “Prohibit the removal of 
game from the State”; “Make a limit of 
20 birds to the gun for a day’s shoot”; 
“Prohibit the sale of game altogether”; 
“Feed the birds during the winter”; 
“Tax the gun”; “Tax the shooter.” These 


ee te 3 oo 


are topics constantly being discussed. In 
the face of all this are you going to stand 
idly by and see a gun introduced that will 
exterminate the quails and ducks so fast 
you will not need any game laws? This is 
not cheerful reading for the lovers of quail 
shooting, but they can console themselves 
with the market hunters’ statement that 
when the birds are gone there will always 
be plenty of clay birds. Consoling, isn’t it? 

Here is one way of heading off the auto- 
matic gun. Let 2 or 3 prominent sports- 
men in every town request their friends and 
associates to sign a notice like the one 
printed below, then present it to the more 
prominent dealers. If any sportsman should 
refuse to sign, make it clear to him that 
his presence is not desired at future trap 
events. 

NOTICE. 
To Dealers in Sportsmen’s Supplies: 

We, the undersigned, respectfully inform 
you that if the automatic shot gun is of- 
fered for sale in your establishment we 
shall feel obliged to withdraw our patron- 
age. 

I trust there are in every town a few 
high minded sportsmen who will take up 
this matter and serve these notices on their 
gun dealers. If any dealer should decline 
to accede to this appeal for the protection 
and preservation of our game, then never 
buy another dollar’s worth of him till he 
sends those automatic guns back to the fac- 
tory. I further suggest that in case the 
Winchester Arms Company puts out such 
a gun, every true sportsman should decline 
to use any shells, ammunition or firearms 
made by this company. Any company that 
has no more regard for the preservation of 
our birds, or for the future pleasure of 
sportsmen than to introduce such a bird 
exterminator does not deserve the patron- 
age of any sportsman. Such people are on 
a par with those who wanted to manufac- 
ture quail nets, and should receive the same 
treatment. 


A few days ago I took one of these auto- 
matic guns out and shot it, just to see if it 
is as deadly as ReEcrEATION has pro- 
nounced it. I was simply amazed at the 
execution, the awful destruction that could 
be wrought with this machine. The quail 
net or the quail trap is a gentleman’s im- 
plement compared with it. 

W. J., Philadelphia, Pa. 


I read your article on automatic guns 
with deep interest and feel that every man, 
woman and child in the country should raise 
their voices in protest against the manu- 


222 RECREATION. 


facture of such murderous’ weapons. 
Neither should any sportsman use the so- 
called pump gun in pursuit of game, as 
slaughter is condemned by all men of 
sound reasoning. 

When I think of the vast army of shoot- 
ers with modern weapons, and the rapid 
depletion of the game supply, owing to lax 
laws or the non-enforcement of existing 
ones, I really long for the old muzzle loader 
to re-appear, and with it the covers teem- 
ing with game as in olden days. 

Let sportsmen use the pump gun at the 
trap if they so desire, but let us make every 
endeavor to prevent its use, both by law 
and public sentiment, when game is to be 
pursued. All can foresee the inevitable 
result as regards our game supply, unless 
such action be taken. 

There is absolutely no reason for the 
existence of pump guns, and the placing 
of automatic guns on the market is noth- 
ing short of crime. Let us work for laws 
that will allow any officer to arrest all per- 
sons found with an automatic gun in their 
possession, or better still, laws to prevent 
the manufacture of such weapons, 

Even the former course would stop this 
nefarious business. After public sentiment 
became thoroughly aroused the repeating 
gun would meet the same fate. There 
should also be laws preventing spring shoot- 
ing everywhere, and shortening the open 
seasons in fully half the States in the 
Union. 

Down with the automatic gun; down 
with the repeating gun; down with every- 
thing everywhere that does not savor of 
gentlemanly sport. 

Edward H. Goodnough, Allston, Mass. 


I heartily approve your protest against 
the manufacture and use of automatic shot 
guns, and earnestly hope that every Ameri- 
can naturalist and every lover of wild life 
will do likewise. I intend doing everything 
in my power to help secure the passage of 
laws to prevent the manufacture, sale and 
use of such engines of destruction as you 
have described. Automatic shot guns be- 
long in the same class as the punt gun for 
ducks and dynamite for fishing. 

This is no time to mince matters. Peo- 
ple who are not in favor of the protection 
of the few wild creatures now remaining 
are, necessarily, against it! I believe in 
decent sport; but not in wholesale slaugh- 
ter. The American people are not so hard 
up for something to eat that every hunter 
should need to annihilate every covey of 
birds that rises before him. Surely, every 
true sportsman and every person, young 
or old, who is interested in American birds, 
will be in sympathy with your warfare 
against automatic guns, and I hope the 
most of them will rally to your support. 

W. T. Hornaday, New York City. 


I am glad you have entered a crusade 
against the manufacture and use of auto- 
matic shot guns for killing game. It can 
not be possible that any real sportsman will 
look with favor on this attempt to gain so 
great an advantage over the birds, which 
now are put to their extremities to avoid 
death at every turn. It seems too bad that 
men will be so unmindful, not to say cruel, 
in their efforts to slay these fast disappear- 
ing beauties of creation. It is bad enough 
that men kill as they do, but to add weap- 


. ons that are so destructive, just for slaugh- 


ter, is barbarous. 

Our Legislature does not meet until 
1905, but this matter will be brought before 
our association in January, and we will 
work actively to keep such guns out of this 
State at least. 

E. C. Farrington, Sec’y, 
Maine Sportsmen’s Fish and Game Ass’n. 
Augusta, Me. 


I note that the Winchester Company in- 
tends to manufacture an automatic gun. 
We do not want it. We have plenty of 
murderous weapons now, though they are 
not so deadly as the automatic gun would 
be. Following is copy of a letter I sent the 
Winchester Company: I hear you are mak- 
ing preparations to manufacture an auto- 
matic gun. No sportsmen who are inter- 
ested in the protection of our fast diminish- 
ing game will use any such gun. We have 
repeating, double and single guns by the 
thousands, yet you wish to make a weapon 
that is far more murderous. If you man- 
ufacture such a gun you are doing an un- 
fair business, and all real sportsmen know 
it. I would not use such an arm if you 
would give me one. 

Albert Shelley, Madelia, Minn. 


I have read your editorial in RECREATION 
against the use of automatic and magazine 
guns; also draft of. bill to be enacted 
against their use. I find here a strong sen- 
timent among the better class of sportsmen 
against the use of these 2 murderous inven- 
tions, considering the condition of the game 
at the present day. Some of the duck- 
shooting clubs are beginning to taboo the 
use of these slaughter machines in hunting 
game, and I do not think there will be 
much opposition to the enactment of a law 
prohibiting their use. John Sharp, 
State Fish and Game Com’r., Salt Lake, 

Utah. . 





THEY ADVISE WINCHESTER. 
r Spokane, Wash. 
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 

Dear Sirs—I noticed recently a news item 
in one of our foremost progressive sports- 
men’s magazines to the effect that you are 
about to begin the manufacture of an auto- 
matic shot gun. While it is not my pur- 


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pose to attempt to dictate the future busi- 
ness policy of your firm, yet I protest 
against your taking chances of ruining 
the good reputation the Winchester Com- 
pany has enjoyed these many years by put- 
ting on the market such a destructive wea- 
pon as this new shot gun promises to be. 
The game in the country is being killed off 
rapidly. Many States have prohibited the 
sale of game entirely, and other States will 
follow their example. I predict that if 
this new gun is put on the market there 
will be a whirlwind of disapproval among 
all true sportsmen and a quick and deter- 
mined move toward legislation to prohibit 
its use. I have now 2 of your guns, a rifle 
and a shot gun; but if this new engine 
of destruction which you contemplate mak- 
ing is ever marketed you may count me 
in as fighting in every way possible against 
its sale and use. jE. Bates. 


Aldan, Pa. 

The Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 

Dear Sirs—I am informed that you are 
about to manufacture and place on the 
market an automatic shot gun. If you 
will listen to one who has used Win- 
chester goods for years, you will confer a 
favor on multitudes of sportsmen, who 
feel regarding the manufacture of the pro- 
posed death engine as I do. Such a wea- 
pon would only be sold to boys and men 
who are in reality pot hunters, who shoot 
at anything and everything that wears fur 
or feathers, and as long as it remains in 
sight, and who are not sportsmen. A true 
sportsman would not seek to reduce the 
number of our game birds or game. The 
scarcity of game to-day is due chiefly to the 
use of the repeating shot gun in the hands 
of indiscriminate persons. The production 
of an arm more rapid in its manipulation 
for hunting purposes would bring forth 
thousands of true 
sportsmen who have made the Winchester 
company what it is to-day. 

T. H. Seavey. 


Franklin, O. 

Winchester Arms Co. 
Dear Sirs: 

_ [learn through Recreation that you are 
intending to manufacture automatic guns. 
Permit.me to raise my voice against your 
doing so. Already our fields and forests 
are nearly tenantless. Few of our beau- 
tiful birds are left and .the little crea- 
tures of the fields and woods have gone with 
them. I plainly see that in a few short 
years we shall have none. The automatic 
gun, devised through greed, will rob all 
alike, the sportsman, the lover of nature 
and the farmer, who is benefited directly 
through the birds. 

It seems the chief delight of many people 
to destroy the most essential, the most use- 


ful of our birds. The flintlock, the muzzle 
loader, the breech loader, the repeater, have 
been used to depopulate our fields; and now 
comes a gun that will make destruction com- 
plete. In the cause of God’s creatures, ap- 
pealing as one who loves them all, I entreat 
you not to place this deadly arm on the 
market. ' C. H. Morningstar. 


, Morgantown, W. Va. 
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 
Dear Sirs: 

I have learned through ReEcrEATIOoN that 
you contemplate the manufacture of an au- 
tomatic shot gin. : 

You probably figure that by catering 
to market hunters, pot hunters and game 
hogs you could make a good interest on 
the money put into the special equipment 
required to manufacture the gun. Pos- 
siby this is true, but your action would cer- 
tainly meet with the stern disapproval of 
every true sportsman in this and every 
other country. I assure you I would never 
use an automatic shot gun or associate with 
any person who would use one. In thus 
stating my position in the matter I know I 
express the sentiment of at least 50 sports- 
men in this little city and of thousands of 
other sportsmen throughout the country 
whose names and addresses I could furnish. 

Hoping you will not see fit to add to the 
already too great effectiveness of game ex- 
terminating weapons, especially the shot 


gun, I am, 
Bennett S. White. 


Enid, Oklahoma. 
Winchester Arms Company, 
Dear Sirs: 

I understand that you are preparing to 
build an automatic shot gun. Such a 
weapon should not go on the market for 
general use, as I have heard a number of 
lovers of shooting remark. There is a 
strong movement on foot for the protec- 
tion of our birds and it will be my duty to 
discourage the use of an automatic shot 
gun in every legitimate way, as will be the 
case with hundreds of our citizens. I sin- 
cerely hope you will not manufacture any 


guns of this kind. 
H. D. White, 
Recreation Rod and Gun Club, 


; Setauket, N. Y. 

Winchester Arms Co., 
Dear Sirs :— 

I learn that you intend to manufacture 
an automatic shot gun. A gun of this kind 
can not be necessary for, nor desired by, 
any true sportsman. It can only be of use 
to pot hunters and duffers. I do not think 
it is for your interest to manufacture arms 
for either of those classes. The destruction 
of game is going on too fast in this country, 
and any who minister to the wholesale 
slaughter of game are doing injury to true 


224 RECREATION. 


sportsmen, while the wiping out of game 
will certainly injure those engaged in the 
manufacture of firearms for sportsmen. 


Selah B. Strong. 


Trenton, N. J. 
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 
Dear Sirs: 

I am informed you intend to manufac- 
ture an automatic shot gun. The placing 
of such a weapon on the market would 
hasten the extinction of the wild game of 
America, and this would be a national 
calamity. None but pot hunters and game 
butchers will ever use such guns; and if 
you cater to these classes you are no friend 
of sportsmen; I strongly protest against 
the manufacture of any such weapon. 

L. W. Johnson 


A CHAMPION FOR ROBIN HOOD. 


I noticed a letter in REcREATION from 

. W. Crampton regarding Robin Hood 
loaded shells, and a reply to it from C. H. 
Bentley. I have used several thousand of 
these shells the past 2 seasons, and am sat- 
ised from reading Mr. Bentley’s letter that 
he has not done much experimenting with 
Robin Hood loads. He may have shot a 
few, but the shells must have been of the 
cheapest class. I want to ask him to give 
them another trial, not on game, for the 
best of us blame the ammunition when we 
are out of form, but on penetration sheets. 

I took regular stock loads of Robin Hood, 
3% drams powder and 1% ounces No. 7% 
chilled shot. With these went Winchester 
Leader shells loaded with the same load of 
Du Pont smokeless and another batch 
loaded with 24 grains of Infallible. I made 
targets with each at 60 yards. There was 
little perceptible difference in penetration, 
but the distribution with Robin Hood was 
perfect, while both other loads clumped 
shot and left spaces in a 30 inch circle that 
a duck could have gone through. At 75 
yards Robin Hood distribution was I00 per 
cent. better than either of the other loads, 
while the penetration was 12 sheets better 
than Infallible; but Robin Hood, after pass- 
Pont. I made 5 targets with each load at 
this distance, and that was the average. 
I then made 5 targets at 85 yards and 5 at 
1oo yards. The farther I shot the more 
pronounced was the difference. Every tar- 
get showed Robin Hood to have the greatest 
penetration and to give the best pattern. 
At 100 yards Infallible would not stick the 
shot in the sheets, and on 2 of the targets 
not one shot struck the sheet. Du Pont 
showed better all the way through 
than Infallible, but Robin Hood, after pass- 
ing the 50 yard mark, was greater in pene- 
tration and not only put more shot into the 
targets but distributed them far better. Mr. 
Bentley will get the same results if he will 
target these powders and not take snap 





'there is no loosening of the gun. 


_ loads: 


judgment becattse he happens to miss a few 
birds with the Robin Hood. 


I know at least 50 good field shots here 


who will use nothing but Robin Hood, and 
all pronounce it stronger than any 
other smokeless. Robin Hood gives a 
little more smoke than Infallible or Du 
Pont, but even on damp days it is not great 
enough to interfere in the least with second 
or third shots. Recently I killed 5 -ducks, 
one with each shot, with Robin Hood and 
No. 7% shot, and the last kill was as clean 
as the first. 

The recoil from 3% drams is not so 
great as that from 24 grains Infallible and 
I shoot 
a Parker $100 grade in the field, and it is 
impossible to keep it tight many weeks when 
using Infallible powder. Robin Hood does 
not seem to loosen a gun any more than 
black powder. My opinion of Infallible 
powder is that the factory advises over- 
24 grains of it give fearful recoil, 
and 26 are simply unbearable. 

I advise readers of RECREATION to test 
Robin Hood carefully for 2 reasons; it is 
cheaper, and, I believe, better than any 
other. In addition, it is advertised liberally 
in RECREATION, and we ought certainly to 
favor those who favor us by advertising in 
our magazine. 

John E. Clincher, Austin, Tex. 


IT ES. THE “MAN! 


Several of your correspondents say there 
should be laws in all the States prohibiting 
the use of repeating shot guns. I claim that 
the gun a man uses has nothing to do with 
his being a butcher. If a man wants to 
be a game hog he will be one no mat- 
ter what gun he may use. Some of the 
biggest hogs I have ever known used 
muzzle loaders. I have seen another man 
take a repeater and a brace of dogs and go 
after birds. He would watch the dogs 
work, and when a bird got up would bring 
the repeater around, take time to shoot 
straight, would kill his bird, seldom shoot- 
ing a second shot. I have known such a 
man to hunt all day and get 4 or 5 birds 
where he could have killed 50. He had as 
much enjoyment out of watching the dogs 
work as another would in shooting. It is 
all right to allow such a man to use a re- 
peater and dogs. What we need is a law 
to send a man to jail who kills more than 
a reasonable number of birds in a day. 

I have known a game butcher to take a 
muzzle loader and go to the woods and 
shoot everything that moved: chipmunks, 
phoebe birds, grouse, squirrels, rabbits, any- 
thing. It is natural for such men and it is 
only the fear of the law that keeps them 
from shooting any kind of stock, and even 
human beings. Such a man will sneak up 
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or a log and murder it for the mere satis- 
faction of seeing it die. 

Such men should be singled out in all 
communities and watched. Decent men 
should not associate with them, but should 
have them arrested every time they break 
a law. 

Good work was done here along this line 
last season in regard to the fishing. I ex- 
pect the same thing here in regard to game 
next fall. Our law allows each man 10 
grouse a day, but this is too many. The 
limit should be cut to 6. ‘If I get 4 in a day 
I am satisfied. 

Before starting out for game I always 
run the shells I intend to use through the 
gun, then I know they will go. through 
when I want them to. It is a wonder to me 
that so few shells stick when you take into 
consideration the fact that they must be 
absolutely perfect in diameter. Take a 
30-30 and a .303 cartridge, measure them 
with a pair of calipers and see the small 
difference. Then try to run them through 
the same rifle and you will learn something 
at once. The human eye will detect a small 
difference that is hard to measure. Think 
of the millions of cartridges made and re- 
member how unreasonable to kick because 
you happen to get a poor fit out of a pos- 
sible 2,000. Those who expect perfection 
in this world should go back to the old 
muzzle loader, black powder, and shingle 
nails. E. L. Mason, Emporium, Pa. 


If the game butcher you mention had had 
a pump gun he would have killed a great 
many more birds than he did or could kill 
with his muzzle loader. That’s why all 
game butchers should be prohibited from 
using pump guns.—EDITOoR. 





WHY NOT ATTACK THE REAL OFFENDER? 

Paddy Marlin is again at his old trick of 
bluffing. He has begun suits against 2 re- 
tail gun dealers in New Haven, alleging 
that they are selling Savage rifles which in- 
fringe Marlin patents. As in the case of 
his famous suit against RECREATION, he is 
dumping into the mails hundreds of thou- 
sands of circulars, which go to’gun dealers 
all over the United States. Here is a quo- 
tation from the circular: 

“Under the patent laws of the United 
States any person who makes or sells or 
uses a patented article, without permission 
of the owner of the patent, is an infringer.” 

Strange to say Paddy has not brought any 
action against the Savage Arms Co., the 
makers of the rifle which he says infringes 
his patents. Instead of doing this he jumps 
on these small retail dealers, each of whom 
it is said has sold one of these rifles. 

Why does not Paddy attack someone of 
his size? Why does he not sue the Savage 
Arms Co,? 


‘~ jn yarious lines. 


Here is Savage’s reply to Paddy’s hot air 
explosion: 

Our attention has been called to a eircu- 
lar issued by the Marlin Fire Arms Co., 
with reference to a claim of infringement of 
patents made against the Savage 22 caliber 
rifle. It is a significant fact that we have 
not been sued for the alleged infringement, 
but suits have been brought against 2 of our 
customers in New Haven, Conn. We have 
already assumed all responsibility of these 
suits and are able to take care of them and 
intend to do so. We have the services of 
able counsel and experts, who assure us 
that our 22 caliber rifle is not an infringe- 
ment of the Marlin patents, and, indeed, 
this must be apparent to all who are famil- 
iar with ,or will take the trouble to compare 
the Savage and Marlin rifles. 

Marlin was not, by any means, the first 
to produce or make a take down rifle. Our 
rifle is not like Marlin’s, we are pleased to 
say. 

We assure you that we are able to and 
will protect all dealers and users of the 
Savage 22 caliber rifles against all claims of 
infringement. We shall continue to main- 
tain the high standard of excellence of our 
arms, and rely, as we have relied hereto- 
fore, on the trade and public to recognize 
real merit. Yours truly, 

Savage Arms Co. 

Arthur W. Savage, Managing Director. 





IN THE CLASS WITH DYNAMITE. 

I am going to stop buying your magazine 
because I do not approve of your stand re- 
garding the automatic shot gun and rifle. 
I like the latest improvements always, and 
I think you are trying to hold back inven- 
tive genius. 

Rufus H. Skeel, Newburgh, N. Y. 


I knew when I attacked the automatic 
gun that I should antagonize many men, 
but I am glad to know that where one man 
disagrees with me on this subject, thousands 
of others agree with me. 

One man sent me a check for $25 for the 
L. A. S. game protection fund, and said 
that if I could head off the automatic gun, 
or even if I could materially check its sale, 
he would send me another check for an 
equal amount. I have assurances from 
prominent sportsmen in a number of States. 
that they will be able to pass our bill to 
prohibit the use of both the automatic and 
the pump guns in their respective States 
during the present winter, and I have not 
the slightest doubt that we shall procure the 
passage of such laws in all the States dur- 
ing the next 2 years. 

Generally speaking, I am in favor of ad- 
vancement in all the arts and sciences, but 
there is a limit to what should be allowed 
For instance, if a reyolver 


226 RECREATION. 


should be invented and placed on the mar- 
ket that would fire a cartridge making no 
noise whatever, thus enabling a_ foot- 
pad to shoot down a man at night on 
a lonely street or road, without any possible 
danger of being caught in the act, I should 
be in favor of prohibiting the use of such 
weapon by law. 

Dynamite is one of the most impor- 
tant inventions of the 19th century, and has 
proved of great’ value to commerce in 
many ways; yet when a man uses it to fish 
with, we say he should be punished by 
law, and nearly all the States have laws 
prohibiting the use of dynamite in that way. 
I regard the man who would hunt game with 
an automatic gun. in the same light as I 
regard the man who fishes for trout or 
black bass with dynamite. Many thousands 
of the best sportsmen in this country agree 
with me in this—-En1Tor. 





LOADS FOR THE 32-40. 


Would say to S. B. that I have a 32-40, 
with nickel steel barrel. I think it is about 
as near an all around rifle as there is on 
the market. It is a matter of choice be- 
tween that and the 38-55 with nickel steel 
barrel. 

The velocity of the 32-40 is about 1,400 
feet a second at muzzle, with black powder; 
with high pressure smokeless, about 2,050 
feet. The 32-40 high pressure is a little 
more powerful than the 30-30, about the 
same as the Savage .303 and the 32 Win- 
chester special, and about 34 as powerful 
as the 30-40. It is as accurate as any cart- 
ridge, whether black or smokeless. The 
Savage rifle is made for the 32-40-165. The 

other 32-40s mentioned are practically out 
of use. 

I use Laflin & Rand’s Sharpshooter 
smokeless. Twelve grains by weight will 
give the same power as 40 grains black and 
costs about the same. This may be used 
with lead bullet. For high power load with 
metal cased bullet use 20 to 23 grains of 
the same powder, giving velocities from 
1,925 to 2,050 feet. For the miniature, I 
use the 99-grain sharp pointed bullet, of No. 
31,049 in Ideal Hand Book, and 5 or 6 
grains of any shot gun smokeless. This 
does not tear small game. Use short range 
shells with groove. For the medium load, 12 
grains, I use Ideal bullet No. 321,232. It 
will seat with regular 32-40 tool and has a 
groove for shell to crimp into. Make bul- 
lets I part tin to 16 or 18 parts lead. 

The butt stock is a matter of choice; I 
prefer the shot gun butt for a hunting rifle. 
Do not use wadding or any method of fill- 
ing the shell in the medium loads; leave 
the powder loose in the shell. Never ailow 
bullet to rest on smokeless powder in shell. 
If black powder is desired for miniature 
loads, 13 to 15 grains is correct, These 


loads are all accurate and cheap. Always 
use great care in cleaning any rifle after 
using smokeless powder with metal cased 
bullets. 

Ernest A. Dunn, Boston, Mass. 





DEFENDS THE PUMP GUN. 
(Printed verbatim.) 


I have been a subscriber to Recreation since 


Nov o1 and my subscription is paid up to 
NOV o$1 read all of the stories there in with 
much pleasure and in fact read a;1 there in 
there is many things that make me tired. now 
lam about 30 years old and have hunted Bob 
Whites more than half of that time in season 
and have used most oll kinds of guns, this fall 
I sold $40 00 I.C. Smth and bought a Win- 
chester pump gun. I have killed ‘‘203 Quails 
since NOV 1 6 to Jan 1/. I find on page 57 in 
Jan number of Recreation your crazy bill to pro- 
hibit the use of all magazine guns, If a man 
ever lerns to shoot a Winchesyer pump gun he 
cah never be satisfied with any thing else? It 
is more than foolish for a man to pay from 
$50e00 to $500 for a Parker I.C. Smith or any 
other make of gun when for $20 oo or 25 oo he 
can buy Winchester pump gun that will out last 
and out shoot any of all of them. 

Now as I have said my subscription is paid upto 
Noc 04 it would please me verry much to have 
mt money refunded taling out pay for what cop- 
pies I have recd , ?I will, not help even ever 
so little to support a magazine that is or is going 
to take steps to prohibit the use of the best 
cheapest and handist shooting gun on resord espe- 
cialy one that I prefer above all others you are 
verry strong in using your pet name of Gamf 
Hog and I in this letter am saying just what I 
think I am not-a game hog never sold a quail in 
my life am not taking offence at your game goh 
on my account. : 

Please print this letter and do as you say you 
do every body and give the Winchester people 
what they so justly deserve I am going to send 
them a coppynof this letter As you must klnow 
Mr. Shields I have nothing against you or Rec- 
reation only you are against the bestn gun in 
the world and a shoot that gun A Winchester 
Repeating Shot Gun fl. Plet me heare that you 
have taken a moer sensible view of this subjevt 
and burned all of the matter pretaining ti this 
crazy bill or please drop merfoomrom your list 

Yours Respt 
Clifford.S. Atkinson 
ANSWER. 


Here is my check for $1. It affords me 
great pleasure to drop your name from my 
subscription list. All such illiterate, un- 
washed, unkempt critters as your letter 
shows you to be may be safely counted as 
defenders of the pump and automatic guns. 
The educated, cultivated people are all op- 
posed to such weapons. The Winchester 
people will of course feel proud of you as 
a champion.—EpIror. 





THE ELTERICH SHELL. 

In your November issue G. D. Earll asks 
for a report from some one who has used 
the Elterich patent rifle shell. I can give 
him a little light on its possibilities. Two 
years ago, when on a vacation, I made an 
exhaustive test of one. It was one of the 
first made, and I used it solely in a repeating 
shot gun, so that Mr. Earll’s question as 
to whether it can be used in such a gun may 








GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 227 


be answered in the affirmative. In fact, a 
distinct form of the shell for use in repeat- 
ing guns is now on the market. 

I tested the appliance at all ranges be- 
tween Io and 100 yards, inclusive, firing 500 
32-caliber short smokeless cartridges in it. 
Its work may be described as being about 
equal to what a good revolver would do. 
At 75 yards I was able to get about one- 
third of its shots into a 12-inch circle, and 


by using an improvised detachable rear 


sight V-shaped, it did a little better. At 
shorter ranges its accuracy was, of course, 
greater in proportion. That its accuracy is 
no greater than this is due to the fact that 
it does not fit the gun barrel perfectly, and 
if it did fit any tighter than it does it 
would play havoc with the extractor. A 
surprising thing about the work of this shell 
is the penetration secured with the above 
named cartridge. At 75 yards the bullets 
penetrated an inch of oak, which is cer- 
tainly good for so short a piece of barrel 
as it offers. I never had any trouble with 
kelholing. For an occasional shot at short 
ranges this shell would prove satisfactory, 
but I warn Mr. Earll that in its use there is 
a sidewise blast of gas at its muzzle when 


the bullet leaves it, that is destructive to the ~ 


inside of the barrel in which it is used. 
P. B. Jenkins, Kansas City, Mo. 





AN EXPERT ON DRIFT. 

In November RECREATION are some re- 
marks on drift which are slightly in error. 

Until a few years ago it was believed by 
expert artillerists that the axis of a pro- 
jectile remained throughout its flight par- 
allel to its original position in the gun; 
and this would indeed be the case but for 
the resistance of the air. 

When sea coast mortars were first pro- 
posed to throw elongated projectiles just 
as rifled guns do, the objection was made 
that such projectiles would fall on their 
bases instead of on their points. Experi- 
ment has shown, however, that such is not 
the case. We have many 12-inch mortars 
now mounted along our coast, which throw 
projectiles 3 to 4 feet long. These may be 
plainly seen during flight and they invari- 
ably fly like arrows, point first, changing 
direction by as much as 90 degrees from 
their original position to that of impact. 
But while the old theory has fallen to the 
ground the theory of drift is still undis- 
puted and is borne out by actual results. 


Projectiles having right hand rotation gen-, 


erally drift to the right. I say generally 
because it has been found that projectiles 
thrown with extreme velocity sometimes 
drift to the left, although they rotate in a 
right hand direction. It is easier to theo- 
rize regarding this phenomenon than to 
satisfactorily explain it, The sights of the 


army rifle are experimentally adjusted for 


drift. 
R. R. Raymond, 
Capt. Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., 
Fort Riley, Kans. 


SMALL SHOT. 


C. B. H.’s comment in October Recrea- 
TION concerning pump guns is amusing. 
I have used a pump gun many years, have 
hunted with others using pump guns, and 
I know that it takes a man of exceptional 
skill and quickness to kill 3 birds out 
of a flushed covey. Mr. H. evidently be- 
lieves a man with a pump gun can get in 5 
or 6 shots at a covey, a feat I have never 
seen accomplished. Birds are crippled by 
poor marksmanship at short range as well 
as at long range. In a scattered covey, 
occasionally 2 birds will rise in quick suc- 
cession, and if, a few moments later, a 
third bird should rise, the man with a re- 
peater is ready to shoot it, thus having a 
distinct advantage over the man with a 
double barrel, whose gun was emptied in 
shooting at the first 2. The principal ad- 
vantage, therefore, of the pump gun is in 
being ready to shoot at 3 or more birds 
which unexpectedly rise at quick intervals 
in a scattered covey. 

C. W. Murphy, Salem, Ind. 








It seems to me that in November REcreE- 
ATION a great injustice is done to Robin 
Hood powder. I have used shells loaded 
by that company for 3 years and find they 
compare favorably with other smokeless 
ammunition. C. H. Bentley hints that the 
powder should be called semi-smokeless. 
Anybody who has ever used Peters so-called 
semi-smokeless ammunition would look on 
this as an insult to the Robin Hood Com- 
pany. H. W. B. complains of the shells 
splitting and of the heads blowing off. Prob- 
ably his gun has an expanded chamber. 
Another man says that the crimp is bulged, 
so as to make the shell stick in the chamber. 
This may have been true of a small lot of 
shells, but why state it as a general fact? 
I have had the same trouble with Winches- 
ter ammunition, but I do not make the 
charge that all Winchester shells have a de- 
fective crimp. 

H. S. Hill, Washington, D. C. 





I am a regular reader of your valuable 
magazine and note with interest the dif- 
ferent opinions on guns and ammunition. 
I own a 30-30 Savage and succeeded in 
getting a large buck last fall in the upper 
peninsula of Michigan. There were 32 
hunters camped within a radius of 2 acres 
where we were, and most of them had 
30-30 rifles of different makes. I saw many 
deer killed by them. In almost every case 
the hunter had no trouble in finding his 


228 


game, notwithstanding there was no track- 
ing snow. One fellow, however, followed a 
deer 2% miles by the blood after he had 
shot it 3 times with a 45-70 express. . I 
think the 30-30 and the 32-40 the best deer 
guns for this country. 

S. L. Bennett, Alma, Mich. 





Does the Savage Arms Company manu- 
facture ammunition for its 25-35 rifle? If 
so, can the shells be reloaded as often as 
those made for the .303? What is the ex- 
treme killing range of the 25-35? 

W. E. R., Victor, Colo. 


ANSWER. 


It is the intention of the Savage Arms 
Company to put on the market 25-35 ammu- 
nition in the near future. It is impossible to 
give the exact killing range of the 25-35, 
as this has never been determined by ex- 
periments, but I should judge it to be in the 
neighborhood of 1,200 to 1,300 yards. The 
25-35 ammunition of the bottle-neck type 
can be reloaded as many times as the .303 
-shell.—EbirTor. 





Please tell me how to keep shot gun 
barrels from rusting; also whether shot 
gun wick plugs can be used successfully. 

W. H. Pringle, McIvor, Mich. 


ANSWER. 


The wick plugs are the best device 
I have ever seen for keeping gun barrels 
from rusting inside. In order to keep the 
barrels from rusting outside you should 
cover them thorouchly with Cedaroleum, or 
with any good gun grease, and-then wrap 
the gun in heavy paper. It is possible to 
keep rust from attacking the gun without 
wrapping it, but if it is not wrapped it 
should be examined frequently and re-oiled. 
Cedaroleum is made by The Cedaroleum 
Co., of Perkinsville, Vt.—EnrTor. 





I have used nearly all makes of rifles and 
thought the Winchester 25-35 the best, but 
now I think the Savage is far better. The 
Marlin is as good as no gun at all and far 
more dangerous. 

G. L. Manor, Post Falls, Idaho. 





I should like to hear from some sports- 
man who has used the 44-40 on deer and 
other big game. I have one which I intend 
to take on a hunting trip next fall. 

Arthur A. Borck, Rocklyn, Wash. 





It is a fact that the repeating shot gun is 
killing or crippling all the game we have 
here. It is strictly a game hog’s gun. Give 
me a double barrel every time. 

C. B. Colt, St. Joseph, Mo. 





I see that 2 readers of RECREATION ask 
about Magniscope rifle sights. As I un- 


RECREATION. 


derstand the Magniscope, it is a cheap 
telescope sight. 
L. A. S., 8942, Pittsburg, Pa. 


If .30-30, Westmount, Canada, would like 
to see a Magniscope rifle sight he can do so 
by looking me up. 

E. G. Brewer, Montreal, Can. 








Which is the better gun to take into the 
Maine woods—the 38-55 or the Winchester 
32 special ? 


“Farming? I know what it is,” declared 
the Congressman from Indiana; “father and 
5 of us boys used to work all the year round | 
to raise stuff to feed 5 horses. Finally 2 of 
the horses died, and that enabled Charley 
and me to get away from the farm and come 
to Congress.”—Argonaut. 





“Young man,” said the stern parent, “do 
you know what is the greatest aim in life?” 

“Sure!” said the unregenerate. “That 
feller on th’ Indianny wot smashed th’ 
bull’s-eye 5 straight at 4 miles wid a 13- 
incher.”—Baltimore News. 





RECREATION is a necessary part of the 
outfit of every user of gun and rod, a boon 
to the sportsman; and a word in season to 
the game hog. 

S. S. Mulford, New York City. 





Of all sad words of tongue or pen 

I think the saddest ones are when 

Your gasoline has run its course 

And small boys chorus—Gittahorse ! 
—Buffalo News. 





It is almost as good as a day in the 
woods when RECREATION comes, the “al- 
most” in this case implying great pleasure. 

Hale H. Richardson, Boston, Mass. 





Nell—She has an automobile tongue. 

Belle—What do you mean? 

Nell—Oh, she’s always running other 
people down.—Philadelphia Record. 





I have taken RECREATION for the past year 
and a half, and think it the best magazine 
on the market. 

Bernard Verbeck, Alameda, Cal. 





Bertie (at a concert)—What are those 
2 people singing at once for? 

Cissy (aged 6)—Why, to get it over all 
the quicker, of course !—Exchange. 





RECREATION is a perfect magazine. 7 
Harry Baker, Blockhouse, Wash. 





Uncle Ezra says that kissing will remove 
paint,—Schoolmaster, 





NATURAL HISTORY. 


When abird or a wild animal is killed, that is the end of it. 


If photographed, it may still live and 


its educational and scientific value is multiplied indefinitely. 


SNAKE BITE ANI ITS TREATMENT. 


I read in September Recreation, A. K. 
Stetson’s article on “Treatment of Snake 
Bite,” and was surprised to notice several 
errors therein. He advises one bitten by 
a poisonous snake to use permangate of 
soda. There is such a drug, but it is not 
used as an antidote for snake bite. I sup- 
pose he means permanganate of potassium, 
from his saying it is the only known 
agent that will fully destroy the venom 
without also destroying the tissues. 

Even that is not so. Permanganate of po- 
tassium is apt to produce ulceration, and 
in consequence, healing may be long de- 
layed. Still, it is a good remedy to use, 
if none better be at hand. Chromic acid 
has been found superior, as its action is 
quicker and no destruction of tissue is likely 
to occur after its use If employing perman- 
ganate of potassium, use a I to 2 per cent. 
solution hypodermically in and around 
the wound. In making use of chromic 
acid, Professor Kaufmann, of France, -who 
instituted a series of experiments with it, 
and obtained from it the best results, ad- 
vises 2 or 3 drops of an aqueous solution, 
I to 100, of chromic acid, injected to the 
extreme depth of the puncture of each fang. 
Then several similar injections to be made 
around the wound. The infected part to 
be kneaded, to bring the acid more thor- 
oughly in contact with the venom, after 
which the wound to be punctured with the 
point of a knife to allow the escape of 
serum, continuing the kneading to facilitate 
the discharge. 

With the treatment I advise hypodermic 
injections, not in the wound, of strych- 
nine until its effect can be noticed, shown 
by slight muscular spasms. The patient 
should not be allowed to sleep, except for 
short intervals, for the first 24 hours. 

Mr. Stetson advises whiskey to be given 
“copiously, not fearing intoxication.” It 
should be remembered that a large quantity 
of whiskey acts as a heart depressant, while 
a small quantity is a stimulant, and as the 
heart is to be supported by stimulation, 
under no circumstances should the person 
bitten be made intoxicated. 

Many persons believe that nearly all 
snakes are poisonous and should be de- 
stroyed. Such belief is largely the result 
of ignorance combined with prejudice. Man, 
as a rule, in his savage desire to kill some- 
thing, loses no opportunity to destroy the 
life of every creature whose usefulness he 
does not understand. Snakes are useful ani- 


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mals, destroying millions of such pests as 
mice, rats, moles, poisonous insects, etc., and 
in consequence ought to be allowed to live. 
Poisonous snakes, of which there are but 
few varieties in this country, should, of 
course, be destroyed. 

The only poisonous snakes in the United 
States, whose bite can cause death, are the 
rattlesnake, copperhead, cottonmouth, water 
moccasin and coral snake. The last named, 
however, is found only in the far Southern 
States, and there, as a rule, living under 
ground. The poisonous snakes of this coun- 
try can be easily distinguished from the 
non-poisonous ones by a pit or hole, located 
on each side of the face, between the nos- 
tril and the eye. These are called “pit- 
vipers,’ and have a vertical pupil; the 
only exception being the coral snake, which 
has no such pit and has a round pupil. An- 
other distinguishing feature in poisonous 
snakes is the presence of 2 or more fangs, 
located on the anterior part of the upper 
jaw. The spreading adder, that so many 
believe to be poisonous, is as harmless as a 
kitten; still thousands are killed every year 
by persons ignorant of its usefulness, and 
who mistake it for the deadly copperhead, 
which it somewhat resembles. 

G. E. Roehrig, M. D., Chicago, III. 


In the August number of your splendid 
magazine I find a description of traps and 
snares to catch snakes, also mention of the 
best antidote to the venom of the poisonous 
snakes of North America. 

I desire to say a word against the con- 
demnation of ammonia as an antidote to 
snake venom. I do not undervalue the au- 
thority quoted, but during 35 years of prac- 
tice I have treated patients suffering from 
bites from most, if not all, varieties of pois- 
onous reptiles in Texas, Arkansas, Indian 
Territory and other Southwestern States. I 
treated my patients conscientiously and suc- 
cessfully, and I used ammonia: 

It is well known to the profession that 
poisons like that under consideration pro- 
duce an acid condition of the blood of the 
victim. We also know that ammonia is 
an alkali and a diffusible stimulant. To 
neutralize the acid produced by the venom 
and at the same time stimulate the heart's 
action seems to me a rational treatment. I 
have yet to see any destruction of the veins 
from its use. I suppose that deplorable con- 


dition might occur from its abuse. As to 
permanganate of potash, I deem it an 
excellent after-treatment, as it abounds 


in oxygen and therefore and thereby elim- 


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RECREATION. 


od 
inates organic salts and possibly other “the song of love, joy and praise. They 


morbific agents. Permanganate of potash 
must have time to disorganize and give off 
free oxygen, leaving the potash to neutral- 
ize the acid in the blood, as ammonia does. 
Thus both drugs stimulate the heart and 
destroy acid; ammonia acts most promptly 
and is therefore preferable. 

I read a statement recently that house 
spiders were not poisonous. At that time 
I had 3 cases dangerously sick from spider’s 
venom. 

C. E. Frost, M. D., Ranger, Tex. 


LET THEM STAY WHERE GOD PUT THEM. 

The following editorial, which recently 
appeared in the Cleveland Press, was read 
aloud in every school room in that city, by 
order of the Cleveland Board of Education: 

The song birds of Ohio are to stay where 
God put them—in the woods and fields 
He who notes even a sparrow in its fall 
has not forgotten the little troubadours of 
the sunny skies. He has raised an agency 
for their defense in their virgin sweetness, 
in their primal beauty and in that which 
gives them their beauty and sweetness both, 
their native liberty. There is at least one 
statutory law in which the hand of God is 
surely visible, and it is being righteously 
enforced. No longer, in Northern Ohio, 
at least, will the hedges, trees and sky be 
robbed of their richest treasures to adorn 
human vanity. 

It is a baffling physiological question why 
a woman wants a bird on her hat. It is a 
confession carried aloft like a banner, that 
she needs unnatural aid to make her beau- 
tiful. For the bird adorns the woman; no 
woman adorns a bird. To refined minds 
the woman is prettier without the bird; to 
all minds the bird is prettier without the 
woman. The bird on a woman’s hat is a 
mark of murder, the most cruel and useless 
that the mind can conceive. It is even a 
mark of more than that. It is a constant 
reminder that the vanity of woman can 
ruthlessly throttle the sweetest music that 
ever kissed the soul, enslave the most per- 
fect type of freedom, mar the purest thing 
of beauty in the world, and then place the 
evidence of her heartless crimes above her 
brow and ask us to look and think her more 
peautiful. 

Is it then to be wondered at that hu- 
manity has sickened of it and has said 
through the law and game wardens, that 
the song birds shall stay where God put 
them—in the fields and woods? 

There in their native element the song 
birds are man’s first and holiest inspiration. 
hey taught him his first note in music, 
and gave him his first dream of liberty. 
They are the greatest optimists in the world, 
teaching always cheer and hope. They 
croak no melancholy dirges, but sing only 





bring into the heart of man naught but 
brightness and take from it naught but 
gloom. 

Near to Nature’s heart, where men and 
women have souls, the song birds suggest 
all that is best in life or to be longed for in 
eternity. They whisper to the child its first 
message from the Infinite, and carol to old 
age the glories beyond the vale. From 
dawn to night, from birth to death, they 
flood our days and lives with melody, and 
cheer with inspiration. 

Let them stay where God put them—in 
the fields, in the woods, and in human souls. 





THE GREEN PIGEONS OF INDIA. 

The feathered game of India is as numer- 
ous as it is varied. While many of the spe- 
cies are.those found in much higher lati- 
tudes, there are several peculiar to the 
country. Partridges, quails, pheasants, 
grouse and turkeys, together with various 
water birds, are found well distributed over 
the jungle land. Few of the many game 
birds, however, excel the green pigeon in 
delicacy of flavor and other edible qualities. 
This bird is found chiefly in the Northern 
and Western parts of the country, inhabit- 
ing the large tracts of jungle land or places 
where tall trees such as the mango or ban- 
yan flourish. It is always met in great 
numbers, 200 frequently being counted in a 
single flock. Its plumage is dull green, 
though the feathers on the neck and breast 
are gray. Its habits are identical with 
those of the ordinary blue rock, but its 
extreme wariness renders it exceedingly 
dificult of approach and the sportsman 
who can show a dozen brace as the result 
of a day’s work may well congratulate 
himself. If one is lucky enough to ap- 
proach a feeding flock, a single shot will 
frequently drop 5 to 10 birds, so closely do 
they perch together. 

The best method is to first find one of 
their feeding places, which is usually a 
large banyan, or pipal, tree, go there before 
sunrise and await the arrival of the birds. 
They invariably select the Eastern branch- 
es and settle there sit quietly in the sun 
half an hour before feeding. While thus 
engaged not a bird stirs, and so closely 
does their plumage resemble the color of 
the surrounding foliage that it requires a 
sharp eye to detect them. About daybreak 
the birds begin to arrive in groups of 5 or 
6 and soon the branches are fairly alive 
with them. Then it is that the sportsman 
must exercise the greatest care; not a twig 
must be broken nor a change made in his 
position. Slowly the pigeons arrange 
themselves and by sunrise some of the 
boughs are bent almost to breaking with 
their weight. Then with a quick move the 
gun is brought to the shoulder, one barrel 








NATURAL 


discharged at some well laden limb, the 
other into the flock as they leave the tree; 
usually securing from 10 to 20 birds. On 
an all day chase for them such a bag is 
seldom obtained. These birds are specially 
fine for the table during the cold weather, 
from November to February, when their 
favorite fruits are in season. The green 
pigeon is a much larger bird than the com- 
mon blue rock, and while having many of 
the latter’s characteristics, it does not fre- 
quent the vicinity of human _ habitations. 
With the natives the green pigeons are 
great pets, as when taken young they be- 
come-domesticated without much trouble. 
Geo. T. Forbes, Harrisburg, Pa. 





IMPORT SKYLARKS. 


The skylark, Alauda arxensis, is a Euro- 
Dean songster which we have in America. 
The skylark is renowned in song and story 
all over the old world. It would be thought 
incredible in any country of which he is 
a native that we would not welcome his 
coming, and do all in our power to bring 
him to every part of this land. The skylark 
was brought to New York many years ago. 
I do not know how he has prospered or in 
how many Eastern States he is now found. 
The lark was brought to Portland, Oregon, 
about 1883, and has rapidly increased. I 
believe they have penetrated East of the 
Cascade range. ReEcREATION has corre- 
spondents in every State of the Union, and 
Canada. They could give us some inter- 
esting items as to where the skylark is now 
found. 

If all the lovers of good music who live 
in the vast plain that stretches from the 
Arctic ocean to the Gulf of Mexico would 
contribute each a few cents and turn loose 
a few hundred larks, the glorious song of 
this’ bird would soon be heard, at one sea- 
son or other, from Brownsville on the Rio 
Grande, to Edmondston on the North Sas- 
katchewan. Of course, these Oregon birds 
are born citizens of the United States and 
have a right to sing wherever the stars and 
stripes float. The lark loves a prairie 
country. Hasten the day when we shall 
have more of these birds. 

E. K. C., Kenville, Texas. 





DO NOT IMPORT BIRDS. 


In your September number, E. K. Carr 
says that we ought to have the nightin- 
gale, black cap, white throat, and sev- 
eral other European birds. Can it be that 
we have lost all appreciation for our own 
birds, that we are willing to crowd them 
out with aliens? 

I have never heard any of his birds sing, 
and I never wish to as long as the wood 
thrush, our own black cap, and white throat, 


HISTORY. 


231 


and the cat bird visit our thickets and 
groves. 

The fact that the habits of European birds 
named are known, avails nothing. Under 
different environment they may change. 
They would be patronized, our own birds 
neglected, and consequently driven from 
around our buildings. There is no guar- 
antee that foreign birds would not acquire 
the evil propensities of the English spar- 
row. 

It would be a cause for rejoicing among 
nature lovers of this country if Congress 
would forbid the importation of alien birds, 
quadruple the punishment for slaughtering 
our own birds, and fill the country with 
wardens to enforce the law. 

W. E. Hammon, Buena Vista, Colo. 





NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 


I bought Som2 rabbits in Ulster coun- 
ty, N. Y., and in 3 weeks they all had big 
worms in their backs. The worms were 
white and about 1% inches long. They 
could be pressed out by the fingers, and in 
the holes large scabs would form. Each 
rabbit had 2 or 3 of these worms in his 
back. Can you tell me through RECREATION 
what was the matter? 

Down with the hogs. 

Jess Roland, Brooklyn, N. Y. 


ANSWER. 


Nearly all rabbits are affected with grubs, 
such as you describe, during hot weather. 
I receive such reports as that you send 
from all parts of the country, and your sur- 
prise is not different from that of nearly 
every man who has attempted to handle 
domestic rabbits of any kind.—EnbrTor. 





A grey squirrel has a nest in one of 
our trees and is very tame. He often 
comes to our window to fed, and it 
is easy to entice him into the house, if 
the proper bait is used. It is a source of 
infinite delight to my 2 small people to 
hold nuts in their laps and have him climb 
up to get them. Of course the squirrel 
is timid, and the slightest movement on 
our part will send him flying; yet as long 
as we keep our seats he will move freely 
all about the room, and will even go from 
one room to another. There are several of 
these little fellows in the neighborhood, 
and the residents take great pleasure in 
feeding and protecting them through the 
cold weather. 

Frank P. Lord, Burlington, Vt. 








The porcupine may have his quills, 
The elephant his trunk; 
But when it comes to common scents, 
My money’s on the skunk. 
—Cornell Widow. 


‘THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN, 


GENERAL OFFICERS 


President, G. O. Shields, 23 W. 24th St., 
New York. 


1st Vice-President, E. T. Seton, 80 West. 


4oth St., New York. 
2d Vice-President, W. T. Hornaday, 2969 
Decatur Ave., Bedford Park, N. Y. 
3d Vice-President, Dr. T. S. Palmer, 
Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
4th Vice-President, A. A. Anderson, 80 
West goth St., New York. 
5th Vice-President, Hon. W. A. Rich- 
ir: General Land Office, Washington, 
Secretary, A. F. Rice, 
Ave., Passaic, N. J. 
Treasurer, Austin Corbin, of the Corbin 
Banking Co., 192 Broadway, New York. 


STATE DIVISIONS 
ALASKA 
Dr. E. M. Rininger, Chief Warden, Nome. 
ARIZONA. 
M.J. Foley, Chief Warden, Jerome. 
ARKANSAS 
W. R. Blocksom, Chief Warden, Eureka Springs. 
CALIFORNIA. 
Dr. David Starr Jordan, Chief Warden, Leland 
Stanford University. 
COLORADO. 
A. Whitehead, Chief Warden, 303 Tabor Building, 
Denver. 


155 Pennington 


CONNECTICUT. ‘ 

Hon. F. P. Sherwood, Chief Warden ame ort; 
Dr. H. L. Ross, Vice-Warden, Canaan; H.C ent, 
Sec.-Treas., Bridgeport. 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 
C. H. Townsend, Chief Warden, U. S. Fish Com- 
mission. 

FLORIDA, 

W. W.K. Decker, Chief Warden, Tarpon Springs. 
GEORGIA. 

J.J. Doughty, Chief Warden, Augusta. 

IDAHO, 

L. A. Kerr, Chief Warden, Kendrick. 
{LLINOIS. 

M. D. Ewell, M.D., Chief Warden, 59 Clark St., 
Chicago; F. M. Taber, Vice Warden, 144 Kinzie 
St., Chicago; G.C. Davis, Sec.-Treas., 123 S. Central 
Ave., Austin. 

INDIANA. 
ae J. Hildebrandt, Chief Warden, Logansport ; 
Moore, Vice-Warden, Anderson; Dr. a 
Pe ony Sec.-Treas., Good/and. 
IOWA. 
Carl Quimby, Chief Warden, Des Moines; C. C. 
Proper, Sec.-l'reas., Des Moines. 
KANSAS, 
O. B. Stocker, Chief Warden, Wichita. 
KENTUCKY. 
Geo. C. Long, Chief Warden, Hopkinsville. 
MAINE, 
Col. E. C. Farrington, Chief Warden, Augusta. 
MARYLAND. 
J. E. Tylor, Chief Warden, ( xford. 
MASSACHUSETTS. 

Heman S. Fay. Chief Warden, Hazleton Block, 
== i: E. weedy, Vice-Warden, North Attle- 
boro ; Lamson, Sec.-Treas., 194 Main St., 
+e Sl 


MICHIGAN. 


Jj. Elmer Pratt, Chief Warden, Grand Rapids; k.S. 


232 


Woodliffe, Vice-Warden, Jackson; A. B. Richmond, 
Sec.-Treas., Grand Rapids. 
MINNESOTA. 

Dietrich Lange, Chief Warden, 2294 Commonwealth 
Ave., St Paul; H. A Morgan, Vice- Warden Albert 
Lea; Prof. O. iE: iesce Sec.-Treas., St. Paul. 

MISSOURI. 

Bryan Snyder, Chief Warden, 726 Central Bldg., 
St. Louis. 

MONTANA, 

Professor M. J. Elrod, Chief Warden, Missoula; 
Sidney M. Logan, Vice- Warden, Kalispell; R. A. 
Waagner, Sec.-Treas., Bozeman. 

NEBRASKA. 

Fred. E. Mockett, Chief Warden, Lincoln; P. 

O’Mahony, Sec.- l reas., Lincoln, 
NEVADA. 

Dr. W. H. Cavell, Chief Warden, Carson; Geo. W. 
Cowing, Sec, -Treas., Carson. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

Dr. A. F. Barrett, Sentinel Bldg., Keene; Sidney 
Conant, Sec.-Treas., Keene. 

NEW JERSEY. 

Reg Johnson, Chief Warden, Bloomfield; Dr. 
W..S. Colfax, Vice-Warden, Pompton Lakes; I. 
V. Dorland, Sec.-Treas., Arlington. 

NEW MEXICO. 
P. B. Otero, Chief Warden, Santa Fe. 
NEW YORK. 

John R. Fanning, Chief Warden, Powers’ Bldg. 
Rochester; Col. Kk. E. Moss, Vice-Warden, Wallac § 
Theatre, New York City; "De. C.-C; Curtis, Sec.- 
Treas., Columbia College, New Y ork City. 

NORTH DAKOTA, 
Dr. W. D. Jones, Chief Warden, Devil’s Lake. 
OHIO. 
W. E. Gleason, Chief Warden, Mitchell Bldg., 


Cincinnati; A. C. Thatcher, Vice-Warden, Urbana. 
OKLAHOMA. 
W.M. Grant. Chief Warden, Oklahoma City. 
ONTARIO. 


C. A. Hammond, Chief Warden, Box 7o1, St. 

Thomas; D. L. Mells, Sec.-Treas., St. Thomas. 
OREGON. tk 

Robert F. Kelly, Chief Warden, Box 188, The 

Dalles; C. B. Cushing, Sec.- Treas., The Dalles. 
PENNSYLVANIA. 

C. F. Emerson, Chief Warden, 189 N. Perry St., 
Titusville ; Hon. C. B. Penrose, Vice-Warden, 1720 
S pruce Sti, Philadelphia. 

RHODE ISLAND. 

Zenas W. Bliss, Chief Warden, 49 Westailaaser St. 

Providence. 


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SOUTH CAROLINA. 
C. F. Dill, Chief Warden, Greenville. 
SOUTH DAKOTA. 
D. C. Booth, Chief Warden, Spearfish; John C. 
Barber, Sec.-Treas., Lead. 
TENNESSEE. 
Hon, G. C. Martin, Chief Warden, Clarksville 
Hon. Austin Peay, Jr., Sec.-Treas., Clarksville. 
TEXAS. 
Prof. S. W. Stanfield, Chief Warden, San Marcos; 
W. E. Heald, Sec.-Treas., San Angelo. 
UTAH. 
Hon. John Sharp, Chief Warden, Salt Lake City. 
VERMONT. 
S. C. White, Sec.-Treas., Woodstock. 


— VIRGINIA. 
R. G. Bickford, Chief Warden, Newport News. 
C. O. Saville, Vice Warden, Richmond; M. D. Hart, 
Sec.-Treas., 1217 East Main St., Richmond. 
WASHINGTON. 
Merri'l, Chief Warden, Spokane; F. A. Pon- 
Munro yckoff, Vice-War- 


ro 
tius, Sec.-Treas., Seattle; 
den, Pt. Townsend. 








THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 


WEST VIRGINIA, 
E. F. Smith, Chief Warden, Hinton, 


WISCONSIN. 


Frank Kaufman, Chief Warden, Two Rivers; Dr. 
A. Gropper, Sec.-Treas., Milwaukee. 


WYOMING. 


-H. E. Wadsworth, Chief Warden, Shoshone 
Agency; Frank Bond, Sec.-Treas., Cheyenne. 


Applications for membership and orders for badges 
shoutd be addressed to Arthur F. Rice, Secretary, 237 W. 
24th St., New York, 


LOCAL WARDENS 
CONNECTICUT. 


County. Name of Warden. Address. 
Fairfield, George B. Bliss, 2 Park ee Stam- 
ord. 
« Harvey C. Went, 11 a Bridge- 
port. 
— Samuel Waklee, Box ey> Stratford. 
Litchfield, Dr. H.L. Ross, P. O. Box 100, Ca- 
naan. 
Middlesex, Sandford Brainerd, Ivoryton. 
New Haven, Wilbur E. Beach, 318 Chapel Street, 
New Haven. 
ze D. J. Ryan, 188 Elizabeth St.. 
Derby. 
FLORIDA, 
Brevard, C.H. Racey, Waveland. 
. ILLINOIS. 
Iroquois, J. L. Peacock, Sheldon. 
Rock Island, D.M.Slottard, 12th Ave. and 17th 
St., Moline. 
IOWA. 
Clinton, D.L. Pascol, Grand Mound. 
Pottawattamie, Dr. C. Engel, Crescent. 
KANSAS. 
Ness, Frank Lake, Ransom. 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
Norfolk, Orlando McKenzie, Norfolk. 
ig - J. Blick Wrentham. 
= /W. Fuller East Milton. 
Suffolk, Cut. W. 7. Stone, 4 Tremont Row, 
Boston. 
Worcester, B. H. Mosher, Athol. 
3 MICHIGAN. 
Berrien, W. A. Palmer, Buchanan. 
Cass, Thomas Dewey, Dowagiac. 
Hillsdale, C. A. Stone, Hillsdale. 
Kalamazoo, C. E. Miller, Augusta. 
Lake, John Trieber, Peacock, 
Ottawa, W. H. Dunham, Spencer. 
F NEBRASKA. 
Hall, E. C. Statler, Grand Island 
NEW HAMPSHIRE, 
Cheshire, S.C, ma, . Keene. 
Sullivan, G. A. Blake Lempster. 
" j. W. Davidson, Charlestown. 
NEW JERSEY. 
Hudson, A. W. Letts, 51 Newark St., 
Hoboken 
Mercer. Edw. Vanderbilt, Dentzville, 
Trenton. 
S Roland Mitchell, 739 Centre St., 
Trenton 
7" F. C. Wright, Trenton 
Monmouth. Dory-Hunt, Wanaque. 
Morris, joseph Peliet, Pompton Plains. 
ng has. W. Blake, Dover. 
ss Francis E. Cook, Butler. 
, Calone Orr, Hibernia. 
Somerset, G. E. Morris Somerville. 
Sussex, Isaac D. Williams, Branchville. 
Union, A. H. Miller, Cranford. 
= C. M. Hawkins, Roselle. 
Warren, acob Young, Phillipsburg. 
“B- euben Warner, : 
NEW YORK. 
Albany, C. D. Johnson, Newtonville. 
4 Kenneth E. Bender,Albany. | 
” W.S. Swift, Voorheesville. 


County. 


Allegany, 
Broome, 


Cayuga, 
Chemung, 


Columbia, 
Cortland, 
Dutchess, 
oe 
Erie, 
Essex, 
Franklin, 
Greene, 
Hamilton, 
Herkimer, 
Jefferson, 


ce 
Livingston 
“ee 


ce 
Montgomery, 
New York, 
Oneida. 
Onondaga, 
O range, 


Orleans, 
Oswego, 


Putnam, 
Queens, 


Richmond, 
St: Lawrence, 


Schenectady, 
Schoharie, 
Schuyler, 
Suffo k, 
Tioga, 

U ster, 


Warren, 
Washi ngton, 


Westchester, 


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¥ ates, 


Allen, 
Clark, 


Cuyahoga, 
Erie, 
Franklin, 


Fulton, 
Hamilton, 


Knox, 
Lorain, 
Muskingum, 
Ottawa, 
Scioto, 
Stark, 


Name of Warden. 


G. A. Thomas, 
John Sullivan, 


233 


Address. 


Belvidere. 
Sanitaria Springs 


R. R. Mathewson, Binghamton. 


H. M. Haskell, Weedsport. 

Fred. Uhle, Hendy Creek, 

M. A. Baker, Elmira. 

A. B. Miller, Jackson’s Corners 
James Edwards, Cortland, 

A. B. Miller, ir, ead Corners. 
Chas. H.DeLong, Pawling. 


W. H. Broughton, Moriah. 


oi sco 

. J. Soper. 
David Alrd, Jr. 
D. F. Sperry, 
C. J. Smith, 


A. C. Cornwall, 
ag Northrup, 


St. Regis Fails. 
Windham. 

Lake Pleasant. 
Old Forge. 
Watertown. 
Alexandria Bay, 


. De La Vergne, Lakeville. 
K.S.Chamberlain, Mt. Morris. 


Henry Skinner, 
Dr. J. W. Cowan, 


S pringwater. 
neseo. 


Charles W. Scharf, Canajoharie. 


C. L. Meyer 
Me: Scoville, 
ames Lush, 


46 W. B’way,N.Y. City. 


Clinton. 
Memphis. 


J. Hampton Kidd, Newburgh. 


Thomas Harris, 
}: = Fearby, 


Port Jervis. 
E. Shelby. 


. Manning, 154 West Utica St. 
Oswego. 

H. L. Brady, ee Falls. 

Gerard Van Nostrand lushing, L.I. 

W.S. Mygrant, 40 Elton Street, 
Brooklyn. 

P. A. Geepel, 473 Grand Ave., 

Astoria, L. I. 

L. B. Drowne, 119 Somers Street, 

Brooklyn. 


Lewis C. Att, 


Lewis Morris, 


Broad Channel Ho- 
tel, Rockaway,L.l. 
Port Richmond. 


Dr. B.W.Severance, Gouverneur. 


A.N. Clark, 
. W. Furnside, 
. E. Eigen, 
G. C. Fordham, 
F. J. Fellows, 
P. F. Tabor, 
Geo. Wood, 
M.A. DeVall, 
Wm. 5S. Mead, 
Geo. McEchron, 
C.L. Allen, 
J. E. Barber, 
A.S. Temple, 
George Poth, 
Chas. Seacor, 


M. W. Smith, 
Ralph Gorham, 
B. L. Wren, 
Seymour Poineer, 
OHIO. 


S. W. Knisely 
Fred C. Ross, 


A. W. Hitch, 
David Sutton, 
Brook L. Terry, 


L.C. Berry, 
W.C. Rippey, 


Grant Phillips, 
T. J. Bates, 
Frank D. Abell, 
Frank B. Shirley, 
J. F. Kelley, 

A. Dangeleisen, 


OKLAHOMA, 


Kiowa and Comanche Nation, 


A. G. Cooper, 


Sevey. 
Schenectady. 
Sharon Springs. 
Watkins. 

Central Islip, L. I. 
Orient, L. I. 
Owego. 

The Corners. 
Woodstock. 

Glens Falls. 

Sandy Hill. 
Dresden. 
Whitehall. 
Pleasantville. 

57 Pelham Road, 

New Rochelle. 

Croton Falls. 

Mt. Kisco. 

Penn Yan, 

Branch Port. 


Lima. 
169 W. Main St., 
Springfield. 
161 Osborn St., 
Cleveland. 
ef bee oe, 
andusky. 
208 Woodward Av., 
Columbus. 
Swanton. 
4465 Eastern Ave., 
‘incinnati. 
Mt. Vernon. 
Elyria. 
Zanesville. 
Lakeside. 
Portsmouth. 
Massillon. 


Ft. Sill, 


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PENNSYLVANIA. 

County. Name of Warden. Address. 
Allegheny, S. H. Allen, Natrona. 
Beaver, N. H. Covert, Beaver Falls. 

= W.R. Keefer, os 
Bradford, Geo. Bb. Loop, Sayre. 
Butler, F. J. Forquer, Murrinsville. 

- Xk . McGill, Harrisville. 

Cambria, -H. Lambert, 720 Coleman Ave., 
crea 

Cameron, Harry Hemphill, Em 

Carbon, Asa LD. Hontz, East } Mauch Chunk. 

Clarion, a Keener, New Bethlehem. 

Clinton, M.C aa er, Renovo. 

“ Geo. epler, te 

se k, T. Antes, Pine Station 
Crawford, jasper Tillotson, ‘Tillotson. 

* VS 4 fn care tbe anes: 
Cumberland, k c Gar Mechanicsburg. 
oo V — Lusson, Ardmore. 

Lobaugh, kKidgway. 
En ette, Ely ¢ Cope, Cadwallader. 
erson, ohn Noll, Sykesville. 
parse slifford Singer, Oakland Mills. 

as Ezra Philhps, McAlesterville. 

Lackawanna, Wm. Weir, Moosic. 
= Wm. Major, be 
Frank A. a Tarlos, Wimmers. 
Lycoming, fot J. Brennan, Oval. 

o D. Kurtz, Cammal. 
McKean, C. A. Duke, Duke Center. 

Mi L. P. Fessenden, Granere. 

“ Wm. Holsinger, Stickney. 
Montgomery, L.C. Parsons, Academy. 
Northumber- im W. Roher, 

land, 505 Anthracite St., Shamokin. 
Perry, Samuel Sundy, Lebo 
Potter, Ira Murphy, Gamtaranck. 

* Wiley Barrows, Austin. 

<a Chas. Barrows, Austin, 
Tioga, E. B. Beaumont, Jr., Lawrenceville 

“s G. H. Simmons, Westfield 
Venango, G. D. Benedict, Pleasantville. 
Warren. F. P. Sweet, Goodwill Hill, 

. Nelson Holmes, Cornplanter. 

Wyoming, Cyrus Walter, Tunkhannock. 
TENNESSEE. 

Madison, e. T. Rushing, ackson. 

Montgomery, e a a larksville. 

Robertson, ane Bell, Springfield. 

Stewart, {ohn H. Lory, Bear Spring. 

Sumner, . G. Harris, Gallatin. 

UTAH, 

Washington, S. C. Goddard. New Harmony. 

. J. A. Thornton, Pinto. 

VERMONT. 
Essex, H. S. Lund, Granby 
Orleans. E.G. Moulton, Derby Line. 
Rutland, Wm. J. Liddle, Box 281, Fair Haven 
Windsor, F, A. Tarbell, West Bridgewater. 
VIRGINIA, 
Henrico, W. J. Lynham, 412 W. Marshall, 
Richmond. 
King & neces. R. D. Bates, Newtown. 
King William, N.H. Montague, Pals. 
Louisa, . P. Harris, Applegrove. 
Mecklenburg, J.H.Og burn, South Hill. 
Smythe, J.M. Fasten: Chatham Hill. 
WASHINGTON, 
Okanogan, me West, Methow. 
Stevens, acob Martin, Newport. 
5 L. H. Lee, ' Northport. 
Yakima, J), Brachmann, N. Yakima. 
WYOMING. 
Carbon. Kirk Dyer, Medicine Bow. 
Fremont, Nelson Yarnall, Dubois. 
Laramie, oe oe Cheyenne. 
t: . . Le@@K, 
Uinta, F. L. Peterson, | Jackson. 
LOCAL CHAPTERS. 
Albert Lea, Minn., H. A. Se wa Rear Warden. 
Anadarka, 0. T., Bert Smith, “ 


Angelica, N. Y., 


RECREATION. 


C. A. Lathrop, * 


Augusta, Mont., H, Sherman, Rear Warden 
Austin, Minn., G. F. Baird, xa 
Austin, Pa., W.S. Warner, m 
Boston, Mass., Capt. W. I. Stone, “ 
Buffalo, N pe H.C, Gardiner, es 
Camma), Pa.,- B. A. Ovenshire, “% 
Champaign ( Co., O, Hy. iH. MacCracken a 
Charlestown, N.H., wo M. Buswell, * 
peayenss, yo., . Hennessy, ” 
Choteau, Mont., 3. A. Gorham, ” 
Cincinnati, Ohio, B.W. Morris, a 
Coudersport, Pa. .» 1.L. Murphy, ss 
Cresco, lowa, . L. Platt, 6 
Cross Village, Mich., Job Rohr, 2 
Davis, W. Va., eltzen, * 
Dowagiac, Mich., . F. Hoyt, * 
East Mauch Chunk,Pa., E. F. Pry, oe 
Evansville, Ind., F.M. ae nm 
Fontanet, Ind., W.H. Perry, * 
Ft. Mig Ind., W.L. Woldimarth = 
Great Falls, Mont., . M. Gaunt, ‘ 
Heron Lake, Minn., K. C. Buckeye, p> 
Hollidaysb’g, Pa., ?, J. Hemphill ae 
Hopkinsville, Ky., Hunter Wood : 
Indianapolis, Ind., bri. Ee. Beli, . 
erome, Ariz., A. Hawkins, 7 
ohnsonburg, Pa., W. J. Stebbins, S 
<alispell, Mont., EB Eakright, es 
Keene, N. H.. P. Beedle, * 
Kingfisher, Okla., A.C; Ambrose 4 
Lake Co., Ind., Dr. R.C C. Mackey, 
Lawton, C'S i Marion Miller, ae 
Lincoln, Neb., A. J. Sawyer ts 
Logansport,Ind., E.B. Mel onnell, * 
Ludington, Mich., rt R. Cartier, ry 
McElhattan, Pa Bb. Winchester, e 
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Dei. H. Swartz, 
Minturn, Colo. Walter, 
Morgantown, W. Va., B. S, White, . 
,ew Albany, Ind., Dr. J. F, Weathers, 3: 


New Bethlehem, Pa. 4 ow Keener, 


oe ity O- Ts, Ts F. Gates, - 
Penn Yan, N H. R. Phillips, - 
Phillips, Wis., Ds K Randall, * 
Princeton, Ind., H. A. Yeager, - 
Reynoldsville, Pa., C. F. Hoffman, is 
Ridgway, as T. J. Maxwell, a 
Roc ester, N. H., Gustave Andreas, 41 

N.Y., C.H. McChesney 55 
St. Paul, Minn., O. T. Denry, os 
St. Thomas, oem oe “t. Hall, = 
Schenectady, N. Y. = iF Fu rnside, 7 
Seattle, Wash., - Kelly, “ 
Syracuse, N. Y., C.C. Truesdell, . 
Terre Haute, Ind., (:, F. Thiede, 7 
The Dalles, Ore. C.B. Cushing, ae 
Two Harbors,Minn., T. D. — ds 
Walden, N.Y., . W. Rei * 
Wichita, Kas., erald Fie, “ 
Winona, Minn., lea Morse, _ 





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WANT BETTER GAME LAWS. 
Here is a copy of a circular letter which 
me Chief Warden of one Division of the 
A. S., is sending to all members of his 
Sinks Legislature: 


Dear Sir :— 

There will be introduced, during the 
present session of your honorable body, a 
bill providing for a State officer to be known 
as Fish and Game Warden, whose duty 
shall be the enforcement of the laws of the 
State for the protection of our fish, game, 
and song birds; also another bill requiring 
resident hunters to pay a small license fee, 
when hunting off their own premises, and 
making a slight change in the present law 
as to jurisdiction of courts, perhaps making 
a close season on rabbits, and possibly some 
other changes. 

The purpose of this letter is to apprise 
you, in advance, of the legislation that will 
be asked for and, if possible, to enlist your 
interest in these bills. The measure is not 
for the benefit of any special class but for 
all citizens alike; for the land owner who 
wants protection from trespassers; and for 
dwellers in cities and towns, who like a 
day off now and then, to fish or hunt, few of 
whom can afford the time or means to go to 
other States for such recreation. Our 
present laws are good, but do not protect 
because we have no system of enforcement. 

Our people are beginning to realize that 
we, as well as other States around us, must 
take prompt and effective action in this mat- 
ter or it will be but a short time until Ken- 





tucky, the native home of small game, fish 
and song birds, will know these things no 
more. 

The Virginia deer and the wild turkey 
that once abounded and could be had foi 
the taking, will have become a memory. 
The quail and the ruffed grouse that were 
as gentle as chickens and much more plenti- 
ful, will be represented by a few lonely 
cocks to whistle and drum requiem to their 
departed kind. Our fish will be reduced 
to German carp and mud cat; and for birds, 
we shall have only the English sparrow, a 
foreigner on our shores, who merely cari- 
catures the music of our own beautiful and 
useful birds. 

It is apparent to every thoughtful mind 
that birds are of incalculable value to the 
farms of the country; and that fish and 
game are also beneficial in many ways, and, 
when taken in season and by proper meth- 
ods, could be made a source of revenue to 
the State. It would be a reflection on your 
intelligence to argue these points with you, 
and I only hope by these suggestions to im- 
press on you the importance of the bill and 
to secure for it your favorable considera- 
tion. Trusting you may not let other mat- 
ters crowd it from your calendar, I am, 

Yours respectfully, 








Glin! Wikvdors c= Regie. Aah 


This must éertainly prove an effective 
method of securing favorable consideration 
of the subject in advance, and I heartily 
commend the plan to League officers in 
other States.—Epiror.. 





County Game Watden J. A. Uhlig a 
short time ago made complaint against C. 
L. Gimmel for putting sawdust in the 
stream at his mill: Gimmel was fined $100 
in the Justice Court. He appealed to the 
Superior Court, but dropped the case and 
paid up. It cost him about $160 altogether. 
Uhlig also caught a young fellow with a 
quail in his bag a few days ago. This fel- 
low paid $1o and costs. 

F. S. Merrill, siptlaes Wash. 





Burd fi care great luck to-day. 

Archie Gunter—Bag anything? 

Burd Hunter—No, but I brought all the 
dogs back alive—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. 





I think yours is the best sportsmen’s jour- 
nal printed. read several others, but 
RECREATION beats them all. 
J. A. George, Eastlake, Mich. 





Mrs. Newbride—Do you keep a cook? 
Mrs. Oldwed—No! Does anybody ?— 
Exchange. 


FORESTRY. 


It takes 30 years to grow a tree and 30 minutes to cut it down and destroy it. 


THE ADIRONDACK PROBLEM. 


The following editorial, which recently 
appeared in The Independent, clearly and 
forcibly presents the conditions of forestry 
problems in the State of New York, accent- 
uating the position that forestry and sport 
do not necessarily exclude each other, but 
can and should go together as they do in the 
forests of France and Germany. 

From the report of the Forest Commis- 
sion of 1903, it appears that nearly 800,000 
acres of Adirondack lands are held by 
about 60 owners, or by clubs, for game pre- 
serves. These holdings vary from 300 to 
79,000 acres in a single block. They do 
not prevent so much the acquiring of homes 
in these mountainous regions, which are 
hardly intended for homes, but they curtail 
the public use of the forest. Professor Fer- 
now, who advocated, in his “Economics of 
Forestry,” the occupancy by private owners, 
and even the creation of a class of landed 
proprietors, as the only method in sight for 
immediately protecting the forest from de- 
vastating fires and from timber thieves, 
now says that he must modify his judgment 
to this extent, that any such occupancy 
tends to create a class of those who do not 
care for the public weal, but for private 
pleasure, to the exclusion of the people. 
He thinks that gradually, and perhaps im- 
perceptibly, an aristocratic spirit will be de- 
veloped inimical to democratic institutions. 
In the third place, Dr. Fernow finds that 
the attitude of the State toward its own 


holdings is changed. At first the reserva-— 


tion of Adirondack lands in the hands of 
the State was based on economic questions 
of timber supply and water protection, but 
it is now perverted into the idea of estab- 
lishing a great pleasure ground. He thinks 
this to be the present attitude of our legis- 
lators, shown in their recent action concern- 
ing the work of Cornell university. 

“While there is no objection to having 
such a large area devoted to pleasure, if 
accessible to all the people, and used in a 
proper way, it is not necessary, and it is 
economically unsound, to exclude the man- 
agement of these forests from economic 
ends.” 

The position of the Professor is that of 
honest democracy. He has advocated large 
forest holdings in private hands, and saw 
no objection to corporations controlling the 
timber supply; but he deprecates these vast 
holdings for mere pleasure. He holds it to 
be the first object of the State to have the 
great forest region as a source of revenue, 


including the preservation of water supply: 


and whatever secondary benefits may be 
derived thereby to the State. To withdraw 
the Adirondacks from the productive in- 
dustries he denounces as un-American. 

That 60 owners, whether private individ- 
uals or clubs, should hold 800,000 acres out 
of the reach of the people is an innovation 
that can not be denounced in too strong 
terms. It is certain to create in this coun- 
try a vulgar edition of English landlord- 
ism, and it is a catching spirit. Sooner or 
later, it must breed the same sort of an- 
tagonism which exists between the tenants 
and poachers: of Ireland and their landlords. 
There will be trespassing; and there will be 
a growing sentiment of lawlessness, be- 
cause law will be on the side of the aristo- 
crats. The clash will involve more or less 
of brutality and assassination, the shooting 
of game wardens, and, finally, of landlords 
themselves. Indeed, this antagonism is al- 
ready observable and has threatened life 
as in the old Barnburner days. 

It was hoped that the establishment of a 
State College of Forestry, in connection 
with Cornell university, and the placing of 
the Adirondacks largely in its control, 
would solve the problem, which had long 
been a serious one to the State. It is to 
be regretted that a misunderstanding has 
arisen and the State withdrawn its ap- 
propriation for this college. That this col- 
lege moved on lines antagonistic to the 
popular welfare does not seem to be 
proven. Governor Hill, in 1890, said to 
the Legislature that he believed “the Adi- 
rondack forest might be made a source of 
great revenue to the State, rather than an 
expense and a burden.” Governor Flower, 
in 1892, said that “eventually the State pre- 
serve ought to pay the expense of its main- 
tenance, by the judicious sale of timber 
and the leasing of small parcels of land, to 
individuals, for the establishment of small 
homes, under proper regulations.” He 
added, in 1894: 

“Following the ideas and suggestions 
which have been promulgated by forestry 
experts, we intend that our forest shall 
not only protect our water supply, and 
thereby our agricultural and commercial 
interests, and furnish summer homes and 
sanitariums for the people, but that they 
shall, at the same time, yield a revenue 
which shall pay the cost of maintenance 
and a handsome sum besides.” 

Governor Black was of the same mind. 
He thought that the time would come when 


FORESTRY. 


the State would sell timber to the lumber-— 


men, spruce to the pulp mills, reap a large 
revenue for itself, still retain the woods 
open to the public, while protecting the 
sources of water, and increasing the yield 
under intelligent cultivation. It was along 
this line that he urged the placing of 
this section of our State in charge of 
Cornell university. President Roosevelt 
had his first training in forestry as gov- 
ernor of New York State. In 1903, in an 
address to foresters, he said: 

“The object is not to preserve the forests 
simply because they are beautiful, but the 
primary object is the making of a pros- 
perous home.” This economic conception of 
the whole question is the correct one. The 
useful and the beautiful need never be di- 
vorced. 

The College of Forestry for working out 
these economic conceptions, which really 
date back to Governor Horatio Seymour, 
was one of the wisest institutions ever cre- 
ated in our State. The Constitutional Con- 
vention of 1894 prohibited the cutting of 
wood on the forest preserves. This was 
to turn the whole Adirondack woods into 
an everlasting wilderness, obliterating the 
economic conception of the problem. With- 
out violating the Constitution, it was 
thought that Cornell university might be 
allowed to conduct forestry experiments on 
a purchase of land adjacent to the pre- 
serve for 30 years. It was provided that 
the university might “plant, cut, raise and 
sell timber, with a view to obtaining and 
imparting knowledge concerning the scien- 
tific management and use of forests, their 
regulation and administration, the harvest- 
ing and reproduction of wood crops and 
earning a revenue therefrom.” 

The College of Forestry’: was made a 
Lranch of Cornell university, and given a 
working capital of $30,000. It was sup- 
posed that the sale of wood might enlarge 
this capital, none of the profits accruing to 
the university. The working of this col- 
lege brought it immediately under the con- 
demnation of its neighbors. If the eco- 
nomic conception of the Adirondacks were 
allowed thus to work itself out, there must 
be an end of landlordism, sooner or later. 
The result was a violent attack, with a 
good deal of misapprehension and misrep- 
resentation, followed by a withdrawal of 
State patronage. The college is closed. 
The State of New York, through its Con- 
stitution, unwittingly made more than a 
million acres of the Adirondacks a perma- 
nent park for sportsmen. This was a bid 
for wealthy persons to secure as large 
areas as possible for their private uses, 
and they have done it. It was impossible 
to judge reasonably of the College of For- 
estry from an experiment lasting less than 
3 years. It was expressly organized by the 


237 


Legislature for a 30 years’ test. It needs 
but common knowledge of forestry to un- 
derstand that in less time an economic ex- 
periment of this kind could not be worked 
out. As matters now stand, the Adiron- 
dacks are given up to private exploitation. 
The forest question, as far as New York 
is concerned, has ceased to be one of eco- 
nomic import, and has become one of pleas- 
ure alone. Professor Fernow; who had 
charge of the college, certainly has the 
entire confidence of experts in this country 
and in Europe. He was Chief of the Di- 
vision of Forestry at Washington when 
called to be Director of our State College. 
Can we afford to allow matters to rest 
where they are? Shall we create in our 
country a spirit of outlawry to compete 
with an unwelcome development of land- 
lordism? 





BALSAM FOR PULP. 


The importance of finding a satisfactory 
substitute for spruce for the manufacture of 
paper pulp led to a commercial study of 
the balsam fir, which Mr. Raphael G. Zon, 
of the Bureau of Forestry, has just con- 
cluded. 

The rapid disappearance of spruce, the 
best tree in the North woods for the manu- 
facture of pulp, has forced pulp makers to 
use more and more balsam, and has brought 
that tree, once despised and neglected, into 
an important place. Four years ago prac- 
tically no balsam was used by pulp manu- 
facturers, many of whom are now using 
25 to 50 per cent of it. The quantity of 
balsam used depends entirely on the spruce 
supply near where the different mills are 
located. The smaller the quantity of spruce 


' available the greater is the quantity of bal- 


sam used. 

Pulp manufacturers find balsam the best 
substitute for spruce which can be found in 
the North woods. Other trees might serve 
well for paper pulp, but they are not native 
to the country where the mills are located. 
Pulp mills are enormously heavy and ex- 
pensive, and the wood must be brought to 
them; they can not be taken to the wood. 
The pulp inan, therefore, in his choice of a 
substitute for his diminishing supply of 
spruce, is confined to the few species that 
grow in association. with spruce, and of 
these species balsam is at once the most 
abundant and the most promising. 

The present method of making pulp out 
of balsam is to grind it or treat it with 
chemicals along with spruce. The results 
are not satisfactory. Balsam mixed with 
spruce produces an inferior grade of pulp. 
Mr. Zon suggests that it would be much 
better if balsam were handled independently 
of spruce. The balsam fibers are not nearly 
so tough and strong as those of spruce, and 


238 


the pressure of the grinders which are ad- 
joined for spruce fibers is too powerful for 
the fibers of balsam, as they are torn and 
weakened. For the same reason the chemi- 
cals used in the treatment of spruce fibers 
weaken and dissolve the fibers of balsam 
when used in the same strength. Examples 
of what can be done with balsam in the 
manufacture of paper are found in France, 
where the tree is made to produce good 
book papers. There not only the main 
trunk, but even the top of the tree is used. 

The silvicultural features of the balsam 
are related by Mr. Zon, who has studied 
the tree carefully throughout its range, but 
particularly in Maine and the Adirondacks, 
Spruce has been cut for many years, while 
balsam has scarcely been cut at all; hence 
balsam has taken the place of and is crowd- 
ing out the spruce. This change in species 
in the North woods is hastened by the great 
superiority of balsam as a seed tree, for 
balsam bears seeds every year, while the 
spruce seeds only once in 7 years.’ These 
conditions make it apparent how desirable 
it is that pulp manufacturers should use 
balsam wherever possible, for in doing so 
they not only lessen the drain on the lim- 
ited quantity of spruce left, but they give 
the tree a chance to grow and reproduce 
itself. This point Mr. Zon brings out 
forcefully. 





PACIFIC COAST TIMBER SUPPLIES. 


It was estimated that the cut of lumber 
and shingles in the 3 Pacific coast States 
during the census year was little less than 
4 billion feet, board measure; and the tim- 
ber standing and ready for the axe was 
placed at about 620 billion feet. The ready 
mathematician -would complacently figure 
from this that there are over I50 years of 
supply in sight, and since there must be 
some new growth on the cut over areas, 
we could treat this supply for the present 
at least as practically inexhaustible. 

This calculation is based on the assump- 
tion that the annual cut remains the same, 
which is far from the truth. With the 
growth of the community there is, of 
course, an increase in the use of ‘materials; 
but even this allowance of increased cut 
does not in any way permit us to forecast 
the future; for the timber supplies are by 
no means used locally. Even now, of the 
present cut we can fairly estimate that only 
one-quarter is used by the resident popu- 
lation 2(!) million people using lumber at 
the rate of 500 feet B. M. per capita. 
Three-quarters of the cut is exported, not 
only to foreign parts by water, but by rail 
to Eastern markets. The shipments of Pa- 
cific coast lumber to the Mississippi valley, 
and even farther East, have been growing 
at an enormous rate, and as the supplies 


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of the Atlantic forests are giving out, 
the Western shipments will grow at a rate 
not indicated in the past history of trade 
development. 

The only way in which we can discuss 
any of our resources is witlr reference to 
the whole country. The figuring should 
proceed about as follows: We cut in the 
whole country at present a round 30 billion 
feet of coniferous material such as the Pa- 
cific coast forest can alone furnish. Ac- 
cording to the census our consumption 
doubles in about 20 years. That means 
that each year 1,500,000,000 feet increase in 
the cut is necessary. At this rate, the enor- 
mous supplies of the Pacific coast are not 
sufficient to furnish the requirements of 
the United States for 15 years. Assuming, 
on the basis of other calculations, that the 
Eastern supplies can fill the bill for 15 
years, it is evident that less than 30 years 
will see the end of the magnificent Pacific 
coast forests. 

There is, however, one fact that will 
presently, and should now, add to the sup- 
ply. The estimates of standing timber are 
based on the present standard of the mar- 
ketable log which is unnecessarily extrav- 
agant. It is probable that with decrease in 
supply. and consequent increase in price the 
size of the log which is acceptable to the 
mill man will come down to that of Eastern 
standards. The Pacific coast supplies may 
then be doubled. 


“Ma, kin I go over an’ play wid Micky 
Hoolihan ?” 

“Naw. Yez know we don’t have nothin’ 
to do wid thim Hoolihans.” 

“Den lemme go over an’ kick de stuffin’ ' 
outer him.”—Exchange. 





I have just finished reading the Decem- 
ber number of Recreation and find it the 
best sportsmen’s magazine I ever saw. 

H. J. Henry, MacDougall, N. Y. 





Harker—You say the mimic was good? 

Barker—Indeed he was. When he made 
a noise like an automobile everyone jumped. 
—Chicago News. 





It is simply a snap to get subscribers for 
RECREATION.. It took me only a few hours 
to get this list of 40 subscriptions. 

C. E. Shultis, Waukegan, IIIs. 





I send you herewith $1, for which please 
send the “best on earth” to J. B. Monroe, 
Kipp, Montana, for-one year. 

H. H. Garr, Columbia Falls, Mont. 


RECREATION is a peach. 
without it. 





I could not do 


Murray Reid, Lima, O, 


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PURE AND IMPURE FOODS. 


Edited by C. F,. Lancwortny, Pu.D. 
Author of “On Citraconic, Itaconic and Mesaconic Acids,’ “Fish as Food,” etc. 
“What a Man Eats He Is.” 


WHOLESALE PIE-MAKING, 


In large cities pies of all sorts have long 
been made for sale by bakers and confec- 
tioners. A more recent development is that 
of pie-making on a large scale in bakeries 
or factories given up entirely to this class 
of goods. Wholesale pie-making in New 
York was recently described in the New 
York Tribune. 

The maker of old fashioned domestic 
pies cannot easily conceive of a system by 
which a barrel of apples and a barrel of 
flour can, figuratively speaking, start at 
one end of a long bench and leave the other 
end 1,000 or less finished pies; but the sys- 
tem is in use in all the large pie bakeries. 
Several men are required in a large bakery 
to mix dough, roll the crust, and cut it off 
in portions of suitable size for the bottom 
crusts of pies. These pieces are passed on 
to men who roll the bottom crusts and 
place them in the pans, which are arranged 
in large wooden trays, heaped one on an- 
other in stacks as tall as a man. The stacks 
of trays are then hauled to the filler. 

The baking force goes on duty at Io 
o'clock at night. During the day gtrls have 
been paring and = slicing apples and 
pumpkins. and the foreman has been spic- 
ing and sweetening the cooked fruit or 
mince meat, the custards, and other pre- 
pared filling, which have also been cooked 
by steam in large stone stew vats. When 
the bakers go on duty, the prepared filling 
is in place in front of the great doughboard 
in tubs holding half a barrel each, and the 
stewed apples in full sized barrels. 

The pies, whether 10,000 or 15,000 a night, 
in the bakery visited, were all filled by one 
man. With a long handled cup similar to 
that used in dipping milk from a can, he 
stands over a tub of stewed pumpkin, mince 
or custard and fills pies so rapidly that all 
of one’s time is required to bring the trays 
holding the pies to his side and that of an- 
other to take them away. Nearly a hun- 
dred pies a minute looks like an impossi- 
bility, but he sends them to the men who put 
on the top crusts and the meringues at that 
rate for many minutes at a stretch. 

The filled pies go in the big wooden trays 
to the men who cover them with the top 
crust, or who add the meringue, using for 
this purpose a conical canvas bag open at 
the smaller end, out of which they squeeze 
the frosting on the fancy pies. 

The top crust pies go to the drawplate 


oven, and the pumpkin, custard, and mer- 
ingue pies and the tarts to the older fash- 
ioned ovens, where they are handled with 
long, slender shovels. Out of the large 
drawplate ovens is pulled with a steel hook 
a plate of iron half an inch thick or more, 
already heated. The thermometer in front 
of the oven, enclosed in a recess covered 
with glass, shows a temperature of 550 
deg. F. About 100 pies at a time are placed 
on this plate and it is pushed into the oven. 
The hands of a dummy clock at the side are 
set to indicate the moment at which the bak- 
ing will be finished. Another plate is then 
drawn out and filled and the proceeding is 
repeated until the night’s work is done. 
The pies, after baking, go into wooden trays 
as before, and are taken to the shipping 
room, where they are counted and loaded 
into the wagons for delivery. 

About 40 girls, boys and men by this sys- 
tem produce 10,000 to 15,000 pies a day. 
They use about 15 barrels of flour, 6 to 10 
barrels of apples, 9 or 10 half-barrels of 
mince meat, nearly as much _ stewed 
pumpkin, perhaps as much each of other 
fruits and custards, a barrel or more of 
lard, about 2 barrels of sugar, and large 
quantities -of spice. The shortening, 
sweetening and spicing are carefully and 
accurately weighed in exact proportions. 
The baking is timed to suit the constant 
temperature, which is maintained so that 
there is absolute uniformity, and all the 
mixing and flavoring, while done on a large 
scale, are so conducted as to insure a uni- 


form quality. 


Contrary to all popular notions on the 
subject, the wholesale manufacture of pies 
in a modern establishment is thoroughly 
cleanly, and in the pie bakery visited every 
precaution was taken to insure clean mater- 
ials and utensils, as well as hygienic sur- 
roundings; nor was the personal cleanli- 
ness of the employees neglected. 





A FEAST FOR THE POOR OF CALCUTTA. 


The feeding of the poor of Calcutta at 
the time of the coronation of King Edward 
VII. is described by an eye witness in effect 
as follows: 

The feeding of the poor we found a most 
interesting sight. Between 40,000 and 45,000 
Hindoos and Mohammedans, principally 
beggers and scavengers, but also. ghari 
drivers and khalassiger, or boatmen, were 
fed. A part of the Maidan, large enough 


240 


to seat these people, was fenced in with na- 
tive mats, and then divided into blocks, 
225x75 feet, which would each accommodate 
1,000 people, seated on the ground. Twenty 
of the enclosures were reserved for the 
Hindoos and 10 for the Mohammedans, as 
only 30,000 were expected at first, and the 
15,000 extra unexpected had to stand or 
crowd as best they could. The 2 sets of 
blocks were 300 feet apart, as, of course, 
they must observe the rules-of the religion 
and not have even the shadow of an infidel 
cast on their foods. At 10 o’clock in the 
morning drums began to beat and the poor, 
lame, blind and halt came forth in hun- 
dreds from all parts of Calcutta and its 
suburbs. 

It was the most amazing collection of 
people one could possibly behold, in the 
greatest variety of costume, or no costume, 
imaginable. The committee for receiving 
them had no trouble with the Mohamme- 
dans as soon as they were made to under- 
stand the whereabouts of their enclosures, 
but there was much trouble and vexation 
with the Hindoos, for one caste absolutely 
refused to sit near another. The Brahmin, 
or priest caste, insisted on a separate en- 
closure for themselves, and got it! It was 
like a huge company of white clad black- 
birds, fluttering about, changing places, 
lighting and flying off and all the time keep- 
ing up an appalling chatter. They were at 
last seated, the whole 20,000, but in spite of 
the care of the attendants some of the 
castes got mixed. In one place we were 
shown a lot of municipal scavengers next 
or opposite some Sadhus, religious beggars 
of the Hindoos, covered and smeared with 
mud and saffron; and farther along, a num- 
‘ber of chamars, tanners and Domes, the 
caste who carry dead bodies, sitting beside 
some interesting looking snake charmers in 
long, yellow drapery and huge turbans. 

After all were seated, there were several 
hours for them to wait, but waiting is an 
accomplishment peculiar to the native of 
India, and even small children did it with 
patience. The cooking must have been a 
gigantic affair. We were told that every- 
thing given to the Mohammedans was 
cooked the night before, but that for the 
30,000 Hindoos it had taken fully 5 days to 
prepare the food. Sheds had been put up 
inside the matting fence, and there all the 
food was stored. Each block was under the 
care of a committee of 3, with 30 assist-, 
ants. The Hindoos had banana leaves for 
plates and the Mohammedans earthen plates, 
while all of them had earthenware drink- 
ing cups. We were told also that 2% miles 
of piping for filtered water had been laid, 
and large earthen jars were placed at the 
corners of each enclosure. 

The menus interested us greatly. For 
the Mohammedans there were paloe, rice, 


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- some of them, as it can be divided into 24 


ghee (rendered butter), korma, a brown 
curry, and sweets; pan, which is betel nut 
and lime; and cigarettes and tea; and for 
the Hindoos, toochis, or cakes, vegetable 
curries, dahi or curd, sweets, pan, and tea. 
It was difficult to learn the quantities of 
the menu, but according to the Calcutta 
Statesman of the 28th 24,000 pounds of 
flour, 10,000 pounds of ghee, 32,000 pounds 
of potatoes, 16,000 pounds of curry, and 
1,500 cabbages were used for the Hindoos 
only; and the meat alone for the Moham- 
eng cost I,000 rupees, equal to about 
5. 
The whole feast went smoothly from be- - 
ginning to end, and as each one left the 
enclosure he was made happy by the pres- 
ent of a bright, new 2-anna piece, fresh 
from the mint, which would mean 4 cents 
of American money, quite a fortune to 





pie, the smallest coin of Indian currency. 





THE COST OF LIVING. 

From figures showing the income and ex- 
penditures, in the year 1901, of 2,567 fam- 
ilies in 33 States, representing the industrial 
centers of this country, the U. S. Bureau 
of Labor has deducted some interesting and 
instructive figures. The basis of selection 
was that the head of the family must be 
a wage worker or a salaried man earning 
not over $1,200 during the year, and must 
be able to give information in regard to his 
expenditures in detail. The average income 
of these families for the year, from all 
sources was $827.19. The average expendi- 
ture for all purposes was $768.54, and the 
average expenditure for food was $326.90 
per family, or 42.54 per cent. of the aver- 
age expenditure for all purposes. 

The average cost of food per family in 
1890 was $318.20. In 1896, which was, ac- 
cording to figures gathered by the Bureau, 
the year of lowest prices for food stuffs, it 
fell to $206.76, and in 1902 reached the 
highest point of the period included in the 
comparison, being $344.61, an increase of 
61.1 per cent. over 1896 or of 10.9 per cent. 
when compared with the average for the 
10-year period of 1890 to 1899. 

The family expenditures for articles 
other than food in Igor represent 57.46 per 
cent. of the income. Certain of these ex- , 
penditures representing 14.51 per cent. of 
the total, such as payments on principal and 
interest of mortgages, taxes, insurance, fees, 
charity, amusements, etc., are from their 
nature affected only indirectly and in slight 
degree by any rise or fall in prices. Mis- 
cellaneous purposes, not reported, for 
which, from their character, no prices are 
obtainable, made up 5.87 per cent., and rent, 
for which also no prices for the several 
years are available, made up 12.95 per cent. 
of the total expenditure, 


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PURE AND IMPURE FOODS. 241 


The remaining classes of family expendi- 
ture, 24.13 per cent. of all, consist of cloth- 
ing, 14.04 per cent; fuel and lighting, 5.25 
per cent.; furniture and utensils, 3.42 per 
cent., and tobacco, 1.42 per cent. For these 
no retail prices covering a series of years 
are available. but accepting as true of 
wholesale and retail prices here what this 
investigation has found true in the case of 
food, namely, that retail prices rise and fall 
more slowly and in smaller degree than 
wholesale prices, an examination of the 
relative whclesale prices of these classes 
or articles, as recorded in connection with 
earlier work of the Bureau of Labor, leads 
to the conclusion that the retail prices of 
these articles, as a whole, in 1902 could have 
been little, if at all, above the level indicated 
by food. 

“It is apparently a safe and conservative 
conclusion, therefore, that the increase in 
the cost of living, as a whole, in 1902, when 
compared with the year of lowest prices, 
was not over 16.1 per cent., the figure given 
above as the increase in the cost of food 
as shown by this investigation. This as- 
sumes, of course, always the purchase of the 
same articles and the same quantities in 
years of low prices, low wages, and more 
or less irregular employment, and in years 
of higher prices, higher wages, and steady 
employment.” : 





POTTED AND CANNED POULTRY. 


The meat for these goods is prepared in 
essentially the same way as if it were to 
be used at once, and is then treated much 
as any other canned meat product, the ob- 
ject being to sterilize the can contents and 
exclude the air, with the micro-organisms 
always present in it. The prepared poultry 
flesh is placed in suitable vessels, tin cans 
being almost always used instead of glass or 
earthenware jars, as the cans are stronger 
and can be more readily closed to exclude 
the air completely. The tins are sealed 
save for a small hole in the cover and 
heated until the contents are sterilized. In 
the large American factories steam retorts 
are generally used for the sterilizing process 
but sometimes the cans are heated in water 
or in a salt bath. The small hole in the 
cover is closed with a drop of solder while 
the cans are hot and full of steam. The 
cans are left for some days and then tested 
by striking the head with a wooden mallet. 
If it sinks gradually, sterilization is con- 
sidered satisfactory; if, however, the head 
of the can is elastic and rises back or swells 
it is an indication that some gas has been 
formed in the can and that sterilization is 
not complete. Such cans, called “swells” 
should be rejected, but fraudulent firms 
sometimes have a second hole punched in 
such bulging cans, and soldered after the 


swelling has gone down. The second hule 
betrays this practice to the careful observer. 
li sterilization is not complete there is, of 
course, danger of decomposition and its at- 
tendant evils. Another possible but slight 
danger is that of poisoning from improper 
tin and solder, but this is not so great with 
meats as with fruits and vegetables in which 
the acids of the juice aid in the formation 
of dangerous substances. There is no rea- 
son why canned poultry, properly put up, 
should not be just as healthful as fresh, 
for which it is often a most convenient 
substitute. 





JAPANESE TERRAPIN. 


The United States Fish Commission, it 
is said, has sent an expert to Japan for the 
purpose of studying terrapin culture as 
practiced in that country, where they seem 
to have succeeded in raising the turtles by 
artificial means. It is true that the Japan- 
ese terrapin is not the same species as the 
sort eaten in the United States, but its hab- 
its are similar and there is reason to sup- 
pose that, like methods of culture might be 
successful in the United States. 

The matter, is of no small importance, as 
the American terrapin is on the verge of 
extinction. It used to be numerous, espe- 
cially in the neighborhood of the Chesa- 
peake; and in 1850 diamond backs sold for 
121%4 cents apiece. In colonial times terra- 
pins were so cheap that slaves complained 
they were given them too often. Terrapins 
have been hunted almost to extermination, 
and at the present time they sell as high as 
$60 a dozen. 

The Japanese species, which is said to be 
equal to the American in flavor, is known 
as the “suppon,” and, like the American ter- 
rapin, it is an inhabitant of tidal rivers and 
salt marshes. Shallow, artificial ponds, 
with muddy bottoms, are employed for rais- 
ing purposes, with a low fence to prevent 
the turtles from escaping. At laying time, 
in early summer, the females climb out on 
the bank, scratch a shallow hole and de- 
posit their eggs, finally covering them and 
leaving them to be hatched by the heat of 
the sun. Nets are spread to prevent birds 
from digging up the eggs. 

Analysis of American terrapin shows 
that the flesh ranks with other meats in 
food value, containing some 21 per cent 
nitrogenous material and 4 per cent fat. 
Terrapin is prized, however, more as a del- 
icacy and on account of its peculiar and 
agreeable flavor than on account of the nu- 
tritive material which it supplies. 


RECREATION is the best thing of the kind 
I ever saw. 
J. B. Fowler, Colorado Springs, Colo. 


PUBLISHER’S NOTES. 


MARBLE CLEANING ROD. 


The Marble Safety Axe Co., Gladstone, 
Mich., makes one of the most practical 
and effective shot gun cleaning rods I have 
ever used. The rod is hollow, and has a 
steel rod running through it, with a wedge 
in the lower end and a lever on the upper 
end. The ball attached to the lower end 
of the rod is split in 4 equal parts, and is 
covered with a thick bed of short brass 
wire. Then the ball is inserted in the gun 
the user grips the lever so that the ball 
separates into 4 parts, and presses against 
the inner surface of the barrel with a greater 
or less degree of force, at the will of the 
person using the rod. 

Some time ago I used some unusually 
soft shot in a fine gun, and the barrels 
were badly leaded. I went at them with one 
of these Marble cleaning rods and in 5 
minutes had both barrels as clean and 
bright as when they came from the shop. 
The brass wire being softer than the steel 
in the barrel does not scratch nor mar 
it in the least. Every shot gun user in the 
country should have a Marble Safety Clean- 
ing Rod. 

When writing for this instrument, please 
mention RECREATION. 





PROCTOR PLAYHOUSES. 


During the investigations of the newly 
appointed Fire Commissioner, none of the 
theatres controlled by Mr. F. F. Proctor, 
the Fifth Avenue, 23d Street, 58th Street 
or 125th Street, has been mentioned as re- 
quiring any additional precautions. The 
Proctor plan vet agoooe particularly to mati- 
nee audiences of women and children, and 
this has made Mr. Proctor additionally cau- 
tious in providing for any emergency. Not 
alone are the ushers and the other members 
of the house staff given weekly drills in 
fighting fire and handling crowds, but the 
stages are kept in such perfect condition, 
and the lighting equipment is so carefully 
watched, that a catastrophe like that which 
occurred in Chicago would be absolutely 
impossible at any Proctor house. In place 
of trusting to untried fire extinguishers to 
save the scenery from damage from water, 
the stage force has instructions to turn on 
the hose at the slightest appearance of dan- 
ger, no matter how much scenery may be 
ruined. Had a similar rule been enforced 
at the Iroquois Theatre, the terrible loss of 
life would have never been recorded. 


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A GOOD HUNTING KNIFE. 
The Press Button Knife, advertised in Rec- 
REATION and handled by the Novelty Knife 


242 


Co., 426 East 52d street, New York city, is 
one of the most useful and valuable articles 
put on the market for the benefit of sports- 
men, in recent years. This hunting knife 
has a 4 inch blade, a buck horn handle and 
is built for business. The finest razor steel 
is used in the blades of all these knives, and 
the press button principle, on which they 
are built, can never be appreciated by any- 
one without practical experience in using it. 
Every man who goes into the woods for 
any purpose, whether for hunting, fishing, 
prospecting, surveying, or merely camping, 
should have one of these knives, and I am 
sure every man who may buy one will thank 
me for having called his attention to it. 

This big knife sells at $1, and is worth $5 
to any man who needs it. When open, the 
blade is locked and can not close on your 
hand. When closed it is locked and can 
not open in your pocket, as other knives 
frequently do. Write for circular or, better 
still, order a knife, and mention REcrE- 
ATION. 





Montclair, N. J. 
J. R. Buckelew, 
New York. 
Dear Sir: 

The Collan Oil I purchased last spring 
has been put to severe test on the golf 
links during the summer, owing to the un- 
usually wet season. It has exceeded my 
expectations. Shoes treated with it seem 
to repel water to a greater extent than 
with any other dressing I have been able 
to obtain. I anticipate much comfort from 
its use on my trip into the woods this 
fall. I have had a great deal of experience 
with so called waterproof dressings, and 
for some years have made up for my own 
use different combinations, but have not 
had better results than Collan Oil gives. 

Yours respectfully, 
Frank S, Hyatt. 





The students of the Northwestern School 
of Taxidermy, Omaha, Nebraska, ate loud 
in their praise of what the school is doing 
for sportsmen. This school teaches taxi- 
dermy by mail, through a course of 15 les- 
sons and supplementary personal instruc- 
tion and criticisms. Every sportsman 
should be interested in saving his best speci- 
mers of both animals and birds, and with 
this school available there is no reason why 
every one can not have a knowledge of how 
to mount them properly and skilfully for 
himself. The school has just issued a new 
illustrated catalogue and is sending it free 
to all readers of RECREATION. 





PUBLISHER’S NOTES. 


The Ideal Manufacturing Company, New 
Haven, Conn., has put out still another 
new bullet. This is made in response to a 
request from Gen. G. F. Elliott, U.S.M.C., 
under whose orders careful experiments 
were conducted for the purpose of deter- 
mining the best load for short range rifle 
practice. The new bullet is numbered 308, 
245, and anyone interested in learning about 
it can get a circular by addressing the com- 
pany as above. A complete outfit for pre- 
paring and reloading the new ammunition 
has also been made by the Ideal Company, 
and is described in the circular referred to. 





The Gas Engine and Power Co., Morris 
Heights, New York City, has issued an- 
other beautiful catalogue of naphtha launch- 
es, which, like its predecessors, will prove 
a surprise and a delight to ever, lover of 
art. The cover is a dream and the inside 
pictures are gems. The text is full of in- 
formation, and no one can spend Io min- 
utes looking through this book without 
longing to get out on the water. You 
should have a copy, whether you live near 
the water or not. When you write these 
people don’t forget*to mention RECREATION. 





Stony Island Club, 
Henderson Harbor, N. Y. 
D. M. Tuttle Co., 
Canastota, N. Y. 
Dear Sirs: 

The 20-foot boat from your factory 
ran 2,000 or 3,000 miles last season, 
making a trip to Henderson Harbor or 
Sacket’s Harbor, or both, every day. She 
never stops for the weather. She never 
yet had to be towed or rowed in. 

Yours truly, 
Frank Horton. 





Alexandria Bay. N. Y. 
A. W. Bishop & Son, Racine, Wis. 

Dear Sirs: 1 received the Independent 
Spooling Device and Reel in good condition 
and it is the finest reel I ever used for cast- 
ing. I have fished here all my life and 
know what a good reel is. I will push your 
Even Spooling Device next season. Find 
enclosed my chétk to cover amount of bill. 

Yours truly, 
E. D. Paterson, 
(Dealer in high grade fishing tackle.) 





The Century Camera Co., of Rochester, 
N. Y., write me that their 1904 catalogue is 
now in course of preparation, that it will 
be published on or about March rsth, and 
that they will be pleased to send it to any 
one interested in photography. They state 
that this new catalogue will be the most at- 
tractive piece of printed matter they have 
ever published, and that it will give detailed 


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information concerning the various im- 
provements which they will embody in the 
construction of their 1904 designs. 





I am advised by Buzzacott that owing to 
an unfortunate occurrence it is impossible 
for him to complete the issue of hi? series 
of books until new plates shall be made and 
old ones restored. Buzzacott personally 
guarantees, however, to fill every order now 
en roule, or money refunded, just as quick- 
ly as it is possible to complete the work of 
restoration, which is already begun for an 
entire new re-issue. 

Buzzacott will commence re-issue at his 
exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
tion. 





The Gundlach-Manhattan Optical Co., of 
Rochester, N. Y., suffered a_ serious loss 
from fire January 18th. All the cameras 
completed and in course of construction and 
a large quantity of other photographic 
stock were destroyed. This will entail 
some delay on the part of the company in 
filling orders for cameras; but fortunately 
the optical department of this great factory 
escaped damage, and orders for lenses, mi- 
croscopes and field glasses can be promptly 
filled. ai 


The Polk Miller Drug Co. is doing a 
land office business in the sale of Sergeant’s 
dog remedies, which have been thoroughly 
tested by kennel owners, dog fanciers and 
veterinary surgeons all over the United 
States, who give them unqualified praise. 
All interested in the subject of dogs should 
own Polk Miller’s valuable little book, 
“Dogs,” which will be sent to any address 
from Polk Miller Drug Co., Richmond, 
Va., on receipt of 3 cents to cover postage. 








The C. P. Goerz Optical Works, 52 
Union Square, New York, have issued a 
beautiful catalogue of 100 pages, describ- 
ing their lenses, field glasses, opera glasses, 
cameras and shutters. The book contains 
many beautiful reproductions of pictures 
made with Goerz lenses. Every man or 
woman interested in photography or nature 
study should have a copy of this catalogue. 
When you write for it, please say where 
you saw it mentioned. 





At Hamilton, Ontario, January t4th, the 
Grand Canadian Handicap was finished. 
This match, which is the blue ribbon event 
of Canada, brought out 43 entries, each 
competitor shooting at 20 pigeons, from 27 
to 32 yards rise. There was not a straight 
score made; 8 men only made 19 and all 
these men shot Parker guns. In the shoot- 
off, Mr. M. M. Mayhew was Ist and Harry 
Kirkover was 2d. 


EDITOR’S CORNER. 


WISCONSIN WARDENS BUSY. 


The deputy game wardens of Wisconsin 
have been making more trouble for law- 
breakers in that State in the past few 
months than could be told of in 2 pages of 
REcREATION. I should like to enumerate all 
the arrests and convictions these officers re- 
port, but can not spare space for it. Here 
are a few: 

L. Eld, Oscar Larson and C. Wickiton, 
of Bayfield county, evidently did not ap- 
prove of the law which requires each resi- 
dent of that State who wishes to hunt to 
take out a license at a cost of $1. These 
3 men, therefore, shouldered their guns and 
went into the woods without complying 
with this formality. Game Wardens John 
Buckley and H. Lund followed them, ar- 
rested them and took them into court, and 
the Judge fined each of the offenders $50 
and costs. Think of it! That sum would 
have provided these men with resident 
hunting licenses for 50 years to come; yet 
they had to put up that amount for hunting 
without a license one day. Some people 
have strange ideas of economy. 

Another man who went hunting without a 
license is Julius Stinke, of Sauk county. 
He was also fined 50 and costs at the sug- 
gestion of Deputy Warden H. H. Hilbert. 
Stinke should add a final R to his name. 

Charles Miller, of Brown county, under- 
took to evade the local license law and was 
arrested by Deputy Warden Wm. Haslam. 
He made a big fight in court, and was fined 
$50 and costs, amounting to $80. Mr. Mil- 
ler should now sell his gun and devote the 
rest of his life to sawing wood. 

Several men were arrested and fined for 
shooting ducks at night. It is all right 
enough for a man to work overtime at any 
legitimate occupation, but a decent man can 
always get fun enough with a gun between 
sunrise and sunset, and it is better to quit 
at sundown, even if you have not secured 
as many birds as you would like to have. 


J. P. Jones and Henry Finn, of Mil- 
waukee, went to South Dakota to shoot 
ducks. They brought home a lot of the 
birds in a telescope grip, but unfortunately 
left some of the wing feathers sticking out. 
Valentine Raeth was at the station when 
the men alighted from the train. He im- 
mediately made a point on the grip, 
took charge of it and of the men who car- 
ried it. The local Justice of the Peace 


charged the men big prices for bringing. 


their game into Wisconsin without comply- 
ing with the State law which requires all 
packages containing game to be tagged as 
such, and Jones and Finn did not get to 
eat their ducks after all. The game warden 


sold them and applied the proceeds to the 
State Game Protective Fund. 

Valentine Raeth, of Milwaukee, made 9 
seizures in November and 11 in December 
of game that was being shipped out of that 
State in violation of law. Several offen- 
ders were caught and heavily fined. Some 
other cases are pending in the courts at this 
writing. 


FAIR PAY "FOR GOOD WORK. 

For obvious reasons public servants can 
not be expected to increase their own sal- 
aries. No advance has been made in the 
pay of members of Congress and general 
officers of the government to keep pace 
with the heavy increase in cost of living 
and the universal increase in wages through- 
out the country. It costs approximately 
double to live in Washington as compared 
with the same standard at the home of 
members of Congress. The people are the 
employers and expect a high grade of abil- 
ity in their public servgnts, but pay them 
less than such servants can generally earn 
in private life. Neither political party dare 
take the initiative to fix salaries on an equit- 
able basis commensurate with the grade of 
service expected. 

A petition signed by citizens without re- 
gard to politics will go to Congress recom- 
mending a revision. This is intended as an 
acknowledgment, by the people, of their ap- 
preciation of the value of the public ser- 
vants and will furnish some reason for Con- 
gress to treat the subject and avoid criti- 
cism from either political party, particularly 
in view of the fact that no advance is to 
be made until after the next election, the 
result of which can not be foretold. 

Readers favoring the movement can cut 
out, sign and mail this petition to “Sentry 
Box” 825 Vernon avenue, Washington, D. 
C., a non-partisan bureau not conducted for 
profit. The integrity of its act is guaran- 
teed by its founder, a man of international 
repute in commerce and finance.—EprTor. 





We, the undersigned, respectfully petition 
the 58th Congress to fix the salaries of the 
following government officials at the amount 
indicated under the column headed “Pro- 
posed Salary” to take effect December Ist, 


1904. PRESENT PROPOSED 
SALARY. SALARY. 
Present og ia ih cots $50,000 $75,000 
Vice President... 5.2... 8,000 15,000 
Each Cabinet officer..... 8,000 10,000 
OS Ms. 10,500 15,000 
Associate Justices....... 10,000 12,000 
United States Senators.. 5,000 10,000 
Members of House of 
Representatives ....... 5,000 7,500 


244 


EDITOR’S 


BATAVIA BRUTES HAVE SIDE HUNT. 


Here are the names of a lot of Batavia, 
N. Y., swine, who, in October last, partici- 
pated in a side hunt, together with the 
serial number of each man as recorded in 
the game hog book: Fred C. Kelsey, C. 
M. Vrooman, William S. Waldo, Homer 
Sweet, George E. Redshaw, Bert Coolidge, 
Edward Allen, H. M. Johnson, Jay L. Rob- 
son, Everest A. Judd, M. A. Nichols, L. 
A. Parmele, Fred Kelsey and M. E. Vroo- 
man. The local paper states that skunks, 
foxes, and wild geese were each to count 
100 points, but that none of these were 
brought in. Rabbits, owls, ruffed grouse, 
black and grey squirrels, woodcock, blue 
herons, crows, coons, ducks, hawks, hell- 
divers, loons and mink were all to count 
50 each, and it appears that only half a 
dozen of these were killed. Mudhens, mar- 
tens, plovers, pigeons, red squirrels, weas- 
els, snipe, killdeer and kingfishers were 
rated at 25 points each; chipmunks, 20 
each; blackbirds 15 each and sparrows 10 
each. It is stated that nearly all the game 
killed consisted of chipmunks, kingfishers 
and killdeer. The winning side had a sup- 
per at the expense of the losing side. 
Think of a squad of 14 men scouring the 
country for miles around Batavia and 
bringing in at night enough chipmunks, 
kingfishers and killdeer, rating at 20 to 25 
points each to aggregate 3,330 points. How 
proud these scavengers must have felt to 
see the hundreds of these little birds and 
rodents stacked up in the banquet room! 
It is a pity the entire herd of raiders did 
not string up their game and have it and 
themselves photographed in order that the 
world might know what they look like. 

Their names are: F. C. Kelsey 981, 
C. M. Vrooman 982, Waldo 983, Sweet 
984, Redshaw, 985, Coolidge 986, Allen 
987, Johnson 988, Robson 989, Judd ggo, 
Nichols 991, Parmele 992, Fred Kelsey 
993, M. E. Vrooman 994. 





THE BROWNLOW BILL. 


A bill has been introduced in Congress 
by the Hon. Walter P. Brownlow, of 
Tennessee, and the Hon. Jacob H. Gallin- 
ger, a member of the Senate from New 
Hampshire, appropriating $24,000,000 for 
the purpose of building wagon roads. This 
money is to be apportioned to the States 
according to population, except that no 
State shall receive less than $250,000. 

Each State receiving National aid from 
the Government must add a like amount to 
the sum received. This will result in 
the spending of $48,000,000 for roads, 
will build 6,000 to 7,000 miles of excellent 
road, and will place in each State 100 to 500 
miles of hard road, which will not be af- 
fected by frost or spring rains, and on which 


CORNER. 245 


the farmer can haul big loads the year 
round. It will be a great advantage to 
those living near it, but it will be a far 
greater advantage to the whole country be- 
cause it will be a wonderful object lesson 
and will prove to everyone that a good, 
hard road which can be used all the year, 
no matter what the rains are, is a desir- 
able thing. It will make everyone who sees 
this road and who uses it want more roads 
like it, and-it will cause more roads like it 
to be built. 

While under the Brownlow bill the build- 
ing of 6,000 to 7,000 miles of good road 
iS a great project, yet it seems to many that 
the greatest advantage of this bill is the 
wonderful object lesson which 100 to 500 
miles of good road will produce, when 
built in every State of the Union. 

Write your Congressmen and Senators 
and urge them to support this bill. 





_ The would-be spring shooters are hust- 
ling for the privilege of again indulging 
in their favorite style of slaughter. Sev- 
eral bills have been introduced in the New 
York Legislature aiming at an extension of 
the open season so that wild fowl may be 
killed while on the way to their breeding 
grounds, but it is not likely that the de- 
cent sportsmen of this State will allow any 
of these bills to pass. New York has taken a 
long step forward, and should not now take 
even a short step backward. We are the 
11th State to prohibit spring shooting. The 
others will come into line rapidly, and New 
York should not allow herself to get any 
farther back than she is now. 





A winter resort hotel in Virginia adver- 
tises that a fair shot can bag 5 to 20 dozen 
sora on a single tide. I asked the manager 
for the names of some of the men who 
had done such shooting, and he referred 
me to Fred F. Palen, of Newport News, 
and to his own game keeper, whose name 
is A. Croonenberghs. Mr. Palen writes 
that he and 4 other men killed 526 sora on 
one tide, and Croonenberghs admits that 
he killed 157 on one tide. The latter’s title 
should be changed to game destroyer in- 
stead of game keeper. His number in the 
game hog book is 995. Palen’s number is 


996.—Ebiror. — 


Mr. James B. Dill, 27 Pine street, New 
York, has been for years a subscriber to 
RECREATION. January roth he sent me a 
check for $8, to renew his own subscrip- 
tion and to pay the subscriptions of 7 
friends, to each of whom he had made a 
present of a year’s subscription to this mag- 
azine. 

Mr. Dill is one of the most successful 
corporation lawyers in this country, and is 
probably the only one who has ever received 





246 


a fee of $1,000,000 in a single case. This 
incident proves that some of the brainiest 
and busiest men in the world read REcREA- 
TION and appreciate it. 





H. S. Tubbs, a deputy game warden of 
Manchester, Ia., went into Minnesota, killed 
some game and was caught in the act of 
shipping it out of the State. A local warden 
arrested him and took him to court, where 
the Justice assessed a fine of $100 and costs 
on him. No doubt Tubbs is zealous in 
prosecuting the lawbreakers at home, and it 
is exceedingly gratifying to learn that when 
he undertook to violate the laws of a neigh- 
boring State, he should have been given a 
dose of his own medicine. 


Game Wardens John F. Luman and D. 
F. Shea, of Massachusetts, called on Wal- 
ter Dean and Mason Dean, of Oakham, that 
State, some weeks ago and caught them in 
the act of fishing in Crawford brook with 
a seine. The offenders were taken before 
Justice Healy, of Oakham, and fined $25 
each. Albert Hapgood had also been mon- 
keying with a net and was fined $s. 

Their numbers in the fish hog register 
are: Walter Dean 997, Mason Dean 908, 
Albert Hapgood 999. 








New Jersey is fortunate in having on its 
State Fish and Game Commission at least 
one man who is a thorough sportsman and 
a warm friend of the cause of game pro- 
tection. Mr. Percy Johnson, of Bloom- 
field, has been a vigorous worker on this 
line many years, and all law _ breakers 
have cause to dislike him. Notwithstanding 
this, Mr. Johnson goes on the even tenor 
of his way and is still bringing men to jus- 
tice for infractions of the game and fish 
aws. 





A dispatch from Ann Arbor, Mich, 
states that after a wind and rain storm 
which occurred there some time ago, the 
janitor of the court house picked up 3 
bushels of dead sparrows on the court house 
grounds. It was found by careful count 
that there were 1,500 dead sparrows in the 
bunch. Truly, it is an ill wind that blows 
nobody good, and the citizens of Ann Arbor 
may congratulate themselves that the Storm 
King rid them of so many of these pests. 





The express company doing business at 
Rifle, Colo., makes the following report of 
deer shipped from there during the past 3 
years: 


1902, 650. 
1902, 428. 
1903, 37. 


This is only another page in the history 
of the passing of the mule deer. 


RECREATION. 


At the request of the President of the 
Argentine Republic, an employe of the U. 
S. Bureau of Fisheries, has gone to Argen- 
tina to make investigations regarding the 
possibilities of fish culture in that country. 
He will be there 6 months, This is an im- 
portant mission and it is gratifying that 
the Argentine> government is showing so 
keen an interest in this subject. 





Will Cave, of Missoula, Montana, who 
says he is county assessor, though the coun- 
ty letter head on which he writes does not 
bear his name, admits having caught 110 
trout in 2 days, and adds, “I assure you that 
if I could have caught 200 trout in 2 days 
I would have done so.” © 

He is registered in the fish hog book as 
number 1,000. 





Joseph Parry and Arthur and Louis 
Loucie were arrested at Pawtucket, R. I., 
by Game Warden E. J. Burlingame for kill- 


ing birds in violation of law and of hunt- 


ing rabbits with a ferret. Each of the 3 
vandals was fined $85 and costs. They 
know more about game laws now than some 
men do who never violated one. 





4 man in Williamsport, Penn., has writ- 
ten me an interesting letter on the sub- 
ject of game protection, which I should be 
glad to print if possible, but unfortunately 
the writer does not sign his real name, 
and so, under the rules of this office, his 
communication cannot be given any further 
attention. 


Dr. Hugh M. Smith, deputy commission 
er of Fish and Fisheries, U. S. Bureau of 
Fisheries, has returned to Washington af- 
ter an absence of several months in Japan, 
where he went to study the methods em- 
ployed by the Japanese in preparing fishery 
products. 





A Western sportsmen’s magazine comes 
to me with a half page ad of an automatic 
shot gun, and without a word of editorial 
condemnation of that infernal machine. 
There is a difference between some pub- 
lishers. 





Readers of RECREATION are cautioned 
against sending money to Dr. Morris Gibbs, 
of Kalamazoo, Mich. I have reason to be- 
lieve that he is thoroughly dishonest. 


Will Mr. C. H. Barksdull, who sent me 
a story entitled “A Day’s Sport in Alaska,” 
please give me his address. 








Little Girl—Do you stutter all the time? 
Little Boy—N-n-n-n-no; only when I 
talk.—Mail and Express. 


RECREATION. 247 


We Double the Cost 
of Our Brewing to 
Give You Pure Beer 


We spend fortunes on cleanliness. 

For instance, we wash every bottle four 
times, when one washing—done, as it is, 
by machinery—seems more than sufficient. 

We clean every tub, every boiling vat, 
tank or barrel, every pipe and pump, 
every time we use it. 

We bore wells down 1400 feet to rock 
for pure water. 

We cool the beer in filtered air. 

We filter the beer by machinery. 

We store Schlitz beer for months in 
refrigerating rooms until it is well fer- 
mented—until it cannot cause biliousness. 

We sterilize every bottle after it is sealed. 

All this doubles our necessary cost—an 
enormous item on our output—over one 
million barrels annually. Yet we pay it all 
—yjust to have Schlitz beer pure—just to 
have it healthful for you. Those who enjoy 
it pay none of this extra 
cost, for the price is the 
same as standard beers 


anywhere. 
Ask for the Brewery Bottling. 





248 RECREATION. 


A DEER, A WOLF AND A COUGAR. 


Joseph Schlee, of this city, is one of those 
old timers who came to Oregon when it 
was a wilderness and the Indian held full 
sway. He was a noted hunter and trapper, 
but of late years he has been living quietly. 

Recently Mr. Schlee was visiting a son- 
in-law on Mosby creek, a tributary of Row 
river. One day, while fishing, he was 
surprised to hearethe bleat of a deer. In a 
few minutes he saw a large buck stagger 
into the water, almost immediately fol- 
lowed to the water’s edge by a large gray 
wolf. Mr. Schlee held his peace and 
watched for developments. Evidently the 
wolf had been chasing the deer and the 
latter, hard pressed, had taken to the water. 
He had no time to seek deep water, but 
plunged in the nearest place, which proved 
only about 18 inches deep. The channel 
was narrow and whenever the deer made 
an attempt to pass down stream the wolf 
showed almost human _ intelligence in 
thwarting his prey and confining him to 
shallow water, waiting an opportunity that 
would mean the downfall of the buck. 
Several times the wolf plunged in and 
worried the poor animal. Finally the wolf 
made a desperate effort, and succeeded in 
catching the buck ’on the top of the neck 
and forcing his head into the water, drown- 
ing him in a few minutes. 

3 The victor was dragging the buck to 
shore when Mr. Schlee decided to take a 
hand in the matter and drove the wolf 
away by stoning him. The buck was a 
fine 4 pronged specimen. Mr. Schlee se- 
cured assistance and removed the carcass. 

An after thought impelled him to take 
his rifle and return to the spot, where he 
thought it possible the wolf would return. 
All was quiet, and he was in the act of 
returning to the cabin,-when he heard the 
scream of a cougar. By that time the old 
gentleman’s hunting blood was up and he 
was out for game if any came along. The 
sound was near, and before long he saw 
a mountain lion crossing the creek a short 
distance up stream. He took a hasty shot, 
but missed, and the cougar made into the 
bushes. Mr. Schlee started his dog up the 
creek. They had no trouble in striking 
the trail and only a few minutes were ne- 
cessary for them to tree the animal. At 
that point the timber was large and dense, 
but no time was lost in coming to the 
tree in which the dog had located the 
cougar. Mr. Schlee carelessly approached 
the tree thinking the animal had climbed 
to probably the highest point to be reached. 
He came near the trunk of the tree, try- 
ing to locate the animal. Not seeing him 
he was in the act of changing his position 
when he saw, within 10 feet of him, the 
cougar crouched on one of the lower limbs. 
Schlee leveled the rifle and pulled the trig- 
ger. The shot went home and the cougar 
fell dead at the root of the tree. 

J. S., College Grove, Ore. 


A doctor’s wealth: 
change. 





ill-gotten gains. —Ex- 


IN YEARS GONE BY. 


Thirty-five years ago the woods of Alle- 
gany county, N. Y., were full. of game, 
consisting of foxes, rabbits, squirrels, ruffed 
grouse, wild pigeons and coons. The 
streams were teeming with trout, and it 
was a paradise for the boy who loved gun 
and rod. 

Well I remember one bright morning 
in late October; a light snow had fallen 
the night before and several of us boys, 
accompanied by Andrew, an old hunter 
and trapper, started out for a coone hunt. 
After ascending a hill a mile and a halt 
from a small village, we struck into an 
old chestnut grove, and found by the 
numerous tracks in the light snow, that 
coons had been abroad the night before. 

Old Andrew made a careful inspection 
of the tracks,.and soon located the coons 
in a chestnut stub. He cut ironwood 
poles about 6 feet long, and 3% of an inch 
in diameter at the butt for each of the 
boys, and said they were to be the only 
weapons used in despatching the game. He 
told us that if we could hit a coon on the 
nose just below -the eyes a slight blow 
would kill it, but if hit elsewhere their fur 
would protect them. We stripped off our 
coats and made the chips fly cutting down 
that old stub. 

When the stub began to lean and crack 
we dropped our axes and grabbed the 
poles. As the stub struck the ground it 
broke at the bottom of the hollow, and 
6 coons made lively work trying to reach 
other trees. It was the first time most of 
the boys had. hunted in this manner, 
and they whacked one another nearly as 
often as they did the coons, but we syc- 
ceeded in killing 3 coons before they 
reached other trees, Two ascended a large 
red oak,~3 feet in diameter; the other 
climbed a small basswood stub. We soon 
felled the tree and secured the coon. We 
dared not cut the other tree without per- 
mission from its owner, so one of the boys 
went to him and got his consent. We went 
at that tree as only boys after a coon can 
work, but by the time we had it down we 
were a tired and hungry lot. When it fell, 
we soon despatched the 2 coons, and then 
forgot out hunger, blistered hands, and fa- 
tigue. With 6 coons we returned to the 


. little village, proud and happy. 


Yesterday I passed the spot where I 
spent that happy morning 35 years ago. 
Not a tree crowns the mountain top, the 
spring is dry, the soil barren and worth- 
less and a deserted house where the grove 
ended in a meadow, shows that man can 
not survive the ruin he himself has 
wrought. Not even the lone phoebe can 
brook to build her nest and rear her young 
amid this desolation. The chestnut grove 
has disappeared, and with it all that made 
the mountain top so beautiful. 


W. J. W.,, Wellsville, i WER fe 





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250 


AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 


“For sport the lens is better than the gun.” 

I wish to make this department of the utmost 
use to amateurs. I shall, therefore, be glad to 
answer any questions and to print any items sent 
me by practical amateurs relating to their experi- 
ence in photography. 





CLOUD PHOTOGRAPHY. 


Judging from the number of bald headed 
sky pictures in most collections of land- 
scape photographs, a few practical sugges- 
tions may not come amiss. I will confine 
myself to the subject of photographing the 
clouds on the same plate with the fore- 
ground at one exposure, and will not touch 
on the printing in methods, 

The chief difficulty lies in the fact that 
by the time the foreground has had ample 
exposure the sky and clouds are much over- 
timed and all detail in the sky is lost. To- 
gether with this there is always some hala- 
tion. Many clouds are so thin that the blue 
light of the sky shines through them and 
acts on the plate almost as strongly as the 
light from the unclouded portions of the 
sky, rendering the clouds faint in the nega- 
tive. 

To overcome the halation we can use 
the non-halation or double coated plates, 
or we can back our plates. Those who use 
films are not troubled with halation. Fairly 
good cloud pictures can be made on the 
ordinary plate by giving a short exposure, 
1-6 to 1-10 of the normal time, for the aver- 
age landscape, and then developing slowly 
in a much diluted developer; starting with 
about % normal strength and as the detail 
comes up adding more strong developer 
for densitv, being careful not to overde- 
velop. A color screen may be used with the 
ordinary plate, but as the plate is only 
slightly sensitive to yellow light the expo- 
sure must be much increased; from 60 to 
75 times for the Bausch & Lomb bichromate 
ray filter, for instance. 

For the best results we must use ortho- 
chromatic, or color sensitive, plates, with or 
without a color screen. Some of the color 
sensitive plates on the market do not re- 
quire a color screen. When using a color 
screen with an orthochromatic plate the ex- 
posure must be increased according to the 
screen used. With the Bausch & Lomb 
ray filter multiply the exposure by 3 to 5, 
When making negatives chiefly for cloud 
effects and in which the foreground is of 
little or no importance, using the color sen- 
sitive plate with or without the color screen, 
eut down the exposure as with the ordi- 
nary plate, though probably not so much. 
When detail is wanted in the foreground 
give sufficient exposure to get the fore- 
ground, and if the screen is suited to the 


RECREATION. 


plate the clouds can be taken care of in 
development. 

The secret of developing cloud negatives 
successfully is to develop slowly in weak 
solutions and not over develop. With short 
development in a solution of not over % 
normal strength, when the sky portion be- 
comes a little more dense than the fore- 
ground the white clouds will have full den- 
sity and the foreground should be suffi- 
ciently developed. That is the time to 
stop. However, if the foreground is still 


_~weak when the sky is dense enough, stop 


development anyway; as the resulting nega- 
tive will be better than if-development were 
carried on until the foreground had gained 
sufficient density. 

A weak foreground may often be coaxed 
up by local development. If the sky ap- 
pears to be gathering density much more 
quickly than the foreground, remove the 
negative from the developer before the sky 
is fully developed and rinse in water. Then 
soak a piece of cotton in full strength de- 
veloper, sponge out the excess so that it will 
not drip and carefully go over the fore- 
ground. It will gradually gather strength. 
Keep this up until the foreground is more 
dense than the sky. Then put the negative 
back in the original solution and continue 
development until the sky is sufficiently 
strong. Remove from the developer, rinse 
and fix. ~ ‘ 

R. L. Wadhams, M. D., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 





IMPROVING NEGATIVES. 
II. 

I believe velox to have been the first 
gaslight printing to appear in the Ameri- 
can market, and it is probably the best 
known. The amateur is apt to make all his 
prints on one grade of paper, never stopping 
to consider whether he might not obtain a 
better result from a certain negative by a 
change of printing medium. We have all 
read, and I trust practiced, the time-worn 
advice to choose one plate, developer, etc., 
and stick to it until its manipulation is 
mastered. This is good advice, but there is 
such a thing as following a rule too closely. 

To judge what paper will be best to use, 
sort the negatives and make 3 classes. Put 
in one pile all those that are extremely 
dense and contrary; all those that are ap- 
proximately correct in exposure and de- 
velopment in a second pile; while the thin, 
flat printing ones will form the third group. 
In this last lot place also those negatives 
that are over exposed, but dense, over de- 
veloped; for these, though slow printers, 
will give poor, flat prints, like the others 
in this class. 

Having made these 3 groups, the ques- 
tion arises whether to use a grade of paper 
which will bring out the best there is in 





AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 251 


the negative, or to modify the faulty nega- 
tive to suit a certain grade of paper. Either 
course is open to the worker, but for the 
present we will consider the first sugges- 
tion. 

The slower a plate the more quickly it 
will develop and the more contrast it will 
give. This also holds true with gaslight 
paper, as does the opposite statement that a 
quick plate or paper will develop slowly 
and give less contrast, relatively speaking. 
For dense, contrasting negatives a quick pa- 
per is indicated. 

For the second lot of negatives, those that 
are probably fair as printers, special velox 
will give good results. In fact, it can be 
used for 80 per cent of all negatives. For 
some landscapes and portrait work try 
rough velox. It will produce prints which 
are the equal of platinotypes in appearance. 
It is better to choose the faster grade when 
a choice of speeds is offered, as most of 
the papers now in use tend toward con- 
trasty results. 

Having considered the dense and the me- 
dium classes of negatives, there remains 
the third and, to my mind, most unsatis- 
factory class, comprising those that are too 
thin to give good prints. These negatives 
need a paper that will give the maximum 
contrast, and for that purpose carbon velox 
is best. There is trouble at first in handling 
it quickly enough and over development 
often results. To avoid that, arrange trays 
in a row, remove the print from the tray 
as soon as it is thoroughly wet with devel- 
oper, dip it in the rinsing tray and put it in 
Fs hypo before it has time to develop too 
ar. 

Besides carbon velox try cyco. It is good 
paper and is adapted to thin negatives. In 
fact it is possible to select a paper that will 
give a good print from almost any negative, 
but do not get into the habit of slighting 
the exposure and development with the idea 
that it can all be made right in the printing. 
Nothing can equal a print from a correctly 
exposed and developed negative. 

C. M. Whitney, Bayonne, N. J. 





USE OF FERROTYPE PLATES. 


Arthur Roth asks for a recipe for paste 
and a method of applying it to prints while 
on a ferrotype plate. It is obvious that his 
object is to find some method of pasting 
ferrotyped prints to mounts without de- 
stroying the high gloss. I advise him 
to try the following method: Apply to 
edge of print mucilage, not too thick, mak- 
ing a border about % inch wide; place 
print on mount, lay thin sheet of white pa- 
per over it and ‘carefully rub down; remove 
paper and run finger tip around "edge of 
print. Next paste a piece of paper of the 
size and thickness of print to back of mount 


to prevent cockling. If mucilage is evenly 
applied to print and allowed to dry about 
Y% minute, none will exude to smear print 
when rubbing down on mount. 

Care should be exercised in selecting 
plates when purchasing. Some time ago 
in selecting ferrotypes it was necessary for 
me to reject over 2 dozen in order to find 5 
perfect plates. Nearly all presented a por- 
ous surface when viewed on the side in a 
good light. These pores, although small, 
no doubt account for the difficulty many ex- 
perience in removing dried prints from 
ferrotype plates. If your plate has a per- 
fect finish and you keep it so, it will not 
be necessary to use paraffine. Manufactur- 
ers of ferrotype plates should turn out bet- 
ter goods, and if necessary charge more for 
them. H. A. Kalkman, Newport, R. I. 





SNAP SHOTS. 

Almost every amateur knows that his 
printing out paper will not keep fresh a 
great length of time, neither will his chemi- 
cals after mixing, but it is not known just 
how long a dry plate can be kept without 
depreciating to such an extent that it will 
fail to produce a good negative if care is 
taken in development. 

Two years ago I was on a hunting, fish- 
ing and camera shooting trip on the St. 
Francis river, Cross county, Arkansas, and 
ran across 4 boxes of dry plates that had 
been left by an itinerant photographer, who 
had departed between suns, owing a board 
bill, 5 years before. Having used 
all the plates I had taken with me I de- 
cided to give the find plates a trial. In 
Memphis, September 29th, about 4 o’clock 
in the afternoon of a cloudy day, I gave the 
plates an exposure of % of a second, using 
a ray filter for cloud effects. Subsequent 
development and printing gave me pictures 
that surprised me, for I did not expect 
much, Considering the time of year and 
day, briefness of exposure and ray filter 
it was a fair showing for plates 7 or 8 


years old. 
Jas. G. Wheat, Louisville, Ky. 





On page 82 of the January, 1904, issue of 
RECREATION I see that Edward Krivanek, 
Chicago, Ill, asks how to prevent prints 
sticking to the ferrotype plate. I suggest 
that he thoroughly clean the surface of his 
plate, using ammonia or washing soda in 
the water. Before using the plate dust on 
a little powdered tale or French chalk, re- 
moving any excess. Then wax the surface 
of the plate with the following solution: 


Yellow resin.....90 grains. 
Beeswax ..cccess I5 grains. 
Turpentine ...... 4 ounces, 


To apply the wax coating, put a little of 


252 


the solution on a piece of flannel and rub 
the wax lightly over the surface of the 
plate. Allow it to stand a few minutes and 
then polish with a clean, dry piece of flan- 
nel. This waxing must be repeated before 
each time the plate is used. 

R. L. Wadhams, M.D., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 





I notice M. B. More’s letter in regard to 
pyro staining his films. I am a constant 
user of, and a firm adherent to pyro, but 
have always used plates. Recently, how- 
ever, I was called on to develop a few 
rolls of 4x5 films for a friend and found 
they were all stained, some badly, and 
some only to a slight extent. Some I had 
to correct in development, but others that 
required no correction were as_ badly 
stained as any. 

Will some one who uses hypo on films 
please explain for Mr. More and me why 
the films stained? 

I should add, perhaps, that with one ex- 
ception, this has been my only experience 
with films. Once before I developed one 


roll, and on them there was no evidence of . 


stain. The developer used on them had 

been prepared a month or more, while that 

used the last time was freshly prepared. 
Harry E. Momyer, Klamath Agency, Ore. 





Occasionally one scratches or tears the - 


film of a negative during the process of de- 
veloping or fixing. It does not always hap- 
pen that one is equipped with necessary 
material for filling the hole thus made; 
and even if so, it is a delicate operation, 
requiring practice and skill. I recently had 
a case of this kind and in looking about 
for some convenient method of doctoring 
the negative, I could think of nothing bet- 
ter than a box of ordinary shoe blacking. 
I got a small brush, such as is used for oil 
paints, dipped it in water, rubbed it over 
the blacking and applied it to the back of 
the negative over the defect, working it 
out to about the same density as the nega- 
tive and being careful to blend the edges. 
One good feature of this plan is that it 
does not involve a risk of spoiling an other- 
wise good negative. 
O. T. Kirtley, Hannibal, Mo. 





I do not like fuzzy pictures. I have 
pecome disgusted with the so-called art 
pictures that appear from time to time in 
photo publications. I think I voice the 
sentiment of the majority of your sub- 
scribers when I say that I want to look at 
good photographs such as RECREATION 
usually publishes; clear, plain, comprehen- 
sive and full of detail. I do not admire 
such blotches as appear on page 345 of No- 
vember ReEcrEATION. They may be art, 
but I venture the assertion that your read- 
ers, as a lot, will not rave over them. Bet- 


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ter cut that kind and let us have more good 
hunting and fishing yarns. 
J. E. Bates, Spokane, Wash. 





On page 32 of the January issue of Rec- 
REATION there is a good picture of a fantail 
pigeon which to me is rendered unattractive 
by the 2 large inscriptions. One cuts off 
part of the bird’s right foot, the other 
crosses one corner of the tail. If photog- 
raphers must have their names and other 
reading matter on prints, let them put the 
inscriptions where they will be least ob- 
jectionable. In this picture there is plenty 
of room at the bottom without interfering 
with the subject. A number of pictures I 
have seen lately have had this disagreeable 
feature. 

R. L. Wadhams, M.D., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 





What can I use to make inscriptions on 
negatives so the letters will print white or 
nearly so? 

E. Bartholomew, Ravenna, Mich. 


ANSWER. 

Use India ink. Higgins’ liquid India ink 
is convenient. A good opaque, such as 
Gibson’s, will answer the same purpose. 
To print sharply, the lettering must be made 
on the film side; then it is necessary to 
write backward. Or the lettering may be 
done on transparent tissue and placed be- 
tween the negative and the paper—EDbiTor. 





Please give a formula for sensitizing 
linen. Also directions for printing and de- 
veloping pictures on that material. Can 
celluloid be sensitized? If so, how? 


S. Busch, New York City. 
Will explain ?— 
EpiTor. 


some reader please 





If the readers of RECREATION will write 
me I will send them formulae for develop- 
ing paper and for toning gelatine paper 
which will not fade. E. E. Strock, 

529 State street, Conneaut, O. 





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“Well, sah, I-was born in Chicago. Reck- 
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sah !’—Yonkers Statesman. 





_ REcREATION is the best hunting and fish- 
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Howard D. Taylor, Buckley, Wash. 





_RECREATION is the best publication of its 
kind I ever read. 
Wm, Bates, West Plains, Mo. 


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HUNTING IN THE SIERRA MADRE 
MOUNTAINS. 
ERNEST E. RUSSELL, 

The completion, in 1897, of the first di- 
vision of the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre & 
Pacific railroad from El Paso, Texas, 150 
miles Southwest to Casas Grandes, Mexico, 
opened a new field for American sportsmen. 
Blacktail deer can be found within 10 
or 15 miles of the railroad along the great- 
er part of its line. From spring to autumn 
one can hardly make a trip over the road 
without seeing one or more herds of ante- 
lope. Thirty to is miles West and South- 
west of Casas Grandes whitetail deer 
and turkeys abound, with occasionally a sil- 
vertip, cinnamon, or black bear, a moun- 
tain lion, and a few wolves. Ducks are 
plentiful along the larger streams; chiefly 
teals, but some mallards. 

The climate is superb, The best time 
for hunting is from the middle of October 
to the first of January. In the latter part 
of that season the nights are cold, and a 
snowstorm may be encountered; but 
usually the days are sunny and so warm 
that a coat is burdensome: The moun- 
tains are covered with grass and a sparse 
growth of pine and live oak. Numerous 
brooks afford the best of drinking water. 

I hunted deer 75 miles Southwest of 
Casas Grandes in December, ’97, and Janu- 
ary, 98; each time in company with A. M. 
Tenney, Jr., of Colonia Diaz, and George 
Lunt, of Colonia Pacheco, Chihuahua. I 
killed 2 deer on my first trip, which wa3 
also my first deer hunt. 

Tenney is by long odds the most suc- 
cessful deer hunter in that region, and 
Lunt is generally rated as second to Ten- 
ney. In the past, deer have been so plen- 
tiful and. hunters from outside so few that 
the residents have killed deer in large 
numbers, not only for their own use but 
for the market. However, the time 
has come, as is generally admitted down 
there, for checking this wholesale slaugh- 
ter. It is expected that before another 
hunting season opens the Mexican Goy- 
ernment will put in force an adequate 
game law. I haye heard Tenney express 
himself in favor of it. It does not seem 
fair to condemn these people for killing 
deer in such large numbers in the past, 
however much the sportsman is justified 
in condemning like action in the Adiron- 
dacks or in Maine, where the extermination 
of game is imminent; so I venture to give 
some figures to show what one man can do 
in the Sierra Madre mountains. 

Tenney is 29 years old. He was born in 
Utah, but spent most of his life in Apache 
county, Arizona, and the adjoining county 
in New Mexico. He moved to Mexico 6 
or 7 years ago. His life on the frontier 
brought him into the company of the best 
hunters of that region of big game and 
plenty of it. He says he has been a hunter 
since he was 13 years old. 

His highest record for one day’s deer 
hunting was made in December, ’95, when 


he killed 13 deer. The next day he killed 
5 more. The meat was dried for home 
use. On a more recent occasion he went 
out on a 6 days’ hunt with 3 other men. 
The party killed 57 deer, of which Tenney 
dropped 37. He killed 4 on the way to the 
hunting grounds and 33 in the 5 days de- 
voted to hunting. Even if a hog about kill- 
ling deer, he can not be called a hog about 
keeping them for on this occasion he 
offered to share alike with the rest of the 
party, and they gratefully accepted the 
offer. These figures show how his work in 
the woods compares with that of other 
men thereabout. When Tenney and Lunt 
are out together, Lunt gets about half as 
many as Tenney. It must not be inferred, 
however, that Tenney devotes himself en- 
tirely to hunting. He is a farmer and like 
most of the people in that region does a 
good deal of freighting. 

Ducks and turkeys fare as badly when he 
gets after them. On one occasion he and 
a companion went duck shooting on the 
Palatada marsh, West of Colonia Diaz. 
They wanted mallards, but the teals kept 
swarming down in their way. At last they 
got disgusted and turned loose on the teals 
as well. In an hour they brought down 15 
teals and mallards with about 30 shots. 

With the hollow bone of a turkey wing 
or a piece of reed Tenney imitates the tur- 
key’s call with great success; so well, in- 
deed, that he once inveigled an uncle of 
his into crawling half a mile through the 
grass to get a shot at “that turkey.” On an- 
other occasion Tenney had chopped down a 
big pine tree, and while resting pulled out 
his turkey bone and gave the call. A 
gobbler answered. Again Tenney called, 
and again the gobbler gobbled. Tenney 
kept calling and the gobbler kept coming 
and gobbling, his tail spread and his wings 
scraping the ground. When he got to the 
tree Tenney had cut down he hopped up 
among the branches and picked his way 
along the trunk to within 6 feet of the 
stump. Then Tenney rose from where he 
had been crouching behind the stump. The 
gobbler gave a squawk of disgust and left. 
Why didn’t Tenney shoot him? Because he 
had no gun. 

Tenney has used many guns, and thinks 
any one of the standard small caliber 
smokeless powder guns will do good work 
in the hands of a man who knows how to 
use it. He killed the 37 deer with a Savage 
.303 caliber. Then he sold it to Lunt and 
bought a 25-35. He fitted it with Lyman 
peep, bead, and leaf sights, and thinks it is 
all right for deer. 





Mr. Millyuns—Now, Tommy, you must 
go to school and work hard. Why, look 
at me! I started without a cent, and now 
I’m a millionaire. 

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it any more. They all have cash registers 
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XXIV 


RECREATI ON ~ 


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THE MARKET HUNTER’S STORY. 


KLATTAWAU. 


“Well,” said the old market hunter who 
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himself to dinner, and who now felt called 
on to pay his shot with a story. “It must 
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ago, when one day I picked up a little 22 
caliber center fire, single shot rifle that 
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the river, where I often picked up a few 
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This day, about 2 o’clock, as I was wallow- 
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tinued in that direction would come out at 
an open point overlooking Missoula and 
the Bitter Root valley. That being the 
case, he would probably return along the 
ridge going back into the timber. 

_“I thought of going for a heavier gun, 
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there, to follow it carefully and take my 
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not much in doubt as to what the result 
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“T found the trail, but it was well down 
on the Southern slope, near the edge of 
the timber. The track led down through a 
little cove, and there the elk had loitered 
a while. Then he came out and went 
quartering down toward a copse through 
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Free: To any one sending me 5 sub- 
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air Snowshoe Rabbits or will’ sell for 
£4 a pair. Stanley L, Trees, Tie Siding, 

yoming. ae 


RECREATION. 








Varicocele 
Hydrocele 


Cured to Stay Cured in 5 Days. 
No Cutting or Pain. Guaranteed 
Cure or Money Refunded. 


ARICOGELE. Under my treatment this insidi- 
V. # ous disease rapidly disappears. 
Pain ceases almostinstantly. The stagnant blood is driven 
= from the dilated veins and all soreness and swelling sub- 
= sides. Every indication of Varicocele vanishes and in its 
stead comes the pleasure of perfect health. Many ailments 
are reflex, originating from other diseases. For instance, 
innumerable blood and nervous diseases result from poison- 
. ous taintsin the system. Varicocele and Hydrocele, if neg- 
H. J. TILLOTS M. D lected will undermine physical strength, depress the mental 
Th ea ON, Sec faculties, derange the nervous system, and ultimately pro- 
e¢ Master Specialist of Chicago, who Cures coceley duce complicated results. In treating diseases of men I 
Hydrocele, and treats patients personally. always cure the effect as well as the cause. I desire that 
Established 1880. every person afflicted with these or allied diseases write me 
(CorraiantEp ) so I can explain my method of cure, which is safe and per- 
manent. My consultation will cost you nothing, and my charges for a perfect cure will be reasonable and 
not more than you will be willing to pay for the benefits conferred. 


Hf is what you want. I give a legal guaranty to cure or refund your money. 
Certainty of Cure What I have done for others I cau do for you. Ican cure you at home 
a, Hy One personal visit at my office is preferred, but if 

Correspondence Confidential. it is impossible for you to call, write me your con- 
dition fully, and you will receive in plain envelope a scientific and honest opinion of your case, Free of 
charge. My home treatment is successful. My books and lectures mailed free upon application. 


H.J. TILLOTSON, M.D.,140 Tillotson Bldg, 84 Dearborn St., CHICAGO 











































DO YOU WISH TO IMPROVE YOUR — 
SHOOTING? IF IT IS AS GOOD AS yh 
IT CAN BE, DO YOU WISH TO KEEP — . 
IT SO? IN EITHER CASE, THE J. C. 3 Cocktails 
HAND TRAP WILL BRING WITHIN 4 


; Famous the world 
YOUR REACH THE FULL ADVAN- 


over for purity. 


TAGE OF A SHOOTING RANGE. a] They never vary. 
ko (ln The secret of their 

THESE TRAPS WILL SUCCESS- , SS perfect blend is that 
FULLY THROW ANY OF THE CLAY | arses Soot 
TALI! months before being 

TARGETS NOW IN USE, GIVING A loge 7 "2,\, drawn off and bot- 
ris warroo 4 tled. Be sure you 
LIFE LIKE REPRESENTATION OF A ® SME have them in your 
BIRD IN FLIGHT. I WILL SEND | ie ge hp ee sb 
i a and on your outing 

YOU A J. C. HAND TRAP FOR 5 i trips wherever you 


go. They are ready and require no 
mixing. Simply pour over cracked ice. 


YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO REC- 
REATION. SEND IN YOUR CLUB 
NOW, AND IMPROVE ON YOUR 


For Sale by all Fancy Grocers and Dealers 


G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. 


SHOOTING. 29 BROADWAY, N.Y. HARTFORD, CONN. 





- XXXIV 


RECREATION. 





F OR 


Solid Comfort tarot 


SUMMER or WINTER 


Th Get a pair of 
aii Thompson- 
est : | 
"3 Quimby 
the Hunting 
Cheapest Boots 





Il Make the Best 


All work guaranteed, I refer by per- 
mission to the Editor of RECREATION. 
Measurement blanks and prices on ap- 
plication. Mention RECREATION. 


T. H. GUTHRIE 
33 William St. NEWARK. N. J. 





Sportsmens 
Show 








MADISON 
SQUARE 
GARDEN 
New York City 
Te ES 


Feb. 19 to March5 
1904. 


NII IIIS 
For further information, floor plans, etc., 


address _ 


Sportsmen’s Exhibition Co. 
1123 Broadway, New York City 


Roofing 


“IT LASTS” 


The most economical roofing 
made. Does not require a 
skilled roofer. Easy to apply 
with roofing kit in each roll. 
No repairs. No paint re- 
quired when first laid. 


F. W. Bird & Son 


Makers ; 
EAST WALPOLE, MASS, 


| New York Washington Chicago 


Are You an Amateur 
Photographer? 


If so, would you like a Camera that will photograph 


A whole range of mountains 
A whole sweep of river 

A whole army 

A whole fleet of ships 

A whole city 


Or any other vast stretch of scenery or movin 
objects ? THE SWING LENS DOES IT. 


Ohe AL VISTA 


Is the thing 
One of the greatest inventions of the age. 


I will give you a No. 5-B as a premium for 
12 subscriptions. For particulars address 


Recreation, Ae S Tock cite 





RECREATION. XXXV 


MARGERY DAW 


(TRUE VERSION) 


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Please remember that no one can make mattresses of ‘‘felt,” ‘‘elastic felt,” 
or “patent elastic felt” but Ostermoor & Co. Our name and guarantee 
on every genuine mattress. It’s not /e// if it’s not an Osfermoor. ‘The 


| “Ostermoor : Mattress $15. 


never has to be made over—being made right in the beginning it stays right to the end. It 
will last so long that you will forget the price but not the quality. It isin every way unique— 
its comfort, its cleanliness, its economy. Even the most pronounced pessimist cannot 
find an objection to this peerless bed. Surely no one can find fault with our offer of 





Thirty Nights’ Free Trial STANDARD SIZES AND PRICES: 
. > ‘ae i i 2 Ray” 1g ; 
Sleep on it 30 nights, and if it is not even all you have ; og E igghes pape +4 ibe” ee Bae 
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liness, durability and comfort of any $so. hair mattress 4 feet wide, - 40 lbs., - - - 13 35 
ever made, you can get your money back by return 4 feet 6 car be oa 15.00 
aie 2 7 é ches long. 

mail—‘no questions asked. There will be no un- In two parts soc. extra Special sizes, special prices. ’ 


pleasantness about it at all. Express charges prepaid to any place. 


SEND FOR OUR FREE BOOK 


It will be worth your while—your name on a postal will do. It is conceded one of the hand- 
somest advertising books ever made; 96 pages; cover in colors; beautifully illt 
trated. We want you to look it through even if you may ever buy from us, 
Mattresses shipped, express prepaid, same day check is received. 

We have cushioned 25,000 Churches. Send for free book, ‘Church Cushions.” Vi 


OSTERMOOR & COMPANY, 114 Elizabeth St., New York. { 


The Alaska Feather and Down Co., Ltd., Montreal 
Canadian Agents. 







RECREATION. 





SN 


Western Recreation Launch 


ABSOLUTE LAUNCH SATISFACTION 


Is contained in the ‘‘Western Recreation.’’ It possesses those essential points 
Grace, Beauty of Outline, Symmetry, Simplicity and Safety. Speed is there too if 
you wantit. Most reasonable in first cost, most economical to maintain. 


THE BEST FINISHED, HANDSOMEST, MOST RELIABLE. 


We build them with either Torpedo or Semi-Elliptic Hulls, and in completeness, it is 
the ideal and dependable craft for both pleasure and security. 


° ° Will please those who build their 
The Western Marine Engine yi) pif poxuiu’a Catslos 
describing our Launches and Marine Engines sent upon receipt of 10c, Catalog L. 


Western Launch and Engine Works, usx sr., Mishawaka, Ind, 


A SPORTSIMAN’S BOAT 
Mullins’ ‘‘ Get There” Steel Duck Boat 













14 ft. long, 36-inch beam. PRICE, $20 Crated on cars Salem, 


Endorsed by Thousands of Sportsmen. Air Chamber each end. Always ready. No repair 
Send for handsome free book. Mention RECREATION. 


Ww. H. MULLINS, 228 Depot Street, Salem, Ohio 


A Press Button Hunting Knife 


Is one of the best articles a hunter ever carried 








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It has a 4 Inch Blade made of the Best Silver Steel 
The knife cannot come open in your pocket. It cannot close on your hand when in use. It opens and closes 


only when 
YOU PRESS THE BUTTON 


If you once use one of these knives you will never use any other. You can get one as a premium for 


3 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO RECREATION 


Sample Copies furnished on request, 


RECREATION. XXXVii 





If you want 
both style and 
durability get a 


Matthews 
_ Torpedo 
= | Launch 


Built after the 
most approved 
models. 
/ Any power or 
. motor desired 
installed, 

Send for our 
free booklet of 
/ Marine Laws 
AND TABLES. 


; Designed for use in any kind of a boat requiring from 1% H. P. 
to 20H. P. Either single or double cylinder. Simple, mechanical, 
handsome, durable, positive, economical, and moderate priced. 





Mention whee) Ping control, propeller equipment, and many other features 
should be investigated. OUR NEW PLANT is the largest 
RECREATION in the world devoted exclusively to the manufacture of Marine 





Gasoline Engines. We operate our own pattern, foundry, forge, 
and machine departments. We manufacture every part of our 


engines, from fly wheel to propeller, 
Every engine is connected to its propeller and given an actual 
a ews Oa O water test before placed in purchaser's hands. 
° SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, ADDRESS DEPT. C 


BASCOM, OHIO, U.S. A. Smalley Motor Co., Ltd., Bay City, Mich.,U.S.A. 








Folding Canvas Boats 


were not satisfactory until the 


RmIiN G 


was produced. It’s a revelation 
in boat construction, nothing 
like it ever made. onstnkable 
Can't tip over. Puncture Proof, 
wear longer than a wooden boat. 
Norepairs. No cost for storage, 
always ready, folds into a small 
neat package, carry by hand, 
used by the U. S. Navy. They are simple, wonderful. A thoroughly 
patented article. Beware of imitations. Made only by ourselves. A ca? 
alog of 100 engravings and 400 testimonials sent on recetpt of O cents. 

Bottom Boards rest on the frame, not on the canvas, ribbed longitu- 
dinally and diagonally. They are stiffer and safer than a Wooden Boat 
because the lines are fuller, and are much easier to row or paddle. 


KING FOLDING CANVAS BOAT CO. 
Mention RECREATION, KALAMAZOO, MICH., U.S.A 





¥Xxviii RECREATION. 


D. M. TUTTLE CO. 














2o H. P, Serr StartTiInG Motor 


GASOLINE MOTORS AND LAUNCHES 


the cylinders once charged with the explosive mixture, the motor may be left for hours, after 

which it can be sfarted, in either direction, by simply moving the lever attached to the com- 
mutator at top of front cylinder in the direction desired. The motor always comes to rest with 
one piston at the bottom of its stroke, with the other two on opposite side of crank shaft, with 
fresh charge partly compressed. The firing of either of these charges will start the motor, the 
direction being under control of the operator. The moving of the lever in either direction brings 
the segment in face of commutator in contact with brush in eccentric arm so as to ignite either 
charge, independently of moving the balance wheel, This lever also controls the time of ignition, 
which can be increased or retarded at the operator’s will, allowing the motor to be slowed down to 
its minimum speed without use of throttles, 

The two cylinder motors with this attachment are also self starting aid, a crank is not neces- 
sary as both can be started when cold by simply priming with gasoline and rocking the balance 
wheel to mix up charge and then making connection by means of the lever. 

Motors from 1% H. P. to 20 H. P., one, two, three and four cylinders. 


LAUNCHES 


gb HE above is a cut of our 3 cylinder self starting and reversible jump spark motor. With 





From 15 to 50 ft., Open, Half and Full Cabin. Any model. Send for lllustrated Catalogue. 


D. M. TUTTLE CO.., 10 Pine St., CANASTOTA, N. Y. 





RECREATION. XXXIX 


Be 


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OPERATED BY GASOLINE VAPOR 


The Fay & Bowen Marine Motor is a revelation to those who have used others. Reliable, safe, 
durable and easy to operate. Remarkable speed control. Best of all, it starts when you start it. 
No handle or crank is used. Our patent igniter is absolutely unique and always instant and 
positive in action. It is really the only perfect and satisfactory igniter. 

Motors complete from 1% to 25 actual Horse Power ready for installation. 

We also build a line of the finest launches afloat, complete and with our motor installed and 
all ready to run. We make these in either the usual round stern model or our flat stern torpedo 
model in lengths from 18 to 35 feet. We can furnish large cabin launches on special order. For 
excellence of workmanship and beauty of finish and design our boats are unsurpassed. Ask for 
description of our fast torpedo outfits. 


Send for Catalogue and live testimonials from satisfied 
customers. Our customers are our best advertisers. 


FAY & BOWEN, 28 Mill Street, Auburn, New York 





He—Yes, I remembered you at once as the 
girl I was engaged to in the mountains 
some seasons ago. 

“What a remarkable memory for faces 
you have, haven’t you?” 

“No—for rings.” —Exchange. 





THREE SPLENDID BOOKS 


500 PAGES, 1,000 ILLUSTRATIONS 


r “COMPLETE 
@MPERS MANUAL 






F ettetieentdilin onal 
Li my ag 
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hie Tn ie. 2 


Received hunting gloves from the Luther 
people. Please accept thanks for them; 
they are O. K. in fit and quality. 

M. L. Lavey, North Manchester, Ind. 





“A new automobile, Mr. Rush! You 
must be busy dodging your creditors.” 

“My creditors! Ha! they keep dodging 
me now.’—Exchange. 


The 
VIKING 
FOLDING 
CANVAS Ag Pak i a | A PERFECT BOAT For 
—_Trl EEE sth a 


One of the many testimonials we have received 


A REMARKABLE OFFER “A SURPRISE” 


Fegee sa rhe three books, in all 500 pages, 
m4 ready. ‘‘A Complete Sportsman’ s Library.”” Send 
roc. in coin or stamps for either book. or30c. for the three. 
Address, * BUZZACOTT,” Racine Junction, Wis. 
LL 
HAS NO EQUAL FOR 
LIGHTNESS 

AND STRENGTH 








STRONG AND STEADY 
ON THE WATER 





The 12-foot Viking received. I put it together in a few minutes and must confess that I was surprised to find the boat so much better in 
its material, design and workmanship than I had e xpected. For three years I have been looking fur a suitable folding sportsman’s boat. Yours 
is the only one I have found that fills the bill. The solid wood bottom, the round, graceful, strong gunwales and the plan of taking up th e 
wlack with rawhide straps, supplies a defect I found in other boats. I took it with me on my vacation trip into the wilds of Nova Sex ti 
where it was greatly admired. It enabled me to fish in lakes where no boat had ever been used, It fs a gem on the water ] had it out a 
Lake Keejun Koo Jic, N. 8., in a big blow, with two ladies in it. It rode the _waves like a duck and did not ship a drop of water. I am ple 
and anticipate some pleasant trips. a 
WRITE ¥ mB at Yours 

YOR OUR BOOKLET (Write for the name of user of this boat. 


GLASCOCK BROS. MANUFACTURING CO. Box 90, Muncie, Indiana 


xl RECREATION. 





We've Made Good Boats and Ma- 
3 chinery for Many Years. 

] THE KIND THE PUBLIC WANT 
- You will see 


» | TRUSCOTT 
\ | BOATS 


used exclusively at the World’s 
| Fair because investigation con- 
| vinced the most exacting officials 
1 of their superiority. Look the 
matter up for yourself. 
Automobile Boats and Engines 
Everything from a canoe to the 
100 foot cruiser, 
Our quarterly publication ‘*The 
Launch,” is full of matter inter- 
esting to boat owners and pros- 
pectives. It’s free for the asking. 
Catalog mailed, for postage, 10c. 


Truscott Boat Mig. Co 


ST. JOSEPH, MICH., U.S.A. 















Send for catalogue of our full line of Folding 
Canvas Boats and Canoes, which have been 

— —— adopted by Governments of United States, 
ACME FOLDING BOAT 00, MIAMISBUZS.@ Canada and England. Just filled an order for 
U. S. Government who prefer our boats. Received medal and award at Chicago World’s 
Fair. If you investigate we will get your order. Mention RECREATION. 


Acme Folding Boat Company, Miamisburg, O. 


The “Perfect” Fishing | THE HILDEBRANDT SPINNER 

& Hunting Motor Boat. For Fly Fishermea, A 
Length, 17't. Beam, 4it Weight 350 spinner which spins, and 
lbs. Speed 6to7 miles. Price $125 also catches fish. Strictly 


The above equipped with The ‘‘Valveless’’ hand made and of the 


Gasoline Marine Motor, the most simple Mo- best material. Noswivel 
tor on the market. Small weight. Large 


: > sontrol r Co required, Made with 
sh Perfect control. Price Moteur Compiete iT india it Mlaathor and 


F. W. SHERMAN, 16-18 Exchange Street, | Buck-tail flies. For sale by dealers. Sent on receipt of 25c 


Write for catalon ” **™* scents Wanted | Je Je HILDEBRANDT, Logansport, Ind. 


THE LATEST, SAFEST AND BEST CANVAS BOAT 


Is what we offer you. A Boat built on modern lines that will 
prove a pleasure to own and use. Selected materials used through- 
out, and it comes to you guaranteed the best. A handy and safe 
boat for fishing and shooting. Send 4 cents in stamps for catalogue 
and reliable testimony. 


Mention RECREATION. 


LIFE SAVING FOLDING CANVAS BOAT CO. 
757 Portage St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 

















OaTaLoeus 


SEND FOR 





















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Latest patent and improved Canvas Folding Boat on the market. 
Puncture proof; Tempered steel frame. No bolts to remove, 
Folds most compact of any boat made. 


RECREATION. 





Fine Fishing 
Tackle Free 





The Famous Shakespeare Reels and 
Baits that Catch Fish, Free to any 
Enthusiastic Angler who Sends 
Name and Address. 


I want every enthusiastic fisherman, whether 
amateur, beginner or professional to have a per- 
sonal knowledge of the fine points of the Shake- 
speare Reels and the marvelous catching quali- 
ties of the Shakespeare Baits—and to do this I 
propose to send to every man or woman who 
fishes for the real sport there is in it, one of my 





=V Whowill 
; catch 
the 
$100.00 
Prize Bass 
this 
year? 













reels and baits for free trial on their next fishing 
trip. Write to-day. Send your name and address 
and the name and address of the leading sport- 
ing goods dealer of your city to Wm. Shake- 
speare, Jr., 379 Shakespeare Bldg., Kalamazoo, 
Mich. The Shakespeare Reel is especially de- 
signed for accurate and long-distance casting, 
and it is without doubt the best reel in the world, 
and you will say so when you see it. The metal 
used in the manufacture of the Shakespeare Reel 
is hard-drawn brass and the finest English Stubbs 
steel—the best obtainable. Painstaking care is 
used to secure perfect accuracy in every detail. 
In beauty of design, and simplicity of construc- 
tion it is unequaled. Its easy, silent running sug- 
gests perpetual motion and it is fitted with the 
most perfect drag and click ever invented. Words 
will not describe its beauty, its usefulness and 
its many advantages over all other reels, My 
reels and baits are for sale by all first-class deal- 
ers and I want you to see them and try them for 
yourself and if you will write me personally I 
will be glad to arrange it so you can have them 
for a free trial on your next fishing trip. The 
Shakespeare Baits are really marvelous. With them 
the fisherman is sure of a good catch, no matter 
where the fish are, in the lake or stream. If they 
are in deep water, Shakespeare makes the bait 
that attracts them, If they are in shallow water, 
Shakespeare makes the bait that catches them. 
If they are hidden in the lily pads or moss, Shake- 
speare makes the bait that makes them strike. 
And Shakespeare offers $100 in prizes for the 
photograph and authentic dimensions of the big- 
gest large or small mouth bass caught this year. 
Write to-day for fine illustrated catalogue and 
his little booklet, “The Art of Bait Casting.” 
They are free to every angler. Write to-day and 
eend your name and address, 





Why not? 
money next summer in_ hiring 
canoes, but get one for yourself so 
that you and your friends may 
enjoy it every minute of the time. 
For pleasure there is nothing to 
equal it; for health and exercise 
nothing surpasses it. 


I have been making all kinds of pleasure 
boats for 30 years. 1 know how to make the best 
that can be furnished for the money—and I do. 

Send for my catalogue and select your canoe 
before it is too late in the season. 


Don’t spend your 


ideas as to style and price. 


My complete catalogue of pleasure 
boats, canoes and fittings sent free 


J. H. RUSHTON, 817 Water St., Canton, N. Y. 





Small Profits—Quick Sales 


— ——  —  _ 


TROUT = wy 
ip 


FLIES 


for trial—send us 
Quality B Flies 


Quality C Flies 
Bass Flies 





15¢ for an assorted sample doz. 
Regular price, 24 cents. 


30 for an assorted sample doz. 
C Regular price, 60 cents. 
60c 


60 for an assorted dozen 
C Regular price 84 cents. 


SPLIT BAMBOO RODS 
Fly Rods 57 cents Bait Rods 


10 feet, 6 ounces 9 feet, 8 ounces 
With cork grip and extra tip, in wood form 


for an assorted sample doz. 
Regular price, 84 cents. 








THE H. H. KIFFE CO. 
523 Broadway, New York City 


Catalogs of any of above goods free on application. 
Mention Recreation. 


fy models are 
all popular, and one of them will certainly meet your 


RECREATION. 


Start the trout season 
right, which means 
start with the 


“BRISTOL.” 


Use a “‘Bristol’’ Steel Fishing Rod 
on your first trip to the trout stream, 
and you will want to use it for all trips 
—always. The faintest nibble is in- 
stantly felt by the fisherman using a 


“Bristol,” and the delicate spring of 
the ‘‘Bristol’’ hooks the trout before 
he discovers that the bait has ‘‘a string 
to it.”’ 


Prices reduced. 


Ask your dealer about it. 
Ask US for Catalog D. 


The Horton Mfg. Co., 
Bristol, Conn., U.S.A. 





ANCLERS, LOOK HERE! AN IMPORTANT OFFER 


; complete graduated open ring “ry 
8 pleces guides, reel seat and rod tip. For 2 Yearly Subscriptions to RECREATION 
I will send you 


Self-adjusting, nickeled, spring steel. You 





can trim a cane pole ready for reel in 30 A RIFLE WICK PLUG 
seconds.. Of your dealer or by mail, 75C | Made by Hemm & Woopwarp, Sidney, Ohio, 3e caliber 
aset. $7.20 dozen sets. up to 50 caliber, se 
NOVELCRAFT MFG. CO. A SHOT GUN WICK PLUG 

Spring and Superior Sts. Cleveland, O. <b witted ain tates eae 

F er aie ae of 100 ves wane For 3 Yearly Subscriptions to RECREATION 
woodedandpleasantlysituated; large house, : . 
good buildings, near railroad depot, post A Pair of Shot Gun Wick Plugs 
office and school; g miles from Narragan- 20 to 10 gauge. 
sett Pier. Price, $2,200. Easy terms. 1 Sample copies for use in canvassing furnished on 


or 2 high-grade guns taken in part payment, | 4PPlication. 


Address, Clarence Gardiner, Slocums, R.I. | address RECREATION, 23W. 24th St., N.Y, City 


Detachable Even Spoolers & Hook-Shields 


are the real thing. A boon to anglers. For proof ask 
any of the 7,000 users. In every case, as far as we know, 
they have given perfect satisfaction. In future buy 
only reels fitted with spooler or reels spooler will fit, 
preventing regrets later on. Our free catalogue (B) 
gives names of reels spooler will fit, price and descrip- 
tion of Spoolers, Hook-Shields, Gun-Cleaners, Fish- 
Scalers, Ball-Bearing, Jeweled and _ Steel-Pivot- 
Bearing Reels fitted with even Spooler, also New Rubber Hook-Shield. 


We 2xchange goods with Dealers any time to keep them in line with requirements in their locality. 


A. W. BISHOP & SON, Ektie WSSUSA™ 





KRECKEALION. xiii 









-~ Marble’s 


Automatic Gall 4, 


is as certain as death and taxes. You 
merely reach out, gently touch the 
fish and the gaff automatically and in- 
stantly closes upon him with a grip 
which HOLDS. This means the sav- 
ing of the big ones which have got 
away year after year. A knurled pro- 
jection on each side of hinge enables 
the gaff to be opened with the foot. 
















. I, For Fish from 1 to 20 lbs., $1.50 
a, + bs 10 to 60 lbs., 2.00 


Nickled 50c extra, handles 30 in. long. 
Buy of your dealer, or direct, prepaid. 


Showing No. 1 Gaff Open. 


Marble’s Handy Fish Knives 


are made of tool steel hardened 
and tempered. Rosewood handle 
inlaid with German silver. 

Send for catalog of other necessities 
No.2 Gaff Closed for Sportsmen, It is free. 


Marble Safety Axe Co., Dest. a, Gladstone, Mich. 


Prices, 85c and $1.00, prepaid. 








RELIANCE MEG. CO. 


CITY ISLAND, NEW YORK CITY 





Gas and Gasoline Engines 


Adapted to 
Hoisting 
Pumping +} Machinery 
Portable 


Especially Designed for High-Speed Power Boats 





Superior in Workmanship, Material 
and Design 


xliv RECREATION. 


GOING into CAMP? 


If so, you will need 


A TENT 


You can get one big enough for 4 men 
and their camp outfit, by sending me 


8 Yearly Subscriptions to RECREATION 


at $1 each. You can get another tent 
big enough for 6 men by sending me © 


10 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS 


‘at $1 each. 





Why pay out money for a tent when you can 
make your friends pay for it? 

Sail in and fit yourself for your summer 
vacation. 

This is a great opportunity, and will hold good 
for only a few weeks. 

Sample copies of Recreation for use in can- 
vassing furnished on application. . 


RECREATION. 





A CANINE ASSISTANT DEPUTY. 


A young fellow named Gibson, living at 
Redfern, Neb., was in the habit of making 
trips to Gothenburg, always taking a trunk 
with him. Gossip had it that he was kill- 
ing chickens. One day last spring, Dr. Far- 
rell, one of our deputy wardens, seized 
the trunk and found 8o birds _ therein. 
After a long legal fight Gibson compromised 
with the authorities by paying $100 and 
costs. 

A few days ago the same deputy captured 
nearly 100 birds killed by Gibson. The 
latter has so far avoided arrest. When 
he is rounded up I will let you know the 
result. 

Gibson is a crack shot, has a fine dog 
and hunts on horseback. It is said he 
sometimes kills as many as 4 dozen birds 
in a day. As they bring $13 a dozen, he 
can pay a few fines and still be ahead of 
the game. If he gets the full dose on this 
last charge it may discourage him, as he 
can be fined $5 and costs for each bird. 

Dr. Farrell is the best game warden in 
Nebraska and has made more captures than 
all the others put together. He has a bird 
dog that enjoys a hunt in a baggage-room 
or freight house as much as he does in 
a field. When this wise dog points a trunk, 
box, barrel or tub his master uses a hatchet 
at once and always finds game. 


W. F. Zumbrunn, Callaway, Neb. 


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PRESIDENT 


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conform instantly to every bend of the body. 
Metal trimmings, cannotrust. No leather to 
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your money back. 

For summer comfort, ask for the Light- 
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| Webber’s Hand-Knit Jackets 


(Look for Webber’s Name on Collar Band) 





peer MOSH! meee —— 
Webber’s Hand-Knit Jacket, No. 4. 


ag New One,’’ made of zephyr yarn,very soft and woolly, 

medium heavy weight, very elastic. The jacket for spring 

and early summer. This jacket is not made for shooting 

particularly, but for all outdoor purposes. Order one 

and if not satisfied return it and get your money back. 
Price each, $6 50 


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Webber’s Hand-Knit Hunting Jacket. 


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Medium heavy weight, each - - . - 


Webber’s Hand-Knit Alaska Jacket, 


$4.00 


Made with strap across throat, lined pockets and extra 
heavy, each - - - - - . - $5.00 


If your dealer does not handle them send me the price and I will send you a jacket, 
express prepaid, and if not satisfactory, return the jacket and I will return your money. 


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G. O. SHIELDS, 


Date, 


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190 


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Price, in Cartons - $0.25 
25-ib. bags - - 1.90 
50-ib. bags - - 3.50 
100-Ib. bags - - 7.00 


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Made since 1848 by ONEIDA COMMUNITY 





S. NEWHOUSE 
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Fifty years ago this famous old Trapmaker of 
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1904 


Art Catalog 









Photographs and Descriptions 
Sixteen Guns 


ABOVE CUTS SHOW 
No.1 Special, Sold last year $25, this year $21 
No. A Grade, Sold last year $21, this year $19 











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COPYRIGHTED 1903 SYRACUSE ARMS CO, 


This picture shows the result of a 


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RECREATION. lvii 








Discriminating sportsmen are enthusiastic over 
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CALIBE R REPEATER. 

hammerless, shoots the short, long and long 

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WRITE TO-DAY FOR CATALOGUE G— FREE 


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I am in receipt of the Korona camera 
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It is a beauty and does fine work. I can 
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for a 4 So camera 

A, & Gorham, East Pembroke, N. Y. 





Says a rural editor: “Owing to the 
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number of births and deaths are unavoid- 
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Free:—I will give anybody sending me 
articles named below: 
; Se Shell Closer, 10-12-16 gauge, sells 
or 

teak Shell 10-12-16 gauge, 
sells for 5oc. 

Perfection Gun Oiler, can not spill 
when not in use, worth Soc. 

Web Shot Shell Belt, 10-12-16 gauge, 
sells for 75c. 
Henry B. Floyd, 723 Eighth St., N. W. 

Washington, D. C. 


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AUTOMATIC 
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32 WARREDE ST. 






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The Sick One Decides 


Not the druggist. 
Not I. 


He sends not one penny. 
Simply asks for my book. 
And if helped pays the cost 
of the medicine—gladly. 


Will you write me to-day ? 
Let me tell you the name 
of a druggist near by, so 
that you may take 

six bottles of 


Dr. Shoop’s Restorative 


On a month’s trial. 


$5.50. 
Think What This Means 


You may be discouraged, almost without 
hope. Even then I take the risk—not you. 


I furnish the treatment, give you my best 
advice, answer all your letters. If I suc- 
ceed the cost is only $5.50. If I fail, my 
efforts and my medicine are free. 


Can’t you see that I must know how to 
cure? Else this offer would be impossible. 


Come to my office. Consult my records. 
Learn that 39 out of each 40 who take my 
Restorative pay for the medicine. They 
need not if it failed, 


Read letters like this; 


“T was suffering with nervous debility, biliousness anda 
run down constitution, Your Restorative restored my 
health and I now feel as I did when I was in my ‘teens, 
going to school, although I am now past my 66th birthday. 
I shall always keep a bottle of Dr. Shoop's Restorative in 
the house, as it has been worth many times the cost to 
me."’ S. A. Jones, Anvil, Okla. 


And this: 


“Dr. Shoop's Restorative has done me more good tnap 
all the medicine I have ever taken. I am using it for Ca- 
tarrh of the head and nervous debility. My wife is also 
using the Restorative for indigestion with good results. I 
am talking my friends into using your remedy."’ J. J. 
McDonald, Palos, Ala, 


And this: ze 


“T had not eaten breakfast in the morning for over 20 
years until I took your Restorative. It-appears that it is 
not only a Kidney medicine, but equally good for the 
stomach. I am recommending it to my fellow Railroad 
Men, for I feel that Dr. Shoop’s Restorative can cure any 
Kidney disease that is curable. I will gladly write to any 
of your patients and tell them how it restored me to 
health.” M. J. Mannx, 46 Thomas St., Buffalo, N. Y. 


Isn’t this evidence enough? 


If it succeeds, the cost to you is 
If it fails, the druggist will bill the cost to me. 


Tell Your Friend Who Is Sick 


Tell him of my discovery. How I alone 
treat the inside nerves. Not the nerves 
you feel with, the nerves you know about, 
but the inside nerves that operate the vital 
organs—that give them strength and power 
and health. 


Other physicians, other specialists even, 
are still treating the organs themselves— 
mere repairing. That is why no other 
physician—not even your home physician 
—makes terms to you like mine. 


Tell your friend to-day, for my way may 
be his only way to get well. And eve 
hour that you wait adds an hour to his suf- 
fering. The medicine can not harm him. 
If it fails he, at least, is as well as he was. 
And not one penny poorer. There’s no ex- 
cuse—no reason for delaying. 


The book I send him is clear. Almost 
any sick one who reads it will know that he 
can get well. Your friend may never see 
the book unless you write me. 


Ask for it to-day. 


Were you the sick one, he would have 
written before this. Be as good a friend to 
him as he would be to you. Write me to-day. 


Book 1 on Dys 
Book 2 on the 
Book 3 on the Kidneys 
Book 4 for Women 
Book 5 for Men (sealed) 
Book 6 on Rheumatism 


psia 


Simply state which Jeart 


book you want and ad- 
dress Dr. Shoop. 
Box 6214, Racine, Wis. 


Mild cases, not chronic, are often cured with one or 
two bottles. At druggists. 


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inch, plain steel and twist. Top snap; center ham- 
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Your dealer can supply, or we will 
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HARRINGTON & RICHARDSON ARMS CO. 


Dept. R, WORCESTER, MASS. 
Makers of H. (2 ®R, Revolvers 








For Sale: Fine Moose Head; 12 points I received the Mullins steel boat. It is a 
on one side and 14 on the other; 49 | dandy and the easiest rowing boat on our 
inches between the widest points; webb | river. Had 9 people in it one day, which 
12 inches wide; bell 12 inches long. Price | is pretty good for a 15-foot boat. It did 
$250. Photo mailed upon request. G. A. | not row any harder than witb only 3 in. 
Henry, Jr., Hibbing, Minn. E. K. Airey, Binghamton, N. Y. 


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>> Guns; soc. for Rifles; 25c. for Revolvers. Give gauge and length of 
barrel, Send for circular giving full particulars, 


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Address C. L. BRADLEY, CLarksviLitz, TENNESSEE. 
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at the trap is largely a problem of equipment. 


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HAMMERLESS No. 2 GUN 


with Full Length Matted Top Rib or our Heavy Hammer Trap Gun, you will 
agree that better results are obtained with a single than with a double gun. 
The Single is positively the Trap Gun of the Future, so get 
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Mention Rzcrzatiem, 


The W. H. DAVENPORT FIRE ABMS O0O., Norwich, Conn. 


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Never are the streams of he: Northland more alluring © 

than when the buds are bursting, : all Nature awakening and 

the trout trying to make up for their long winter's fast. 4 
ae If you would cast your line in pleasant places, don't 
- forget that the trout fishing season opens in British Col- | 
umbia on March 16th, in New Brunswick on April Ist: 


and in Quebec and Ontario on May Ist. fe °s - ie é a 
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RECREATION 


Copyright; December, 1903, by G. O. Shields 





A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 





$1.00 A YEAR. G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 23 WEST 24TH STREET, 
1o CENTS A Copy. Editor and Manager. New Yor«k 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER PAGE. 
The Mustelle Family Pe SA tet Le Sob aa cane cad £0s diab munbwoteacupes évsbus as ber FRONTISPIECE 
Some Adventures of Minnie Mustelle, the Mink. Illustrated...........-.....- cece eeeeeee H.B. BROWN 255 
The Praxis of Salmon Angling............. Ad Sd Piel dnc dna's thao dasa vhs fidd cdadbdatcnends E,J.MyYErRS 260 
Red Breasted Merganser, Illustrated..............seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Sav op melt ok ALLAN BRooKs 270 
Wild Animals and Birds in the Northwest. Illustrated............... 2... see cece eee ees G.O.SHIELDs 27: 
I INNER ER DRT DOO oe CLS a sie iso ode os ses epabinewdgans cee nescnveccceas Dr. B.W. EVERMANN 277 
Whip-Poor-Will. Poem......-.......... Patt ietate+ cekeindabepaed avenge ocionueaaeepes F, A. JOHNSON 279 
re eet Gee EEO tt ETE SSR od 0. oc pad ac oW ES da Sess vu ceouescace cslenecerss H.W. BRADLEY 281 
BU COMB PEO a nnn 3 88 ooo eines no weseresecen ns seer ccere sees scecsenceccccecsevcose D.E. WYNKOOP 282 
How to Build a Mackinac Boat. Illustrated ............0....2. 200 cceccescccccsecsceees Frep A,HuntT 285 
i Eee hen sth + aSNS ps Modat ttnnes ben see avas ddnqenguaeun ots» KLATTOWA 287 
Brom the Game Fields............-.....:-.:5-. 289 FOrestry ...... 0220. sccee sees cence cccncccscecess 312 
Bee Ome Fishing... .-- 052. 0500 oe... wees eee ee: 293 Pure and Impure Foods............--..-.-.-+++-- 314 
Guns and Ammunition........-........-..-..--. 297 Publisher’s Notes.................-.e-+-e-:- ik ae 
Natural History So EG panes Be RP owdss dese 303 ee Peet Pree ere S etmain a ee 
The League of American Sportsmen.........-. 307. Amateur Photography...............-----..-.-. 32 


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RECREATION. 


April Suggestions 


B et is the time of the year to look over the rods, 

polish up the guns, test the used lines, replenish 
the fly books and generally examine the various imple- 
ments of the outdoor life. It is also a splendid time 
to plan outings for the coming season, to study guide 
books, maps and perhaps correspond with native ex- 
perts on the spot. In all these things we can help you. 
Our establishment is a 


Permanent Sportsmen’s Show 


Here you will find everything that the sportsman 
needs, from the big canoe to the tiny trout fly. We 
have guide books, maps, names of famous native and 
Indian guides, and, perhaps better than all, we have 
abundant personal acquaintance with the life in the 
woods and with scores of interesting places and trips. 
Our experience and information is at your service, 

If you can not call at our shop send us your name, 
with 10 cents, and we will forward our Catalogue “ R,’ 
which fairly smells of the forest and is full of the joys 
of the trail and camp fire. 








ABERCROMBIE & FITCH 


MANUFACTURERS OF COMPLETE 


Outfits for Explorers, 
Campers and Prospectors 


314-316 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, U. S. A. 


RECREATION. iii 


Marble’s 


| Automatic Gaff 


is as certain as death and taxes. You 
merely reach out, gently touch the 
fish and the gaff automatically and in- 
stantly closes upon him with a grip 
which HOLDS. This means the sav- 
ing of the big ones which have got 
away year after year. A knurled pro- 
jection on each side of hinge enables 
the gaff to be opened with the foot. 









No. 1, For Fish from 1 to 20 lbs., $1.50 
No. 2, s = 10 to 60 lbs., 2.00 





No 2 Gaff Nickled 50c extra, handles 30 in. long. Slokion No. s Gall Gpes. 
Closed Buy of your dealer, or direct, prepaid. : 





Marble’s Handy Fish Knives 





No. 2, S5e postpaid. No. 3, $1.00 postpaid. 


These have a thumb rest which enables you to put the pressure over your work when cutting 
off head and tail. Specially designed for cleaning and scaling. The blades are of tempered 
tool steel, handles of Rosewood inlaid with German silver. We give a sheath free with each knife. 


WHEN YOU GO FISHING YOU WILL NEED A 
Waterproof Matchbox and Waterproof Compass 


for it is sure to rain and you may slip off from a wet 
log into the water. Every sportsman knows the value 
of dry matches. They’re always a comfort and some- 
times they save lives. 

Marble’s Waterproof Matchbox is 
substantially made from brass, heavily nickel plated, 
and holds enough matches to keep a man in smokes 
and fires for several days. We guarantee it to be air 
and moisture proof. &@Oc postpaid. 

Marble’s Waterproof Compass at- 
taches to coat or vest. Sometimes people get lost be- 
cause they do not consult their compass often enough. 
This one is always in plain sight. You don’t have 
to hunt in every pocket before you find it and then try 
to settle it while the mosquitoes are eating you up. 





With revolving dial,agate bearing 81.50 ) Post 
‘* stationary ‘“ = - 1.25 aid 
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For sale by dealers everywhere or from us, prepaid. Send 
for catalog of ‘‘ Life preservers for the Woods and Plains.” 


Marble Safety Axe Co., Dest. A Gladstone, Mich. 


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RECREATION... 





Racine Boat Mfg. Co. 


Muskegon, Michigan 





The above illustration shows our new plant at Muskegon, Mich., 
which we have been busy completing since our fire last May, which had 
destroyed our entire plant at Racine, and not being able to secure sufficient 
water frontage at that place, we were forced to look elsewhere for a suit- 
able location. We have a magnificent location here right on the lake, 
with three docks 800 feet long, and 104 acres of water front property. 
We have built an up-to-date plant and have equipped the same with the 
latest machinery and tools, and are now prepared to offer our customers 
the very best results that can be obtained in the following: 


Steam and Sail Yachts in Steel or Wood, Engines and 

Boilers, 20th Century Motors, Automobile Boats, Racing 

Machines, Turbine Propeller Motor Boats, Working Boats, 

Cabin Motor Boats, Launches and Tenders, Row Boats, 
Hunting Boats, Sail Boats and Canoes. 


Our 64-page Catalog describing our 1904 product will be ready for distribution 


April 1st, and it will give the truth in detail about the best boats built. It is yours for 
the asking. Agencies in all the principal cities. 


Address Racine Boat Mig. Co. (Riverside) 


Muskegon, Mich. 
New York Office: 318 Broadway 


Mention RECREATION 


RECREATION. 


HE BOAT as pictured below in every 
detail—length 15% feet, beam 4 feet, with 
% h. p. Blomstrom gasoline engine, 


$100 


So simple a child can operate 
with entire safety 


Catalogue D, including Marine Gasoline Engines of from % 
to 80 horse-power at corresponding prices, free on request. 


THE C. H. BLOMSTROM MOTOR CO. 
1284-1294 River Street Detroit, Mich. 
[From the Chicago Journal, May 7th, 1903) 


. At last an honest soul has put a15% foot launch with gasoline engine 
~, —4 foot beam—within the reach of the masses. 


THE NEW WAY 





vi RECREATION. 








A CABIN CRUISER 





Using Our New Design, the 


“SPEEDWAY" GASOLENE MOTOR 


We also build THE ONLY NAPHTHA 
LAUNCH. Electric Launches, Alco 
Vapor Launches, Steam and Sail Yachts 


OUR SHOWROOMS CONTAIN 100 FINISHED LAUNCHES TO SELECT FROM 
* Send 10 cents in stamps for new catalogue of Small 
ics Cabin Cruisers, Naphtha or Alco Vapor Launches ee) 


GAS ENGINE & POWER CO. & CHARLES L. SEABURY CO. 


CONSOLIDATED 
Largest Builders of Pleasure Craft in the World 


MORRIS HEICHTS, NEW YORK CITY 
Down-Town Office, 1 Broadway Chicago Office, 1409 Michigan Avenue 


RECREATION. vil 









Model A, 
With Detachable Tonneau, 


$850.00. | 


Model B, Touring Car 
$900.00. 
Without Tonneau, $800.00. 







Our Cars and Our Record—Do You Know Them? 


The first Cadillac was put on the market early in 1903. 
“‘Can’t be sold profitably for the money,’’ competitors said, and prophesied an early 
rise in price or decline in quality. 

The end of the year saw the country full of satisfaction-giving Cadillacs, and our sales 
exceeded by those of only one manufacturer. 

In the recent contest a stock Cadillac went up Eagle Rock Hill on the high gear in 3.19, winning 
first prize for vehicles of its class and defeating all machines under double its rated horse-power. 

At all the big auto shows this season, where the most discriminating purchasers are found, 
the Cadillac exhibits have been centers of attraction to an extent that speaks volumes both 
for the reputation of the Cadillac and forthe mechanical excellence of the machines ex- 
hibited. More Cadillacs were sold during the New York sholv than any other make. 

Model B, embodies more novel and exclusive features of merit than can be found in any 
other automobile, no matter what the price. 

Frame is of pressed steel; running gear and suspension system an absolutely unique and 
unrivaled combination of strength and flexibility that makes the car ride over the roughest 

roads as safely and smoothly as a Pullman coach. In points of speed, design, = 

construction, luxury of appointments, ease of control and quietness of run- 

ning, it is all that the name Cadillac stands for—greatest results; fewest 

complications. All 1904 Cadillacs are equipped With clincher tires. 

Model A carries several improvements, otherwise it is the same safe, 
speedy, reliable machine as last year, and is sold at the same prices—$750 as a. 
runabout; $850 complete with detachable tonneau. 

Our handsome new booklet K explains and illustrates both models in detail, and gives address of agency 
nearest you where they may be seen and tried. Free on request. 
CADILLAC AUTOMOBILE CO., Detroit, Mich. 


Member Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers. 






























Vill RECREATION. 


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Pike's Peak from the Garden of the Gods. 


Colorado— 


That’s the title of a handsome new book of seventy-two 
pages, beautifully printed, bound and illustrated; fifty-six 
pictures of Colorado’s matchless mountains, valleys, streams, 
lakes and forests. 

The book is written in a most delightful vein and gives 
pleasing glimpses of a mountain world whose colossal beauty 
never wearies or changes or grows old. A splendid map 
of Colorado is appended. 

It is not a guide book but contains a few paragraphs 
about the best way to reach Colorado from everywhere east 
and southeast via Chicago or St. Louis (Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition) and the Burlington Route, with its splendidly 
equipped one-night-on-the-road fast express trains. 


P. S. EUSTIS, Passenger Traffic Manager, 


A ; 209 Adams Street, CHICAGO. 
li] fl on Enclosed is ten cents, for which send me a copy of the Burlington’s 1904 
Colorado Book. 


Houte papers 


Address 








RECREATION. ix 


The culmination of progressive enterprise 


CHAINLESS BICYCLES 


WeChicage, 1. TWO=Speed Gear, Coaster Brake “‘Sartorc’com:” 


Catalogues free at our 10,000 dealers’ stores, or any one catalogue mailed on receipt of 2-cent stamp. 


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x RECREATION. 


DELAWARE 
WATER Gap 


ER errr An ideal spring and summer resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains 
has. of Pennsylvania, with Stroudsburg and the beautiful Delaware 
Railroad Valley near by; 24 hours from New York; golf, boating, bath- 
ing, fishing. A handsomely illustrated book of 128 pages, 

with full information about hotels and boarding houses, and a fascinating 
love story, ‘‘A Chance Courtship,’’ will be sent for 10 cents in stamps. 


Address, T. W. LEE, General Passenger Agent, Lackawanna Railroad, New York City. 





RECREATION. xi 


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ONTARIO 
1000 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. 


MOST CHARMING SUMMER 
', RESORTS IN AMERICA 


INCLUDING 
MUSKOKA LAKES 
LAKE OF BAYS 
MAGNETAWAN RIVER 


30,000 ISLANDS or GEORGIAN 
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' KAWARTHA LAKES 
LAKES SIMCOE 
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Gobo HeFer Accomm Aric 


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THe ROYAL MUSKOKA"’ 


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7 V Ryd 7 Ww we a ¥ 
Orn TO G. T. BELL 
GENERAL PASSENGER AND TICKET 
MONTREAL, CANADA. 


MENTION THIRD MAGAZINE 





RECREATION. 


California 


SPECIAL TRAIN FOR YOU 


The Santa Fe will run two personally-escorted special trains to Los 
Angeles via Grand Canyon, leaving Chicago Apnil 27 and 28, account 
General Conference, M. E. Church. Stops made at Albuquerque and 
Laguna in New Mexico, the Grand Canyon of Arizona, also Redlands 


and Riverside in California. racks ‘and eburing engines in Azone and California 


The rate is low— 
why don’t you go? 
@Also $353 from Chicago to 
California one way, second- 
class, daily, Marchand April. 
SET LSE @Write to-day for particulars. 
Gen. Pass. Office 


Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. 


ROUND-TRIP FROM CHICAGO CHICAGO 


ALL THE WAY 


“A great deal in a little space.” 


—The Press 


“THE | 
FOUR-TRACK 
SERIES” 


This is the title of a series of books 
of travel and education issued by the 
Passenger Department of the 


NEW YORK CENTRAL & 
HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD. 


These small books are filled with 
information regarding the best modes 
of travel and the education that can 
best be obtained by travel. 

They relate specifically to the great 
resorts of America—to trips to the 
islands of the sea and around the world 

They also contain numerous illus- 
trations and new and accurate maps 
of the country described. 


A copy of the 52-page Illustrated Catalogue 
of the ‘‘Four-Track Series’’ will be sent free, 
upon receipt of a two-cent stamp by George 
H. Daniels, General Passenger Agent, New 
York Central & Hudson River Railroad, Grand 
Central Station, New York. 


EVER BEEN 
MEXICO? 


Have you ever thought what an 
easy trip it really is? And how 
inexpensive? 

Modern methods are rapidly 
being adopted and in a few 
years much of its picturesque- 
ness will be gone. 


GO NOW and see it at its best. 


Don't forget the Camera. You 
will have no trouble in finding 
things to take. Your trouble 
will be in deciding what not 
to take. 


CAN’T TAKE THE TIME? 


Then go to Eureka Springs. 
Not like Mexico, but a charm- 
ing spot for a rest. You’ll 
need your camera there too. 


Write for 
particulars 
of trip 

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HAL S. RAY. G.E.P.A., 401 B’way,N.Y. 





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RECREATION. X1il 


HIGGINS &SEITER; 


Fine Rich Cut 
China Glass 


We illustrate our “‘'4 Less than 
Elsewhere’’ policy by pricing 
this extra fine specimen of genuine 


American Cut Class 
(see illustration) 


For thousands of other offerings equally 

attractive send for Catalogue No. 14°°U”’ 

having delicately tinted pictures of 

choice china. Free to all interested 
in purchasing. 


pepe OPES West 2Ilst and West 22d Streets 
“‘Lakeland” Near Sixth Avenue NEW YORK CITY 


Sterling Silver Mounted 


1 Quart - - - - each, $12 “ Buy China and Glass Right” 


3 Pints - - - - each. 18 





SOMETHING ENTIRELY NE 








““ Hammock 


Is made 

Comfort for those 
That’s Made Right 
and very who want 
Handsome, something 
-~ Holds 8 persons i 
; sitting or 2 

Inside lying down Will 
or wear for 
Outside. EN ys years. 


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Fine Cotton Filled Mattress and Handsome Cover 


Queen Hammock Company 


174 W. North St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 


XiV 


RECREATION. 


“FOR 36 YEARS A STANDARD PIANO.” 


THe Wina PIANO 


YQu NEED THIS BOO IF YOU INTEND TO BUY A, PIANO. A 

book—not a catalogue—that gives you all the 
information possessed by experts. It makes the selection of a piano easy. If read .care- 
fully, it will make you a judge of tone, action, workmanship and finish; will tell you how 
to know good from bad. It describes the materials used; gives pictures of all the different 
parts, and tells how they should be made and put together. It is the only book of its kind 
ever published. It contains 116 large pages and is named The Book of Complete Informa- 
tion about Pianos, We send it free to anyone wishing to buy a piano. Write for it. 


SAVE FROM $100 TO $200 We make the WING PIANO and sell 

it ourselves. It goes direct from our 
factory to your home. We do not employ any agents or salesmen. When you buy the 
WING PIANO you pay the actual cost of construction and our small wholesale profit. This 
profit is small because we sell thousands of pianos yearly. Most retail stores sell no more 
than twelve to twenty pianos yearly, and must charge from $100 to $200 profit on each. They 
can’t help it. . 


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A Wing style—45 other styles to select from, 
SENT ON ‘TRIAL WE PAY FREIGHT. NO MONEY IN ADVANCE. 
, : We will send any WING PIANO to any part of the United 
States on trial. We pay freight in advance, and do not ask for any advance payment or de- 
posit. If the piano is not satisfactory after twenty days’ trial in your home, we take it back 
entirely at our expense. You pay us nothing unless you keep the piano. There is absolutely 


no risk or expense to you. 
Old instruments taken in exchange. EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS. 


INSTRUMENTAL ATTACHMENT }4,22°°31, fete of, the 
perfectly the tones of the mandolin, guitar, harp, zither and banjo. ; 

IN 36 YEARS, - 33,000 PIANOS <meta 
States. WING PIANOS are guaranteed for twelve years against any defect in tone, action, 
workmanship or material. 


WING ORGANS Are just as carefully made as Wing Pianos. They have a 
: sweet, powerful, lasting tone, easy action, very handsome 
appearance, need no tuning. Wing Organs are sold direct from the factory, sent on trial; 


are sold on easy monthly payments. For catalogue and prices write to 


WING & SON, * Sav Youe 


1868 —36th Year—1904, 





RECREATION. 


‘‘Leading a Dog’s Life”’ 


wouldn’t be so bad if all dog owners were dog lovers. But, unfortunately, 
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RECREATION. 


Volume XX, 


APRIL, 1904 


Number 4. 


G. 0. SHIELDS (COQUINA), Editor and Manager 


SOME ADVENTURES OF MINNIE MUSTELLE, THE MINK. 


H. 


Now, my dear children, you have 
reached an age when you will soon 
have to go forth into the world to earn 
your own livings, and I naturally wish 
to prepare you for the struggle for ex- 
istence in every way I can. Most of 
your knowledge must be gained by 
personal experience, a costly school, 
sometimes bitter, yet often most pleas- 
ant; but it may be that from some of 
the events which have befallen me you 
will obtain ideas that in the future may 
be of benefit to you. 

You must know that I, Minnie Mus- 
telle, was once like you, my dears, a 
helpless, woolly youngster, weak and 
unsteady on my limbs, and as unso- 
phisticated as you now are. As | be- 
came older and stronger my mother 
took me out each night, together with 
my brothers and sisters, and taught me 
secrets of the chase, as I shall soon 
teach you. Finally I became so skilled 
and had such confidence in my own 
ability that I severed family ties and 
roamed into strange territory, contin- 
ually searching for a more favorable 
hunting ground and never finding one 
that was entirely satisfactory. 

During one of these pilgrimages I 
first saw your father, whom you have 
never seen, but whose name I bear. He 
was born and raised North of the Can- 
ada line, as you might gather from the 
manner in which he spells his family 
name, and it was up in that direction 
he and I first met. I never shall 
forget how handsome, lithe and strong 
he was when I first saw him. I had 
caught glimpses before of others of 
my kind, yet he was a revelation to me 


B. BROWN. 


of the perfect development of the race, 
and I felt assured he was the most 
magnificent individual in all minkdom. 
Strive as I might, though the truth is 
I did not try, I could but fall heeis 
over head in love with him. 

You will understand when you are 
older that even although IJ at once ad- 
mitted this state of affairs to myself, 
it is not seemly to show too soon how 
you bestow your affections, lest the re- 
cipient fail to appraise them at their 
true value and t» esteem them as high- 
ly as he otherwise would. Therefore, 
I was coy and shy, yet his ardent ad- 
vances and impetuous wooing none 
could long withstand, and we soon 


_were happily wedded. 


255 


In time I learned that his disposition 
was far from perfect. When I warned 
him of your near arrival he expressed 
himself in such violent terms and made 
such dire threats that it seemed only 
prudent to seek this cosy nook and ar- 
range to live the life of a grass widow 
until such time as you were able to 
shift for yourselves, To accomplish 
this I selected a night when the rain 
was falling swiftly enough to wash 
away all traces of my footsteps, de- 
serted your father, came to this shel- 
tered place and prepared the comforta- 
ble little home you have always known. 
The roof is a great boulder piled on 
others of its kind; and but a few feet 
from our low and narrow door flows 
Black brook, which, when you ap- 
proach the opening, you can hear tum- 
bling merrily over the rocks on its way 
to Dead river. 

This is an exceptionally easy country 


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in which to pick up a living, and this 
point recommended itself to me 
strongly when I made my choice. The 
boggy shores of the pond which lies a 
little above our house and of which this 
brook is the outlet, are the haunts of 
numerous frogs; some little ponds still 
farther above, as well as the big river 
below, are the homes of untold mus- 
quash. Both ponds and brook teem 
with delicious trout, while there are 
numerous grouse and other things 
good to eat in the surrounding forest. 

These fish on which you have been 
trying your new teeth during the last 
few days are called brook trout, the 
finest flavored and most delectable of 
any fish that swims. We will all go 
out together in the near future, and | 
will show you how to dive into a pool 
and catch them. How | obtained these 
and the other good things on which 
we have feasted of late, I will tell be- 
fore my story is finished. 

Men, whom, by the way, you should 
always avoid, as many of them kill 
from an unholy delight in killing, have 
often called us thieves and gluttons 
and have pointed the finger of scorn at 
us, being in their ignorance entirely 
misled as to the causes and reasons for 
what we do. To the charge of being 
thieves I have nothing to say, because 
all know that whatever we take is that 
to which we originally had a better 
title than any subsequent possessor has. 
The falsity of the other charge in the 
indictment is well illustrated by some- 
thing your father tells of a lucky find 
he made on Kennebago stream, one 
summer, near where a party of men 
were camping. The campers had con- 
structed in a neighboring brook a cir- 
cular wall of stones, and within this 
cagelike affair had imprisoned about 
a score of their choicest trout to keep 
alive against the time of the party’s 
going home, Your father happened 
along there one night, and, although 
one of the men came out to see what 
caused the splashing in the cage, 
and failed to understand it, Mr. Mus- 


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telle succeeded in capturing and killing 
every one of the imprisoned fish. He 
had carried away but a few when the 
men were astir, and he was obliged to 
desist. They were angry and said 
many hard things about your pa, even 
to calling him a “fish hog,” the most 
odious term that can be applied to 
anyone who goes into the woods. No- 
tice how they mistook him. He would 
have eaten every one of those fish, but 
that the men buried them where he 
could not find them, even after several 
diligent searches. His only object in 
killing all at once was that they might 
have time to age and reach their full 
flavor and delicacy. Men hang their 
game to ripen. before they think of eat- 
ing it, yet fail to comprehend that we 
most relish our fish when it has been 
given the same treatment. 

I once overheard a fisherman on 
Spencer stream tell his companion that 
they would kill only such fish as could 
be eaten at the next meal, because 
the quicker a trout reached the fry- 
ing pan after leaving the water the 
better it tasted. Poor man! He no 
doubt thought his statement true, but 
people have peculiar ideas about their 
food! Not only are fish much easier 
to eat and much more delicious when 
allowed to age after being killed, but 
musquash, grouse and nearly every- 
thing else improves by the same treat- 
ment. 

A week ago to-day, while I was 
coming home from an_ unsuccessful 
night’s forage, I had a peculiar expe- 
rience. It explains how we have been 
able of late to fare so sumptuously. 
I had been the whole length of the 
brook on each bank, up one shore 
of the pond, had encircled one of the 
little upper ponds, and was searching 
back on the pond’s other shore with- 
out success when I reached the spruce 
erove where the little log cabin is 
situated. As soon as I arrived op- 
posite the camp my nose told me men 
had been there recently, and that was 
corroborated by something which was 


SOME ADVENTURES OF MINNIE MUSTELLE, THE MINK. 257 


pulled out on the shore near the wa- 
ter’s edge. At first I was shy of in- 
vestigating this contrivance, as the sky 
had begun to grow bright and in a 
short time the sun would rise, but 
I eventually mustered up courage to 
do so, thereby making an unusually 
lucky move. 
fashioned from thin strips of spruce 
wood and was covered with a ma- 
terial like that of a bag I once found 
sunk in the brook and containing a 
big chunk of deer meat. What caught 
my immediate attention was the par- 
ticularly strong odor of trout which 
ascended from over the edges of this 
object. I could not withstand the 
temptation, so in I jumped, and found 
8 handsome trout laid out on the spruce 
strips with which the thing was lined. 

I at once seized the largest of the 
fish and lost no time in bringing it 
here. I continued making trips back 
and forth until I had the trout all 
stored safely in our house. In com- 
ing home I would make most of the 
journey by land, running along all 
fallen logs which lay in my course, 
but would always take to the water for 
part of the distance to throw off any 
marauder who might happen along 
while my tracks were still fresh. 
When returning to my find I would 
go about half way on land and then 
jump into the pond and swim the re- 
mainder of the distance. The water was 
perfectly still and by slipping in with- 
out any splash, which I could do even 
although the water was far below the 
edge of the bank, I was able to ap- 
proach the place where the fish were, 
without a sound, and in so doing to 
assure myself that nothing threatened 
me harm. 

After I had carried all the trout 
home it occurred to me that it was 
possible I had overlooked one in my 
haste, so back I went. I landed at the 
usual place and was standing on my 
hind legs with my front feet resting 
on the covered spruce shell prepara- 
tory to jumping when I received a 


The contrivance was. 


start which for a while set me trem- 
bling all over. Right in front of the 
camp and not 50 feet from me a move- 
ment caught my eye and I had a nar- 
row escape from giving a jump and 
scream. 

Before I go on let me tell you some- 
thing which you must be sure always 
to remember, and that is: When you 
are anywhere outside of your home 
and see or hear anything you fail to 
understand or which seems to threaten 
harm, never make a noise and never 
make the smallest motion, not even 
so much as to wink, until you have 
become absolutely sure that your only 
safety is in flight. All who are forest 
residents understand this way of do- 
ing, and this trick has often been the 
salvation of its performer. It may 
be that nothing threatens you, or it 
may be that some enemy is near but 
has failed to see you. In the former 
case, as you know not from what you 
are running, you, of course, have no 
idea which way to go, and in the lat- 
ter, to move will probably be to be- 
tray yourself. So remember, little 
ones, when startled to stand so still 
that you become as part of the land- 
scape until you are satisfied that it is 
advisable and safe to move. 

It was in this fashion I acted when 
I thought I saw a movement in front 
of the camp, but I finally concluded, 
as everything remained perfectly mo- 
tionless in that direction, that I had 
been mistaken, although there was a 
6 foot stump in front of the shanty 
which I had never before noticed. 
I had taken all the fish, but a search 
of the shore was rewarded by finding 
several heads, These also I carried 
home, concluding my labors with the 
sun more than an hour high. 

The following day—or to be more 
exact, the following night, for it was 
dark when I began, although broad 
daylight before I finished—I visited 
the camp landing, and again found 
some trout and trout heads. This 
time, however, they were all on the 


258 


ground and had been fastened down 
by sticks driven through them into 
the earth. Some twigs had been left 
on the sticks, and only after tugging 
and pulling with might and main for 
some time at each fish or head was I 
able to get it loose and carry it off. 

The stump which had frightened 
me the morning previous had disap- 
peared, but right in front of a big 
rock had appeared a squat stump of 
most peculiar shape and appearance. 
During all my trips there, which were 
many, and extended over a_ week’s 
time, this stump occasioned me con- 
siderable worry. It looked much like 
a man sitting there with his back to 
the rock, a man with big, round, 
glassy eyes, growing out of his head 
at the end of twin black tubes. How- 
ever, as it never seemed to move, much 
less to make any attempt at approach- 
ing me, I endeavored to profit by my 
finds and to provide you with a store 
of good things, knowing from long 
experience how persistent one’s ap- 
petite is and how futile it seems to be 
to satisfy it. 

The next morning I again made the 
camp a visit and was pleasantly sur- 
prised to find a variety of eatables 
laid out, but as on the day before, each 
piece was pegged down and was re- 
moved only after a tussle. The supply 
included a quarter of musquash, a 
frog, a piece of bird meat, some whole 
trout and some heads. The musquash 
meat I took away first, and then the 
whole trout; after these the frog, then 
the heads, and last the bird. Every 
morning since there has been a variety 
of kinds of food there, and if ever a 
mink struck a veritable bonanza it 
would appear that I have. 

The idea has come into my head 


RECREATION, 


that possibly the camper there has 
been trying to find out my favorite 
food, and, if he has, he probably thinks 
it is musquash, If, however, he should 
offer me trout when I had eaten none 
for a long time and had a satiety of 
musquash, he might change his mind. 
I hope he will refrain from falling 
into the common error of making the 
actions of one member of a race char- 
acteristic of the whole, and in the mat- 
ter of food I could tell him that at dif- 
ferent seasons different things most 
appeal to us. 

One morning some of the fish heads 
were in a little house near the water 
with one end open, After removing 
everything else I ventured in, taking 
the precaution to jump over what 
might be called the threshold. I re- 
called that one of my brothers had 
met an untimely end by investigating 
a similarly attractive nook and was 
careful to avoid the spot where there 
would be a trap if one had been set. 
Nevertheless in my struggles to release 
the heads from those exasperating 
pegs I entirely forgot my fears, and 
was only recalled to them by hearing 
a sharp click and feeling something 
give way beneath a hind foot. My 
heart went pit-a-pat, but no cruel jaws 
closed on my leg, and I concluded it 
was a false alarm. Could it have been 
that my friendly camper had set a trap 
with the springs tied to see if he could 
entice me into it? If he did I forgive 
him freely for the liberty, the more 
so because had my now worthless 
pelt been his object he would undoubt- 
edly have obtained it. 

Now, children, you are getting 
sleepy and I am too; so let us cuddle 
up together and save the rest of my 
adventures for another time. 


——_—__— 





’Tommy—Say, paw, why do men get bald 


sooner than women? 


Mr. Figg—Because they don’t wear their 
hair so long.—Exchange. 





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I’M TRYING TO LOOK PLEASANT. 


Winner of 8th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition, 
Made with a Korona Camera. 


259 


THE PRAXIS OF SALMON ANGLING. 


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There is no dry fly fishing in sal- 
mon angling. 

Neither weigh, nor measure, nor 
dispose of your fish while the battle is 
waging. 

There is no fishing up the stream in 
fly angling for salmon. 

Delude not yourself with the 
thought that the killing fly of to-day 
will avail to-morrow! 

If you cast for exercise, or on idle 
bent, keep away from the pool. 

Suggestion for Fable No. 1: 

Rising, hooking and playing for 
hours, and then without net or gaff 
landing a 30 pound salmon on a 6 
ounce fly rod and trout cast! 

My chief pleasures are: 

To see the salmon surge for the fly 
and to feel the thrill that accompanies 
the first rush. 

To see the fly drop from the sal- 
mon’s mouth as the gaffsman lifts the 
fish from the water. 

To detach the fly, first noting how 
it held the fish. No guide of mine 
performs this office! 

Use only one fly on your leader. 

Suggestions for Fable No. 2: 

Special patterns of flies for certain 
months, 

Exclusive patterns of flies for given 
rivers. 

Success in salmon angling hang's on 
every whim, humor or vagary that 
imagination can attribute to the sal- 
mon, plus the x quantities of water 
and weather. 

Verity it hath, and obtains in sal- 
mon angling, that the tyro’s first at- 
tempt often putteth the expert to 
shame and causeth much chagrin till 
time brings humiliation to the boast- 
ful novice. 

Where salmon usually lie is called 
the pool or cast. 

At the first visit to a river an old 
inhabitant, or better still an old poach- 


MYERS. 


269 


er, is more valuable than all your ex- 
perience acquired on’ other rivers. 

Luck may and does accomplish won- 
drous feats and plays all manner of 
pranks, but after all, the angler who 
knows the river best and throws the 
longest line well, will raise the most 
fish; and knowledge of the river and 
of the pool is beyond and above even 
skill and tackle! 

There are 3 ultimates in salmon 
angling: 

Knowledge of the river in general 
and an understanding of the mood, 
humor and condition of the pool in 
particular; skill in angling that ac- 
companies the temperament of an ang- 
ler according to Izaak Walton; pos- 
session of adequate angling tackle. 
Yet all these oft resolve into naught 
in the presence of the novice who pos- 
sesses the killing fly. 

Grey says: 

“Then cometh the hour when the 
angler, wearied, hopeless, looks at the 
unsuccessful fly, wonders and ponders 
whether the fly was too big or too lit- 
tle; whether the color was right or 
wrong; whether some other fly would 
not do the turn; whether the cast was 
too light or too dark; and then won- 
ders whether there are any salmon 
in the pool; nay, in the river!” 

It is a most singular error that the 
farther stretch of the pool, hardest to 
cover with the cast, is taken to be the 
best water, while the salmon may be 
lying within a few yards. 

Rise of water only will solve the 
problem when the salmon refuse to 
take the fly in falling or steady low 
water. 

These be the characteristics of sal- 
mon pools: . 

Early, mid-season or late fishing. 

High. normal, rising or low water. 

Fish boiling (rising without show- 
ing themselves) at the foot of the pool 


THE PRAXIS OF SALMON ANGLING. 


are supposed to be just entering the 
pool, and it is advisable to cast imme- 
diately, as they are likely to take the fly. 

Salmon ascend the river at night, 
lying motionless by day; and, if un- 
molested, remain in the pool often for 
weeks until a rainfall raises the river, 
when they will take the fly; hence, 
suffer not the pool to be disquieted 
nor linger in inaction when the rain 
slackens ! 

It is said that salmon rest at head 
o’ tide, where the salt water dams up 
the fresh, awaiting the taste that 
down-pouring rain raising the river 
gives, ere ascending to the pools; 
wherefore, the best fishing follows the 
rain and brings fresh run fish from 
the sea. 

Carry all your knowledge to a 
strange river—it is but a closed book 
—and there begin anew, for only ob- 
servation and close study will avail; 
verily, years are required to master 
the mysteries of the river whose pools 
baffle and perplex the newcomer from 
day to day, setting at naught the les- 
sons of the day before. 

Study the eddies and currents of 
the pool, its shades, shadows and 
depths, that you may determine the 
sweep and movement of the fly, its 
color, appearance and movement all 
vitally important; for often salmon 
only rise to the fly at a given point. 
Hence it is necessary to be able so to 
cast that the fly shall sweep in arc 
over that point. 

You will learn that knowledge of 
even the shadows of cloud, mountain 
or tree may bring the successful solu- 
tion of the mystery of the pool; that 
at given time and circumstance, the 
cast from a given point, given direc- 
tion and of determined length will 
produce the only rise, though there 
be scores of salmon in the pool. 

Use bright flies on dark days, and 
dark flies on bright days. 

Query you the names and sizes of 
flies? Francis gives some names and 

Stewart a few more! 
_ No limits have been set to the freak- 


261 


ish fancy of the factory girl tying the 
flies, or the conscience of the dealer 
outfitting you! 

However, among many possessions, 
these I use, but recommend none: 

Normal water. Jock Scott, Wilkin- 
son, Silver Doctor, Grey Doctor, Dur- 
ham Ranger, Silver Grey, Butcher, 
Smith, tied in red and yellow, Dandy, 
Cock Robin, Dusty Miller, White 
Winged Admiral, Sir Herbert, sizes 
2 and 4. 

Low water. Black Dose, Curtis, 
Dark Fairy, Black Ranger, Dark Ad- 
miral, Fiery Brown, sizes 6, 8 and Io. 

Rising, moily or high water. Fancy 
free be your choice; rainbow-hued 
and huge barbed as a gaff, so they be 
sized 3-0, 5-O or 7-0. 

On deep, dark, rapid and rough 
waters employ a large, bright fly. On 
shallow, clear and bright waters, use 
a small, dark fly. 

Save yourself much labor and vexa- 
tion by thinking that a mere change of 
flies will tempt the fish to rise. 

Size of the fly has more to do with 
success in salmon angling than all 
the combinations of feather and tin- 
sel that fancy has devised. The 
proper size, once discovered, seldom 
varies on pool or river, except in 
freshets or rapidly falling water. 

When beginning to angle, carefully 
note the pattern, color and size, until 
you discover the successful fly; for 
pattern, however skill and art may 
have lent their aid, is least in import- 
ance and likewise value. It yields to 
color, which gives away to size, the 
most difficult to ascertain, since suc- 
cess usually follows as soon as the 
proper size is determined. 

The larger the collection of flies the 
angler has with him, the greater the 
chance that he will have the right 
fly, but far greater is the improbability 
of its being selected at the required 
moment, often entailing great loss of 
time, and likewise the salmon. 

Never attach a fly to the cast until 
you have tried the loop of the fly by 
strongly pulling, for if that be defec- 


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THE PRAXIS OF SALMON ANGLING. 


tive, it is worse than useless. Try the 
temper of the hook by inserting the 
point in a piece of soft wood and giv- 
ing it a steady, moderate pull. If it 
be weak it will break at the neck. 

Try your flies when you buy them; 
it saveth vexation of spirit and humil- 
ity that abases itself. Hold the bend 
of the hook firmly in one hand and 
then see if you can move the head and 
wings ; if they shift, the fly is not well 
tied, and thereon suffer not yourself 
to be persuaded, 

There be single and double hooked 
flies. The former permit delicate cast- 
ing and finer pitching; the latter are 
surer in holding and not so easily ex- 
pelled by the salmon. 

When fishing with large flies, em- 
ploy single hooks ; in small flies, double 
hooks are more advantageous. 

This is the Canon of the Cast: 

The line must straighten without 
slack, curve or loop from reel to fly, 
and the fly, ephemerally hovering, 
pitch to the water the briefest instant 
ere the line falls. 

Some anglers prevent the recoil and 
doubling up of the line as it lengthens 
out on the cast, by holding a short 
length between the reel and the hand, 
which is freed at the instant the line 
pitches, thereby shooting the line out 
_ straight. 

Some anglers shoot a considerable 
length of line, and consequently em- 
ploy that method for casting long dis- 
tance. 

Always move the rod up stream so 
that the line is kept taut and activity 
maintained in the movement of the fly. 

Always begin. above the pool and 
fish down stream so that the fly is put 
over every inch of good water. 

The fly should always swim beneath 
the surface; therefore waste no time in 
dry casting, skittering, skipping, or 
other surface movement. 

Salmon lie immediately above the 
bottom of the river, and the fly should 
swim well beneath the surface. 

The dip-dip (wriggle) of the rod 
causes the fly to dart forward and sag 


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backward, the wings and hackle open- 
ing outward, giving the idea of a liv- 
ing thing, sensing the food instinct. 

The quiet, swift passing of the fly 
around the arc, carried downward by 
the current without life other than 
pointing ‘gainst the tide—the mere 
passing before—tends to aggravation, 
play, ete. 

Which is the better? 
both! 

The former motion violently waged 
(which also permits the fly to sink) 
will sometimes foul-hook the salmon 
and that, indeed, warrants the use, for 
then is a sagacious wit wanted. 

Yet quoth Francis: 

“That the angler should make the 
fly work so that the fiber-like pinions 
open and shut like a living thing is all 
chips and porridge!” 

If the line is thrown directly across 
the stream it tends to bag, thereby 
making slack and giving the fly a 
draggled, dead appearance. 

Consistently with a taut line, the fly 
can not move too slowly through the 
water. 

The more down stream the cast is 
made, the slower the fly travels on 
the arc; hence, the greater the oppor- 
tunity for the salmon to see the fly; 
the greater the ability of the salmon 
to seize the fly; the greater facility the 
angler has of gauging the line of 
travel and knowing where the salmon 
lies; the more power the angler has 
to maintain a straight, taut line and 
avoid bagging. 

The fly must move actively to 
arouse the attention of the fish; have 
the appearance of endeavoring to es- 
cape, and so excite the passion of the 
salmon; therefore, in heavy water it 
is best not to wriggle the rod, or vio- 
lently jerk the fly, but to trust to the 
stream to give motion and let the fly 
travel slowly and actively across the 
vision of the salmon. 

When angling in quiet water, where, 
owing to the absence of swift current, 
the line doubles quickly, take in short 
lengths, with one hand holding it firm- 


Be apt in 


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ly, so as to control the salmon, if he 
rise; meanwhile, wriggle the rod to 
give life to the fly. 

When the salmon rises and misses 
the fly, hold the rod stationary, and 
draw the fly toward you by pulling 
the line through the guides by hand, 
without employing the reel, and before 
raising the rod for the cast. This 
has often provoked a rise, but its prac- 
tice has caused many a mishap. 

When you cast, in shore fishing, 
hold your position until you are about 
to withdraw the line for the next 
throw, then move downward and cast. 
Do not move until the cast is finished, 
as it will cause slack or bagging in 
the line. 

Mark the exact spot where you 
stand when the salmon rises and 
misses, and if you are unsuccessful in 
re-raising the fish, return in half an 
hour or so and try the fly that induced 
the rise. 

When the salmon rises and misses 
the fly, maintain your place, shorten 
the line by withdrawing it through the 
guides without reeling, hold it firmly 
and cast, gradually letting out line un- 
til you cover the water where the rise 
was. Thus you safely meet the 
contention that the salmon lurches for- 
ward when it rises and misses, and the 
other, that the salmon sags back to the 
former position whence the rise was 
made. This indeed requires a skilled 
angler, since it is fundamental that 
there shall be no slack, or line not 
in immediate use between the reel and 
the fly, when the cast is made. 

Angling from the canoe disturbs the 
salmon in their resting place, as the 
boat passes over them; while wading 
along the margin, and thence casting, 
scarce sends a ripple across the pool. 

Whether you angle from the canoe 
or from the shore, move quietly and 
deliberately, with the least possible 
noise and disturbance of the water. 

In casting for salmon above or be- 
low rocks let this rule obtain: The 
angler must make due allowance for 
the fish lying above the cut-water of 


RECREATION. 


the rock. The angler should assume 
that the fish is not lying in the eddy, 
boil or neutral water below the rock. 

After you have unsuccessfully cast 
down the pool, try backing up before 
you leave. Cast diagonally across the 
pool, and immediately, but with great 
deliberation, take 2 or 3 steps up the 
pool, carefully noting the fly as it 
sweeps across, and continue until you 
have reached the head of the water. 

When all expedients have failed to 
provoke a rise, try a dragging fly, 
slowly drifting down the stream or 
suffered to sink from line freed by 
the hand; but recover forcefully, not 
yielding an inch when the straighten- 
ing line shows that the salmon has 
taken the fly deep under water with- 
out a roll or ripple to betray the rise. 

Another resort of the desperate, 
clinging to the hope of one more last 
cast, is to cast straight across the pool 
and slowly reel in the line; but quickly 
must you release the winch when you 
feel the pluck or see the rise. 

Have a care against this awkward 
moment: The swift movement of the 
fly as it is withdrawn for the cast 
often brings a savage rise, but the rod 
tears the fly from the salmon’s mouth. 

This theory have I tested to prac- 
tical results: 

When the salmon makes false rises, 
note well the resting place of the sal- 
mon, the angle of the cast as it lines 
out, and the point the fly reaches when 
the rise is seen, 

A strike then, similar to trout work, 
will often hook the salmon. 

You will perceive from the last prac- 
tice, ground for the supposition that 
the salmon takes the fly and expels it 
in play in the so-called false rises. 

If salmon repeatedly rise at, play 
around, follow or are pricked or rug- 
ged by the fly without being hooked, 
it is not unreasonable to assume that 
the fly is too big, and a smaller one 
should be tried. 

Often carefully, while casting, ex- 
amine your barbs, for when you have 
lost a fish, you then may note a fang- 


THE PRAXIS OF SALMON ANGLING. 


less fly, broken by being hurled against 
the rod, caught against the reef or 
rock in the pool ; or sometimes, broken 
inexplicably, from simply falling on 
the shingle. 3 

Consider not that sunshine or dark- 
ness, calm, cloud or storm make the 
propitious hour for salmon angling; 
try them all in turn and season. 

The masters accord in saying that 
the best hour for getting a rise is that 
of sunset; the half hour before and 
the half hour after. 

If certainty for rising salmon exist 
at all, it is either on the first rising 
of the water, when it may not last be- 
yond a quarter or a half an hour; or 
on the immediate subsiding of the 
water. Then it is exceedingly brief 
and as difficult to seize. 

These be good angling hours: 

Leisurely breakfast and cast from 
Q a. m. to 12.30 p. m. 

Lunch with restful comfort and 
angle from 3 p. m. to 6.30 p. m. 

Also as humor and whim seize. 

When the water is low, casting is 
most likely to be effective at sunrise 


- and at dusk. 


When the water is high, the best 
hours for angling will be found be- 
tween 10 a. m. and 5 p. m. 

Lengthful casting rives the cane 
rod, warps the wood rod, makes knots 
in the cast, breaks the flies or whips 
them off on the back cast, makes dif- 
ficult control of the fly and often 
pricks the salmon. Manifestly of little 
utility in practical angling, it was con- 
ceived for vainglorious display and 
the exaltation of prize winning at 
tournament casting. 

Proper length limit of beneficial 
casting is reached at about 70 feet, 
making sure that neither twist, double 
nor slack happens from reel to fly. 

When angling from the boat, 
anchor on the dead water side of the 
pool and avoid traveling down the 
center, or crossing the water. This 
prevents disturbing the pool and leaves 
the salmon unmolested for backing 
up or a return visit. 


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Mind, when casting from the shin- 
gle, that the long. backward throw 
often breaks the point of the hook on 
the rocks and stones. 

Among methods of casting are the 
overhead, underhand, switch and spey. 
In its sphere, the switch cast is un- 
rivalled, 

Remember the backward sweep in 
the overhand cast should be returned 
by a movement of the tip describing a 
narrow oval on the return throw, or 
“smash down” as it is often called. 

Direct return in casting will whip 
off flies. 

Delay in return is liable to smash 
the barbs off the hooks on the back- 
ward throw. 

This sums up playing the salmon: 

Hold the rod well up and _ back- 
ward inclined, well bowed. 

Strike not the salmon, nor snub nor 
twitch the line. 

Maintain a taut line, suffering no 
slack nor bagging. 

Lower the tip the instant the sal- 
mon leaps and instantly recover. 

Patiently wait until the fish is ex- 
hausted before touching the gaff. 

Permit naught to divert your atten- 
tion from the rise to weighing. 

From the moment the boil, roll or 
rise is seen until the salmon is felt, the 
rod should be held as motionless as 
possible. 

“Never strike the salmon,’ was 
wisely said, but there is one exception 
—when the fish furiously leaps at the 
fly as it touches the water on the first 
cast; and even then do not strike. 

The struggles of the salmon which 
embarb the fly should not be called 
striking. 

If striking the salmon is ever per- 
missible, it is only when the fish is 
rushing away from, and with his tail 
toward the angler. 

Now, out of much contention, this 
may be taken without fear of contra- 
diction : 

Some anglers affirm that only strik- 
ing from the reel should be done; that 






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THE PRAXIS OF SALMON ANGLING. 


is, hooking the fish by the resistance 
of the reel in giving off line. 

Others maintain that — striking 
should be judiciously done at least and 
always when the fish is running away 
from the angler. 

Still others declare that the index 
finger should always be kept on the 
line so as to give a modified strike 
when the salmon takes the fly. 

But all unite in maintaining that 
there should be no strike until the sal- 
mon is plainly felt and known to be 
on the line. 

Manifestly the salmon in rising and 
taking the fly moves toward and in 
the direction of the angler; therefore 
to strike at the sign of the rise and 
the feel of the pluck is_ to risk pulling 
the fly out of the salmon’s jaw. 

It is bad, nay, vicious, to strike or 
even raise the rod sharply at the sign 
of the boil or roll, and unpardonable 
at the open rise or splurge of the sal- 
mon, for you may pull the fly out of 
the sight of the salmon and disappoint 
the fish. 

It is affirmed on authority that it is 
more difficult to raise a disappointed 
salmon than one that has been pricked 
or rugged. 

When the salmon lashes or rolls on 
the surface, hold him as tenderly as 
possible, and without lowering the tip 
over much, with line as near slack 
as expediency will permit; for if the 
line be held firmly taut the salmon 
may hit it with his tail and then—! 

While the salmon sulks it is known 
that the fish occupies a vertical and 
not a horizontal position, and hard 
straining or pulling in a direct line 
is not likely to move him. Change 
your position to get the sidewise pull 
and then try to move him, but first ex- 
haust the pebbles. 

It is not untimely to quote: 

“Tf your gillie can dexterously man- 
age to hit the line where it enters the 
water with a sharp, heavy flint, he will 
certainly spare you further trouble.” 

Some say a common split steel key 
ring put on the line, or a piece of pa- 


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per in the fashion of a kite messenger, 
will start the sulkiest brute of a sal- 
mon. 

Do not hastily conclude that the fly 
is fastened to the bottom or a sub- 
merged branch, because you can not 
move or release the line, and you fear 
you will break the cast. A 16 pound 
salmon can hold to the bottom with a 
deathly stillness. 

When you feel the salmon boring 
and jigging, that is, rubbing his jaws 
against the bottom to grind out the fly, 
hold the rod bowed until the vibrant 
shivering thrills up the tense line and 
down the rod into your marrow; but 
be ready to throw the rod forward 
with free reel when the salmon starts 
for the seaward run. 

Success lies in holding the salmon 
within the pool. When the fish starts 
down the stream, hold hard to safety’s 
verge, for in the rapids the expert 
deems it no slight feat to land the fish. 

Giving the butt does not mean 
that the rod is to be held backward 
over the shoulder with the butt thrust 
toward the fish, but with the butt held 
against the groin and pulled strongly 
upward so as to put the strain on the 
middle joint and extending downward 
toward the butt. 

Ease the strain on the rod without 
suffering slack when the fish rushes 
or makes toward you, and hold hard- 
est, to embarb the hook, when the sal- 
mon rushes away from you. 

When angling from the boat, 
neither raise the anchor nor move un- 
til the fish is well hooked; then the 
euide should closely get the canoe 
ashore. 

If fishing from the shore, be sure to 
look around and take careful bear- 
ings of your surroundings as soon as 
you think the salmon has the fly, for a 
stumble is a fatal mishap. 

Many anglers like to have the fish 
gaffed through the gills, 

If your salmon get into the rapids 
when you are fishing from the shore, 
the gaffsman should wade out in the 
stream in readiness to free the line if 


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it should be caught by boulder or 
branch, 

Never let the gaffsman strike at the 
salmon when the sun is shining in his 
eyes. In truth, a good gaffsman will 
not attempt it. 

Never try to gaff a fish that is deep 
down, nor until it is fairly exhausted, 
which you will know when the silvery 
belly rolls up to the sky. . 

Salmon may be gaffed from the 
canoe, but landing the fish from the 
shore yields far better sport. 

Shun the gaffsman who is slow or 
loth to get wet. 

Truly is the landing net an impedi- 
ment, and more fish have been lost by 
it than by the gaff. 

In rainy and stormy weather, em- 
ploy a heavy, 18-foot wood rod; on 
bright, sunshiny days, use a delicate, 
16-foot cane rod. 

The spliced rod is more pliant and 
willowy than the ferruled rod, has an 
even yielding give from butt to tip, 
and is not so apt to tear out the fly 
the moment the salmon seizes the lure. 

On windy, stormy days, it is easy 
to cast a heavy tapered line on a stiff 
rod, while light lines will be blown 
against the rod in futile attempts to 
cast. 

In boat fishing, the short, whippy 
rod is to be preferred to the long, 
heavy, stiff tool. 

In casting from the shore with a 
long, heavy rod and in employing it 
in broken water, the line may be lifted 
over rocks and the fish held under 
better control than by a light, whippy 
rod. 

Weight and thickness of lines must 
be proportioned to the rod; that is, a 
stiff rod requires a heavy. line, a 
whippy rod requires a light, thin line. 

Always take a spare or second rod 
with you to guard against accident 
while away from the camp, lest regret 
forever abide with you. 

Avoid carrying your leaders on 
your hat. Gut will quickly rot when 
exposed to bright, hot sunshine. 


RECREATION, 


Drawn gut is that which is scraped 
or filed down until it is of a uniform 
size, so as to be pulled through a hole 
to determine its uniformity, 

Lines should be waterproofed and 
tapered, of a substantial size and not 
under 100 yards in length. 

See that your line is absolutely 
smooth, and beware of rough places, 
breaks or kinls; you can find them 
by drawing the line through your 
fingers. 

The best way of drying waders is to 
fill with dry warm bran, oats or barley, 
which should be shaken out as soon as 
it begins to cool. 

Use old woolen clothing and a soft 
hat ; avoid bright colors in your attire. 

If you ask for the one thing in sal- 
mon angling that brings sorest disap- 
pointment and deepest chagrin, it is 
slack line between the fly and the reel, 
unguarded and uncontrolled; for who 
has not learned that salmon possess a 
satanic instinct for rising and taking 
the fly at that instant when the angler 
is utterly helpless. 

Do not disquiet the salmon, disgust 
your guides and tire yourself by whip- 
ping the pool until your last chance of 
raising the salmon is gone. At least 
make some endeavor to discover the 
propitious moment by intervals of rest 
beneficial to the salmon, your guides 
and yourself by studying the condi- 
tions of water, weather and flies. 

Remember there are miles of live 
and active water in the river where 
the salmon do not lie. 

Multitudinous are the reasons and 
2 good methods exist to ascertain the 
pools: 

Get an old guide well acquainted 
with the river. 

Go over the water until you learn 
the pools. 

Where the river is in freshet the 
salmon will leave the normal pools and 
then for the time being you must seek 
them in strange places; with the sub- 
sidence of water you will be sure to 
find them in the accustomed places. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY W. J. BUNDY. 


PIN CUSHIONS. 


Winner of 17th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition, 


RED BREASTED MERGANSER. — 


ALLAN BROOKS. 


The mergansers, more generally known 
as sawbills, or shelldrakes, are represented 
on the North American continent by 3 spe- 
cies, the goosander, or American merganser, 
the red breasted merganser, and the hooded 
merganser; with a 4th, the smew, as ‘an 
occasional straggler from Europe. 

- The males of the goosander and red 
breasted merganser are easily distinguished, 
the latter having a spotted breast band, and 
handsomely marked flanks, against the im- 


spring, when the larger species has already 
laid its eggs. I have never found the red 
breasted species breeding in Southern Brit- 
ish Columbia. 

Both the larger species feed almost ex- 
clusively on fish, and do more damage than 
any other fish-eating bird. Where they fre- 
quent salmon or trout streams they should 
be killed whenever possible. I know of 
numbers of streams that are ruined for fish- 
ing by the depredations of sawbills and 





RED BREASTED 


maculate lower surface of the 
ander. 

The females of the 2 species are much 
alike, those of the red breasted species be- 
ing the smaller with proportionately longer 
bills. The red breasted merganser seems 
to be a much more maritime bird than its 
congener. In British Columbia the red 
breasted merganser is seldom seen on the 
fresh water rivers and lakes until the 
breeding season is at hand. It has a more 
Northerly breeding range than the goosan- 


der, and migrates Northward late in the 


goos- 


MERGANSER. MERGANSER SERRATOR, 


herons. The number of small fry a mergan- 
ser can consume is almost incredible, and 
where fish are plentiful these birds do not 
cease feeding until full to the throat. 

As might be expected from their diet, 
their flesh is at all times uneatable, unlike 
that of the hooded merganser, which, feed- 
ing as it does mostly on water insects, is 
generally a fair table bird. 

In the red breasted merganser the iris 
is brown in the male and yellow in the fe- 
male; bill carmine to-reddish, with the cul- 
men dusky; feet bright red. 





Indiscretion is the better part of love. —-Life. 


270 


WILD ANIMALS AND BIRDS IN THE NORTHWEST 


G. O. SHIELDS. 


It is a fact well known to all naturalists 
that wild animals and birds adapt them- 
selves to their environment and that the 
habits of a given species in one locality 
can not be taken as a guide to what indi- 


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cially a meat eater, and his depredations 
on live stock have resulted in large boun- 
ties being offered for his destruction in the 
cattle States. In Western Canada _ the 
grizzly can rarely be induced to eat meat. 


vi “et 


WINNER OF MANY BATTLES. 


viduals of the same species may do in an- 
other section. I saw many evidences of 
this in my sojourn in the Canadian Rockies 
last summer. The various species of bear 
found in the Western States are fond of 
meat of any kind. The grizzly is espe- 


Trappers kill goats, sheep, moose, caribou 
and smaller animals to bait their bear traps 
with, but they seldom succeed in taking a 
bear with any such bait. The grizzly of 
that region subsists almost entirely on 
vegetable food. He is fond of bulbous and 


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tuberous roots and of grass. He occasion- 
ally eats berries, though he does not seem 
to care so much for them as his cousins 
in Wyoming, Montana, Utah and other 
Western States do. On these latter ranges 
the grizzly, as well as the black bear, eats 
great quantities of berries in the late sum- 
mer and autumn. Even there they will 
always pass a fat berry patch to lunch on 
a steer, or on the carcass of an elk; but if 
they do not find meat, then they fill up on 
berries. On the other hand, the grizzly of 
the Western States does little digging for 
roots. 

In the Canadian Northwest we found 
thousands of small excavations where the 
grizzlies and the black bears had dug for 
their food, and we frequently saw evi- 
dences of their having torn up rotten logs 
to get worms. 

While hunting grizzlies in the Selkirks, 
in the spring of 1902, we found that in the 
early spring they live almost entirely on 
the roots of certain lilies and other bulbous 
plants. On the Continental divide, in 
British Columbia and Alberta, we found 
the same species of plants growing, but the 
bears there pay little or no attention to 
them. They did, however, feed on other 
roots. At one place on the Bow river we 
found a flat which is overflowed every 
spring, and on which grows profusely a 
small vine that has a starchy, bulbous root. 
This flat had been dug over by bears until 
it looked like a potato patch after the farm- 
er has gathered his crop. 

The Northwestern bears are also fond 
of grass, and the black bear, especially, in 
that region, grazes like a cow. We found 
small meadows where the grass was eaten 
off close to the ground, over considerable 
areas, and the tracks in the soft earth 
showed that the work had been done by 
bruin. 

While, as I have said, the grizzly in the 
Canadian Northwest does not seem to 
hanker after meat in general, he does prey 
on the Columbian ground squirrel, which 
is abundant there. We saw numerous 
small excavations in which we could read 
the signs of miniature tragedies. This 
ground squirrel rarely burrows to a depth 
of more than 18 inches to 2 feet, and it is 
comparatively easy for a bear to dig out 
one of them. A_ ground squirrel would 
only make a bite for a big grizzly, but inas- 
much as old Ephraim lives almost wholly 
on vegetable food, a squirrel now and then, 
by way of dessert, would seem to answer 
all his requirements. 

I have told in another place about find- 
ing where a grizzly had apparently dug out 
a whole family of marmots, on top of a 
mountain. That old chap must have been 
meat hungry, for he went 5 feet into the 
solid earth to get his dinner, and the ex- 


RECREATION, 


cavation at the top measured 9 by 12 feet. 

In Eastern Canada and in Newfound- 
land the caribou inhabits the lowlands al- 
most exclusively. On the island he lives 
mainly in the marshes and becomes in fact 
a semi-aquatic animal. 

In British Columbia he is found in sum- 
mer and autumn at altitudes of 5,000 to 
9,000 feet. Of course he goes down into 
the valleys and canyons in winter; but as 
soon as the snow begins to melt in the 
spring he begins to climb. There is one 
mountain near the line of the Canadian Pa- 
cific railroad which has on its summit a 
tableland, at an altitude of 7,500 feet, which 
is the summer home of large numbers of 
caribou. The lowest altitudes in that re- 
gion where the caribou winter are at least 
5,000 feet. The winter food of these ani- 
mals consists chiefly of moss which grows 
on the dead branches of spruce trees, and 
I am told the caribou also eat brush. 

The mountain sheep seems to reach his 
greatest development in Southern and East- 
ern British Columbia and in Western AI- 
berta. I bought at Banff the head of a 
sheep, supposed to have been killed on 
the head waters of the Saskatchewan river, 
that is one of the finest specimens I have 
ever seen. Photographs of this head are 
shown herewith. The horns measure 16% 
inches in circumference at the base, and 16 
inches out from the base they still register 
16 inches, having tapered only 4 inch in that 
distance. The length of the horns is 39 
inches and the spread is 17. The horns 
make nearly a complete turn, and if they 
had been allowed to grow without interrup- 
tion the points would undoubtedly have 
passed the starting point; but the old 
patriarch who carried this head was a 
valiant fighter. He evidently spent his life 
looking for trouble, for the ‘horns are 
worn and battered from base to tip, and at 
least 6 inches have been broken from the 
points of both horns. 

The horns and skull weighed, before 
mounting, 39 pounds. There are longer 
horns in existence, but I have seen none 
that carried their massive size so far out 
from the skull. 

The pugnacious disposition of the moun- 
tain ram is well illustrated in this speci- 
men. A heavy blow with a hammer makes 
little or no impression on one of these 
horns, and from this a faint idea may be 
obtained of the terrific battles these rams 
wage, on their native hills. 

The head of the big sheep was mount- 
ed by John Murgatroyd, 18 North Will- 
iam Street, New York City, who, as the 
picture shows, has done an admirable 
piece of work on it, and it is only fair 
and just to him to make this statement 
here. 

There 


was another’ head, in the 


WILD ANIMALS AND BIRDS IN THE NORTHWEST. 


same collection from which I got. this, 
that I was strongly tempted to buy on ac- 
count of its condition. The horns were 
not so large as those | bought, but the vet- 
eran who bore them must have spent his 
life in waging war. Large pieces of: the 
flinty substance of which the horns were 
made had been broken away by fighting, 
and apparently 4 or 5 inches had been bat- 
tered off the tip of each horn. Many col- 
lectors do not want sheep horns that are 
broken in any way, but to me one of the 
most interesting features of this pair, as 


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same kinds of vegetation that grow in the 
Canadian Northwest. The few deer we 
saw signs of were solitary. We never 
found tracks of more than one in a 
place, and we often remarked on _ the 
strange disposition of a deer that would 
choose to live in that great wilderness en- 
tirely alone. 

We saw a few rabbits, a few whistling 
marmots, now and then a red squirrel, and 
an occasional track of a fox or a coyote; 
and we were serenaded by small bands of 
the latter on 2 or 3 occasions, 





BEFORE TAKING 


well as the 2 other pairs I have, is that 
they show the indomitable courage and 
valor of the animal. 

Several of the largest sheep heads in 
existence are known to have come from the 
Kootenai country, the Saskatchewan or the 
Sun Wapta regions. 

There are a few mule deer on the Con- 
tinental divide. We saw tracks during the 
summer of perhaps a dozen, but did not 
get a glimpse of one of the animals. 
Whether the winters are too severe there 
for the mule deer to flourish, or whether 
the right kind of food does not grow, I 
am unable to say; but he is found in high- 
er altitudes elsewhere, and lives on the 


THE 


TREATMENT. 


SCALP 


We saw numerous signs of marten, but 
none of beaver or otter, except some old 
workings of the former. Years ago the 
beaver was plentiful in that country, but 
the accursed trappers have cleaned them 
out. 

William Brewster told me an_ inter- 
esting story of a beaver he saw on the Big 
Smoky river, a tributary of the Peace 
river, some years ago. The beaver had 
evidently been disturbed by a man, or some 
other animal, at his home, and had lit out 
for some point down the river. He was 
swimming rapidly with the current, but 
occasionally would stop, turn his head up 
stream, look and listen a few minutes, as 


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if trying to find out whether he was being 
followed. Then he would turn suddenly 
again, slap the water with his tail and 
paddle off down stream as if trying to 
catch an express train. 

Brewster said he found black bear and 
moose abundant in that section of the 
country. He had started with a party of 
prospectors for the Klondike, by way of 
the so-called Edmonton trail. They trav- 
eled all summer, and a day rarely passed in 
which they did not see one or more bear or 
moose. He said that occasionally when 
tramping alone he would meet a bear face 
to face in the trail, and would get within 
a few feet of him before the animal would 
see or smell him. Then the bear would 
rise, look at the intruder a few seconds, 
utter his familiar “woof!” drop on all 
fours and go for cover. Brewster said 
that apparently he was the first man most 
of these bears had ever met. 

A flock of 11 wild geese summered on 
the Bow river and the Bow lakes. We 
saw and heard them several times in June 
and July, while camping or traveling on 
those waters. All other waterfowl, as 
well as smaller birds, were supposed to 
have been divided up into pairs, and to 
have been busy raising families at that 
season of the year; but for some strange 
reason this colony of geese were neglect- 
ing their domestic duties. 

We found a number of female mallards 
and a few of other species of ducks on the 
small lakes along the trail, with broods of 
young. We frequently crept up within a 
few feet of these families before they dis- 
covered our presence, and it was most in- 
teresting to see the mother duck start for 
the middle of the lake, calling her chil- 
dren, and to see the fluffy little balls form 
into a V and follow her. They seemed to 
rest as lightly on the water as if they had 
been made of dandelion fuzz, yet they had 
great propelling power in their little feet 
and legs, for they made good speed over 
the water. 

The fish hawk is up there, too; and he 
lives high in more than one sense. AI- 
most the only fish to be found in those 
Northern waters is the trout, and we 
frequently saw an osprey sailing over us 
with a good sized trout in his talons, which 
we would have been glad to have for our 
own breakfast. 

We saw 3 distinct species of frogs and 
4 of toads. The latter were especially 
numerous, everywhere along the trail. 

A taxidermist in Banff told me he had 
gone up the river some miles from there 
to see a forest fire that was raging in the 
mountains. When he got within a mile of 
the fire line he saw large numbers of hum- 
ming birds coming from near the burnt dis- 
trict. He said he counted 40 of these little 


RECREATION. 


refugees within a few feet of him, at one 
time. 

We found the willow ptarmigan on top 
of nearly every mountain we climbed. 
These birds live almost entirely above tim- 
ber line, though occasionally they descend 
into the scrubby timber that grows high 
up on the mountain side. 

The blue grouse was also frequently met 
on the high mountain sides, well up toward 
timber line. Wright made a number of 
photographs of ptarmigan and fool hens, 
also one of a blue grouse and 2 of her 
chicks. 

He caught a young sanderling one day, 
which was not larger than a.good sized 
hazlenut. He put it in his pocket, intend- 
ing to take it to camp and photograph it; 
but when he reached camp and went down 
in his pocket, he found the little prisoner 
had escaped. 

One day after pitching our camp and 
starting our fire we saw a ground sparrow 
flitting about the camp and appearing un- 
easy. We watched her a few minutes, and 
saw her hovering over a certain spot. We 
went there and found her nest, which con- 
tained 4 babies that were apparently not 
more than a week old. The nest was with- 
in 10 feet of our camp fire, and we were 
tempted to move the fire in order that the 
mother bird might not be disturbed in her 
home. We concluded, however, this would 
entail too much work, and were glad to 
find that after a few minutes she became en- 
tirely reconciled to our presence. She went 
away and came back in a few minutes with 
a tiny bug, which she placed in the gaping 
mouth of one of her young. Then she 
went on about her domestic duties as if 
nothing had happened. In the course of the 
afternoon she visited her nest perhaps a 
dozen times with food. At sundown she 
settled over her babies, and sheltered them 
through the night. We went to her nest 
several times after dark, and though the 
light of the camp fire glistened in her tiny 
eyes, she would let us come within a foot 
of her without appearing in the least fright- 
ened. We pulled out the next day and left 
her in quiet possession of her home, and x 
trust she may have succeeded in rearing 
her babies safely. 

Soon after leaving that camp a moose 
bird joined us, and followed us over 2 
hours, during which we covered 5 or 
6 miles. He would fly along toward the 
head of the pack train, alight within a foot 
or 2 of the trail, either on a log or on the 
ground, watch us and the horses as we 
passed, and as soon-as the tail end of the 
procession had passed him he would make 
another flight; and keep repeating this per- 
formance. Once he lit on Buck’s back, and 
another time on one of Tom’s ' stir- 
rups. I tried several times to catch him, 


WILD ANIMALS AND BIRDS IN THE NORTHWEST. 275 


and though he would let me put my hand 
within 6 inches of him, he would slip out 
just in time to prevent my getting hold of 
him. I had some crackers in my pocket 
and offered him some crumbs from them, 
but he did not seem to care for them. He 
occasionally picked up a bug as we went 
along, but had no taste for manufactured 
food. On another part of the trip one of 
these birds joined us and followed us over 
an hour. At the end of that time we made 
camp, and he visited with us and the 
horses all the afternoon. We hoped he 
would join us on the march again the next 
morning, but before we pulled out he 
quit us. 

Although we saw in the aggregate many 
interesting birds and animals, yet that 
country is a lonely one. Sometimes we 
would travel a whole day without seeing a 
living creature of any kind; yet the coun- 


A PHOTO OF 





MYSELF 


try is so thoroughly wild and so entirely 
uninhabited by human beings that it would 
seem wild creatures of all kinds should 
abound there. Game was plentiful there 
years ago, but the vandal, man, has well 
nigh cleaned it out. There are plenty of goats 
left, and in limited districts a good many 
sheep; but the Indians and the white trap- 
pers, who encourage the red men in their skin 
hunting and head hunting, have marked 
the doom of all big game in that country. 
Alberta has a law prohibiting white men 
from buying heads or skins of game ani- 
mals from the Indians; and if the Govern- 
ment would only enforce it there would be 
sheep, goats, caribou and bear in that coun- 
try a hundred years hence; but the Gov- 
ernment officers seem to feel no interest in 
the protection of these animals and allow 
certain traders to carry on their unlawful 
work openly, without even being warned. 


Ss 


AMATEUR PHOTO BY H. HM, FRASER, 


BY MYSELF. 


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THE TOWHEES SEARCHED THE OPEN PLACES. 


276 


THE BROWN TOWHEE. 


DR. BARTON W. EVERMANN. 


Near the mouth of the canyon is a copsy 
tangle of prickly pear, sage brush and live 
oak. From March until October to these is 
added a rich mass of chilacote vines, which 
run riot over and among the bushes and 
cactus to which they cling. The dark 
waxy green of the live oak, the paler, shin- 
ing green of the cactus, the still paler green 
of the chilacote, and the dull, white-dusted 
green of the sage blend most harmoniously. 

Near the center of the.copse a wood rat 
had built his unnecessarily ample home of 
sticks, dirt and leaves. The ground under- 
neath was dry and dusty and full of holes. 
Some of these the wood rat doubtless used 
on occasion, but most belonged to a family 
of spermophiles, curious rodents with fiat, 
bushy tails and resembling gray squirrels. 
Many other animals visited this copse, some 
every day, some rarely. Little gray rab- 
bits would run in now and then to escape 
the too persistent dog, or to look in on the 
wood rat and their other friends; and their 
big cousin, the jack rabbit, with the kanga- 
roo’s legs and the donkey’s ears, would 
drop in when he wished to rest in the 
shade. 

Lopho and Orty-x, the quails, would some- 
times bring their families and clean up the 
small seeds on the ground. Old Sicklebill, 
the thrasher, was a permanent resident, for 
was not his nest carefully hidden among the 
chilacote vines? There, too, Modesty It- 
self, the brown towhee, had her home. It 
was in the first days of early spring that she 
came to this copse. With her was another 
equally brown and just as modest. So alike 
were they in appearance and behavior that I 
was not always sure I knew one from the 
other. They were each a soft, olive brown 
above, a little richer on the head and rump, 
while beneath was a cleaner, paler brown. 
Never did colors of bird blend more com- 
pletely with those about it or furnish a bet- 
ter example of protective coloration. When 
the towhees had any suspicion that an en- 
emy was near, they had a habit of re- 
maining perfectly still among the dead 
leaves and sticks, and it then required sharp 
eyes to see just where they were. As to 
behavior, they were, indeed, modesty itself; 
never noisy nor unseemly in their ways. 
Their every movement was with a quiet 
dignity rarely seen among birds or men. 
Every word that either spoke was decorous 
and proper in the extreme; in marked con- 
trast with the California jay, that is always 
talking and always using words not fit to 
- print. 

Though quiet, they were always happy; 
that could be seen as plain as day. Un- 


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like the jay and old Sicklebill, they were 
not given to moods. They Satis hae 
noticeably excited or angry, and only for 
sufficient cause. The spring was one long 
honeymoon, and the summer and fall full 
of the joys of a happy home and a growing 
family. 

When they first came to this copse they 
were quick to see its advantages. Its 
closely interlacing branches at the ground 
afforded them a safe retreat if Accipiter, 
he of the sharp shin and cruel eye, should 
attempt their destruction. On the matted 
branches among the intertwining vines of 
the chilacote they were secure at night 
from the attacks of Strix, the barn owl. In 
the pool beneath the huge rock in the ar- 
royo near was water to slake their thirst 
during the terrible drought which from 
May to October comes to this Southland 
of California. In the canyon and on the 
foothills were wild oats and many kinds of 
weeds whose seeds are good for towhees. 
Beneath the dead leaves which formed 
great beds under every clump of bushes 
in the canyon were insect larve, small 
beetles, bugs and worms, of which young 
towhees are so fond. Near the base of 
a spreading sage brush in the edge of the 
copse they found an ideal place for the 
nest they wished to build, a spot well pro- 
tected from the sun and from the many 
enemies of the ground-nesting birds of that 
land. 

So there, in early April, they built a 
shapely nest of twigs, grass and fine strips 
of bark, and lined it inside with delicate root 
fibers and soft sheeps’ wool. Not an elab- 
orate nest, nor extreme in artistic beauty, 
but large and substantial; and its colors 
had been selected with excellent taste so 
well they matched the surroundings. 

The building of the nest was a matter 
of but a short time, and when I looked in 
on them a few days later there were in it § 
as handsome eggs as any towhee would 
care to have. Until then the cares of life 
had been few; but with the building of the 
nest and the filling of it with eggs, life be- 
came more serious. Along with ambition 
and hope came anxiety and fear. Still they 
remained the same quiet, respectful birds 
they had always been. They never quarreled 
with other birds nor bothered the least 
with their affairs; their own duties and 
simple pleasures were enough to keep them 
employed. Old Sicklebill, the thrasher, 
was at the copse every day, sometimes hop. 
ping awkwardly about and _= scratching 
among the sticks and dead leaves; some- 
times moving about among the branches 


278 


and vines for no reason at all, as far as any- 
one could see. At other times, especially 
early in the morning, and again late in the 
afternoon, when his mate would be sitting 
on the nest down among the chilacote 
vines, he would mount to the topmost limb 
of the live oak of the copse and pour forth 
his soul in song. True, it was not a great 
song, such as his relative, the mocking 
bird, sings day and night in that land; nor 
was it so fine as another relative, the brown 
thrasher of the East, often sings on similar 
occasions; nor was it ever so sweet as a 
more distant relation, the catbird, favors 
us with when he has discovered the poetry 
of everyday life. For old Sicklebill is a 
modest bird and rarely sings for the public; 
his hope is that she who sits among the 
chilacote vines may hear his song and be 
pleased. 

He never molested the brown towhee. 
Each seemed to understand the other per- 
fectly, and each respected the other's 
rights. They talked to each other a bit 
now and then, but so sedately that one 
could never guess what they really said. 
Very different it is with the California jay, 
who is a Frenchman, kis motions most 


profuse and quite as expressive as his | 


words. If he could not jerk his tail, nod 
his head and shrug his shoulders, he might 
not be able to talk at all. 

But Modesty Itself and old Sicklebill 
paid little attention to him, and the jay had 
no influence in the community; in which 
respect he is not unlike other people who 
talk more than they should. P 

Modesty Itself never wandered far from 
the copse in which she had her nest. Two 
or 3 times every day she would go to the 
pool in the usually dry bed of Santa Paula 
creek, for even towhees will take some 
chances in order to get water to drink; but 
it was only a few rods away and the danger 
was not great. She and her mate had their 
regular hunting grounds, all within a few 
yards of the copse. They usually went over 
the entire area every day, turning over the 
sticks and leaves and scratching in the dirt 
each day just as if they had never hunted 
in that region before. They would search 
every nook and corner of the copse, then 
they would examine with equal care the 
more open spaces where the peonies and 
burr clover grow in early spring, and in the 
evening they might be seen playing in the 
dust of the public road which ran near. 
Often while taking their dust bath they 
would be disturbed by some passer-by, when, 
with a quick flirt of the tail they would 
fly hurriedly into the deepest recesses of 
the copse, where they would remain until 
all danger was past . They soon came to 
know their friends. One who passed every 
day and often stopped to observe their ways 
never treated them ill, and they felt that 


RECREATION, 


no harm could come from being sociable 
with ‘him; so they came near when he 
tarried long and told him things which he 
was glad to know. 

But there were those who passed by on 
the road who never failed to give the birds 
a scare. Some were boys who would throw 
stones or sticks at them, or frighten them 
with noises which they could never under- 
stand; but nature has a way of caring for 
her own, and our brown towhees were 
usually under cover before these passers 
got a glimpse of them. The plain modest 
brown of their simple dress blended so ad- 


‘mirably with the color of the ground. and 


dead leaves that it was not easy to see that 
any bird was there. Then they were quiet 
birds, moving but little and slowly, which 
assisted in obscuring them. 

Thus the spring passed. When after a 
little, the eggs had been hatched and 5 lusty 
young had to be fed, the question of food 
supply became a serious one. The old birds 
were kept busy and had to go farther from 
the copse than they had gone before; for 
small grubs, worms and insect larve that 
were soft enough and not too large for 
the young birds were not so common that 
they could be found anywhere. Both 
old birds never left the copse at the same 
time. If Modesty Itself went to search for 
special food among the leaves and sticks 
down by the irrigating ditch, her mate al- 
ways remained within calling distance of the 
little ones. 

The young birds grew rapidly. When 
the mother brought them food all were 
eager to seize it, stretching their necks 
and opening their mouths in a way that 
was not at all polite, modesty not being a 
trait of young birds of any kind; but they 
fared well, and long before the end of 
June all were lusty and brave. So large 
had they grown that the nest could no 
longer hold them all, and the larger, 
stronger ones, not enjoying a crowded 
home, began to crawl up on the border of 
the nest, where it was so nice and cool. At 
first they found it no easy matter to balance 
themselves; but soon they were able to 
stand with their pale little legs straight 
and their heads held up jauntily. Then they 
would stretch their legs and necks and try 
their wings, and gradually many sets of 
tiny muscles came to work together as they 
should. Soon the birds began to venture 
cautiously out on the limbs, and proud lit- 
tle birds they were when able to balance 
on so slender a support. If the young 
birds seemed over timid the mother would 
encourage them by moving out slowly on 
the limb. Then she would coax them to 
try their little wings by taking short flights 
herself from branch to branch. This 
seemed, to their inexperience, a daring 


THE BROWN TOWHEE. 


thing to do; but once done, how simple 
and easy it proved! 

It was not long after these first short 
flights until the 5 young towhees could 
fly up and away with the best of their kind. 
Modesty Itself and her mate kept with 
them during most of the summer, for so 
successful had they been with this brood 
that no second nest was built that year. 
When the young birds had grown as large 
as their parents, and their coats had be- 
come the same soft brown, the family did 
not always remain together; but at night 
they would come together again among the 





ANONYMOUS, 


A COZY RETREAT. 


Winner of 25th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual 
Photo Competition. 


279 


thick foliage of the big live oak by the ir- 
rigating ditch. 

Thus they lived through the long, dry 
fall and rainy winter. Spring came again. 
The alfillarilla and the dark brown peonies 
were in bloom and the chilacote vines 
again ran riot over the clump of chaparral. 
Then the towhees paired again and new 
homes were made. Modesty Itself and her 
mate built again in the copsy tangle where 
we first saw them. 

Let us hope that this and the years to 
follow proved no less happy than was 
aa one during which we knew them sc 
well, 


WHIP-POOR-WILL. 


F. A, JOHNSON. 


When the old stone walls are gray in the 
shadow, 

And the campus is lonely and still, 

Then I seem to hear from my window, 

As at home on the brush-grown hill, 

That lingering, dolorous, wavering cry 

That rises and pleads till the echoes die 

In gloomy vale and evening sky — 

The heart-thrilling call of the Whip-Poor- 
Will. 


If you’d heard it once in the mountain land, 
And knew how it lures and thrills, 

It might be then you could understand 
The power of a love for the hills! 

You might understand how memory clings! 
You might understand what a fond note 

brings, 

How sweetly sad the whole strain rings— 
The lingerying cry of the Whip-Poor-Will. 


Estate Agent (to Laborer’s Son)—Here, 
my boy, where can I find your father? 


Boy—In the pig sty. sir. 


Youll know 


im by ‘is brown ’at.—Punch. 





A FLYING: LEAP. 


LA AK a 





s ~ 


GETTING UP IN THE WORLD. 


Winners of 23d Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 
Made with a Korona Camera, 


280 


AMATEUR PHOTOS BY CHAS, E. TESS, 


JOE BEDORE OF 
ce Ws 


Heverybody know heem, ole Joe Bedore; 
Hany mans can tell you dat. 

"E keep de bes’ place laike you see before 
Hon top hof de San Clair Flat. 

"Es waife he cook eet, de boss pea soup, 
You say jus’ de same wen you straike 


eet ; 
But dose leetle wite bean make de bes’ pea 
soup ; 
Dat’s de bes’ kin’ of soup wat Ah laike 
eer. 


Joe Bedore halways got eet, de 4 kin’ of 
feesh, 
Le tritt an’ de big lake trout; 
De poisson blanc an’ de fat wite feesh, 
She's so fat dat she'll melt on 
mout. 
An’ dere’s wan more t’ing dat’s de bes’ hof 
eet h’all, 
An’ dat ees de gran’ mushrat. 
Joe po be got hall hon hees tab, hevery 
a bs 
Hon top hof de San Clair Flat. 


your 


ST. CLAIR FLATS. 


BRADLEY. 


Wen de wintaire taime come, an’ de hice 
ees fine, 
Han’ you stan’ hon de door some day, 
You see a beeg smoke, laike dey burn eet, de 
pine, 
*Bout 3 or 2 mile away; 
Wen she come along close, you see eet ees 
Joe, 
Drav so fas’ dat hees loos hees hat; 
E’s drav eet hees pony, de little Tebo, 
Hon top hof de San Clair Flat. 


Some of dose feller come hup an’ tell Joe 
“Wot’s de rizzon you stay hon de 
h’ woods? 
Wat for you don’ go down to hole Buffalo. 
Dat’s de place you, for sure, make eet 
good.” 
Den Bedore he'll say, “Ah look eet dees 
way, 
W’en Ah’m here Ah know w’ere Ah’m at. 
Ah jus’ t’ink Ah stay an’ Ah’'l spend hall 
my day’ 
Hon top hof de San Clair Flat.” 








AMATEUR PHOTO BY S. G. JAMESON, 


YES, SIR! : 


Winner of 14th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 


IN THE COAST RANGE. 


D, E. WYNKOOP. 


From Puget sound South nearly to the 
Northern boundary of California lies a 
strip of territory not often invaded by the 
sportsman tourist; yet its endless variety 
of mountains, gorges and dashing streams, 
broad fertile valleys, vast timber and game 
reserves and its superb climate combine to 
make it a land of delight for the traveling 
pleasure seeker. One can see objects 20 to 
30 feet below the surface of the clear, cold 
waters of lakes or still pools in the rivers, 
while the depth does not seem half so great 
as it really is. Here at Salem, looking East 
from the dome of the Capitol building one 
can see the snow capped peaks of Hood, 
Wilson and Jefferson mountains. To the 
Westward at about an equal distance is the 
broad Pacific. 

I realize that the name Pacific is most 
appropriate to that vast expanse of water, 
for I went out several miles on its placid 
bosom in a row boat. I caught several fish, 
among them cod, bass and a bright yellow 
fish called a grouper. The water teemed 
with life. I saw 2 whales and many seals 
and sea lions, besides numberless fish, in 
my sojourn of 5 days at Ocean Park. 

The beautiful Chinook salmon were just 
running up the Nestachee river to spawn, 
and I saw a farmer with a load of 35, which 
he said weighed nearly 700 pounds. Game 
of nearly all kinds is abundant, especially 
deer, black and brown bear, California 
quails and Mongolian pheasants. 


I heard so much about hunting bear that | 


I visited the region where the animals are 
said to be most numerous; namely, the 
coast range of Southwestern Oregon. Ar- 
riving July 13th at the place recommended 
to me, the ranch of a guide named Fetter, 
I made arrangements for a 3 days’ trip in 
the mountains, Leaving the ranch early on 
the morning of the 14th we went with our 
pack ponies and bear dogs to a certain 
slide, or washout, in the mountains. My 
guide said he seldom visited that place with- 
out securing deer, mountain lions, bear, or 
elk. The open season for deer begins July 
15th, which I consider much too early, 
and as elk killing is prohibited, the only 
game I cared to see was a bear or a 
cougar. 

Nearly all day we trailed along a narrow 
canyon leading up a mountain 7,000 feet 
above sea level. About 5 o’clock we reached 
the slide, which was nearly a mile long. 
There we camped for the night. During 


our trip up the mountain the guide had 
loosed the dogs. One, the best bear dog, 
had gone off on the trail of some animal 
and we did not see him again until we re- 
turned to the ranch. 

The next morning we started down the 
slide through an almost impenetrable thicket 
of fern, maple and alder. We had not been 
out more than an hour when I became sepa- 
rated from my guide. The tangle of brush 
and chapperal seemed to grow more dense 
and I looked with apprehension at the hol- 
lows made through the fern by bear in quest 
of skunk cabbage. Perhaps an hour had 
passed since I saw the guide when I heard 
a shot far over on the other side of the 
slide. Waiting a few moments and not 
hearing any further noise I made my way in 
the direction whence I had heard the shot. 
After a struggle through the tangle I came 
to where the guide had shot and wounded 
a large bear. Together we trailed the 
wounded animal for the greater part of 
the day, until the guide said we would bet- 
ter give up fhe chase if we wanted to réach 
camp before sundown. 

After resting our tired bodies for the 
night beneath the overhanging boughs of a 
yellow fir, we set out in the morning of the 
third day in a new direction to the top of 
the mountain. We crawled through fern 7 
feet high, along ledges, over fallen timber 
and down rocky runs. Occasionally we 
saw footprints of deer or bear crossing 
some mossy mound or open spot. About 3 
p. m. we came to a trail which led to camp 
and were slowly picking our way along 
when, not more than 50 yards away, I 
heard a sharp crackling of twigs as if 
some heavy animal had started to run. In- 
stinctively I tightened the grasp on my rifle 
and retracing a few steps I saw a bear 
bounding along about 80 yards away. I 
quickly sent a bullet from my Savage flying 
after him and he disappeared from view. 
Where I had last seen the bear I found a 
trail of blood and had not followed it far 
until I saw the animal’s head peeping 
from between 2 rocks. I gave him another 
bullet, this time through the head, and 
killed my first Dear. 

I later visited the Grande Ronde Indian 
reservation and saw old Fort Yamhill still 
standing, a monument to the red man’s love 
for his home. No wonder the Indian loved 
and fought for this grand old hazy summer- 
land of indolence and repose, 


Mamie-~What is biology? 
Gladys—I suppose 
shopping.—Chicago Daily News. 


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it’s the science of 





AMATEUR PHO10 BY G, 4. NEWGARDEN, 
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MINNESOTA RAZORBACKS. 


C. E. Smith, S. V. Hanft, and J. B. Donnelly 
came into Minneapolis loaded with bass, pike 


and pickerel, the result of 4 hours’ sport at Fish 
and Trap lake, Lincoln, Minn. 

The entire catch weighed 148 pounds, and con- 
10 bass and 
pike 


The 
the 


sisted of 18 pike, 
weight of the largest 


10 pickerel. 
was 8 pounds, 


did not reply. Donnelly answered, confirm- 
ing. He seems to be the only pig in the 
herd who is devoid of all sense of decency. 
They are all degenerate reprobates or they 
would never have stood up in front of a 





Ci. i. SMYIB.- S.)-Y. 


largest bass about 6 pounds, 
pickerel tipped the scales at 
apolis Times. 


I wrote all 3 of these razorbacks and 
asked them for confirmation of the above 
report, but Hanft and Smith had evidently 
become ashamed of their butchery and so 


HANI T, 


while the heaviest 
12 pounds.—Minne- 


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? 
a. 


J. B. DONNELLY, 

camera with a string of dead fish. It would 
have been a blessing to the community in 
which they live if some one of the fish they 
ate had been diseased to such an extent 
as to poison all 3 of them. Smith’s num- 
ber in the pen is 1.001, Hanft’s I.002 and 
Donnelly’s 1,003.—EbITor. 


HOW TO BUILD A MACKINAC BOAT. 


FRED A. HUNT. 


In any place where ponds, lakes and 
sluggish streams occur most anglers like 
to use a boat adapted for fishing and yet 
not exorbitant in price. A mackinac costs 
little and any ingenious boy can build 
one. These boats are durable and safe. 
In rice swamps or the Detroit flats a canoe 
or punt is more desirable, as the draft of 
either is small. A mackinac draws more 
than a canoe, but the oarsman can sit com- 
fortably in a mackinac and does not necd 
to be an acrobat to remain in the boat, as 
he does in a canoe. 

To commence the construction of a 
mackinac:' Draw a straight line or the 
sand, the ground or a barn floor, remem- 
bering that the mackinac is a flat bottomed 
boat. This line should be a little longer 
than you desire the boat to be. Six feet 
is a handy length for one person. On this 
line (B A) construct a skeleton diagram 
as follows: 





lines from B to A, will determine the size 


. of the floor stanchions, of course, by tak- 


ing the distance on each side of the cen- 
tral line, and 12 or 14 inches being the 
height of the side stanchions. 

Commence the framework by making 
the floor beams and stanchions, taking B1 
as a specimen. This is made of 2 inch x 
4 inch clear scantling, the 4 inch part be- 
ing placed toward the floor and bulwarks 
and firmly nailed, and the upper crosspiece 
being 2 inches below the upper ends. B2 
is made the same way. B3 is without any 
upper crosspiece, B4 with one, B5 without 
and B6 with. The. planks for the floor 
should be of good, wide, clear pine. Use 
one plank for the center, the center line 
B A taking the middle of the plank. Put 
the other planks on the sides of the center 
and-turn the ends and edges to conform to 
the diagram, the edges being cut perfectly 


SCALE 1: INCH TO THE FOOT 


In this skeleton the transverse lines Br 
to Bo are the floor braces and stanch- 
ions. A, the stem, is made of a 3x3 inch 
timber of sound pine, 2 inches higher than 
the gunwale, and shaped something like 
a blunt nosed V, to accommodate the ends 
of the planks and the arcs om the sides of 
the projected boat. For a 6 foot boat the 
line from B to A will be 6 feet long 
and the line at Br should be 20 inches, Io 
inches on either side of the center line. 
From the extremities of this line the 
curved lines to the stem are drawn, and the 
distances between the stern line and the 
stem, as shown by the transverse lines of 
the diagram, are as follows: Br to B2, 12 
inches; B2 to B3, B3 to B4, B4 to Bs, 14 
inches each; Bs to B6, to inches; and B6 
to the stem takes the remaining dimension, 
The swell of the bulwarks, the curved 


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square and the edges of the planks being 
made 


2 


ess 


2 


square and true, as the | space 
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there is in the jointure the better will be 
the watertight quality of the boat. 

Having the floor of the boat thus ad- 
justed place the stanchions on it on their 
relative positions, Bri, B2, etc., and nail 


them firmly on from the outside of the: 


floor, which can be readily done by driving 
a few nails to hold the stanchion to the 
floor and then lifting the entire construc- 
tion on 2 or 3 horses. The floor tran- 
soms, beams or whatever you may term 
them should be placed so that 1 inch of 
the width will be on either side of the 
line corresponding to that stanchion as 
marked in the diagram. 

Nail on the bulwarks, which should be 12 
or 14 inches for a 6 foot boat, as deter- 


Cross-Section ab B.3. 


mined by the height of the stanchions in 
the framework; or, still better, use good 
screws and countersink the heads a little. 
If you use nails sink the heads also. After 
fastening on the bulwarks, or sides of the 
craft as far forward as Bs, go to the stern 
and nail boards across the stanchion Br 
for the stern of the boat; then nail the 
sternpiece (A) in its place, from the out- 
side of the floor like the _ stanchions. 
Clamp and nail the side planks into place 
on stanchion B6 and the sternpiece. Then 
paint the seams and nail holes thoroughly 
inside and out with white lead; or, still 
better, if you are sufficient of a shipyard 
mechanic, caulk the seams from the outside 
with spur-oakum and pitch them well, 
painting the nail holes with white lead. 
After they are either leaded or caulked, 
nail slats over each seam in the sides and 
bottom and pitch or lead all the joints 
of the slats. Make a seat 9 inches wide 
and adjust it on the sunken crosspiece or 
stanchion B4; also to the sides of the 
boat. Affix the rowlocks at a _ conven- 
ient distance between stanchions B3 and 4. 


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Do not bother about fancy rowlocks. Make 
them out of stout wood and nail them to 
the side of the boat. Block out the oars 
and spokeshave off the square part down 
to the blade. Insert a screw ring into the 
head of the stem (A) and splice a rope 
on to it for the painter. Nail fitted boards 
from stanchion B6 to the stem’ A, which 
can be utilized for a seat and which will 
be found handy for stowing a cable for 
the anchor, etc., or for bait cans. Screw 
a few large hooks along the sides of the 
stanchions to hang fishing rods, &c., on, 
being careful to file to bluntness the ends 
of the hooks so they will not pierce your 
clothing or leg when you are moving about 
in the boat. 

Exercise your joiner ability in making a 
lid for the 2 stanchions’ sunken crosspieces 
Bri, B2, one piece of the lid being one 
inch from the stern, and to this attach the 
remainder by a pair of butts. The 2 inch 
stanchion will then support the lid, which 
can be used as the stern sheets of the 
yawl. Nail boards across the forepart of 
stanchion B2 and you have an admirable 
locker, which, by means of a staple, hasp 
and padlock can be made your nautical 
strong box, as well. 

If, after putting the dory in the water, 
any of the seams leak, persistently pitch or 
lead them until they are tight. This will 
be an excellent boat which can be rowed 
or poled along, and which is good for any 
purpose except rough water or to ascend 
a rapid current. This last can be over- 
come by the navigator’s making a towpath 
out of the bank and a mule out of him- 
self, and hauling on the painter. 

By carrying a frying pan in the well 
(B6 to A) and a little salt and pepper, 
a few matches and some bacon in the 
locker, you can fry your fish just after 
they are caught and thus appreciate, as 
never before, the delicacy and delicious- 
ness of fresh fish. 

In a mackinac not so elaborately con- 
structed as the foregoing I journeyed many 
hundred miles and shot many a rapid. In 
the early times of Western 
voyageurs from the upper villages would 
build large boats of this plan, load them 
with vegetables, etc., and glide down to 
the inchoate settlements, where they would 
sell their truck and, knocking their mack 
inacs apart, sell the material for lumber. 


She—Why did you propose to me the 


first time you met me? 


He—Because I never expected to see you 


again.— Exchange. 


settlement — 








THE TROUBLES OF 2 TENDERFEET. 


KLATTOWA, 


In the spring of ’88 the little town of 
Conconnelly, then known as Solomon City. 
well up among the hills between the 
Meéthow and Okanogon rivers, in Northern 
Washington, was enjoying the sensation of 
a mining, or, more correctly speaking, a 
prospecting excitement. The camp lay 
cosily at the head of a little valley, wedged 
into the narrow coulee out of which tumbles 
Salmon creek. A short distance below this 
coulee, where the valley begins to broaden 
and the sunlight lies on the riffles, a number 
of us prospectors had set our tents. 

Camp life there was chosen by many in 
preference to such accommodations as the 
hotels could offer. At that time stumps 
stood in the street, sidewalks were unknown 
and landlords showed their guests to bunks 
in an attic over a barroom where celebrat- 
ing prospectors and cow chasers were 
rampant. The‘camps along the creek were 
pleasantly located, and the creek supplied 
us with fish. At almost any time, one 
could stand on the bank and shoot a salmon 
that was working its way up through the 
shallow places. Shooting was the popular 
way of taking these fish; in fact, the only 
way we knew. Shooting had but one dis- 
advantage, the plunge, hip deep, into icy 
water to retrieve. 

One day a bright new tent was set up 
near our own and was occupied by 2 young 
men. One was a sort of prospector and 
mineral expert, and the other a newspaper 
correspondent, both sent out by a Salt Lake 
syndicate. The new camp was _ supplied 
with all modern conveniences, which made 
our camp look like the deuce of spades in 
a euchre deck. I consoled myself with the 
reflection that it is characteristic of tender- 
feet to burden themselves with camp equip- 
age and mentally gave old Frank credit for 


keeping our camp within the limit of sen-. 


sible appointment. 

few weeks passed. Chaparral and 
sarvis bushes were bursting into foliage 
and the great pine tree that stood as a 
shelter over our tent was taking on a 
fresher green. Each day someone could 
be seen, rifle in hand, walking slowly along 
the bank of the creek looking for salmon; 
and the odor of fried fish and bacon grease 
at meal time had become familiar. 

Our new friends took no part in this, 
though making some pretensions to being 
sportsmen. Indeed, they spoke disparag- 
ingly of the practice and said that in time 
they would show us a 19th century way of 
killing fish. 

Old Frank remarked one morning that 


- nearly put him out. 


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the roth century way of doing things was 
surely due. 

“Those fellers got an idea that what they 
don’t know they ain’t goin’ to learn here,” 
he said. “Worst pair of tenderfeet I ever 
see. Bet if that long pilgrim found a cool 
cinder .he would assay it. I happened 
’round just in time t’other day to prevent 
that 4-eyed idiot from blowin’ Mineral 
hill all over this district. He had pinned 
a paper target on the powder house and was 
about to shoot when I happened to see what 
he was aiming at. He said he didn’t s’pose 
any one would store 2 tons of dynamite in 
a wooden box like that. I told him people 
out here didn’t s’pose any one would shoot 
into a wooden box unless they knowed 
what was in it. 

“Tries to make me believe he is an old 
timer. Saw him trying to get on a Si- 
wash’s cayuse t’other day and he couldn’t 
get near enough to reach its neck. Cayuse 
was on to him in a minit, and I guess he 
doesn’t savee the cayuse yet. 

“Know what they did? Some one told 
"em that ducks flew from this lake to the 
upper lakes and they stood there in the 
coulee with scatter guns till night waitin’ 
for ducks. Don’t s’pose a duck ever saw 
any of these lakes. 

“Saw that pinto they had t’other day? 
He’s gone now. Give an Injun $8 for him. 
Knowed durn well they couldn’t keep him, 
or the Injun wouldn’t have sold him for no 
$8. That Siwash camped below Ruby City 
and knowed that the first time that cayuse 
got loose he would go that way and stop 
with his old tillicums. When these fellers 
offer a reward for their pinto some other 
Injun will bring it back and in a short 
time it will be gone agin. 

“Don’t think they have had fish sigce 
they been here. Told ’em to come over 
once and I would divide with ’em, but they 
didn’t come. Wonder if they thought I 
would bring it to ’em. 

“S’pose you heered about their reception 
at Wynetchie? The boys over there framed 
up a gambling row and worked one of these 
fellows into being stake holder. I think 
it was the expert. They made out he was 
in the deal to do a rancher what went 
against their game. Lights all went out 
first shot, and there was a stampede to get 
out. There was hoarse yells and guns 
cracked and chairs crashed, and the room 
was full of powder smoke in no time. A 
saw mill hand fired a wad that missed this 
feller and hit Sunrise Pete in the gob and 
They got the expert 


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out the back door, where he stumbled over 
a feller what groaned, ‘Oh, God, fellers, 
I’m all in. They hid the stake-holder 
and kept him there by telling him he would 
be accused of killing that man at the door; 
the vigilanters would be looking for him, 
and it wouldn’t be wise to show up. 

“Next mornin’ a feller sauntered down by 
the creek where the trail crosses on a log. 
He tacked a card on an old barrel that 
stood by a bench of brush and sez, ‘Now, 
Dick, I'll count off 30 paces and we'll shoot 
fer $1 a shot. He counted about 3 when 
the barrel rose up, with a man’s legs under 
it, and tipped over, and there was our neigh- 
bor, the whole gang howling about him and 
ready to take what was comin’ to ’em.” 

Soon after the water in the creek became 
clear the newspaper man was seen on the 
bank with a whip, slashing at something 
in the stream. Suddenly the whip was seen 
to bend to nearly a half circle, then the 
shimmer of a silken line could be seen 
running from the end of it to the water. 
_ The fellow was fishing and had evidently 
fastened to a big one. He was a picture of 
wild excitement. “I’ve got ’im; got ’im,” 
he cried; “he’s a moose!” 

The fish was darting here and there, 
now in deep water, then in shallow, now 
splashing on the riffles, then doubling on 
his trail like a hunted whitetail. The bank 
rose some 6 feet almost straight above the 
water and how the fish was to be landed 
was a problem. The newspaper man was 
looking for a way down the bank when the 
soft loam gave way and he slipped knee 
deep into the creek. At the same instant 
the rod whipped out strait and there was 
a tremendous splash. He held the rod well 
up and wound desperately at the crank. A 
look of disappointment came over his face 
when he saw only a tuft of gaudy feathers 
fluttering at the end of his line. 

He said not a word, but climbing up the 


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bank, looked about for his hat. It could 
not be found. Down stream a light gray ob- 
ject glanced over the riffles. He said he 
didn’t mind losing a hat, but that fish was 
the biggest thing that ever wore scales, and 
he regretted that the scales could not show 
how much it weighed. . 

He was preparing for another cast when 
his attention was attracted to a cow that 
stood with her head in the entrance of his 
tent. Our friend picked up a club and 
running up dealt the unsuspecting cow a 
sound blow and simultaneously gave a war 
whoop or college yell. The cow started 
and ran into the tent. There was a bulg- 
ing on one side, stakes started from the 
ground, lines snapped and the tent started 
for the creek. The camp stove rattled and 
crockery crashed. Our friend caught the 
trailing lines and digging his heels in the 
earth kept the cow from going over the 
bank into the creek. 

Assistance arrived and the mess of lines, 
canvas and cow was untangled. Old 
Frank remarked that he had seen cattle 
roped in all sorts of ways, but ““never seed 
a feller rope one with a tent before.” He 
wanted to know “if that wasn’t a Ioth 
century stunt.” The expert arrived, and 
as he drew near walked slowly as if 
he half expected another explosion. He 
stood like a statue of despair over the scene 
of disaster. Assaying utensils and mater- 
ials, photographic apparatus, groceries, tin- 
ware and camp stools were badly mixed. 
He must have known that all he could say 
would not do justice to the occasion, for all 
he said was: “That’s a d—— pretty mess, 
now isn’t it?” 

* The sun came up over the Wonaca lake 
district, peeped into the valley of Solomon 
creek and lay on the riffles where the camp 
wedged its self into the hills. One tent 
was missing from our group. The tender- 
feet had taken an early start for Spokane. 


“Father,” remarked little Johnny Beanpod, 
as he glanced over his glasses from the 
perusal of his favorite Boston paper, “you 
have ever inculcated the principle, in your 
arduous training of my intellectual being, 
that males are more punctual in keeping ap- 
pointments than females.” 


“Yes, my son.” 


“Then, father, how can you explain the, 


fact that, in my perusal of the select obit: ’ 
uary notices, I find most of them refer to, 


‘the late Mr. 
News. 


So-and-So?’ ”—Four-Track 


~ 


FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


The man who quits when he gets enough, with plenty of game still in sight, is a real sportsman. 


BEARS, WOLVES AND DEER. 

When ReEcrREATION reaches me I am 
not long in getting from it an elaborate 
mental menu which certainly is a healthier 
pastime than the reading of novels. 

You will remember me by recalling some 
of the times when, years ago, you occasion- 
ally came to Northern Wisconsin and 
dropped off at Florence to take a tramp 
somewhere or anywhere with me, in order 
that we might steal a march on a deer, or 
hook a few of those 2-pound trout that 
made some of those Northern streams such 
charming retreats for us in the long ago. 

One of our trips from Florence was to 
Lake Patten, 15 miles Southwest, where 
the primitive solitude still reigned, and for 
the time being we were lords of all we 
surveyed. Our castle was the Penrose 
cabin, in a small clearing on the romantic 
bank of that picturesque lake. 

One of my later trips to the same lake 
was so full of adventure that I am going 
to tell you about it. 

With my 38 caliber rifle I started to the 
Southwest of the lake, through an old chop- 
ping, and was sauntering along leisurely. 
When about half a mile from the cabin 2 
big black objects leaped suddenly from 
cover and ran in a bee line away from me. 
They had probably been sitting upright 
watching my movements as I walked 
through an old chopping in which were 
many charred stumps. I saw at a glance 
that the fugitives were bears, and they 
must have been so deeply interested in my 
approach as to forget the danger there is in 
a gun, for they kept mum until I was so 
near they could have seen me wink; but 
then the gap of 3 or 4 rods between us was 
quickly strung out. It is amusing to see 
how agile a big, waddling bear can be when 
he gets scared. 

My surprise was even greater than that 
of the bears. My first impression was that 
they were 2 big black hogs. This impres- 
sion was soon dissipated when I realized 
there were no hogs running wild in that 
section, and then the idea of bear came 
to my mind. In an instant I was follow- 
ing them on the run. Though far ahead of 
me, I could easily keep their trail by the 
crashing of brush and bumping of logs over 
which they passed. After following them 
a hundred yards or more and while passing 
a pot hole where there was some water and 
a rank growth of grass, I caught sight of 
a deer. He was quietly taking observa- 
tions, and the sight was too tempting to be 
resisted. I forgot all about the larger game 
and took a quick shot at the deer, but 


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missed. He was off in an instant and then 
I had the country all to myself. You know 
how it is. When a fellow chases 2 bear a 
while he gets out of form for shooting at 
them or anything else. 

I tramped on to the South, soon left be- 
hind me the old chopping, that was 
weird and enchanting, passed over a ridge 
and entered a ‘dense forest of hemlock. 
Coming to an old logging road, I stopped 
to look up and down. I could see 200 or 
300 yards. Night was approaching, and | 
knew it was just the time to keep still, to 
look and to listen. 

I stepped to one side of the road and 
leaned against a tree. 

No one who has not experienced the still- 
ness and solitude of a Northern wilderness 
at sunset can imagine how suspicious and 
lonely one becomes in the midst of such 
surroundings. I had stood beside the tree, 
watched and listened until I had nearly 
exhausted my patience, when suddenly, a 
hundred feet away, I saw a large, shaggy 
animal cross the road, with nose in the air, 
and as stiff as if pointing game. Be- 
hind him came another, and following this 
one still another, making 3. Then shortly 
3 more crossed the road in the same man- 
ner, and after a minute or 2 still 3 more 
followed. Finally the last trio came and 
passed, making 12 in all. 

They were big timber wolves who had 
passed with military precision before me. 
Here was one of the strangest maneuvers 
of wild animals I have ever seen, and it 
proved to me the sagacity and cunning of 
the wolf. They were evidently on a hunt- 
ing expedition. The strongest were in the 
lead and the leader was the largest and 
bravest of them all. These characteristics 
became less and less marked as the tail 
end of the line appeared and the last 2 or 3 
animals seemed to be following along be- 
cause they had to. The contrast between 
the 2 ends of the line was singularly strik- 
ing. The leader, with head aloft, was 
watching and waiting for some coveted ob- 
ject on which to prey, and he would then 
give the signal for breaking line of march, 
when the whole pack would make the for- 
est resound with their inimical yells. A 
person hearing them would doubtless say 
there were 100 in the pack. Another strik- 
ing circumstance about these wolves is the 
fact that I neither heard them before they 
approached the road nor after they left it. 
Neither did I see them before or after, as 
both sides of the road were thickly grown 
with brush. 

Why did I not shoot? Because I was 


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too deeply interested in watching and study- 
ing the animals. It is not all of hunting 
to kill game. It is often more fun to study 
a wild creature’s movements than to kill 
it. To have fired at one of these wolves 
would have broken up their hunting party 
in an instant and that would have ended 
the most interesting show I ever saw. 

And now comes the most thrilling epi- 
sode of that remarkable day’s hunt. Im- 
mediately after these wolves had crossed 
the road I heard crashing of brush on the 
opposite side of the road, and the animal 
that was making the disturbance was com- 
ing directly toward me. At first I thought 
it was the pack of wolves returning. Then 
I said “a bear.” I shuddered till you could 
almost have heard me, and looked for limbs 
on the tree by which I was standing, but 
there were none. 

Finally relief came when close to me, on 
the opposite side of the road a large porcu- 
pine waddled to a tree and clambered up it. 
I regained my composure in a moment and 
made strides toward camp, which I reached 
long after the day had merged into night. 

C. O. Coleman, Croton, Ohio. 





ONE RAINY MORNING. 
F. W. PARKHURST, 


Near my home in central New York is a 
sheet of water termed by courtesy a lake, 
though covering scarcely 150 acres. It is 
almost ‘round, and is bordered on one side 
by a few scraggly hemlocks and by a high- 
way on the other. It affords, in season, ex- 
cellent duck shooting; and the sport is 
made more exciting by its risk, for it is an 
even chance that the shooter will himself 
stop a stray charge of 4’s. 

One rainy evening in April, ’96, my 
brother and I wheeled to our little cottage 
on the shore of the lake and made prep- 
aration for the fun we expected in the 
morning. We awoke at 4 to the music 
of an alarm clock; soon had a fire burning 
merrily, and an appetizing breakfast pre- 
pared. 

At the first peep of dawn we were in our 
boats and ready for the ducks. The light 
came fast, and a glimpse of 2 dark 
shadows on the water working toward a 
large flock of ducks in the middle of the 
lake, warned us that we must hasten or 
lose our share of shooting. It became 
a race to determine which boat should 
have first shot. Finding myself handi- 
capped, I compromised with fate and 
took an advantageous position for a 
chance when the birds flew. Bang! bang! 
bang! and fun began. Up went the birds 
with a sharp swish of wings, headed 
straight for my boat. I let them come 
within 30 yards and then sprang up. They 


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hesitated, turned and were lost, for they 
received both barrels in rapid succession. 
Four fell with a resounding splash. 

The banging became general and ducks 
flew in all directions in bunches, pairs and 
singles, with an occasional large flock. One 
beauty came flying along at a 60 mile clip, 
and I drew on him; but a hasty glance be- 
yond convinced me that my place was in 
the bottom of the boat. I dropped like a 
log, and just in time, for my neighbor across 
the way, apparently unconscious of my 
proximity, let drive with both barrels, and 
played a merry staccato on the sides of 
my boat. It was a humiliating position. 
I rose with offended dignity and poured 
forth a most convincing presentment of the 
case; but the man was an old hand and 
knew a charge of 4’s could not hurt much at 
100 yards. He calmly remarked, “I hope I 
didn’t hurt you much.” 
admit that I was uninjured, and the only 
reply I received was: “You ought to 
be thankful for my consideration in al- 
lowing you time to drop.” I have learned 
since that the only sure preventive of such 
accidents is to shoot first. 

Shifiting my position to a less dangerous 
neighborhood, I lay back for business. First 
a pair of teal came swiftly on. When in 
range the old Wilkesbarre spoke and down 
went the leader. My second barrel drew 
a blank. Then birds came so fast I was 
kept busy attending to them. 

It was marvelous how the ducks shifted 
from one location to another, receiving 
volley after volley as they swung round the 
fatal circle. They apparently lost their 
wits, and if they passed one string of boats 
in safety, they were sure to fall victims at 
the next. Frequently 25 or 30 boats dot the 
lake, so close together that it is a wonder 
a single duck escapes. I never knew ducks 
to act elsewhere as they do on this par- 
ticular lake. I have seen flocks of 30 or 
more fly round and round until not over 
2 or 3 were left alive, and smaller flocks 
are frequently annihilated. Do not gather the 
impression that it is pot shooting, for it is 
not. After the first shot in the water, every 
bird is killed on the wing. 


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CAMPING IN THE HILLS. 
H, F. HACKETT, 


In the spring of ’83 Jack Foster, John 
Dunkin, familiarly called “Dunk,” and I 
concluded to put in a summer in the moun- 
tains between Dillon, Montana, and Yel- 
lowstone park, so we procured pack and 
saddle horses, and bought our grub, camp 
outfit, traps, tent and everything we needed 
for a 3 months’ stay in the hills. Besides, 
we took along a pick, shovel and gold pan, 
for we intended to prospect. We took only 
2 guns, an old muzzle loading shot gun and 


I was forced to © 





ee 4. TS 


FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


a 45-60 rifle, for we intended to kill only 
what meat we needed. 

We left Dillon April 3, going up Black- 
tail Deer creek, and by 4 o’clock we were 
up to the forks, about 25 miles from Dillon. 
There we found a family of beavers, so we 
made camp. That night it rained and then 
snowed and at last cleared, cool and frosty 
before morning. 

The next day we moved camp about 7 
miles and left our traps set so one of us 
had to come back in the morning. We 
made camp at the mouth of the canyon, on 
the right fork of the creek. On each side 
were mountains towering several thousand 
feet above us. In the morning Jack said 
he would visit the traps and we could put 
in the day in the hills. Dunk and I started 
at sunrise for the top of a high, irregular 
mountain between the 2 creeks, about 7 
miles away. We rode 4 miles and then had 
to go afoot because of the snow. 

Just after we left the horses we saw 3 
antelope on a ridge, and crawled up close 
enough to see that one was a young buck. 
We had agreed to kill only males, animal 
or bird. This came within our lines. Dunk 
made a splendid shot and killed the buck. 
We dressed it and hung it up, to be picked 
up on our return. That was before the days 
of game laws or scarcity of game, so we 
could kill for our daily meet without fear 
of game wardens or of being roasted by 
RECREATION. 

.Crossing a deep canyon, over snow which 
frequently broke through, -we climbed a 
high mountain on whose side we found a 
bunch of mountain sheep, and from whose 
summit we had a magnificent view for many 
miles. 

While gazing on the scene we saw, in a 
deep valley 2,000 feet below us, a silver- 
tip mother and her cubs, sporting in the 
sun. It was too far to shoot and too dan- 
gerous climbing to go to her, so we left 
at in safety and ignorance with her chil- 

ren. 

Turning about, we sought camp, picking 
up our antelope on the way. 
camp tired and hungry, ready for Jack’s 
trout and a sleep. 

Jack had caught 3 beavers, and was skin- 
ning them when I went to sleep. 

The record of the next 90 days, if writ- 
ten, would read much like that of our first 
in camp, so I need not spin the whole yarn. 
We had dead loads of fun, plenty of trout, 
venison and hard work, and returned in the 
fall with faces like those of the native red 
man and with muscles like steel. 





THE GOBBLING SEASON. 


Have you ever been in a good turkey 
woods in April? Have you ever got up 
before daylight and started out, after get- 


We reached. 


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ting a hasty breakfast or cup of coffee, and 
listened for the first gobbler to commence ? 
Do you know how to imitate the whoop 
of an owl so as to start something for the 
gobbler to get mad at? If not, you have 
missed the grandest sport of all, and have 
a great deal to live for. Many people, some 
of whom have hunted turkeys, do not know 
that the best way to find them in the gob- 
bling season is to imitate the whoop of 
an owl just at daylight, or to listen first for 
the whoop of a real owl. 

Turkeys sometimes gobble a little earlier 
in the season, in this section, than April 
Ist. When the dogwood trees are in blos- 
som, and it is a clear, beautiful morning, 
you may be sure that if you are within a 
mile of a gobbler you will hear him. Then 
comes the most exciting time of turkey 
hunting. He may answer the call at once, 
and come within easy range; but you must 
not get excited and think he is in range be- 
fore he is, or you will miss the chance. 
Then again, especially if your call is the 
least defective, he may be one of the smart- 
est of all wild game, and come only just 
beyond range. There he may walk up and 
down and say, “Now you come to me,” 
which is practically an impossibility. The 
uncertainty is, of course, the interesting 


‘part; but I know one place where you can 


go and feel reasonably certain of getting 
a shot at a 22 pounder; a place where you 
can hear over 50 turkeys gobble in one 
morning; a place where deer are thicker 
than rabbits, with no scarcity of rabbits; 
but, of course, you must not shoot a deer 
or a hen turkey in April, even if I tell you 
where the place is. 
Pax, Memphis,Tenn. 





FROM BOSTON, TOO! 


Vincenzo Tasanarri, the well known North 
street merchant, lived up to his reputaticn with 
gun and rifle at Milford the other day by_ shoot- 
ing 35 squirrels in an hour. This record, it is said, 


has never been eclipsed among Milford’s sharp- 


shooters. All of Mr. Tassanarri’s friends are now 
complimenting him for his prowess with the 
gun. 


This clipping is from the Boston Post. 
The fellow mentioned lives on North street, 
Boston. He needs a little advice from you. 
Am sorry I haven’t a picture of him to put 
with the other hogs in your rack. 

Richard D. Jacob, Dorchester, Mass. 


In answer to a letter of inquiry, I re- 
ceived the following: 


I received your short letter inquiring for 
a true statement of what you have written 
and am very glad to say to you that every 
word of it is true as I am quite a mark at 
shooting or gunning as I should say, and 
also am very fond of it, too. 

I did not think it would not go outside 


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of my few friends, but I see and also read 
about it in the Boston papers. 
V. Tasseriani, Boston, Mass. 


Your friends who are congratulating you 
on your beastly, brutal slaughter are as 
scurvy a lot as you are. If any of them 
were decent sportsmen, they would tell you 
to your face how contemptible you are. 
You ought to be locked up in the cellar of 
the county jail, instead of being patted on 
the back. Your number in the game hog 
book is 1,004.—EDITOoR. 





ONE ROBIN COST $95. 

Justice M. E. Sell, of Windber, had 3 Italians, 
Benjamin Benmarte, John Pisoni, and Charles 
Minote, before him Saturday morning, charged 
with 3 separate violations of the game laws and 
with breaking a borough statute. 

Constable 5S. McMullen caught the men 
Friday evening. They had killed a robin and 
had it with them when arrested. Before the 
Justice they denied the charges, but having the 
goods on them, each man was fined $25 and costs, 
the whole amounting to about $95. The defend- 
ants were charged with hunting out of season, 
hunting without a license, as they were un- 
naturalized foreigners, killing a song bird, and 
shooting within the borough limits.—Johnstown 
(Pa.) Tribune. 


If the unnaturalized foreigners in Penn- 
sylvania should all learn to read and then 
put in some time each month reading 
RECREATION, they would save themselves a 
lot of money, but as long as they can be 
induced to pay money into the State Game 
Protective Fund at the rate of $25 to $35 
each, and that for killing only one bird to 
3 men, it is at least more profitable for the 
State.—Enbrror. 





GAME NOTES. 


Answering your inquiry, will say that. 


R. H. Montcastle and I killed 81 quails and 
II doves in one day. 
Cary F. Spence, Knoxville, Tenn. 


You and your friend killed at least twice 
as many quails as you should have killed, 
and I trust that by the time you have read 
RECREATION a year you will agree with me. 
The time was when a man might reason- 
ably kill 40 or 50 quails in a day, but that 
time is long since past, and all good sports- 
men are content nowadays to quit when 
they get Io to 15 each. 

The dove should not be considered a 
game bird at all and should never be killed. 
It is protected at all times in many North- 
ern States, and the time will come when all 
Southern sportsmen wil agree with us in 
this matter.—Ebrror. 





TI am sending you a copy of the new game 
law of Georgia. Richmond county is in the 
van for game protection. I never miss a 
copy of RECREATION. 

A. H. Mieqel, Augusta, Ga. 


Why don’t you and your friends join the , 


RECREATION. 


L. A. S.? Then you would be in touch and 
co-operation with the other sportsmen of 
your State, and with those of the entire 
United States. As everyone knows who 
has investigated, this League is the greatest 
game protective agency ever organized, and 
all friends of the cause should be members 


of it—Ebrror. 





Game is plentiful in this region. Ruffed 
grouse, prairie chickens, ducks and rabbits 
are numerous. Quails are increasing and in 
a few years will afford good sport. Our 
game laws are being rigidly enforced and 
many arrests have been made. We have 
plenty of bass, pickerel, suckers and sun- 
fish in our lakes, and good fishing can be 
had almost any time. Wolves are numerous, 
but as a bounty of $7 has been placed on 
them, they will no doubt decrease in num- 
ber. Of fur bearing animals we have coons, 
muskrats, and mink. 

A. E. Flint, Norden, Minn. 





You remember the entertainment we pre- 
pared for you at the L. A. S. meeting in St. 
Paul in the shape of a seizure of 11 saddles _ 
of venison and over 600 ruffed grouse? 
Well, the grand jury failed to indict, the 
first term, but we brought the matter up 
again and got 2 indictments. Mr. Ertz has 
just been tried on the first indictment and 
paid a fine of $500 in cash. The other in- 
dictment still hangs over until next term. 
Such fines as these will make some of the 
law breakers think the business is not all 


profit. . 
S. F. Fullerton, St. Paul, Minn. 





I have always taken REcREATION, and like 
it ever so much. I like the way you pound 
the game hogs, and I like the lovely pic- 
tures you print. The other day it rained 
hard and as that is the only time one can 
kill ducks here on Washoe lake, I thought 
I would try to get some. I went out with 
my brother. He killed 3 ducks. I killed 2 
at 2 shots with my single barrel gun. I 
am not yet Io years old. I used to shoot a 
Remington rifle when I was only 8, and 
killed lots of rabbits. 

Johnnie Bath, Franktown, Nev. 





A neighbor of mine, Tom Boettget, at 
Callicoon Depot, found a dead carrier 
pigeon near his barn the 5th of February, 
1904. There was an aluminum ring on its 
leg numbered, N. H., 3,424; also an in- 
scription reading “Patter’ or “Potten.” 
The ring will be returned to the owner if 
he can be found. 

Charles St. John, Callicoon Depot, N. Y. 





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FISH AND FISHING. 


ALMANAC FOR SALT WATER FISHERMEN. 


The following will be found accurate and val- 
mable for the vicinity of New York City: 

Kingfish—-Barb, Sea-Mink, Whiting. June to 
September. Haunts: The surf and deep channels 
of strong tide streams. JBaits: Blood worms, 
shedder crabs and beach crustaceans. Time and 
tide: Flood, early morning. 

Plaice—Fluke, Turbot, Flounder. May 15 to 
November 30. Haunts: The surf, mouth of tidal 
streams. Baits: Shedder crabs, killi-fish, sand 
laut. Time and tide: Ebb, daytime exclusively. 

Spanish mackerel—Haunts: The open sea, July 
to September. Baits: Menhaden, trolling—metal 
and cedar squids. ; 

Striped Bass—Rock Fish, Green Head. April to 
November. Haunts: The surf, bays, estuaries and 
tidal streams. Baits: Blood worms, shedder crabs, 
Calico crabs, small eels, menhaden. Time and 
tide. Night, half flood to flood, to half ebb. 

The Drums, Red and Black. June to Novem- 
ber. Haunts: The surf and mouths of large bays. 
Bait: Skinner crab. Time and tide: Day, flood. 

Blackfish—Tautog, April to November. Haunts: 
Surf, vicinity of piling and old wrecks in bays. 
Baits: Sand worm, blood worm, shedder crabs, 
clams. Time and tide: Daytime, flood. 

Lafayette—Spot, Goody, Cape May Goody. 
August to October. Haunts: Channels of tidal 
streams. Baits: Shedder crabs, sand worms, clams. 
Time and Tide: Day and night flood. 

Croker—July to October. Haunts: Deep chan- 
nels of bays. Baits: Shedder crabs, mussels. 
Time and tide: Day, flood. 

Snapper—Young of Blue Fish, August to No- 
vember. Haunts: Pivers and all tide ways. Baits: 
Spearing and menhaden;_ trolling pearl squid. 
Time and tide: Day, all tides. 

Sheepshead—June to October Haunts: Surf 
and bays, vicinity of old wrecks. Baits: Clams, 
mussels, shedder crabs. Time and tide: Day, 
flood only. 

New’ England Whiting—Winter Weak-fish, 
Frost-fish, November to May. Haunts: The 
surf. Baits: Sand laut, spearing. Time and tide: 
Night, flood. 

Hake—Ling. October to June. Haunts: Open 
sea surf, large bays. Baits: Clams, mussels, fish. 
Time and tide: Day and night, flood. 

Weak-fish—Squeteague, Squit. June to October. 
Haunts: Surf, all tideways. Baits: Shedder 
crabs, surf mullet, menhaden, ledge mussels, sand 
laut, shrimp. Time and tide: Day and night, 
flood preferred. 

Blue Fish—Horse Mackerel. June to November 
1st. Haunts: Surf, open sea and large bays. 
Baits: Menhaden, surf mullet and trolling squid. 
Time and tide: Daytime; not affected by tides. 





SOME FLY FISHING WRINKLES. 
E, E, HICKOK, 


In view of the vast amount that has been 
written about fly fishing, it is surprising 
to find so few anglers who know even the 
first principles of the art. While my lim- 
ited experience does not qualify me as an 
instructor in expert work, I have found in 
practice much that is at variance with the 
books. Many imagine that to practice fly 
casting one must have expensive tackle and 
an instructor; also that no fish except trout, 
bass or salmon will rise to a fly. That is 
all a mistake. An outlay of $2 will procure 
the needful outfit; any one of average intel- 
game fishes will take a fly as well as or 


better than they will take live baits. The 
art may be practiced in any small lake or 
stream in the country, wherever the water 
is not too muddy. 

I have often wondered why fish take an 
artificial fly. The natural answer would be, 
because of its resemblance to the insects on 
which the fish is accustomed to feed; and 
on that theory thousands of patterns have 
been devised to suit any and all fancies. 

Most writers, however, assert that a 
dozen or so different flies may suit all cases. 
I think the fish does not take the fly be- 
cause it thinks it is something good to eat, 
but because it sees something moving, and 
wants to know what it is, and it can find 
out only by taking it in its mouth. 

Many advocate the use of colors in the 
make of flies, from white through pink to 
red, yellow, blue, purple, green and black. 
My experience is that what best attracts the 
fish is the best killer. Therefore, in clear 
water, on a bright day, I use altogether 
dark flies, of small size. On a cloudy day, 
in clear water, a lighter shade, and the same 
on a clear day in dark water. If both day 
and water be dark, or if it be nearing dark 
on a clear day, I use a light colored fly ona 
larger hook. On clear days a dash of red 
may prove attractive, but beyond this I have 
no fancy for colors; nor have I much of an 
opinion of feathers in the make up of flies, 
for the reason that they are harder to make, 
easier to destroy, and no more attractive 
than those made of hair. 

It is in every way desirable that the ang- 
ler should learn to tie his own flies, as he 
will find in this much of that anticipatory 
preparation which is only a slight degree 
removed from actual participation. I once 
saw.a gentleman stop and pick up a bit of 
black fur or hair, which had evidently fal- 
len from the fur cloak of some lady. May- 
be it was a bit of the tail of a marten, but 
whatever it was, he put it in his pocket. 
The proceeding seemed a bit undignified, 
but by it I recognized him as a brother 
chip, and I imagined that this little scrap 
would fill a nook in his tackle box, and at 
some time or other would be worked up into 
a fly. In my own box I have wisps of black 
horse hair, white horse hair, goat hair, dog 
hair, gray squirrel tail, fox squirrel tail, 
red cow’s hair, a buck tail, a bit of old sisal 
rope, a bit of tin foil, some quail feathers, 
blackbird, blue jay, some hackles from the 
necks of white, red, black and dun roosters, 
besides other stuff. 

A scrap of red flannel, some wax, black 
thread, white thread and silk, complete the 
kit. From it I construct some outlandish 
looking things, but they catch fish. 


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In making a fly I first attach the gut to 
the hook with a half hitch and 2 loops of 
waxed silk, then lay on a bit of hair twice 
as long as I want the finished fly to be. If 
I want a body, I use more hair, and double 
it for the body. The hair is fastened to the 
hook near the end of the shank with a few 
loops of the silk, working the hair with the 
fingers so that it is even around the hook. 
Then I fold the hair back over the loops 
already made, and loop it on with the silk, 
trim off the ends, and it is done. If I want 
the thing to have wings, I trim them on 
with the scissors. The softer the hair, the 
neater the job can be made. This kind of a 
fly is practically indestructible by fish and 
will last longer than the gut, while its cost 
is practically nothing. Of black horse hair, 
in this manner, I make an imitation house 
fly, or blue bottle, and I really believe that 
this kind of a fly is the only one a fish takes 
that it tries to swallow. I have often seen 
moths, millers and bugs floating on the 
water, but never saw a fish take one; but I 
have laid my fiy, unlike anything living, 
among the insects, and had fish take it. 

My partner is a crank, and spends lots 
of time in making regulation flies, and new 
patterns of his own devising; but my hair 
flies do equally as good if not better work. 

The books all say, never use any but the 
best quality of hooks. The hooks I use can 
be had for 10 cents a hundred, and I have 
never yet lost a fish by a hook breaking or 
through any fault of the hook, so I see no 
use of paying $1.50 when Io cents answers 
the same purpose. 

The books say, never buy a cheap rod. 
That advice is good enough for those who 
have money to burn; and, of course, a rod 
that costs $15 will be more valuable and 
better cared for than one that can be bought 
for 60 cents. My partner has one of the 
latter price which he has used for 3 seasons, 
being out probably 30 days each season. 
Time and again has he landed bass of 3 
pounds weight with it, and for all that I 
can see it is as good as at first. After 2 
seasons’ use he took off all the guides and 
wrappings, sandpapered off the old varnish, 
put on new guides and wrappings, and with 
a double coat of coach varnish made it 
really better than when new. With it he 
can cast far and accurately, and land any- 
thing he strikes; so what more can be asked 
of a rod? 

The books say, always have your leaders 
6 to 8 feet long, and the flies 3 feet apart 
if using more than one. What’s the use? 
The purpose of the leader is to make the 
connection between line and fly invisible. 
To this end many advocate stained leaders, 
which, really, when seen in the water are as 
plainly visible as the line; but granting 
that they are not, surely a fish will not no- 
tice the difference when only a 3 foot leader 


RECREATION. * 


is used, and if the flies are only a foot apart 
they will have a better chance of getting a 
fish than if 3 feet apart. The most impor- 
tant thing in catching fish is first to find the 
fish. Then the flies should be laid on the 
water near the fish. If 3 flies of different 
shades are then near together, it stands to 
reason that the fish has choice, and may 
take either of the 3; but if the flies are 3 
feet apart only one fly has a chance. True, 
one of the others may get a fish by being 
where the fish was not expected to be, but 
that will be. a scratch catch. 

The books say that before going fishing 
one should practice casting on shore with- 
out leader or flies, until the art is learned. 
I do not agree in this, for the difference 
between casting on land and on water is so 
great that after learning on land it will be 
necessary to learn again on water. A dry 
line will work entirely different from a wet 
line, and the slight resistance which is made 
by having the flies attached will entirely 
change the cast. I'll agree that there need 
not be any fish in the water cast over, but 
the water should be there, and all the trim- 
mings. If the learner knows there are no 
fish where he is casting, it will require more 
than ordinary- perseverance to keep at prac- 
tice long enough to get the hang of it. My 
partner was self-taught, and so was I; or 
rather, we taught each other, one paddling 
the boat while the other cast, and when one 
of us caught a fish he lost his turn. Some- 
times we changed often, and then again we 
did not change until both of us were more 
than willing; but I don’t know of any bet- 
ter way to learn, unless some one who 
knows the art is willing to act as teacher. 

If I had to learn over, and by my- 
self, I should take the bank, and selecting a 
place where there were no bushes or trees, 
would stand with my right side to the water 
and draw from the reel about 15 feet of line. 
Holding the line in my left hand and ex- 
tending the rod over the water a little back 
of me, I would bring the point forward 
3 or 4 feet and stop with a little bit of a 
jerk, somewhat like cracking a whip. By 
so doing the spring of the rod would carry 
the line forward, so the flies would strike 
the water at the extreme length of the line, 
and close to the shore. 

I should then let the flies settle in the 
water while I could count 5, and would 
then, with my left hand, draw in 3 or 4 feet 
with a jerky motion. 

I should expect a strike, but if I got none, 
should give a backward swing to the rod 
rather upward, and stop with a jerk as I 
did when sending it forward. This motion 
would send the flies to the full length of the 
line back of me, but above the water. As 
I could not look back to tell when the line 
was fully extended, I should give about the 
same length of time as it took it to go for- 


FISH AND FISHING. 


ward, say while I was counting 2, 
before I brought it forward again. If I 
heard a little snap, I should know I was a 
little too quick, and next cast would allow 
more time. When I brought the line for- 
ward again, I should pay out the surplus 
line I had drawn in with my left hand, do- 
ing so just as the flies had reached the full 
length, and this would cause them to drop 
lightly on the water, that is, if I had aimed 
at a spot about 3 feet beyond where I want- 
ed them to alight. 

I should stand in the same spot, and prac- 
tice this motion maybe a dozen times, or 
until I could do it to my satisfaction, and 
should then take a step or 2 forward while 
the flies settled on the water. This time I 
should draw more of the line back with the 
left hand, and as I raised the line for the 
back cast I should give it out and draw off 
3 feet more to give out on the forward cast ; 
and so on, keeping a constant whipping 
until I got a strike or until I saw a “boil” 
in the water near where I knew the flies to 
be. Feeling or seeing this, a slight turn of 
the wrist would set the hook, and playing 
and landing would follow. In playing the 
fish I should not take time to reel the line, 
but should draw it in with the left hand. 
After landing the fish I should start with 
15 feet, extending the cast as before. 

In all casting along shore I should not 
attempt overhead work; but after I had 
gone as far as I cared to I should change 
the rod to my left hand, and with my left 
side to the water -go back over the 
same ground. All the time I should keep 
my upper arm close to my side, letting the 
muscles of the forearm and wrist do all the 
work. Often the wrist alone will do all 
that is required, especially in casting under 
low bushes or overhanging trees where in- 
viting spots are constantly being presented. 
I have had no experience in casting when 
wading; it’s too mussy to suit me. Casting 
from a boat is my preference, as I then have 
a place for the duffle and have nothing to 
carry. Besides, the fish can be better cared 
for, and there is usually room for the back 
cast without the flies alighting in the limbs 
of trees where they are likely to be lost. 
Then, too, the flies often snagged under 
water, and with a boat I can get to them 
better. _ It is seldom that 4o feet of line are 
needed; more fish are caught within 25 feet 
than over that distance. Still, it is well to 
be able to cast accurately as far as even 50 
or 60 feet. 

I recall an incident when my partner and 


I, at opposite ends of the boat, were both — 


casting, while a third man rowed us slowly 
about 40 feet from shore. 

From a bunch of weeds on the shore 
there flew out a coot, which, circling round, 
alighted out in the lake about 60 feet from 
us. Hurriedly drawing off what we thought 


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was the right length of line, both of us cast 
for the bird. My line alighted on its back, 
the nearest fly 3 feet beyond it. My part- 
ner laid his tail fly a few inches in front 
of it, and, as tail flies will often do, it gave 
a kind of a turn, so when my companion 
drew it back, which he did instantly, the 
hook drew under the coot and caught it by 
the leg. The bird tried to fly, but could 
not get start enough to rise; then it dived, 
but the strain on the leg rolled it over; then 
it tried to swim, using both legs and wings. 
That was a pretty hard strain for the 60 cent 
rod, still it held in good shape; and after 
I5 minutes my friend landed the coot, to his 
satisfaction and that of 15 or 20 other 
anglers, who were looking on. 

A useful accomplishment in casting from 
a boat is to be able to row the boat with one 
hand while casting with the other, either 
right or left handed. This can easily be 
done by using loose oars, a little longer than 
ordinary, so one can be laid down while a 
stroke is being made with the other. I say 
this can be done easily; at least it looks 
easy when my partner is doing it, but some- 
how I can’t get the exact hang of it. Still, 
it is a good thing to learn, for sometimes 
one may wish to go alone in a boat. I am 
going to learn it, if it takes me all summer. 





GREEDY WASHINCTONIANS. 

Herewith I enclose chipping from the 
Shelton Weekly Tribune, about 2 game 
hogs who wear both bristles and scales. 

A. T. P., Shelton, Wash. 

O. A. Bailey and W. B. Forbes fished Golds- 
borough creek last Tuesday making a catch of 
118 trout 8 to 18 inches in length. This is ‘the 


largest catch of the season, and the boys only 
fished 2 hours. 


I wrote these men as follows: 


I am informed you and a friend recently 
caught 118 trout in 2 hours. Will you kind- 
ly let me know if the report is correct? 


Following is the reply I received: 


That is true. O. A. Bailey and I left 
here at 5 o'clock in the morning, driving 
6 miles up Goldsborough creek, there taking 
a canoe, or dugout, and working our way 
up stream through dense underbrush which 
it is impossible to get through any other 
way. After going up one mile we fished 
down to where we started from. Only one 
of us could fish at a time, as there was not 
room enough to turn our dugout sideways. 
It took us 2 hours to come down, and we 
had caught 118 brook trout varying from 
10 to 18 inches. 

W. D. Forbes, Shelton, Wash. 


If it be true that your 118 fish measured 
8 to 18 inches in length, we may safely as- 
sume that they averaged one pound each 
in weight or a total of 118 pounds, so that 


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you deserve a place in the fish hog book and 
shall have it. Your number is 1,005, and 
Bailey’s is 1,006.—EDITor. 





TOO MANY TROUT. 


Your letter of the 19th has been re- 
ceived. The report to which you refer is 
in the main correct. There were 3 friends 
with me. We left Chipman July 14th for 
the Gaspareau river, and began fishing 
Wednesday morning, July 15th. By Sat- 
urday noon, when our team returned for 
us, we had secured 70 dozen trout. We 
were fortunate in having a guide who could 
prepare them for the table, and who also 
understood curing trout as I never had 
seen them cured before. I am sure they 
would keep for weeks. The longest fish 
we took were about 13 inches; the great 
bulk of those we kept were probably Io 


inches. 
‘Frank Baird, Sussex, N. B. 


You say 4 of you caught 70 dozen trout 
in 3 days. This is an average of 70 trout 
a day to each man and, as I understand 
your statement, it is fair to assume that 
the trout would average % pound each or 
more; so it seems each of you caught 
over 35 pounds of trout a day for the 3 
days. This is clearly excessive and falls 
little short of slaughter. Any gentleman 
should be satisfied with 10 pounds of trout 
a day, no matter how abundant they may 
be; and the best type of the true sports- 
man quits when he gets enough, no matter 
how many fish or how much game may still 
be in sight——EbiTor. 





TROLLING HOOK. 


No. 720,435. Allen H. Smith, Tremont, La. 
Filed March 18, 1903. Serial No. 


148,387. 





Claim.—The combination with a tubular 


body having openings therein and slots cor-. 


responding to said openings, and a stem 
mounted to slide in the said tubular body, 
of a cup secured to the stem and located 
within the apertured and slotted portion of 
the body, the said cup being provided with 
slots at its open end, a cap for the open 
end of the cup, also secured to the stem 
and having corresponding slots therein, and 


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fishhooks the shanks of vhich pass through 
the slots in the said tubular body, the inner 
ends of the shanks being pivoted within 
the said cup, extending out through the 
registering slots in the cup and its cap. 





NIBBLES. 
Do any fishes, when in their native 
haunts, make guttural noises? 
How can one tell the age of muskalonge ? 


A. W. Gregg, St. Paul, Minn. 


ANSWER, 


Many fishes give forth grunting sounds. 
It is impossible to name all that do so. All 
fishes of the genus Diabsis, commonly 
known as grunts, give forth grunting 
sounds when taken from the water. Of 
other fishes that do so, the following are a 
few: sea robin, Dactylopterus volitans; 
croaker, Micropogon undulatus; and drum, 
Pogonias. 

No observations have been made on the 
rate of growth of muskalonge.—EniTor. 





I was much interested in Dr. Adkins’ 
letter in October REcREATION, and I should 
like to add this. I have fully 20 different 
kinds of artificial baits, but I have dis- 
carded all of them for the Hildebrandt 
spinner. The spinners will catch bass when 
everything else fails. I was induced by a 
friend to try a Hildebrandt. The first day 
I landed a small mouth bass which weighed 
nearly 6 pounds, and a number of smaller 
ones. I ordeted one dozen spinners the 
same evening, and have used them all sea- 
son, always with success. I heartily rec- 
ommend them to every angler. RECREATION 
is the best magazine ever published. It is 
worth a dollar a copy. 

T. R. Navarre, Monroe, Mich. 





Trout fishing in the rivers and bass fish- 
ing in the lakes in North Idaho was never 
better than at the present time. Some large 
catches are being made in the Coeur d’ 
Alene river, where trout thrive. 


R. L. Brainard, Wardner, Idaho. 





We had good fishing here all last summer 
and quite a number of large bass and pike 
were caught. 

L. A. Jaeger, Independence, Iowa. 


A fishy old fisher named Fischer 
Fished fish from the edge of a fissure; 
A cod, with a grin, 
Pulled the fisherman in— _ 
Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fischer. 
—Cincinnati Tribune. 


GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


Anybody can shoot all day, but a gentleman always quits when he gets enough. 


MORO GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 
GEO. D. RICE, \ 

Of all the warlike peoples of the Sou- 
thern seas, the Moro tribes of Mindanao— 
next to Luzon the largest of the Philippine 
islands—possess the strangest and most 
fantastic weapons. 

As a member of the punitive expedition 
under Colonel Baldwin of the 27th Infan- 
try, I had ample opportunity to study the 
extraordinary equipments of the Moro 
tribesmen. Numerous murders and depre- 
dations committed by Mohammedan na- 
tives of the lake country made necessary 
an invasion of that region. From the 
beginning of our march from Malabang to 
the lakes we met with determined opposi- 
tion. Engagements were of daily occur- 
rance. At Fort Pandapatan and in various 
subsequent actions we captured the wea- 
pons shown in the accompanying cuts. 

The pistol is a favorite arm with the 
Moros. Those used by the Sultans or Dat- 
tos are often intrinsically valuable because 
of their ornamentation, pearls and other 
gems being used for that purpose. Fig. 1 
shows one of these carved pistols of 
ancient pattern, yet effective at short 
range. I saw pistols consisting of a mere 
tube affixed to a wood handle, as in Fig. 
2. Only weak ammunition is used, and 
the missiles employed are ordinarily peb- 
bles, bits of glass, etc. 

I saw one gun like that in Fig. 3, in 
which the cap was exploded by allowing 
the string of a bow to strike suddenly 
against the hammer. The idea was doubt- 
less derived from the medieval bow-gun. 
Fig. 4 is the most common pattern of Moro 
gun. It is an old design and made in 
Spain. The Moros used in almost every 
engagement a few Remingtons, Mausers, 
Springfields, Winchesters and now and 
then a Krag. The chiefs usually have con- 
siderable carved work on the stocks of 
their guns. Fig. 6 shows a favorite style 
of ornamentation, the stock carved in elab- 
orate floral effects and inlaid with rare 
gems. Fig. 5 represents one of the powder 
and ball bags carried by the Moro sol- 
diers. 

Sometimes natives in the line are pro- 
vided only with spears like that in Fig. 
6, a bamboo shaft with an old Spanish 
bayonet attached. In the trenches at Pan- 
dapatan many Moros fought with these 
bayonet-spears. 

The Moro is 
knife and 
weapon. 


: sensitive concerning his 
is exceedingly proud of that 
He spends hours cleaning and 


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polishing it, an attention he by no means 
pays to himself. Fig. 7 is a drawing of the 
sort of knife commonly used in the trench- 
es during the lake campaign. It must be 
understood that in capturing these Moro 






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CERES, 
A hy 


forts, the soldiers first have to destroy the 
select jurementados who occupy the deep 
trenches about the fort. They may be 
few in number, but they have taken oath to 
die killing the enemy and by so doing ob- 
tain assured entrance into the Mohamme- 
dan heaven. At Pandapatan, Maciu, and a 
dozen other engagements, I saw these fel- 
lows attack our men hand to hand with 
knives like that in Fig. 7 and fight to the 
death. We lost brave officers and men this 
way. Fig. 8 is one of the shields for this 
kind of knife, 


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The Moros call their cannon “lantacars” 
and one of these, as swung for use just in- 
side the walls of a Moro fort is exhibited 
in Fig. 9. The -Lantacar is of brass or 
bronze and has a small bore. Usually a 
round ball of iron or brass is fired. Some- 
times, the projectiles are stones, bits of 
metal, glass and the like. Moro gunners 
have to swing the point of the gun to get 


the required aim and steady the arm while 
it is discharged. The aim is seldom sure, 
but in every action some one would get 
hit by discharges from these guns. 

The Moros use our shells, Spanish shells 


and shells of all kinds over and over. 
Fig. 10 is one of our cartridges. If the 
Moro finds one too small to fit his piece he 
winds the cylinder with cordage, and this 
serves to hold the cartridge in place in his 





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shot gun barrel. Most of the homemade 
slugs of the Moro are stubby, as shown in 
Fig. 11. All are bad things to get hit with. 
One of the moulds that I found in Fort 
Binidlan after it was captured is shown in 
Fig, 12. One of the bronze-like balls cast 
in it is shown in Fig. 14. There is a prom- 
inent ridge about it, where the sides of the 
mould join. Fig. 15 is one of the tube 
bamboo ammunition cartridges. The na- 
tives use our shrapnel against us in a 


fight. They did that at Pandapatan and at 
Poalus. The cut shows the cartridge di- 
vided: the powder, held in by _ grass 
wads. Then the metal balls are put in, 


and wadded with grass as shown. This 
makes the missile ready for use in the lan- 
tacar. 

The Moros are great on armor. Fig. 
16 is one of the styles of metal helmets 
used by Sultans or Dattos. Wood helmets 
are also seen. The shoulders, chest and 
much of the body are protected by armor 
of deer horn or leather, made by linking 
pieces, as in Fig, 17. This of course pro- 
tects only against knives and spears. Chain 
armor is used, claimed to be bullet proof, 
though I do not believe it is. 





AUTOMATIC GUNMAKERS. 


Wherever I have been since October last, 
I have encountered the man with dog and 
gun. I bumped up against brother sports- 
men until they drove me plumb crazy and 
until at the first opportunity I, too, slid out 
for a vacation. 

I got mighty few birds, but had a few 
glorious days out of doors, and, after all, 
that is the chief pleasure and benefit de- 
rived from such trips. Incidentally I tacked 
up some L. A. S. posters and picked up 2 
applications for membership. 

Whenever and wherever I meet a man, or 
a party of men carrying guns and wearing 
shooting jackets, I proceed at once to get 
next. I can’t help it, I am built that way. 
We talk about birds, guns and ammunition, 
each man defending his own preference and 
possibly all hands getting some benefit from 
the discussion. 

Among other topics, we have talked about 
the newfangled automatic shot gun. Me- 
chanically, this gun may be a success; com- 
mercially, I doubt if it will be. Certainly 
it ought not to be; and if comments forcibly 
expressed by numerous sportsmen may be 
taken as samples of opinion in general the 
automatic will not be a seller to any great 
extent. I do not remember having heard 
anything else so universally condemned, and 
I have not heard one word in its defense. 
No real sportsman would be guilty of using 
such a gun, and its sale or use ought to be 
prohibited by statute throughout the United 
States. 


GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


I am in the habit of reading RecrEATION 
from cover to cover. It is no disparage- 
ment to its other departments for me to say 
- that Guns and Ammunition always interests, 
frequently instructs, and sometimes amuses 
me. I have read a number of letters con- 
~ demning a certain rifle and a certain, or per- 
haps I should say uncertain, brand of am- 
munition. If what I have read and heard 
spoken is true—if half be true—you ought 
to be glad that these goods are not adver- 
tised in RecrEATION. You will pardon me 
if I say that you ought not under any cir- 
cumstances to publish advertisements of 
such inferior articles. Readers of REcREA- 
TION are, as a rule, gentlemen sportsmen. 
Should there be any who are not such your 
aim is to educate them up to that standard, 
and I contend that the advertisement of an 
article in RECREATION should be a guaran- 
tee of its honest worth and quality. 

I have never used either the rifle or the 
ammunition referred to and, therefore, am 
not qualified to pass judgment on them. 
It seems to me, however, that the with- 
drawal of their ad by the manufacturers 
was an admission of guilt. If they were 
the objects of criticism which was unfair 


and unjust, why did they not put up a 


defence ? 

I have been many years engaged in manu- 
facturing. We advertise in trade journals 
in common with our competitors, and com- 
petition is strong. If the style or quality 
of our goods is criticised do I pout and 
withdraw my advertisement? Not on your 
life! I defend my own, which is not only 
my right but my duty. 

This reminds me of the Winchester inci- 
dent as detailed in Recreation. At the 
close of your statement you inquire, “What 
do the readers of REcREATION think of such 
business methods?” Answering for myself, 
and speaking from an experience of more 
than 30 years, I never saw or heard of any- 
thing so silly from a business point of view. 
It was childishly foolish and petulant; no 
business about it. I am amazed at such 
conduct. I cannot comprehend it. 

How many people could have followed 
Dr. Conyngham’s suggestions that they 
“load their own shells”? Not one in a 1,000. 
Suppose some old time gunsmith should 
say, in print, “Don’t buy factory made rifles 
or shot guns.” I suppose the Winchester 
people would immediately go out of busi- 
ness. Such action would be in logical se- 
quence to the precedent they established 
when they withdrew their ad from REcRE- 
ATION. 

There is one thing, however, for which 
you should give the Winchester people 
credit. When Mr. Bennett wrote you that 
the printing of the objectionable 5 lines in 
Doctor Conyngham’s letter, would “work 
serious detriment to their business,” he 


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paid a magnificent tribute to RECREATION 
as an advertising medium. 
L. A. S., No. 3614, Scranton, Pa. 


HIGH POWER RIFLES FOR HUNTING. 

In the delightful stories of the woods by 
J. Fenimore Cooper, there is a world of 
information of value to anyone who will 
read between the lines. Nattie Bumpo, the 
scout and hunter, was a myth; but his fa- 
vorite rifle, “Killdeer,” stood for a type of 
excellence that had been acknowledged and 
adopted by men whose names are familiar 
and whose deeds are part of our country’s 
history. The crafty red man and the wild 
beasts gradually fell back before these pio- 
neer hunters, such as Kit Carson and Davy 
Crockett. 

In days gone by the settler carried his life 
in his hand. Examine one of these old 
pieces, for they are yet to be found in col- 
lections. Only recently one was exhibited 
in the store of a prominent merchant in this 
city, with bullet pouch, powder horn, charg- 
er and bullet mold. The barrel is 33 inches 
long, the bore about .40 caliber, the bullet 
spherical. This gun, which came from the 
West Virginia backwoods, had been in one 
family several generations, and is now in 
the hands of a gentleman here who is an 
enthusiast in protecting game. He says 
the accurate range of the weapon is about 
140 yards, and its penetration at 75 yards 
about 3 inches of dry pine. This gun was 
good enough years ago, and now, with no 
savages in the woods, and few dangerous 
animals, the hunter of to-day plunges into 
the forest to slam bang the lead all over 
the scenery with a murderous high power 
small bore repeating rifle. It will take 
years to abate this condition by law, but 
can not the sportsmen of to-day be brought 
to their senses before all the game has been 
killed? 

It is certainly time for the floodtide of 
common sense to set in and show him the 
error of his ways. Let us stop and think. 
There is not an animal in the woods East 
of the Mississippi river that at a distance of 
75 yards can not be killed with a 25 caliber 
rifle. Some may say 75 yards is a short 
distance. As to this I quote from “The 
Rifle and Hound in Ceylon,” by Sir Samuel 
Baker, a sportsman known the world over. 
He says: 

“T consider the man a good shot who can 
bag a deer, running, at 50 yards and stand- 
ing sat 80 yards. Not hit, mind you, but 

ag.” 

That is, kill; and this is indeed a con- 
servative statement. It may be truthfully 
said that there are many 22 caliber rim fire 
rifles extant which if properly held would 
conform to the standard of Sir Samuel. 

Let us reason together, fellow sportsmen, 
along the lines of Lord Bacon’s famous 





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suggestion, “Not to doubt or to disbelieve 
or to dispute, but to weigh and consider.” 
Do we go to the woods for slaughter? I 
trust not; for there stands the divine com- 
mand. We go to breathe nature’s pure air, 
to see the delicate tints of the trees, to hear 
the music of the waters, to sleep sound, 
to get strong and as appetite comes to kill 
the venison to satisfy it. Let us leave to 
the armies the science of the small bore 
smokeless rifle. It is a soldier’s gun and 
its use in warfare is honorable; but let us 
get back to the days of our grandfathers 
and take up once again the single shot 
sporting rifle, with its black powder and 
short range. It is the companionship of 
the woods we want, and not to slaughter 
the wild animals. 
Ex-Ordnance Sergeant, Baltimore, Md. 





OFFICIAL CONDEMNATION OF THE AUTO- 
MATIC AND PUMP GUNS. 


Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, Secretary of the 
Pennsylvania State Game Commission, in 
his annual report to the Board says: 

A law should be passed prohibiting the 
use of the pump gun, and of the automatic 
gun, recently introduced. Our law forbids 
the use of the swivel gun, which, in my 
opinion, is not to be compared for destruc- 
tiveness with the guns above named, espe- 
cially on the water, where there is no limit 
to the kill. These guns are also destructive 
in the field, for experience teaches that the 
great majority of men who carry pump guns 
continue to shoot at flying game long after 
there is any probability of killing it, fre- 
quently after even the possibility is passed. 


Thus many a bird and animal is seriously , 


wounded; yet, because of distance, is not 
knocked down and is lost to the hunter. I 
have a letter from a reliable man hunting 
in Pike county, who tells of the wounding 
of 4 deer within half a minute, by a man 
who carried a Winchester pump gun, 
loaded with buck shot. A buck, a doe and 
2 fawns, came in sight, nearly I00 yards 
away. The man opened fire, shooting at 
each one in succession, wounding all, and 
getting none. This is entirely wrong, and 
should be prevented by law. 


Here is another: 


Madison Grant, Secretary of the New 
York Zoological Society, writes in the 
society’s official bulletin: 


A new engine of great destructive power 
has appeared in the field to aid the forces 
at work in the extermination of our game. 
This time it is the birds that are to suffer. 

A shot gun which fires, ejects the dead 
shell and reloads in response to one pull 
of the trigger has been placed on the mar- 
ket. With it the skilful market hunter 
can wipe out an entire covey in the same 


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number of Seconds that are now required 
for the discharge of the right and left. 

It may be difficult to prevent by law the 
use of these new automatic shot guns, al- 
though swivels and large bore shot guns 
have been interdicted in duck shooting, and 
pitfalls and snares barred in the chase of 
large game. A _ public sentiment can be 
aroused, and decent sportsmen can declare 
against the use of these new weapons; but 
only the law can reach the pot hunters. 

There is a crumb of comfort, however, in 
the fact that all these deadly devices in fire- 
arms bring rapidly closer the day when this 
State and all the other States will prohibit 
the use of lethal weapons, exactly as carry- 
ing of pistols; common throughout the 
country 50 years ago, has been stopped, with 
the entire approval of the public. 

In less than a generation the day will 
have passed when the American can wan- 
der at large over the landscape slaying all 
living things at will. Then, perhaps, some 
remnant of our game may be allowed to 
live in peace. 


_ Mr. Bennett, of the Winchester company, 
is busy trying to convince the public that 
my opposition to the automatic and pump 
guns is due to the fact that he withdrew 
his ad. from Recreation.. Has he also 
withdrawn his ad from the Pennsylvania 
Game Commission, and from the New 
York Zoological Society? If not why 
should these great institutions oppose the 
use of the slaughter machines P—Ep1tTor. 





THE POWDER HE LIKES. 


I have shot over 1,000 Robin Hood shells, 
loaded with that powder, and have loaded a 
large number in experimental trials. I 
greatly prefer the factory loads, however, and 
especially like the new Comet shell loaded 
with 34% drams Robin Hood and 1% ounces 
No. 7% chilled shot. I have tested Comet 
shells at the trap, and during a duck hunt. 
It surprised me to be able to kill ducks 
with No. 7% shot, that size being considered 
too small for duck shooting in these parts. 
I have had not a single misfire with Robin 
Hood shells, and the execution was all I 
could wish for. 

I killed a prairie chicken last fall at a 
stepped distance of 90 yards with one of the 
Comet shells mentioned. Five shot struck 
the bird and 3 went through it. I admit it 
was a scratch, for my skill will not enable 
me to make such shots often, but I after- 
ward tested the gun at go steps and it made 
a pattern that no prairie chicken could fly 
through and live. I am not bothered much 
by recoil, for I use a gun pad, but Robin 
Hood does not make the quick, jarring re- 
port of E. C. and L. & R. smokeless. The 
latter powder disgusted me after making 
150 shots with it. I noticed that the L. & R, 


powder burnt out through the primers, and 
I was only using a 24-grain load in the U. 
M. C. Nitro Club factory-loaded shell. 

L. & R. is too tumultous for me. 
Robin Hood is clean. It only takes a wipe 
through the barrel with an oiled rag, and 
one rub with the Tomlinson cleaner with a 
drop of oil on it, and the gun is ready to 
put away. It is quick, and as nearly smoke- 
less as they make bulk smokeless powders. 
L. & R. is the only true smokeless on the 
market. 

An indication of the vast spread of Rec- 
_REATION over the United States was called 
to my attention in a singular manner. Last 
summer you published a letter written by 
me in which some mention was made of 
Robin Hood. Since then I have received 
many letters from all points of the com- 
pass referring to the article and asking, or 
giving, advice about that powder. The 
‘writers of these letters all praised Robin 
Hood and were unstinted in their admira- 
tion of your magazine. I gladly gave the 
writer of each letter what small informa- 
tion my experience had revealed and it 
pleased me to know that the brotherhood of 
the gun is so frank and so ready to help 
one another. 

Referring to duck shooting with small 
shot: I find, by actual tests, that my 3% 
dram Robin Hood loads will give much bet- 
ter penetration than factory loads of 3 
other smokeless powders with Nos. 5 and 6 
shot. The latter shells were only 3 dram 
loads, however, but I should have thought 
the heavier shot would tend to equalize 
things, considering No. 7% shot was used 
against the larger’ sizes. 

Robin Hood, Topeka, Kan. 





HARKING BACK. 

I have been using rifles of all kinds and 
calibers 30 years, on all kinds of game 
found West of the Mississippi. Probably 
I have killed enough to warrant the sus- 
picion that there are bristles on my back. 

I wish some of the high pressure cranks 
would explain why they want a gun to 
shoot 2 or 3 miles after it has passed 
through the game. Of course they have a 
better chance to kill an unsuspecting native 
by shooting a long distance. One says: , 

“Tt would not be safe to tackle a grizzly 
bear with a 30-30.” Yet he wants to be 
classed as a hunter. 

Perhaps he is right as far as he is indi- 
vidually concerned; the chances are it 
would not be safe for him to tackle a griz- 
zly with a 13 inch cannon. I would give 
up a gold piece to meet a bear too big 
for me to tackle with any gun or revolver 
using even a 44 caliber Winchester cart- 
ridge. There should be a law to prohibit 
the use in any rifle of over 40 grains of 
black powder, or its smokeless equivalent. 


GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


. buckshot. 


301 


A deer shot through the shoulders, head, 
heart, or backbone, will go down just as 
quickly when struck by a 32-20 ball as if 
struck by the highest pressure gun. 

Shot guns are an invention of the devil, 
and are used by double barrel and pump 
hogs. Use a 22 rifle and give the game 
some show. I am surprised that a leader of 
the L. A. S., like our editor, would publish 
directions for loading shot gun shells with 
I am not hog enough to murder 
a deer with a shot gun. Out here we use 
shot guns and buckshot for road agents. 

I hunted deer for market, years ago, using 
the 44 caliber, ’73 model, Winchester and 
killed more deer than any 2 hunters on the 
same range using heavy rifles. 

Of course readers will say it is all very 
well for a good rifle shot to favor doing 
away with shot guns. I will anticipate their 
saying so and inform them that I have 
eyes which forever debar me from being an 
expert shot. 

There are 20 makes of rifles more reliable 
than any man who shoots them; the main 
point is to know that they will work surely 
and swiftly. 

W. C. Brass, Gold Hill, Ore. 





READERS PLEASE ANSWER. 


Please give me some information in re- 
gard to the comparative merits of the fol- 
lowing arms: What are the range and 
penetration of the 32 caliber Colt single ac- 
tion revolver, using the 32 Winchester 
smokeless shell? 

What is the best length of barrel for gen- 
eral use on targets, to be carried in a hols- 
ter? How does it compare with the same 
model in 38-40 and 45 calibers? 

Can ‘accurate shooting be done with the 
32 at 100 yards? 

How does the Colt automatic compare 
with the above? 

What is the best gauge shot gun for all 
around hunting? 

/ Albert Glenn, Pueblo, Col. 


I referred your questions regarding re- 
volver shooting to the Colt people, who re- 
ply as follows: 


We do not recommend the use of 
the 32-20 smokeless cartridge in our 
single action Army revolver, although we 
know this ammunition is used; therefore, 
we are not prepared to give the informa- 
tion desired regarding this ammunition. 
When this style of cartridge is used in 
this revolver, we advise the 32-20 black 
powder ammunition. We recommend 5% 
inch barrel on the single action Army re- 
volver when it is desired to carry it in hols- 
ter, also for target work. The 32-20 cart- 
ridge has less penetration and range than 
the 38-40, as the latter is a heavier cartridge, 


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having 40 grains powder as against 20 
grains in the former. Excellent targets 
have been made with the 32-20 cartridge at 
100 yards. This depends, of course, on the 
ability of the man behind the gun. The 
cartridges used in our automatic pistols 
are loaded with smokeless powder, and ex- 
ceed both in penetration and range, the 
black powder cartridges named above. 


In my judgment there is no shot gun that 
is suitable for all around shooting. For 
snipe, quails and shore birds a 16 or 20 
gauge gun with 26 inch barrels is right. 
For prairie chickens, ducks and geese I 
should use a 12 gauge with 30 inch barrels, 
weighing 8% to 9 pounds.—EDITor. 





SMALL SHOT. 


I should like to have some accurate data 
about rifles from any of your readers. I 
carried a .303 Savage in Canada last year 
but did not shoot any big game. My com- 
panion carried a 33 Winchester with which 
a caribou was killed with 2 shots. Both 
bullets went clean through and did not 
mushroom. These bullets are not so blunt 
as the ordinary small bore bullets, and I see 
that the weight is reduced to about 183 
grains. 

The last cartridges which I got for my 
Savage were from the Savage Arms com- 
pany and were said to be loaded with a 190 
grain bullet. If this load is right and the 
charge of powder is heavy enough, it should 
be better than the 33. This last gun and 
the 35 Winchester have their reputation to 
prove. 
as against all other American rifles. I do 
not understand why it is generally classed 
with the 30-30. It must be a far better kill- 
ing gun since the bullet weighs .30 per cent. 
more. It is, however, strange that the pene- 
tration should be so nearly the same as 
given in your table in November REcrEA- 
TIon. Since you speak of a 180 grain bullet 
I presume you mean Winchester company 
loaded shells, which are not the same as the 


Savage. 
W. M. E., Baltimore, Md. 





Can you tell me how to reload 25-30 rifle 
shells without a full charge of powder? 
At present I am using about 8 grains of 
semi-smokeless, wadded with sawdust to 
_ keep the bullet from falling into the shell. 
Am using an Ideal No. 4 reloading tool. 

Louis Lyens, Coldbrook, Ill. 
ANSWER, 

Good results are not often obtained by 
filling vacant space in the shell with saw- 
dust. This increases the recoil and some- 
times causes fouling difficult to remove. 
I suggest using some of the new high 
power rifle shells made by the Win- 
chester Repeating Arms Co. These have a 


I am a believer in the Savage .303. 


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crease at the base of the bullet, which pre- 
vents the bullet from being pushed into 
the shell. If black powder is used in these 
shells a wad could be placed over the pow- 
der to keep it in the base of the shell in 
contact with the primer.—Epiror. 





I have taken RECREATION 3 years and am 
much pleased with the way it handles ques- 
tions asked by its readers. They are an- 
swered better than in any other sportsmen’s 
periodical that I see, and I take 5. Will 
you or your readers kindly answer the fol- 
lowing. Of the Parker, Ithaca, Remington, 
Baker and Lefever guns, which is the best? 
Will shot spreaders make a full choked gun 
equal a cylinder bore for close range wing 
shooting? Would the use of shot spreaders 
wear away the choke? Would you choose 
a 12 or a 16 bore for shooting rabbits and 
grouse? Which is best at the trap? Would 
a I2 or a 15 inch beagle be most service- 
able to a man hunting rabbits on foot? 

Small Game, W. Lebanon, N. H. 


Will some of my readers please answer? 
—EbIrTor. 





The gauge, or bore, of shot gun barrels 
was originally designated by che number 
of solid spherical lead balls to a pound, one 
of which would exactly fit the bore. Thus 
the 12 gauge runs 12 balls to the pound, the 
16 gauge 16 to the pound, and so on. Hence 
the numbers of the different bores run in- 
versely to their diameters, The ball fitting 
the I2 gauge is .729 inches in diameter, and 
that fitting the 16 gauge .662 inches. While 
this system of measurement seems crude and 
awkward as compared to the caliber meas- 
urement of rifle bores, like other archaic 
systems of weights and measures, long es- 
tablished custom continues its use.—Baker 
Gun Quarterly. 





I have hunted all through Wisconsin, 
Minnesota, Michigan and Canada and have 
used all kinds of rifles on deer, bear and 
moose. At present I am using a .303 Sav- 
age. I see some complaints about the stock 
of this gun being too short; I am over 6 
feet tall and a 13 inch stock fits me to. per- 
fection. A .303 will stop anything that a 
45-90 will and make just as big a hole. 
Why use such a heavy caliber as 35 when a 
.303 will do the work? My favorite shot 
gun is an Ithaca hammerless. 

G. E. Van Alstine, Rockford, III. 





I wish some of your good wing shots 
would give me a few pointers on holding on 
chickens and grouse in their different lines 
of flight. Where can I get a good book on 
dog training? 

J. E. Bates, Spokane, Wash. 





NATURAL HISTORY. 


When abird or a wild animal is killed, that is the end of it. 


If photographed, it may still live and 


its educational and scientific value is multiplied indefinitely. 


A BIRD LOVER IN THE NORTHWEST. 


It was with a feeling of deep pleasure 
that I learned of an unexpected oppor- 
tunity to go up into Minnesota for 2 weeks 
in July. In my bow and arrow days I had 
lived in the Land of the Blue Waters, and 
among the most treasured of all those 
early recollections was that of a multitude 
of birds which in its valleys and on its 
hillsides live and move and play their little 
drama anew each recurring season. . 

Mid-July is a hard time for the birds 
of the Mississippi valley. A large ma- 
jority of those whose singing enlivened May 
and June have folded up their music and 
retired without responding to the encore we 
were so glad to give. Only a few hardy 
singers, members of the finch family chiefly, 
seem able to resist the shimmering, all per- 
vading heat. As I lie in the woods among 
the stalks of fragrant pennyroyal and watch 
the branches and tree tops above for bird 
life I consider myself lucky if I can catch 
glimpses of any besides the petulant pewee 
and the aggressive blue jay. 

The splendid Pioneer Limited put me 
down at a junction in Wabasha county, 
Minnesota, about 5 o’clock one gray morn- 
ing at the beginning of dog days. Noon 
of the following day found me 4o miles 
West, in the valley of the Zumbro river. 
Zumbro! What a boom and a roar the old 
Indian name has; like the voice of its own 
waters in flood time. 

Once in the valley it was evident what 
a difference 3 or 4 degrees of latitude make 
with our feathered friends. Back in Ohio 
a few soloists are still giving us bits of 
music, reveries and nocturnes principally, 
but they lack the thrill and fire of the 
bridal choruses of spring. Here in the 
valley the whole chorus, from treble of 
indigo bunting to bass of His Highness, 
the owl, is still in full song without a 
quaver or a listless note to indicate the 
approaching end of the season’s revel. 
Spring has elbowed midsummer out of the 
way and come back to give us a taste of 
the days when the cup of the senses is 
filled to the brim. 

In the thickets of willow, box elder, and 
scrub oak, that clothe the lower, middle, 
and upper slopes of the Zumbro hills, there 
is every opportunity for the birds to enjoy 
life. Fertile bottom lands with their rank 
growth of weeds breed worms and larve 
in profusion; red raspberry bushes a few 
yards higher on the hillside furnish the 
best of fruit; while shade and water are to 


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be had for the asking. From the bird 
student’s standpoint there is a marked and 
acceptable difference between these haunts 
and those of the Maumee or the Central 
Mississippi valley, namely, the accessibility 
of the birds. To be sure, these Minnesota 
woods look scrawny and stubby to a man 
from the forests of elm or cypress, but 
here comes in what Emerson calls the law 
of compensation. Where trees are short 
there need be no straining or twisting of the 
neck to distinguish the hues of a Helmin- 
thophila or a Dendroica 80 or 100 feet 
above one’s head. 

Down near the water the catbirds were 
especially numerous, Sometimes as many 
as 4 were in sight at once on the telegraph 
wires; while others, hidden in the foliage, 
told of their presence in no uncertain way. 
A catbird, like a woman, can be charming 
when he tries, but when he chooses to scold 
he is a most uninteresting creature. In the 
Ozarks, in the Cumberlands, on the prairies 
of Illinois and along the historic Maumee, 
I had often observed Galeoscoptes caro- 
linensis, but in none of these sections have 
I found them so conspicuous either for 
numbers or music as in Southern Minne- 
sota. 

Our little friend of the Ohio berry fields, 
the indigo bunting, was also much in evi- 
dence. Instead of taking the dark, leafy 
recesses or the telegraph wires, like the cat- 
bird, he chooses for his perch the topmost 
twig. There he sits and swings, piping to 
himself in the manner of a person well sat- 
isfied with himself and the world. His wife 
dresses plainly; dull brown with a wash 
of blue seems to be the brightest she can 
afford. At any rate, he puts on the style 
for the whole family. I doubt not that in 
the nice economy of Nature things are 
evened; that the male gets: his bright suit 
to compensate him for some serious lack, 
perhaps some stratum of improvidence or 
thoughtlessness in his make-up. 

One Sunday afternoon found me wander- 
ing up the valley of the most interesting 
tributary of the Zumbro, an ice-cold trout 
stream only a mile long, yet large and pow- 
erful enough to run a mill. Alternating 
stretches of pasture and woodland, of noisy 
shallows and quiet pools, make it an ideal 
place for our feathered friends. The birds 
and the brook were such good company 
that the afternoon was almost gone before 
I realized it was time to start back if 
I expected any supper that evening. Sud- 
denly there fell on my ear the note of the 


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bunting. I looked about and finally located 
him in the top of a scrub oak. Below him, 
6 or 8 feet, sat a scarlet tanager, as brilliant 
as black and scarlet could make him, in 
his bower of dark green. Talk of the 
bright colored birds of the tropics! Who- 
ever saw, even in the forests of Honduras, 
a more brilliant combination of vivid colors 
than this of blue, black, and scarlet, set 
off against the green of the oak. A few 
rods past this tree I heard the old familiar 
chirp that greeted my ears on my rambles 
in Central Illinois, and there flew out of a 
bushy haw, straight to the top wire of the 
fence in front, a rose breasted grosbeak, 
an exponent of the beauty of the milder 
hues of rose, white, and black. 

Minnesota birds are not color demonstra- 
tors only; they sing with the best of any 
latitude. The evening before I left the 
Zumbro valley I was sitting on the upper 
verandah of the hotel, reading letters and 
looking over my notes for the day, when 
in the woods across the river, without an- 
nouncement or prelude, a wood thrush be- 
gan to sing. After a few of bars of purest 
fluting he ceased. A moment’s hush, and 
then, a quarter of a mile up the stream, 
came a response, in tones as pure and 
liquid as his own. Soon a third joined in, 
and for the next half hour of that brilliant 
Northern twilight the concert continued. 
May be it was a contest. If it was, those 
birds were on a higher plane than human 
beings at such times, for through it all 
there was not one harsh note of envy or 
jealousy to mar the perfect expression of 
full veined, midsummer life in the North. 
Who knows but what these birds were 


holding a round table conference or some- * 


thing of that sort and were telling one 
another the superior advantages of Minne- 
sota as a health resort? As the orange 
and red faded out of the West, to be re- 
placed by waves of crimson and purple, 
and finally passed into the soft.grey of 
early night, the trio lapsed into reveries; 
at last in one particularly rich chorus, in 
which all 3 participated, the music ended 
for the night. ° 
James S. Compton, Hazel Green, Ky. 





A SPRING TRIP TO PUSLINCH LAKE. 

In this locality Puslinch lake is the only 
body of water of any extent. It is 10 miles 
from the city, and is about a mile and a 
half long by a mile wide. 

The depth, counting only water, is about 
6 to 15 feet; but counting mud, apparently 
4to5 miles. The district surrounding Pus- 
linch lake has by far the richest fauna and 
flora of any place in this locality, and many 
are the visits I pay to this delightful spot. 

April 30th of last year the air was full 
of the revivifying influence of spring, the 
tender green was showing on the black 


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willow and trembling aspen, and the leaves 
of the red berried elder were well expanded, 
Five thirty a. m. found me mounting my 
wheel with a day’s provisions in my fish 
basket, which serves me as a provision bag, 
specimen case, egg box, and vasculum, and 
which also serves to get me into many an 
argument with the ultra religious when 
carried Sundays. These same individuals 
often seem much disappointed when I show 
them the contents and they find I am not 
breaking the laws of the land. 

When out on such a morning as this, 
one feels great compassion for people who 
prefer to snore between the sheets until 
the freshness of the day has worn off. As 
I wheel along, bird notes from all sides 
proclaim the identity of their ownets. From 
every hand comes the carol of the robin, 
always the first musician of the morning; 
from the fields the clear whistle of the 
meadow lark, the sweet song of the ves- 
per sparrow, on this occasion singing 
matins; the peculiar little ditty of the Sa- 
vanna sparrow, with its grasshopper-like 
ending; and from the plowed land the notes 
of the prairie horned lark, which resemble 
the squeak of an unoiled caster. 

As I pass a piece of damp woodland the 
minor whistle of the white throated spar- 
row, the fine music of the winter wren, the 
exquisite melody of the Wilson’s thrush, 
and the song of the ruby crowned kinglet, 
so powerful for the size of the bird, sound 
through the clear air. All these I recog- 
nize; but a new note strikes my ear, a 
sound like the sharpening of a fine saw. 
am off in a twinkling, not even waiting for 
the wheel to lose its momentum, and en- 
tering the bush quickly but quietly I behold 
the first warbler of the season, the black 
and white. He is creeping up the trunk of 
a white elm, picking out insects and their 
eggs from the crevices of the bark, and be- 
tween every mouthful or 2 uttering | his 
sharp “cee-sweee-cee-sweee-cee-sweee.” To 
the first appearance of anything for the 
season, great interest is always attached, 
but in the case of the first warbler this in- 
terest is augmented by the fact that for the 
next month our woods will be gay with the 
brilliant songs and bright plumages of these 
beautiful migrants. 

While watching this black and white 
warbler I hear another song, that of the 
black throated green warbler; a song dis- 
tinct from that of any other bird, hard to 
describe, difficult to imitate, but once heard 
always recognized. After renewing my ac- 
quaintance with this latter warbler, I mount 
and proceed, but while crossing the bridge 


over the river Speed, a fresh bird voice 


causes another hasty dismount, and I enter 
the thicket bordering the river to have 
a look at the water thrush, which has 
just arrived from the South. Up on a 





NATURAL HISTORY. 


branch of a dead cedar he sits and gives 
vent to his hurried “Witch-chew-chack- 
chack-chack-chew,” of which the 4 middie 
notes are emphasized. 

On I go again and from many bf the 
woods passed come the songs of their new 
arrivals mingled with those of the musi- 
cians who have preceded them by some 
time; and as an accompaniment the ruffed 
grouse sounds his drum, a piece of instru- 
mental music without which our spring or- 
chestra would be incomplete. 

When near the lake I leave the road and 

ride down a cow track to the shore. Out 
on the lake are flocks of American golden- 
eyes, and lesser scaup ducks. I cache the 
wheel and start on_a tramp around the 
lake, which, on account of bogs reach- 
ing in from it, is a distance of some 7 
miles. Passing through a piece of rich 
woodland I find the large white trillium 
just coming into bloom, the graceful bells 
of the yellow adder’s tongue hanging from 
their semi transparent stalks, which rise 
here and there from the dense bed of 
blotched leaves. The Canada violet is much 
in evidence here, its large white petals 
tinged, in a varying degree in different 
specimens, with purple. The spring beauty, 
purple trillium, early meadow rue, small 
flowered crowfoot, and downy yellow violet 
are here also. As I cross an open, swampy 
piece of land I pass over many beautiful 
clumps of the common blue violet; and 
entering a thin pine wood on the South 
bank I find one of the hepaticas (H. tri- 
loba) in full flower. The ground for some 
distance is covered with magnificent blos- 
soms, in all shades of mauve, blue and 
pink. In the thicket around the edge of the 
lake the shadbush is most attractive in its 
clothing of white blossoms, and the fly 
honeysuckle hangs out its pale yellow bells, 
2 to a stalk. 
._ When I reach the West end of the lake 
I conclude it is about dinner time. While 
I am supplying fuel to the fire of life a 
swamp sparrow hops, twig by twig, to the 
top of a dogwood bush (C. stolonifera) 
and delivers his liquid, thrilling “twee-twee- 
twee-twee.” 

Resuming my tramp I pass through a 
bog where I find the leatherleaf in bloom, 
and entering the white pine forest at the 
other side I notice the delicate white flow- 
ers of the goldthread showing among its 
3-cleft shining leaves. 

After having circumambulated the lake, 
I regain my wheel and proceed homeward, 
listening to the evening songs of the birds. 

A. B. Klugh, Guelph, Ont. 





WHAT THE BIRDS DO. 


It has been said that a bird would eat 
25 insects a day, which is a low estimate. 


‘owl had killed that season. 


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There are 170,000,000 acres in Texas, and 
allowing one bird to every acre, and 25 
insects to every bird we find 4,250,000,000 
insects, or 35,500 bushels are eaten by 
birds every day. Persons who study birds 
have killed different kinds to see how 
much they eat. In the crop of a quail 1o1 
potato bugs were found. In another quail 
were 500 chinch bugs. In a yellow billed 
cuckoo, at 6 o’clock in the morning, 43 
tent caterpillars were found. In another, 
were 217 web worms. 

In a robin were found 175 caterpillars; 
in 4 chickadees 1,028 eggs of the canker 
worm. One chickadee eats 5,000 eggs of 
the canker worm in one day. 

The barn swallow: eats 5,000 to 10,000 
flies and other insects in a week. The 
dove eats 7,500 weed seeds in a _ week. 
Nearly all birds, espécially hawks, eat lo- 
custs. There are 73 species of hawks. of 
which only 6 are injurious to man. The 
Fae herons and bitterns feed cn craw- 

sh. 

Birds carry tood to their young, whose 
mouths are always ready. One family ot 
jays ete one half million caterpillars a 
season, 

Someone caught a young robin, to see 
how much it would eat, and said its hunger 
was not satisfied with less than 60 earth 
worms a day. One man watched a wren 
and he said it fed its young IIo insects in 
1% hours. 

Near the nest of a martin was found a 


quart of wings of the cucumber beetle. 


This shows what a great number of beetles | 
were destroyed. Chipping sparrows each 
eat 200 worms a day. 

Near the nest of a horned owl were found 
the remains of 113 house rats, which the 
The barn owls 
destroy meadow mice, which are extremely 
destructive to young fruit trees. 

If every man and boy who shoots would 
read this and consider the good the birds 
do, I am sure there would be much less 
thoughtless killing of the innocent birds. 

Hattie Hill, La Porte, Texas. 





DEER DO SHED THEIR HORNS. 

In RecrEATION I have read accounts of 
deer shedding their horns and I recently 
noticed pictures of a head with antlers 
measuring 9 feet 3 inches from tip to tip 
across the skull, spread 53%, beam lengths 
55 and 56% inches. I have also seen in 
RECREATION photos of some larger antlers. 
Will you settle an argument on this sub- 
ject? If a deer sheds his horns in, say 
February, and has 9 months to produce a 
pair as large as those shown in RECREATION, 
what causes them to grow so fast? Some 
say they do not shed every year. Is it true 
that a buck is a year old before he gets a 
spike; then in 2 years he gets a prong, sheds 


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it in February and in 9 months he has a set 
of horns with 3 prongs. 

J. H. Berry, L. A. S. 4451, Newberry, Pa. 

ANSWER. 

.The antlers you saw illustrated and de- 
scribed in RECREATION are not those of a 
deer, strictly speaking, but of an elk. It 
is difficult to answer your question as to 
what makes horns grow. so fast, but they 
do all the same. If you cut off a horse’s 
tail, close to the bone, it will grow out again 
to the length of 3 feet within 2 or 3 months. 
The same law of nature which causes the 
hair to grow so fast as this causes elk 
horns and deer horns to grow to their full 
length in 7 or 8 months. The same law of 
nature that regulates these growths on ani- 
mals causes a corn stalk to grow to the 
height of 6 to 12 feet in 3 months. 

The men who say deer, elk and moose do 
not shed their horns every year do not know 
what they are talking about. If you will 
go in any zoological garden in January 
and again in February, you will find that 
probably all the deer and elk there have 
dropped their horns. If you go there again 
in April and May you will see new horns in 
course of growth with velvet or short hair 
all over them. Undoubtedly some of your 
people visit New York occasionally, and it 
would be well to ask them to go to the 
Bronx Zoological Park and examine the 
deer and elk, so they can report to you per- 
sonally.—EpITor. 





WHO CAN NAME IT? 
The other day, at noon, I noticed a 
strange bird light in a tree, and stopped 
to watch it. What most attracted my 


attention was the brilliant reddish pur- ° 


ple color under the wings, conspicuous 
while the bird was flying. It was exactly 
the shape of a dove. The breast and un- 
der part of the body were a shade lighter 
than those of the dove. On the sides and 
thighs were a few bars of black, and the 
upper parts of the wings were black pen- 
ciled. I should have thought it a young 
dove had it not been for the red under 
the wings. It had the same alert, quick 
motions as the dove when _ disturbed. 
Though it kept bobbing its head and act- 
ing as if it intended to fly, it allowed me 
to approach within 15 feet. When it flew, 
it alighted again in the same tree, and began 
cooing like a dove, but lower in tone and 
not so clear. It was evidently a grown 
bird, but was only about 2-3 the size of a 
dove. Will some reader of RECREATION 
tell me what it was? 
J. E. P., Round Rock, Tex. 


NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 


Some 4 years ago Mr. Cuppy, of Avoca, 
Iowa, owned a beautiful herd of deer, num- 





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bering over 20. During the summer they 
escaped and since that time have been 
at large. It is a pretty sight to see them 
in the pastures and fields. Since they 
escaped from confinement the herd has 
largely increased. Efforts will be made 
this winter to recapture them. 

One morning last July a resident of 
Avoca on going into his yard in the morn- 
ing found the ground under a tree liter- 
ally covered with dead sparrows. Some 
of them were still hanging in the branches 
of the tree. During the night there had 
been a heavy rain with some lightning. 
There were 150 dead birds under the tree 
What killed them? There were no wires 


near the tree, and the tree was uninjured 


either by wind or lightning. I shall be 
glad to hear some explanation from read- 
ers of RECREATION. 

Dr. Chas. W. Hardman, Laton, Cal. 





A family of wrens built their nest and 
reared their young in a ball of manila 
binder twine suspended by a wire from the 
rafters in an old workshop on our place 
last summer. It formed a snug home, and 
the paternal pair would vigorously resent 
any intrusion on what they considered their 
lawful domain. A pair of wrens were also 
observed inspecting the inside of a wooden 


_ pump, in search of a suitable nesting site. 


Their attempt at home making was baffled 
by the frequent use made of the pump. Sev- 
eral pairs of wrens occupied houses put up 
for that purpose. 

H. H. Birkeland, Roland, Ia. 





In September REcREATION there is an ar- 
ticle on the fish hawk which says that a 
family consists of 3 birds, 2 males and one 
female. Do you know this to be a fact? 
I have consulted 2 or 3 local ornithologists 
and they all question the statement. I can 
find no mention of this habit in either Coues, 
Chapman or Samuels. 

The Natural History department of your 
magazine is exceedingly interesting. I wish 
you could have more in it on bird life. 

Arthur R. Hanks, Needham, Mass. 


Will readers of RECREATION please ans- 
wer ?—EDITor. 





The Women’s Club of the 6th district of 
Iowa in convention here, passed _ res- 
olutions and signed a pledge never to wear 
any millinery or hats trimmed with birds, 
or feathers from song birds or sea gulls 

J. E. Fleener, Oskaloosa, Ia. 


This is Congressman Lacey’s district, and 
Oskaloosa is_ his home. Who says a 
prophet is without honor in his own coun- 
try ?—EDITor. 


THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 


GENERAL OFFICERS 


President, G. O. Shields, 23 W. 24th St., 
New York. 

tst Vice-President, E. T. Seton, 80 West 
4oth St., New York. 

2d Vice-President, W. T. Hornaday, 2969 

Decatur Ave., Bedford Park, N. Y. 

3d Vice-President, Dr. T. S. Palmer, 
Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 

4th Vice-President, A. A. Anderson, 80 
West 4oth St., New York. 

5th Vice-President, Hon. W. A. Rich- 
ae General Land Office, Washington, 
Secretary, A. F. Rice, 
Ave., Passaic, N. J. 

Treasurer, Austin Corbin, of the Corbin 
Banking Co., 192 Broadway, New York. 


155 Pennington 





PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6TH ANNUAL 
MEETING OF THE LEAGUE. 


The 6th annual meeting of the League of 
American Sportsmen was held at Colum- 
bus, Ohio, February Io and 11, 1904, the 
following officers and delegates being pres- 
ent: 


Se 


T. Hornaday, Vice President, New York. 

“ap ee Palmer, “Wash ington, D. C. 
F. Rice, Secretary, New Jersey. 

EL Hildebrandt, Chief Warden, Indiana Division. 
E. Tylor, Chief Warden, Maryland Division. 
E. Gleason, Chief Warden, Ohio Division. 
ae Porterfield, Delegate, Ohio Division. 

e0. Lilienthal, Delegate, Zanesville. 

iy Emerson, Chief Warden, Pennsylvania Di- 
vision. 

H. Pond, Delegate, Pa. 

Dr. Jos. Kalbfus, Delegate, Pa. 

S. White, Chief Warden, W. Va. Division. 
Hon. M. A. Bates, Delegate, Idaho Division. 
W. Van Iorns, 


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ae 


Ernest Russell, Delegate, Massachusetts Division. 
Hon, C. Brewster, Delegate, Michigan ‘“ 
Hon. Sam Fullerton, Delegate, Minnesota Ww. 
Hon. H. G. Smith, % 
Hon. H. A. Morgan, wr " ss 
August Reese, Delegate, Missouri $ 
T. F. Dawson. Delegate, Montana ti 
Hon. W. F. Scott, Delegate, “ = 
F. C. Wright, Delegate, New Jersey = 
C. A. Cooper, Delegate, Oklahoma s 


Hon. J. W. Baker, Delegate, Oregon 

ar ny Pearson, Delegate, North Carolina 

Capt. Goodrich, Delegate, Texas 

Hon. L e Christian, Delegate, Virginia 

Hon. T. P. Kershaw, Delegate, Washington “ 

Valentine Raeth, Del egate, Wisconsin 6 
B. Watrous, Delegate, - 

Wm, Benton, Delegate, Wyoming 


In addition to these, about 80 local mem- 
bers attended the meeting. 

The Governors of the following States 
appointed delegates to this, the sixth, meet- 
ing: 

Alaska. 

California. 

Connecticut. 

Indiana. 


Illinois. 307 


Massachusetts. 

Maryland. 

Michigan. 

Montana. 

Minnesota. 

New Mexico. 

New Jersey. 

Oregon. 

Ohio. 

Oklahoma. 

Pennsylvania. 

Virginia. 

Washington. 

Wisconsin. 

' Wyoming. 

This indicates a growing feeling of con- 
fidence in the League on the part of the 
various State Governments which is ex- 
tremely gratifying to all League workers. 

The officers and delegates all gave com- 
plete, comprehensive and encouraging re- 
ports of the progress of the game, fish and 
forest protection work in their respective 
states, which will be published in succeed- 
ing issues of RECREATION. 


The following resolution was offered by 
Vice-President Hornaday: 

Whereas, The records of the Chief War- 
dens of the League of American Sportsmen 
show an alarming increase in the killing 
of song and insectivorous birds, for food 
purposes, by Italian laborers and other un- 
naturalized foreign born persons seeking a 
Bvelbood in the United States; now, there- 
ore, 

Resolved, That all officers and members 
of the League, and all State Game Wardens 
of the United States, be hereby warned of 
the urgent necessity of a vigilant, vigorous, 
and continuous warfare against the entire 
oe of offenders named above. And, fur- 
ther, 

Resolved, That all State Legislatures be 
and they are hereby urged to enact and in- 
corporate in their game laws the section of 
the Pennsylvania law which prohibits hunt- 
ing by unnaturalized foreign born persons 
without first having taken out a license 
costing $10 a year. 

Mr. Hornaday moved the adoption of this 
resolution, and Mr. Wright, of New Jersey, 
seconded the motion, whereupon same was 
unanimously adopted. 


Chief Warden W. A. Gleason offered the 
following resolution : 
hereas, There is now pending before 
the Legislature of the State of Iowa a 
measure having for its object the prohibi- 
tion of spring shooting on ducks and other 
aquatic fowls; and, 
Whereas, The State of Iowa is directly 
in the line of flight of ducks and other 


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water fowls in passing from their winter 


home to their nesting grounds in the 
North; and, 
Whereas, Said State of Iowa is trav- 


ersed by many important streams, rivers 
and water courses in which the ducks and 
other aquatic fowls stop to feed and rest 
in their Northern flight, thereby inviting 
their wholesale destruction; and, 

Whereas, It is the common judgment 
of all thoughtful men that spring shoot- 
ing should be universally prohibited; there- 

re, 

Resolved, By the League of American 
Sportsmen, in National Convention assem- 
bled, at Columbus, Ohio, on the roth day 
of February, 1904, that it is the earnest de- 
sire of the League that said measure should 
7 immediately enacted into law. And fur- 
ther 

Resolved, That we respectfully urge the 
Legislature of said State of Iowa to pass 
said bill. And further 

Resolved, That duly authenticated cop- 
ies of this resolution be forwarded to the 
presiding officers of both branches of the 
Legislature of the State of Iowa. 

Mr. Porterfield moved the adoption of the 
foregoing and Mr. Morgan, of Minnesota, 
seconded the motion. Unanimously adopted. 


Mr. Tylor, of Maryland, offered the fol- 
lowing which, on motion duly seconded, 
was unanimously adopted: 

Whereas, Governor Myron T. Herrick, 
of the State of Ohio, Mayor Jeffrey, of 
Columbus, the press of the city, the mem- 
bers of the Ohio Fish and Game Commis- 
sion, the Ohio officers of the L. A. S., and 
the Olentangy club have shown the visiting 
delegates to the 6th annual convention of 
the League every courtesy, every consider- 
ation, every welcome, together with a spe- 
cial entertainment and banquet, thereby 
contributing greatly to the pleasure and in- 
terest of the convention; therefore be it 

Resolved, That the League of American 
Sportsmen, in annual meeting assembled, 
hereby expresses its hearty appreciation of 
all these courtesies, together with the ex- 
pressions of good-will and encouragement 
which have so materially assisted in making 
this meeting so entertaining, so pleasing, 
and so eminently successful. 


Mr. Sam Fullerton, of Minnesota, offered 
the following resolution, and moved its 
adoption : 

Resolved, That the League of American 
Sportsmen, in annual meeting assembled, 
at Columbus, Ohio, desires to go on record 
as emphatically and unalterably opposed to 
spring shooting of all kinds of game, be- 
cause we deem it a crime against the laws 
of nature to kill any bird or animal in the 
mating season; and further, because game 
killed in spring is unfit for food and should 
not be eaten. 


RECREATION. 


Dr. T. S. Palmer moved the adoption of 
the resolution, and it was thereupon unani- 
mously adopted. 


Mr. W. E. Gleason offered the following 
resolution and moved its adoption: 

Whereas, The present laws for the pro- 
tection of fish, game and insectivorous birds 
in the State of Ohio are in a measure in- 
consistent and easily evaded; and, 

Whereas, The Ohio State Fish and Game 
Commission has prepared a bill to create 
a fish and game commission, prescribing its 
duties and powers, providing for the pro- 
tection, preservation and propagation of 
fish and game in the State of Ohio, and for 
the enforcement of the provisions of said 
act, and prescribing proper penalties for vio- 
lations thereof; and, 

Whereas, Said bill has been introduced 
in the Legislature of the State of Ohio, 
therefore, 

Resolved, By the League of American 
Sportsmen, in convention assembled, that 
in our judgment the enactment of said bill 
into law would nlace the State of Ohio in 
the foremost rank in the matter of game 
and fish protection, and the Legislature of 
the State of Ohio is hereby petitioned to 
enact said bill into law. 

Senator H. A. Morgan, of Minnesota, 
moved the adoption of the resolution, and 
this motion was seconded by W. T. Horna- 
day, whereupon the same was unanimously 


adopted. 


Dr. T. S. Palmer offered the following 
resolution, which, on motion of Mr. Horna- 
day, seconded by Mr. Rice, was unanimous- 
ly adopted. 

« Resolved, That section 4 of Article 4 of 
the constitution be, and the same is hereby, 
amended to read as follows: 

The annual meeting of the League shall 
be held at such place and on such date as 
the executive committee may determine. 


Mr. B. S. White offered the following: 

Whereas, The cities of Seattle, Wash., 
Portland, Oregon, St. Louis, Milwaukee 
and Oklahoma have, through their repre- 
sentatives in this meeting, extended to this 
League most cordial and courteous invita- 
tions to us to hold our 7th annual meeting 
within their respective cities, therefore, 

Resolved, That the officers and delegates 
here convened do express to the people of 
these several cities and States our hearty 
appreciation of the hospitality thus offered, 
and we regret our inability to accept all of 
these invitations. We hereby express the 
hope that in succeeding years we may have 
the pleasure of holding meetings in each 
of the cities who have thus honored us. 

Mr. C. H. Pond moved the adoption of 
this resolution, and Mr. T. G. Pearson sec- 
onded the motion, whereupon it was unani- 
mously adopted. 


THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 


Mr. A. C. Cooper, of Oklahoma, offered 
the following resolution and moved its 
adoption: 

Whereas, The Hon. John F. Lacey has 
introduced in Congress a bill known as 
House Bill 11,584, and entitled “A Bill for 
the Protection of Wild Animals and Birds 
in the Wichita Forest Reserve,’ which 
bill authorizes the President of the United 
States to designate such areas in said for- 
est reserve as should, in his opinion, be set 
aside for the protection of game animals and 
birds for a breeding place therefor, and 
that when such areas shall have been des- 
ignated, all hunting, trapping, killing or cap- 
turing of game animals and birds within 
such areas shall be prohibited; therefore, 

Resolved, That the League of American 
Sportsmen, in annual meeting assembled, 
does hereby endorse and approve the said 
bill, and does hereby urge and implore the 
Congress of the United States to pass said 
bill at the earliest possible date. 

Mr. Ernest Russell seconded the. resolu- 
tion and the same was_ unanimously 
adopted. 


A banquet was tendered the visiting offi- 
cers and delegates, by the officers and mem- 
bers of the Ohio Division, which was at- 
tended by 140 men, including the Governor 
_of the State, a number of members of the 
Ohio Legislature, and the Mayor of the city 
of Columbus. 

Governor Herrick and Mayor Jeffries de- 
livered eloquent addresses in which they 
welcomed the visitors to Columbus on be- 
half of the people of the State and of the 
city, and tendered us every courtesy at their 
disposal. : 

The dinner was thoroughly enjoyed by 
all present, and addresses were made by 
several members of the Legislature and by 
other prominent citizens, as well as by 
League officers and delegates. 





ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 


The League of American Sportsmen was 
organized in February, 1808, with 147 mem- 
bers. To-day it has 9,815 members, dis- 
tributed throughout all the States and Ter- 
ritories of the Union and all the Provinces 
of Canada. We have also members in 
Mexico, in Cuba, in Porto Rico and in the 
Philippine islands. 

he past year has been one of the most 
eventful in the history of this great body. 
We have made substantial gains in mem- 
bership, in State organizations and in the 
work of securing good game laws for the 
various States. In no single year of our 
existence have we made more gratifying 
progress in this last named work than dur- 
ing 1903. A brief resumé of our work on 
these lines must certaily prove of deep in- 
terest to all League members and all other 
friends of game protection. 


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Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, 
Minnesota, Illinois, Tennessee, Virginia 


and Texas have completely reconstructed 
their game laws. Some of these States 
have repealed existing statutes for the pro- 
tection of game and of song birds, and 
have enacted completely new codes from 
beginning to end, built on thoroughly mod- 
ern lines. New York has lined up with 
Vermont, New Hampshire, Ohio, Michi- 
gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Utah, Alaska, 
Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, and 
Newfoundland in prohibiting spring shoot- 
ing of wild fowl. 

Nebraska, Texas and Idaho have passed 
the League bill to prohibit the killing of 
antelope at any time, thus leaving Colo- 
rado, Wyoming and Washington as the 
only States. in which any antelope are to 
be found and which have an open season 
on these animals. Arkansas now prohib- 
its the sale of game of all kinds; Illinois 
that of wild fowl; Washington that of rail 
and plover, and of water fowl with certain 
restrictions. New York has prohibited the 
sale of ruffed grouse and woodcock killed 
within the State. ; 

Texas and Arkansas have cut off the ex- 
port of wild fowl, and Indiana, Montana 
and Texas have established additional re- 
striction on the export of game. 

Illinois, Indiana, Montana, Tennessee, 
North Carolina and New Hampshire have 
passed laws requiring non-resident hunters 
to take out licenses, and Arkansas now de- 
nies non-residents the privilege of hunting 
there at any time. Several States have 
fixed limitations to the number of birds and 
animals that may be killed in a day or a 
season, and others have materially reduced 
the bag limit. 

Virginia has for years had on its statute 
books a so-called game law, but its pro- 
visions varied as to the different counties 
in the State, so that scarcely any 2 coun- 
ties had identical game laws. Many coun- 
ties were excepted entirely from all pro- 
visions of the general State law, and so had 
no restrictions against the killing of game 


- of any kind. During the past winter the 


Hon. L. T. Christian, a member of the Vir- 
ginia Senate and a member of this League, 
prepared a modern, up-to-date game law, 
introduced it in the Senate and pushed it 
through both Houses. It was approved by 
the Governor, and so the Old Dominion 
now has as good a game law as those of 
most of the other States. 

The members of this League may well 
feel proud of the result of their year’s 
work in the securing of good laws. The 
sweeping changes and improvements in 
these State laws are wholly due to the edu- 
cational work carried on by the League, the 
Audubon Societies and the American Orni- 
thologists’ Union. The same great wave 
of public sentiment on behalf of the wild 


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life of this country, which has enabled us 
to secure the enactment of so many good 
laws in so many States, greatly aids us in 
enforcing these laws. 

I believe it is possible for us so to 
strengthen this public sentiment, this whole- 
some respect for game, fish and forest laws 
and this interest in the preservation of all 
wild life, that violations of such laws will 
practically cease. We have an immense 
amount of work to do before we can bring 
about this condition, but we are doing it 
every day; and the number of people who 
favor good game protective laws, and who 
respect them when enacted, .is growing 
more rapidly than most people are aware of. 

Sometimes when we learn of large num- 
bers of depredations against game and fish 
laws in various parts of the country we 
are led to fear that in time all the wild 
animals and birds will be swept off the con- 
tinent, except such as may be confined in 
private or State preserves. On the other 
hand when the mails and the daily papers 
bring us glowing reports from every cor- 
ner of the land as to the thousands of 
people who are daily becoming interested 
in our work, we are inspired to hope and 
to believe that we shall be able in time to 
exterminate the game and fish destroyers, 
and to leave to posterity a country inhab- 
ited by millions of wild animals and birds. 

The membership of this League does not 
grow so fast as it should, but it grows. 
In my last annual report I told you we had 
9,210 members. To-day we have 9,947 
members, a gain of 737 during the year 
1903. 

A year ago we had 45 State divisions. 
To-day we have 48. 

A year ago we had 54 local chapters, and 
we have organized 9 since. At the last an- 
nual meeting I reported 176 local wardens 
commissioned and in the field. We have 
appointed 12 since then, making a total of 
188. 

A year ago we had 35 life members. We 
have enrolled 4 during the past year, so 
that we now have 39. 

From these figures it will be seen that 
the wheels of progress still move, and as 
we grow stronger they will move more rap- 
idly. 

For several years we kept an accurate 
account of the number of prosecutions and 
convictions of law breakers, in which 
League members were directly or wholly 
concerned. I am glad to be able to tell 
you that during the last year our members 
were more active on these lines than ever 
before, and it is no exaggeration to say 
that during 1903 members of this League 
prosecuted and secured the conviction of 
over 600 men for violating game, fish or 
forest laws. The value of this work is 
simply beyond computation. We all know 


RECREATION. 


that when a man in any town or village or 
farming community is convicted or fined 
for violating a game or a fish law every 
man and woman within 20 miles of him 
hears of it. More fear of and respect for 
the law is inspired by one conviction than 
by all the reasoning and preaching that 
could be done in a month. A burnt child 
dreads the fire, and when one gets burned 
the others learn to dread the fire, also. 

Even the Indians of the far West have 
learned that game laws are dangerous 
things to tamper with, and there have been 
fewer instances of wholesale killing of big 
game by Indians in the past year than in 
any previous year since the first game laws 
were made. 


I reported last year the sending out of 
a circular letter to wealthy men, asking for 
contributions to the game protective fund 
of the League. As a result we collected 
$770. A second appeal was sent to these 
same men, and to many others during 1903, 
but I regret to say the responses were not 
so generous. About $460 has been collect- 
ed thus far, as a result of this second re- 
quest. This is no doubt due largely to 
the shrinkage in stock values last fall. 

The distribution of printed matter from 
the general office of the League has gone 
on during the year as regularly and as ex- 
tensively as heretofore.. Our cloth posters, ~ 
offering a reward of $10 for each convic- 
tion of a violation of a game or fish law, 
are still being distributed wherever we can 
find men willing to put them up, and many 
thousands of them have gone out during 
the year. The daily newspapers are giv- 
ing more and more attention to the League 
every year, and most of them have now 
learned that this organization is the source 
from which nearly all the practical and 
aggressive game protective work of this 
country emanates. A single quotation from 
the Tacoma, Washington, Ledger will 
serve to illustrate the general trend of 
newspaper comment on our work: 

“A game bill has passed both houses of 
the Legislature that is believed to be as 
nearly perfect as it is possible to make 
a game law. It was prepared by the 
League of American Sportsmen; and F. A. 
Pontius, of Seattle, Secretary-Treasurer of 
the Washington Division of that body, has 
been at the capital during the entire ses 
sion working for the passage of this bill. 
Chief Warden F. S. Merrill, of Spokane, 
and H. Reif, of Seattle. also a League 
member, have worked diligently with Mr. 
Pontius for the passage of the measure, 
and the League is entitled to all the credit 
for having secured the passage of this law.” 


The work carried on by the League and 
kindred societies has practically abolished 
the millinery traffic in bird skins. There 
are few women in this country to-day who 


THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 


have the courage to decorate their head- 
gear with the skin of a song or an insect- 
ivorous bird. A few of them still wear 
gulls, terns, owls or other birds on their 
hats, but even this number is- decreasing, 
and I believe that in another year all bird 
skins will have so completely gone out of 
fashion that a woman would as soon think 
of being seen in public with the skin of a 
fish tacked on her hat as that of a bird. 


Many.of the local chapters of the League 
are doing effective work in their respective 
localities, independent of and auxiliary to 
that of the parent organization. These 
chapters hold regular meetings, enact their 
own by-laws, get out their own posters, 
which are distributed in common with ours, 
maintain special wardens to patrol the sur- 
rounding country, and in this way have a 
marked influence on would-be law breakers. 

A number of gun clubs have been organ- 
ized in the United States within the past 
year, which provide in their by-laws that no 
man who is not a member of the L. A. S. 
is eligible to membership in such gun clubs. 


The United States Fish Commission and 
the various State Fish Commissions have 
long since recognized the League as an in- 
stitution which should be rewarded in their 
work. Several local chapters have made 
applications to their State Fish Commis- 
sions for small fry for stocking local wa- 
ters, and all such have been promptly 
granted; while many of those sent in by 


“jndividuals have not been filled for lack of 


the necessary supply. 

For instance, Local Warden A. C. Coop- 
er, of Fort Sill, Oklahoma, applied to the 
United States Fish Commission for 28,000 
crappies, and the request was promptly 
granted. The fish were shipped to Fort 
Sill and planted in a local stream. Every 
angler in that section of country appre- 
ciates the good work thus done by the 
Fort Sill Chapter, and in consequence most 
of the sportsmen in that region are members 
of the League. 

As an instance of the energy and per- 
sistence with which certain members go 
after law breakers, I quote from the report 
of Local Warden Isaiah Vosburg, of Sara- 
nac Lake, New York: 

August 26th, Willard J. Jessup, New 
York City, fined $85 and costs. 

August 29th, J. D. Alexander, Tupper 
Lake, N. Y., fined $100 and costs. 

October 3d, Elmer Barton, Westville 
Center, N. Y., fined $200 and costs. 

October rth, John Soper, Malone, N. Y., 
fiued $100 and costs. 


The Georgia Legislature, at its past ses- 
sion, enacted an up-to-date game, fish and 
bird law. Governor Terrell at first de- 
clined to approve it, because of a provision 
therein that the complaining witness in 


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cases of violation might receive one-half 
the fines collected. - 

On learning of the Governor’s objection 
to the bill, I immediately wrote a personal 
letter to each member of the League in 
Georgia, asking him to take up the matter 
with the Governor and to urge him to ap- 
prove the bill. Our Georgia members act- 
ed promptly on this suggestion. Not only 
did they write and telegraph the Governor 
themselves, but each man induced many 
other sportsmen to do so. As a result the 
Governor promptly approved the bill. So 
Georgia is in line with a good game, fish 
and bird law. 


There are so-called sportsmen, in nearly 
all the States, who for various reasons are 
fighting this League. They are advising 
their friends not to join it; or if already 
members, to withdraw from it and to con- 
nect themselves with certain local game 
protective organizations. The League has 
no desire to compete with any local body 
working along the same lines. On the 
other hand it is our aim to co-operate with 
all such; and by reason of our broader and 
more general field of work and of our great 
influence with law makers and with the 
public at large, we can be of great genefit 
to the cause in any locality, as well as in 
the country at large. It is, therefore, a 
source of keen regret that any man should 
deem it necessary to oppose this League 
in its great philanthropic work. Each 
member of the League should make it a 
part of his duty to explain to all such 
misguided men the error of their ways, and 
to induce them not only to cease their op- 
position, but to join the League and to 
work with it. 

The President also regrets that indepen- 
dent game and fish protective clubs are 
occasionally being organized, that should 
instead be local chapters of this League. 
As such they could do their local work 
more effectively than they can possibly do 
it as independent bodies. At the same time 
they would be a part of this great National 
League, would have the advantage of its 
power and its prestige, and would serve to 
make it still stronger and greater. 

The great need of the League is a larger 
membership and a larger working fund. 
Let every member make it his business dur- 
ing the next year to make better known the 
principles and precepts of this great organ- 
ization, and to do everything in its power 
to build up its membership and thus in- 
crease its usefulness. 


Little Amzi (who has an inquiring mind) 
—Uncle Timrod, what’s a bonanza? 

Farmer Neckwhiskers (painfully experi- 
enced)—A bonanza, durn it, is a hole in 
the ground, owned by a liar! That’s what 
a bonanza is !—Exchange. 


FORESTRY. 


It takes 30 years to grow a tree and 30 minutes to cut it down and destroy it. 


METHODS OF SILVICULTURE. 


That part of the forester’s business 
which concerns itself with the reproduction 
of the harvested crop is called silviculture 
or forest culture. This reproduction can 
be secured in various ways. The simplest, 
easiest, surest and, in the end, probably the 
cheapest way, is that which the farmer 
uses with his crops: harvest the ripe crop 
and sow or plant the new crop. The Ger- 
mans, having for more than I00 years 
fooled around with other, the so-called nat- 
ural regeneration methods, have come to the 
conclusion that after all this simple, if ar- 
tificial, method is in most cases the hest. 
The main objection raised against it is that 
it is more expensive, but of late it has been 
found that in the long run it turns out the 
other way. Nevertheless, it must be consid- 
ered, first, that the majority of mankind does 
not appreciate. the long run; and second, that 
as in the paying of taxes, we are all will- 
ing enough to be mulcted indirectly, while 
we object to paying directly. If we plant 
or sow, there is a definite direct outlay of 
$5 or $10, or $15 an acre; if we secure a 
new crop by natural regeneration, we do 
not know that we have paid for it in in- 
creased logging expenses, in waste of space 
and time. It is only the next harvester who 
finds out that it would have been better for 
the result if direct tax had been paid in- 
stead of indirect. - 

The natural regeneration of a wood crop 
presupposes the existence of a forest which 
it is worth while to reproduce. Of course, 
only the kind of trees which are already 
present can be so reproduced, by the seeds 
falling from them, or by the sprouts issu- 
ing from the stumps of the cut trees. 

The capacity for reproduction by sprouts 
is possessed by all deciduous trees, the so 
called hardwoods. The conifers, with the 
exception of the redwood, practically do 
not possess this capacity. Hence, the most 
important species, which furnish '¥, of our 
lumber consumption, can not be reproduced 
in this way. Moreover, the sprouts from 
the stump, or stool shoots, while growing 
much more rapidly at first than trees grown 
from seed, stop growing sooner; they do 
not make lumber trees, but only sizes fit 
for telegraph poles, railroad ties, fence ma- 
terial and firewood. The stumps are apt to 
rot and, unless new blood comes in nat- 
urally or is secured by the forester, the 
coppice, as such sproutlands are called, 
gradually deteriorates. 

For the farmer’s wood lot, which“is for 
other reasons fit only to produce firewood 
and small dimensions, this coppice system 


has many advantages and is mostly the one 
to develop. By cutting the stumps low, 
with a smooth, slanting cut, he can make 
them last longer and produce better sprouts, 
cutting the crop every 20 or 30 years, re- 
planting where stumps die out, and, by cut- 
ting the less desirable kinds in the sap, thus 
killing them out, he can gradually improve 
the composition of his crop. 

For timber purposes, only trees grown 
from seed will answer. In the so called 
natural regeneration, the philosophy is that 
the seeds falling from the trees which are 
standing on the ground or in the neighbor- 
hood, will sprout and grow into new trees 
when the old trees are removed. This is 
Nature’s way of maintaining and perpetu- 
ating the forest. The difference between 
Nature and the silviculturist is, that Na- 
ture does not care which trees reproduce 
themselves nor how slowly. or quickly or 
usefully the mew crop grows; 
the silviculturist makes distinction between 
tree weeds and useful species, which he fa- 
vors, and which he wishes to have develop 
as rapidly and as satisfactorily in form as 
possible. Where it happens that only one, 
and that a useful species, covers the ground 
exclusively, or nearly so, as for instance in 


the pineries of the South, such reproduc- . 


tion is readily secured. Two condi- 
tions only are necessary to start the new 
crop, namely, that just before cutting the 
old crop a seed year occur, as trees mostly 
bear seed only periodically; and that the 
soil be receptive, namely, in such condition 
that the seed falling to the ground can 
germinate. After the young seedlings are 
established, a further condition must be se- 
cured, namely, enough and not too much 
light for their development. This is se- 
cured by the gradual removal of the old 
trees. Various species require different de- 
grees of light or shade, hence the removal 
of the shade must be more or less: rapid. 
According to the manner and rapidity of 
removing the mother trees the silviculturist 
recognizes different methods by different 
names; as the strip system, when a narrow 
strip is cut and the seeding comes from the 
marginal timber; the group system, when 
smaller or larger openings are made here 
and there for new groups of young crop to 
develop; the nurse tree system, which is the 
best, when seed trees are left in even dis- 
tribution over the whole area and are grad- 
ually removed as light is needed by the 
young crop; and finally the poorest, the se- 
lection system. 

This last is similar to the method of our 
lumberman in the mixed forest when he 


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FORESTRY. 


culls the stoutest trees here and there, as 
they are or become merchantable, leaving 
Nature to fill the openings thus made with 
young growth and the young crop to de- 
velop as best it can. The silviculturist pro- 
poses to introduce the following improve- 
ments on this rough method, which in the 
lumberman’s hands is not even intended 
to secure a new crop. If, as is usual, tree 
weeds occur mixed with valuable kinds, it 
is proper first to get rid of them, so they 
will not reproduce in preference to the val- 
uable trees. If the market does not war- 
rant cutting out the tree weeds, they may 
_ be girdled and killed. This is a dangerous 
proceeding, to be sure on account of pos- 
sible fires. Where the good kinds are 
poorly represented, it is necessary to leave 
seed trees even though they are merchant- 
able. Finally, not to leave the develop- 
ment of the young crop entirely to the 
haphazard of Nature, removal of old trees, 
at the proper time for the sake of benefiting 
the young crop, may become necessary, be- 
cause otherwise the young trees may again 
die out. In addition, it may be desirable to 
scratch the ground so as to secure a good 
seed bed. The absence of young spruces 
in our wild woods is often due to the ab- 
sence of a good seed bed. This system, 
which in Germany is practiced on less than 
to per cent of its forest area, here and 
there in small patches, is, as anyone can 
see, least certain of results. Only in game 
preserves, where the main object is not 
wood production, or in Alpine regions, 
where protection of soil and water condi- 
tions requires a continuous forest cover, in- 
terrupted as little as possible, is this system 
to be recommended; and wherever better 
methods can not be introduced on account 
of the unwillingness of the owner to sub- 
mit to direct taxation for the benefit of the 
‘future. To reduce the cutting in the virgin 
-woods to a given diameter is not silvicul- 
ture, but a financial proposition and a de- 
vice to save something for the future. By 
not culling all of a given valuable species, 
the possibility is at least kept open of re- 
producing that species by natural regenera- 
tion later, if there be any virtue in such 
natural regeneration. 

Where the lumberman has culled out all 
that is valuable, but valuable species are 
still sufficiently represented in the remain- 
ing growth so that seed may be produced 
by them, it may under some circumstances 
be possible to recuperate the slash by clean- 
ing up and subduing the weed trees and 
brush weeds; but in most cases the only 
rational way to treat such slashes, if timber 
production is the purpose, is to clear, by 
fire if need be, and plant. The clearing 
need not be thorough or complete, but it 
will only rarely be an advantage to leave 
any of the existing growth. 

_ In restocking such areas, as well as aban- 


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doned pastures and fields, planting is pref- 
erable to sowing in most cases, unless seed 
can be had cheap and a seed bed can be 
secured readily. Proper planting is more 
successful and cheaper, because the plants 
can be nursed through the first 2 or 3 years 
of their delicate seedling life. At least, 
with conifers, which are almost exclusive- 
ly to be considered in lumber production, 
this is the preferable method. 

The plants should rarely be more than 3 
years old, grown in nurseries, and should 
be set out at the rate of 1,500 to 2,500 an 
acre, according to soil and species. By 
choosing a proper mixture of species better 
progress of the plantation can be effected, 
as well as a considerable cheapening of the 
planting cost, which at present prices, when 
growing one’s own plant material, can be 
kept considerably below $10 an acre. 

There is, of course, no finesse, no manu- 
ring, no cultivation practicable. After the 
plantation is set out, or possibly after re- 
planting the first year’s losses if in excess 
of 20 per cent, the plantation must be left 
to its fate, except to protect it against fire 
and possibly against insects. When it is 
20 or 25 years old, hardly before, it may 
become desirable to thin out the dead and 
dying material. By that time it should be 
a thicket of slender poles with the branches 
in the interior dead and mostly broken off. 
Up to that time the object was to force 
the height growth by preventing as much as 
possible branch growth, and crowding the 
trees to reach upward for light; also to kill 
off the lower branches in order to secure 
clear shafts. When this has been accom- 
plished, sooner or later, according to spe- 
cies, soil, climate and other conditions, 
working for diameter begins. This is se- 
cured by judicious thinnings, repeated every 
5 or 10 years as the case may be, giving to 
a selected number, the final harvest crop, 
200 more or less to the acre, special chance 
for development by cutting away those 
which interfere. These selected ones will 
then grow rapidly in diameter and by the 
60th or 7oth year will be fit for sawlogs, 
while without such treatment I00 to 120 
years may be consumed to secure satisfac- 
tory sizes. 

The realization that to secure inferior 
materials not less than 20 to 30 years must 
elapse, that to grow saw timber 60 to 80 
years and more are required, breeds the 


‘natural desire to manage the virgin woods 


so as to lengthen out their supplies and 
to secure by conservative lumbering our 


._present needs without curtailing the future 


over much. 


“You doubtless expect to marry for 
love?” 

“Oh, now and then!” exclaimed the young 
girl, romantically.—Life. 


PURE AND IMPURE FOODS. 


Edited by C. F. Lancwortuy, Pu.D. 


Author of “On Citraconic, Itaconic and Mesaconic Acids,” *‘Fish as Food,” etc, 


“What a Man Eats He Is.’ 


PEACHES IN COLD CLIMATES. 


Though peach trees will stand quite se- 
vere winters, late spring frosts are fatal 
to a crop. The flower buds open in the 
warm sunshine of early spring, only to be 
killed by the frost which in colder regions 
is almost sure to follow. 

Various devices have been tried to pre- 
vent early flowering or to protect the trees 
until danger is past. Peach growing from 
a commercial standpoint in Colorado is 
largely confined to the Western slope of 
the mountains where conditions are favor- 
able. The trees find a congenial home in 
many localities in several counties, conse- 
quently large areas are devoted to the cul- 
tivation of this fruit. In the Eastern part 
of the State the crop was almost always 
ruined by spring frosts although the tree 
grew well. In 1896, some experiments 
were begun in the protection of trees which 
were so successful that the method fol- 
lowed is now practised on a large scale. 
This consists in laying down the trees and 
covering the tops. The process is des- 
cribed in a recent bulletin of the Colorado 
Experiment Station, in effect as follows: 


As soon as the trees have shed their 
leaves and the wood is well ripened, they 
are ready for winter quarters. This is 
usually in the early part of November. The 
first step in the operation consists in re- 
moving the earth from a circle about 4 
feet in diameter about the tree. When suf- 
ficient trees have been treated in this man- 
ner to make the work progress advanta- 
geously, water is turned into the hollows. 
After the ground has become saturated, the 
trees are worked back and forth and the 
water follows the roots, loosening the soil 
around them so they are pushed over 
in the direction that offers the least resis- 
tance. When treated in this manner the 
trees go over easily and with comparative- 
_ ly little injury to the root system, provid- 
ing they have been laid down each year. 
It is difficult to handle old trees in this 


manner, if they have never been laid down - 


and usually it will not pay to try. 

After the trees are on the ground, fur- 
ther work should be delayed until the 
ground has dried sufficiently to admit of 
ease in the handling of the dirt. The 
limbs may then be brought together with 
a cord and so lessen the work of covering. 

After experimenting with many kinds of 
coverings, burlap held in place with earth 


has proved the most satisfactory. The 
burlap is spread out over the prostrate 
tree top, taking special pains to protect the 
blossom buds from coming in direct con- 
tact with the earth covering. A light layer 
of earth is then thrown over the tree and 
the protection is complete. 

The critical time in growing peaches by 
this method is in the spring when growing 
weather begins. Close watch must be’ kept 
to see that the blossoms do not open pre- 
maturely, or that the branch buds are not 
forced into tender white growth. When 
the blossom buds begin to open, the cov- 
ering should be loosened so as to admit 
light and air, but it should not all be re- 
moved. More of the covering should be 
removed as the weather gets warmer, but 
the blossoms must be exposed to the sun 
gradually. 

Air and light are, of course, necessary 
for proper fertilization of the flowers, but 
after this process is complete and the fruit 
is set, all danger from the weather is con- 
sidered over. The trees are usually raised 
about the middle of May. 

Raising the trees is, of course, a simple 
task. The ground is again watered and 
when wet enough the trees are raised. To 
be sure, trees that have been treated in this 
manner will not usually stand upright un- 
supported. Consequently, they are propped 
up at an angle, usually 2 props being re- 
quired to keep the wind from swaying 
them. 

When this method of growing peaches 
was first presented before the Colorado 
State Horticultural Society, it was received 
with not a little sarcasm by some of the 
members, but the practicability of laying 
down the trees is now no longer ques- 
tioned. The constantly increasing acreage 
of peaches proves that it pays. The actual 
expense is, of course, difficult to estimate, 
because of the attention required in the 
spring. The cost of the fall work can 
be estimated, however, as it has been found 
that 2 men will lay down and cover 25 of 
the largest trees in a day. 

This process seems to be in no way det- 
rimental to the health of the trees, since 
they live as long and bear as much fruit 
according to the size of the top as those 
grown in peach sections. It is, of course, 
necessary to cut out the wide spreading 
branches and thus reduce the size of the 
top in order to lessen the work of cover- 
ing. 


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PURE AND IMPURE FOODS. 


SUBSTITUTES FOR TEA. 

Many substitutes for tea can be found 
in any ordinary woods. The idea is not a 
new one, for many country folks made use 
of the substitutes in the days when the 
luxury of Chinese tea was not so easily 
afforded as now. Before the Revolution 
when the colonists were in a turmoil over 
the stamp taxes, it was considered unpa- 
triotic to drink tea that had paid tribute to 
the government, and the so-called Liberty 
tea was the popular drink. 

The four leaved, loose strife was, no 
doubt, the herb from which this beverage 
was made, possibly with the aid of various 
other herbs. It is common to almost every 
woodland. 

In some districts of the Southern United 
- States, pennyroyal tea is a common beverage 
and seems to take the place of real tea. 

The leaves of the New Jersey tea, a low 
bush which grows everywhere in dry wood- 
lands, and bears in June and July a profu- 
sion of delicate white blooms, were also 
extensively used during the Revolution. An 
infusion of the leaves has a bright amber 
color, and in looks is as attractive as the 
real beverage; but the taste, though astring- 
ent, is by no means lively. Some effort has 
recently been made in commercial circles to 
revive the use of this plant as a substitute 
for tea. The leaves are said to contain 
about 10 per cent. of tannin. 

Hemlock leaves and those of the arbor 
vitae have played an important part in the 
making of rustic tea. The arbor vitae is 
a tree that grows wild in great abundance in 
Northern woods, and the old time Maine 
lumbermen used frequently to resort to its 
leaves for tea when other herbage failed 
them for the purpose. It is thought to be 
invigorating. 

The leaves of the. wintergreen, a small 
plant, whose bright red berries, about the 
‘size of peas, are sold on the streets under 
the name of teaberry, have long been used 
for tea. The foliage is aromatic, and people 
who like a dash of spiciness in their drink 
have sometimes added its flavor to real tea. 
It is near of kin and similar in taste to the 
creeping snow berry, a small, delicate vine, 
abundant in the great bogs and mossy 
woods of the North and Alleghany regions, 
and this is also approved by mountain pal- 
ates as a substitute for tea. Thoreau, in 
“The Maine Woods,” tells of his Indian 
guide bringing it into camp one night and 
recommending it as the best of all substi- 
tutes for tea. “It has a slight checkerberry 
flavor,” Thoreau records, “and we agreed 
that it was better than the black tea we had 
brought. We thought it a discovery and 
that it might be dried and sold in the shops.” 

Better known as a tea plant is the Lab- 
rador tea, Ledum latifolia, which grows in 
cold bogs and mountain woods from Penn- 


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sylvania Northward. The leaves, which 
emit a slight, not unpleasant fragrance when 
bruised, are tough and leathery, and covered 
with a rusty brown wool. Steeped, they 
give a wild, gamy flavor to hot water, and 
the drink resulting suggests a poor grade 
of black tea. 

Sweet fern which is such an abundant 
growth everywhere on sterile hillside and 
by mountain roads, is another famous tea 
plant often known as “mountain tea.” Dur- 
ing the War of the Rebellion its use for tea 
was particularly prevalent in the Southern 
States, and many a Southern lady who was 
reared in luxury was reduced to drinking 
this poor substitute for her favorite Oolong 
or flowery Pekoe. - 

The foliage and flowers of all the golden- 
rods contain an astringent principle, and are 
moderately stimulating so that their suit- 
ability for the manufacture of a domestic 
tea was recognized by the American colon- 
ists as long ago as when George III. was 
king over them. One species, the fragrant 
leaved goldenrod, known sometimes as Blue 
Mountain tea, possesses, in addition, the 
flavor of licorice. Drunk piping hot in the 
wilderness, it makes a pleasant feature in 
the camper’s limited menu. This especial 
kind of goldenrod begins to bloom early in 
the summer and is easy of recognition, even 
by the non-botanical, because of the licorice 
perfume which the leaves give out when 
rubbed. It is a common species in the pine 
barrens of New Jersey. The astringent 
quality, in a greater or less degree, is pos- 
sessed by nearly all these plants. They also 
contain considerable tannic acid. These 2 
properties go far to make tea the popular 
beverage it is. 


As an ardent admirer of RECREATION, 
permit me to compliment you on the No- 
vember issue and to join with you in 
the hope that we shall see the day when 
the game hog will be consigned to utter 
oblivion. Your war is as righteous as the 
Crusades, and you may well realize that 
you have the support of every true sports- 


man. 
Bronte A. Reynolds, Englewood, III. 





“The reason I can’t get along with my 
wife is that she wants to submit all our dif- 
ferences to arbitration.” 

“To arbitration?” 

“Yes. She always wants to refer disputes 
to her mother.”—Four-Track News. 





I have bought your magazine from my 
newsdealer 2 years, and find it deeply inter- 
esting. The way you handle pot hunters 
and game hogs is refreshing. Let the good 
work go on. 

. C. Musser, Yeagertown, Pa. 


PUBLISHER’S NOTES. 


NEW STYLES OF MARBLE KNIVES. 

The illustrations herewith show Marble’s 
6-inch Ideal hunting knife in 3 styles, blade 
Nos. I, 2 and 3. The blade as at present 
made is a modification of the 2 shapes of 
blades formerly made, known as sticking 
and skinning points, and is claimed by many 
expert hunters and woodsmen to combine 
more of the essential qualities for all- 
around use than are usually found in one 
style knife. 

The new blades are slightly thinner than 
the old pattern, and carry a more gradual 
bevel back of the edge. The bone chopper 
at back of point is a valuable feature for 
rough work. 

The solid hard rubber handle, No. 3, is 
considered by some superior to any other 


ES 





material for the purpose. The heavy tang, 
threaded at the end, just fits the mortise in 
handle, and a half inch brass nut counter- 
sunk in end of handle, engaging with 
threaded tang, makes the strongest fasten- 
ing it is possible to produce. 

The stripes or trimmings at each end of 
the No. 1 and No. 2 handles are made of 
alternate washers of colored hard fiber and 
brass or German silver, that are a driving 
fit on the tang. The center of the No. 1 
handle is composed of leather washers put 
on under heavy pressure and held in place 
by the nut countersunk into the end of 
stag tip. The No. 2 is the same construc- 
tion except that the center is composed of 


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2 grooved slabs of selected stag riveted to- 
gether and driven on the tang the same as 
the washers. 

The popularity of the Marble knives is 
proven by the fact that the sales are con- 
siderably more than doubling each year. 





NEW GOODS FOR SPORTSMEN. 


Three patents have been issued within the 
last month on fishing reels. One of these is 
742,680, to H. E. Vanalstyne, Ilion, N. Y., 
and 2 others, Nos. 442,568 and 742,587 to 
H. B. Carleton, Rochester, N. Y. Two of 
these reels are built on the automatic plan, 
and the other is on the crank plan with 
some improvements, which are fully de- 
scribed in the specifications filed with the 
application. Copies of these patents can be 
had by writing the Commissioner of Pat- 
ents, Washington, D. C. 





Patent No. 743,856, for a fishing reel has 
been issued to E.’ M. Funk, Wytheville, 
Va. This reel is so constructed that it 
will work either automatically or by a hand 
crank. Description of this patent may be 
had by writing the Commissioner of Pat- 
ents, Washington, D. C. 





E. C. Boren, of Sandwich, Mass., has in- 
vented a combination minnow pail and ship- 
ping can, on which Patent No. 724,539 has 
been issued. 

E. Sturgill, Eolia,.Ky., has secured Patent 
Na. 728,326 on a new locking device for 
fire arms. 


Patent No. 743,420 has been issued to 
Andrew Arnesen, of Des Moines, Iowa, for 
an animal trap constructed with an oscil- 
lating cylinder. Full description and copies 
of the patent can be obtained by writing 
“oe Pin cer seach of Patents, Washington, 








R. L. Hunter, of Minneapolis, Minn,, has 
been granted Patent No. 728,717. on a fishing 
reel, for which some important improve- 
ments over other reels are claimed. 





ENDORSES COLLAN OIL. 
New York Zoological Park, 


New York. 
Mr. J. R. Buckelew, 
No. 111 Chambers street, 
New York City. 
Dear Sir :— 

We have made~-a careful test of your 
Collan oil in comparison with another oil 
which we have been using for softening 
and waterproofing the shoes of some of our 
men. For 6 weeks we had one of our men 
grease one shoe with Collan oil and the 


PUBLISHER’S NOTES. 317 


other with oil of another kind, such as we 
had previously been using, on the supposi- 
tion that it was the best obtainable. At the 
end of the 6 weeks the leather that had 
been treated with your oil was soft and 
pliable; while the other was stiff and hard, 
from the action of water which had, appar- 
ently, dissolved out the oil. This leaves no 
question in my mind as to the superior 
quality of Collan oil, both for waterproofing 
leather and for keeping it soft under the 
most adverse circumstances. 

I send you herewith an order for a6 
months’ supply. 

Yours truly, 
W. T. Hornaday, Director. 





LEARN HOW TO MAKE MONEY 

The Plymouth Rock Squab Co. has 
moved its Boston office and is now es- 
tablished at 289 Atlantic avenue, that city. 
They have the second floor of a new build- 
ing never before occupied. There is a pas- 
senger elevator, freight elevator, steam 
heat, electric - lights, and every convenience. 


* The company has 3,000 square feet of ship- 


ping floor, which is more than double what 
they had ‘at Friend street. The new office 
is half way between the North and South 
stations, within 6 minutes’ walk of the post- 
office, and half way between the State 
street and Rowe’s wharf stations of the ele- 
vated road. 

During the past year this company has 
made important additions to its plant at 
Melrose, Mass., 8 miles North of Boston, 
and now has a large amount of money in- 
vested there. This year the outlook is for 
about double the business they did last 
year. 

Raising squabs for market is a money- 
making business, and can often be carried 
on as a side line. Anyone who is interested 
should write the Plymouth Rock Squab Co., 
at their new address, for a copy of their 
free book, “How to Make Money with 
Squabs.” In writing please mention REc- 
REATION, 





ONE HUNDRED ACRES OF OLD IVORY. 

The buildings of the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition, which will open at St. Louis 
April 30, 1904, resemble old ivory, and 
they present the most marvelous spectacle 
of its kind ever seen on the earth. It is not 
likely that anything approaching this will 
be seen again for many a year. 

The buildings themselves occupy 131 
acres. Those of the Columbian Exposition, 
Chicago, the next greatest, occupied only 
82 acres. The entire space covered by the 
World’s Fair at St. Louis is 1,240 acres, 
which is twice as large as that of any 
previous exposition. 

A large folder containing much interest- 


ing information, a map of the grounds, and 
pictures of many of the buildings, has just 
been issued by the New York Central Rail- 
road, and will be found of immense interest 
to every person who thinks of attending 
this last and greatest of the World’s Fairs. 
A copy will be sent free post-paid on re- 
ceipt of 2 2-cent stamps, by George H. 
Daniels, General Passenger Agent, Grand 
Central Station, New York. 





AS TO MANCHURIA. 


The eyes of all the world are on Man- 
churia. It is a country of which we know 
practically nothing, and war time is the 
right time to study unfamiliar territory. 
A correct map and other information of a 
specific character regarding that country 
are given in folder No. 28 of the 
New York Central’s “Four-Track Ser- 
ies,” issued by George H. Daniels. As 


- a rule, not much reliance can be placed on 


railroad maps, but Daniels’ map of Man- 
churia is the best in print. It certainly is 
cheap enough for the poorest of us. It 
should be stuck up in every public school, 
and Manchuria should be the geographical 
objective for some months. 

A copy of No. 28, “A New Map of Asia 
and the Chinese Empire,” sent free, on re- 
ceipt of 7 cents in stamps by George H. 
Daniels, General Passenger Agent, New 
York Central Railroad, Grand Central Sta- 
tion, New York. 


Star Island, Mich. 
A. W. Bishop & Son, Racine, Wis. 

Dear Sirs: June 23, 1902, I bought one of 
your Independent Even Spooling Reels and 
am much pleased with it. In casting off 
the dock here General Shattock and Doctor 
Boyer, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Gremmill, 
of Forest, Ohio, and Attorney Jordan, 
of Findlay, Ohio, cast 150 feet with 
it, and had I had any more line on the reel 
they would have cast farther. Attorney 
Kidder also cast all but 2 turns off the reel. 
Mr. Nat. C. Goodhue, of Aurora, Ohio, of- 
fered to bet $100 he could cast 200 feet with 
it. In fact, you will hear from all of them, 
for they are enthusiastic over it. I told 
them I paid $5.50 for my reel and that you 
had a similar reel with jeweled bearings 
for $6.50 or $7. Yours truly, 

Geo. W. Bouse, 
Cleveland, Ohio. 
3 Mile Bay, N. Y. 





The Passenger Department of the Cana- 
dian Pacific Railway has issued a small map, 
showing a section of country between the 
C. P. R. and Lake Huron, including the 
Mississaga river and its tributaries, which 
will prove of deep interest to all canoeists 


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and nature lovers. With the aid of this 
map a man can go West on the main line 
of the C. P. R. to Bisco Station, put his 
canoe into one of the many small lakes in 
that vicinity, run down into Mississaga 
river and down that to Desbarats Station 
on the Southern line of the C. P. R. Men 
who have been over this course describe it 
as one of the most interesting and fascinat- 
ing regions in Canada. The country is en- 
tirely wild and game and fish are abundant. 
If you are interested in finding such a place, 
write C. E. E. Ussher, G. P. A., Montreal, 
Can., for a copy of the map, and mention 
RECREATION. 





The Cedaroleum Co., 
Perkinsville, Vt. 

Dear Sirs: Some time ago I ordered a 
sample of Cedaroleum, and have given it a 
thorough test. Am highly pleased with it, 
and believe it will do everything claimed 
for it. It is especially good for the 22 cal- 
iber rifle, which is one of the hardest guns 
+9 keep clean. Cedaroleum does the work 
perfectly, and if used according to direc- 
tions there need be no fear of the rifle turn- 
ing black or pitting after being cleaned. 

As you say, oil is too thin and vaseline 
too heavy. Cedaroleum is put up in such a 
convenient manner that it is a pleasure to 
use it, and it has a pleasant odor. 

C. W. Ditsworth, Lanark, Illinois. 





Mullins, of Salem, Ohio, has issued a 
new catalogue of his stamped sheet metal 
boats, which is a novelty in many respects. 
It is full of pictures and information that 
must prove deeply interesting to all anglers, 
duck shooters, canoeists and others who are 
fond of dabbling in the water. If vou are 
going to have a boat you will find it a great 
satisfaction to have one that will not shrink 
or leak every time you leave it out of the 
water a few days; hence the metal boat is 
the thing. Write Mullins for a copy of his 
catalogue. Study it carefully, and see if 
you do not agree with me. Please mention 
RECREATION when you write. 





The Ideal Manufacturing Company, of 
New Haven, Conn., has made up and put on 
the market a smelting furnace for the use 
of rifle clubs or militia companies desiring 
to cast their own bullets in large numbers. 
This furnace holds 50 to 75 pounds of lead, 
and is intended to be operated by gas. 

Persons interested in this announcement 
can get a circular giving cuts and full in- 
formation by sending a postal card to Mr. 
J. H. Barlow, Manager of the Ideal Manu- 
facturing Company, and mentioning RECcRE- 
ATION, 


RECREATION. 


D. M. Tuttle Co., 
Canastota, N. Y. 
Dear Sirs: 

The 18 foot launch which I bought of you 
in June, 1903, has given me perfect satis- 
faction. I have tested the engine under all 
conditions and I have not been disappointed 
in a single instance. I believe there is no 
better motor made nor any so simple to 
run. I remain, 

Yours gratefully, 
H. D. Empie. 


Portland, Maine. 
Mr. Geo. F. Webber, 
Detroit, Mich. 

Dear Sir—I beg to acknowledge receipt 
of the knit hunting jacket No. 4, and thank 
you much for it. I am greatly pleased with 
the jacket. It is a beauty; the best yet. 

Truly yours, 
T. B. Davis. 





The Baker Gun and Forging Company, 
Batavia, N. Y., has employed W. H. More 
as a salesman. Mr. More has been in the 
gun business a long time, and is well known 
to the trade as a pleasant and agreeable 
gentleman and a master of his profession. 
I bespeak for him the careful and courteous 
consideration of gun men everywhere. 





Spratts Patent, Newark, N. J., makers 
of the famous dog and poultry foods and 
medicines, has issued its’ 1904 catalogue, 
which is equally as interesting and valuable 
as those of previous years, and every own- 
er of a dog, or a bunch of poultry or pig- 
eons should have a copy. When writing for 
it, please mention RECREATION. 





Schoverling, Daly & Gales have bought 46 
high grade Hollenbeck hammerless guns, 
and are selling them at less than half the 
factory price. Any person wishing to buy 
a high grade gun at a low price, can 
secure a bargain by getting one of these 
Hollenbecks. 





I received the Harrington & Richardson 
gun yesterday and it is much better than I 


expected. 
Fred H. Mann, Evansville, Ind. 





The Harrington & Richardson gun you 
gave me is more than satisfactory. 
C. E. Stanford, Worcester, Mass. 





The Harrington & Richardson revolver 
is great. I thank you for it. 
L. B. Sayers, Mattawana, Pa. 


EDITOR’S CORNER. 


SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF 
THE: L,- AS. 


Each annual meeting of the League 
of American Sportsmen has _ been 
more successful than any of its pred- 
ecessors, and the one held at Colum- 
bus, Ohio, February toth and 11th, 
was greater than any of the others. 
Twenty-five States were represented 
by League officers or delegates, some 
States having 3 to 4 each, making an 
aggregate of 70 rie ike represen- 
tatives. 

The Gata of 20 States ap- 
pointed our officers as official sponsors 
for the States as well as for the 
League. 

We have always heretofore been 
aLle to transact all the business that 
came before the meeting in one day, 
but this time it took 2 days of close, 
systematic work to clear the docket. 

The visiting delegates without ex- 
ception reported greater progress in 
the work of securing laws, of enforc- 
ing them and of creating public sen- 
. tment during the last year, than their 
predecessors had ever given at any of 
our previous meetings. The number 
- of prosecutions has increased in most 
of the States, showing a growing ac- 
tivity on the part of the League mem- 
bers and other sportsmen in reporting 
violations of the law; and it is safe to 
say that the aggregate of fines collect- 
ed in all the States during the past year 
is at least 3 times that of any previ- 
ous year in the history of the game 
protective movement. This shows a 
growing feeling of respect for game 
and fish laws and a growing con- 
tempt for game and fish destroyers, 
on the part of judicial officers and of 
men who are drawn as jurors. Every 
man familiar with the work of game 
protection knows that up to within 
2 or 3 years it was difficult to get a 
jury anywhere in the rural districts 
that would convict a man for a viola- 


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tion of a game or fish law, even though 
he might plead guilty. The same may 
be said of justices of the peace. We 
all know of many cases where men 
have been taken into a justice’s court, 
charged with the unlawful taking of 
game or fish, have pleaded guilty and 
have been discharged by the Justice 
without punishment. 

That. time has passed. There is 
scarcely a judicial officer in the land 
to-day who does not know that the 
public at large expects and demands 
that men who break the laws regard- 
ing the protection of fish and game 
must be dealt with just as severely 
as men who violate any section of the 
penal code, and there are thousands 


.of such officers who now give such 


offenders the maximum penalty when 
proven guilty. 

It is no exaggeration to say that 
this change of sentiment on the part 
of the justices, the judges of the high- 
er courts and of the general public, is 
due to the educational work carried 
on by the League of American Sports- 
men during the past 7 years. We have 
had a great deal of help in this from 
kindred societies, but the League has 
been on the firing line all the time. It 
has borne the brunt of the battle and 
has swept away one line after another 
of the enemy. The other and more 
conservative socicties have helped to 
hold the ground gained by the League. 

The Governor of Ohio and the 
Mayor of Columbus attended the 
League banquet and welcomed the 
visitors in speeches that stirred the 
souls of all within hearing, and con- 
vinced every one that these gentlemen 
felt deeply the importance and value 
of our work. 

Many members of the Ohio Legis- 
lature were present, and several of 
these gentlemen told me, personally, 
that they were astounded at the mag- 
nitude of the gathering; at the earn-, 


320 RECREATION. 


estness, the strength and the ability 
of the men who compose the work- 
ing force of the League. 

There were at least 100 Ohio men 
at the dinner tables, in addition to the 
visiting delegates, and I heard nearly 
every one of these men say that the 
important game protective measures 
now pending before the Ohio Legis- 
lature would go through almost with- 
out opposition, and this largely on ac- 
count of the great influence exerted 
by the annual gathering of the League. 


The Columbus daily papers with- 
out exception were most earnest and 
generous in their treatment of the con- 
vention. They gave it column after 
column, and in some instances half 
page articles, before, during and after 
the meeting. 

The first 3 annual meetings of the 
League were held in this city, and’ 
during that time no one suggested any 
other place of meeting. Finally an 
invitation came from Indiana that we 
hold our 4th annual meeting in that 
State. We did so, and at the Indian- 
apolis meeting a delegation came from 
St. Paul to invite us to hold the next 
in that city. We went there and on 
that occasion we had invitations from 
2 different States for the 6th annual 
meeting. We decided on Cojumbus, 
and one of the most gratifying fea- 
tures of the recent meeting was that 5 
urgent invitations were presented to 
us there, to hold our 7th annual meet- 
ing in the respective States from which 
these came. 

These communications came _ not 
only from League members, but from 
the Governors of States, boards of 
trade, Audubon Societies, and other 
strong organizations. 

It is a great misfortune that all 
friends of game protection could not 
have been in sight and hearing of the 
earnest body of men who assembled 
at Columbus, and have heard the en- 
couraging reports made there from all 
over the land. If certain men who 
‘still continue to belittle the work of 


this organization could have been 
there, they would have changed their 
tactics promptly. 

The problem of saving the wild ani- 
mals and birds of this country is well 
nigh solved. The laws of many States 
are practically perfect, and those that 
still need amending will be made good 
in the near future. It remains now 
only to stop, absolutely and at all 
times, the sale of game in a few East- 
ern States, such as New York, Penn- 
sylvania and Massachusetts. When 
this shall have been done we may con- 
fidently expect to see game increase 
rapidly everywhere, — 





KILL THE POT HUNTERS’ GUNS. 


The war against the automatic and pump 
guns goes bravely on. The best sports- 
men are almost a unit in condemning these 
weapons and in seeking the enactment of 
laws to prohibit their use. There are a few 
good, clean sportsmen who yet believe the 
old pump gun is all right, but this number 
is growing smaller every day. I have let- 
ters from a number of such men, saying 
they are trying to sell their pump guns, and 
thus get out from under the prohibitory 
law before it comes. Others say they have 
hung these guns up on the hooks. and that 
they will remain there as curios, never 
again to be used in the field. 


One of the most gratifying features of ° 


this campaign is the fact that the Audubon 
women in all the States have taken up the 
crusade and are bringing all possible in- 
fluence to bear on their law makers, to in- 
duce them to enact our prohibitory measure. 

The makers of the pump guns are busy 
too; but their efforts are directed mainly 
to the market hunters and other thought- 
less game destroyers. The Winchester 
Company is sending out thousands of copies 
of a decision rendered by a country judge in 
California some years ago, in favor of the 
pump gun and against the good people who 
are trying to preserve the birds. There is 
no question that this decision will be re- 
versed whenever a similar case is taken to 
any of the higher courts, 


Here are extracts from a few decisions 


that will furnish food for reflection, bitter 

food though it may be, for the champions 

of the automatic and pump guns: 

1. Supreme Court of Minnesota.* State v. 
Rodman (58 Minn., 393, 400). 

“ “The preservation of such animals as are 





*Note.—Quoted with approval by the Supreme 
Court of the United States in Geer vy. Conn., 161 
U. S., 519, 533. 


CO OO OO _ 





_ ait App eis 


EDITOR’S CORNER. 


adapted to consumption as food or to any 
other useful purpose, is a matter of public 
interest, and it is within the police power 
of the ’State, as the representative of the 
people in their united sovereignty, to make 
such laws as will best preserve such game, 
and secure its beneficial use in the future 
to the citizens, and to that end it may adopt 
any reasonable regulations, not only as to 
time and manner in which such game may 
be taken and killed, but also imposing limi- 
tations on the right of property in such 
game -after it has been reduced to posses- 
sion. Such limitations deprive no person 
of his property, because he who takes or 
kills game had no previous right of prop- 
erty in it, and when he acquires such right 
by reducing it to possession he does so 
subject to such conditions and limitations 
as the Legislature has seen fit to impose.” 


2. Supreme Court of United qn, are 

v. State of Maryland, (59 U. 

“That part of the law in en con- 
taining the prohibition and inflicting the 
penalty, which appears to have been applied 
by the State court to this case, is as follows: 


(1833, ch. 254). 


‘AN ACT TO PREVENT THE DESTRUCTION OF 
OYSTERS IN THE WATERS OF THIS STATE. 


‘Whereas, the destruction of oysters in 
the waters of this State is seriously appre- 
hended, from the destructive instrument 
used in taking them, therefore 


“Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General 
Assembly of Maryland, That it shall be 
unlawful to take or catch oysters in any of 
the waters of this State with a scoop or 
drag, or any other instrument than such 
tongs and rakes as are now in use, and 
authorized by law; and all persons what- 
ever are hereby forbid the use of such in- 
struments in taking or catching oysters in 
the waters of this State, on pain of for- 
feiting to the State the boat or vessel em- 
ployed for the purpose, together with her 
papers, furniture, tackle, and apparel, and 
all things on board the same.’ 


“The State holds the propriety of this 
soil for the conservation of the public 
rights of fishery thereon, and may regulate 
the modes of that enjoyment so as to pre- 
vent the destruction of the fishery. In other 
words, it may forbid all such acts as would 
render the public right less valuable, or de- 
stroy it altogether. This power results 
from the ownership of the soil, from the 
legislative jurisdiction of the State over it, 
and from its duty to preserve unimpaired 
those public uses for which the soil is held. 

“So much of this law as is above cited 
may be correctly said to be not in con- 
flict with, but in furtherance of, any and all 
public rights of taking oysters, whatever 


they may be.” c 


321 


3. Supreme Court of United States, (Law- 

ton v. Steele, 152, U. S., 133). 

“The preservation of game and fish, how- 
ever, has always been treated as within the 
proper domain of the police power, and 
laws limiting the season within which birds 
and wild animals may be killed or exposed 
for sale, and prescribing the time and man- 
ner in which fish may be caught, have been 
repeatedly upheld by the courts.” 





GIVE IT YOUR AID, 
H. R. 11584. 


A bill for the protection of wild animals 
and birds in the Wichita Forest Reserve. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives of the United States of 
America in Congress assembled, That the 
President of the United States is hereby 
authorized to designate such areas in the 
Wichita Forest Reserve as should, in his 
opinion, be set aside for the protection of 
game animals and birds and be recognized 
as a breeding place therefor. 

Sec. 2. That when such areas have been 
designated as provided for in section one 
of this Act, hunting, trapping, killing, or 
capturing of game animals and birds upon 
the lands of the United States within the 
limits of said areas shall be unlawful, ex- 
cept under such regulations as may be pre- 
scribed, from time to time, by the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture; and any persons vio- 
lating such regulations or the provisions 
of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and shall, upon conviction in any 
United States court of competent jurisdic- 
tion, be fined in a sum not exceeding one 
thousand dollars or be imprisoned for a 
period not exceeding one year, or shall suf- 
fer both fine and imprisonment, in the dis- 
cretion of the court. 

Sec. 3. That it is the purpose of this 
Act to protect from trespass the public 
lands of the United States and the game 
animals and birds which may be thereon, 
and not to interfere with the operation of 
the local game laws as affecting private, 
State, or Territorial lands. 


Every sportsman in the land should write 
his Congressman and Senator at once urg- 
ing prompt and favorable action on this bill. 
Our object is eventually to induce Congress 
to inclose a portion of this tract with a 
high wire fence and make a quail breeding 
farm of it. The government would then 
buy several thousand live birds, amputate 
the first joint of one wing of each and 
turn them into this field to breed. Then as 
fast as the young birds mature they could 
be netted and shipped to the Northern 
States for restocking depleted areas. 

Please act promptly in this matter and 
have as many as possible of your friends 
do so, 


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BRADFORD’S TWADDLE. 


One Bradford, of Masenna, N. Y., has 
written an article in favor of spring shoot- 
ing, in which he makes this ridiculous state- 
ment ! 


“One has but to see the immense yearly 
flight of ducks Northward to be convinced 
that there is no fear of exterminating the 
duck family.” 


Anyone who knows has but to read the 
foregoing statement in order to be con- 
vinced that Mr. Bradford knows practically 
nothing of the subject he talks about or else 
that he is deliberately misrepresenting the 
facts. 


Every careful observer of the bird lite of 
this country is well aware that all species 
of ducks have been steadily decreasing in 
numbers, for 20 years past. No better evi- 
dence of this fact is needed than a compari- 
son of the market quotations of to-day with 
those of a few years ago. Within the mem- 
ory of young men of to-day .canvasback 
ducks sold in the markets of this city, dur- 
ing the fall and winter, as low as $4.a 
dozen; redheads at $3 a dozen; mallards, 
black ducks, widgeon and other common va- 
rieties as low as $2 a dozen. 


To-day canvasbacks bring $45 to $60 a 
dozen; redheads, $30 to $36; black ducks, 
ruddy ducks, mallards, widgeon, etc., $12 to 
$15 a dozen. 


This, notwithstanding the fact that there 
are 10 times as many men shooting for the 
market to-day as there were 20 years ago. 

It is unfortunate that such idiots as Brad- 
ford should be allowed to talk through the 
newspapers, for while no intelligent sports- 
man or naturalist would be misled by his 
twaddle, there are thousands of other peo- 
ple who do not know the facts and who are 
likely to take for granted what he savs. 





Colonel Kingsbury, commanding Ft. Sill, 
Oklahoma, has shown a most earnest and 
commendable interest in the cause of game 
and fish protection. The Ft. Sill military 
preservation covers 52,000 acres of land, 
and is thoroughly patrolled every day. 
Colonel Kingsbury has issued orders that 
no shooting or fishing shall be allowed on 
the reservation, either by soldiers or civil- 
jans, except during the open season for the 
taking of fish and game, and he has even 
prohibited shooting and fishing during a 
portion of that time. That reservation is 
large enough to be made a most valuable 


fish and game preserve, and as a result of. 


Colonel Kingsbury’s wise course we may 
reasonably expect that game and fish will 
increase rapidly on that tract. I wish the 
commanders of all the Western army posts 
could be induced to take similar action. 


RECREATION. 


Game Warden P. W. Shaffer, of Okla- 
homa, seized 16,000 quails and prairie chick- 
ens in the Rock Island yards at that city. 
some weeks ago, that were consigned to the 
Okeene Produce Co., of Okeene, and the 
Chester Produce Co., of St. Louis. The 
birds were packed in 7o barrels, boxes and 
egg cases, and while the report before me 
does not say so, it is safe to assume that 
these cases were not properly labeled as to 
their contents. Oklahoma has a non-export 
game law, and in attempting to violate this 
the shipper undoubtedly violated the Lacey 
law as well; so it is interesting to figure out 
the penalty to which the offender is liable. 
My readers: will be advised of the ultimate 
outcome of this case. 





Buffalo Jones, special game warden for 
the Yellowstone National Park, reports 
that he has bought and confined under 
wire fence, 21 head of buffalo. He has also 
caught 14 calves from among the wild buf- 
falo running at large in the Park. He re- 
ports that there are now 33 of these wild 
bison outside of the enclosure. 





I used to find fault with your attitude 
toward the violators of the game and fish 
laws, but I now realize that you can not 
do full justice to these shoats, on account 
of the postal regulations. 

Joseph Thorn, Elgin, Oregon. 





She—I will never marry a man whose 
fortune has not at least 5 ciphers in it. 

He—Oh, darling! Then we will be mar- 
ried to-morrow; mine is all ciphers.—Chi- 
cago News. 





The Harrington & Richardson gun ar- 
rived in due time. It more than pays me 
for the little work I did for you. 

J. T. Carr, Victor, Colo. 





The Harrington & Richardson revolver 
is all right and alone worth the money I 
sent in for 5 subscriptions. 

J. W. Bales, Wester, Ia. 





Oh, Tom! This brown hair on your coat 
shows where you have been. 

On the contrary, my dear, it shows where 
you have been.—E.rchange. 





The Harrington & Richardson gun came 
to hand. I consider it a present and thank 
you accordingly. 

William Miner, North Billerica, Mass. 





Have received the Harrington & Rich- 
ardson revolver and more than like it. 
Geo. Steubenrauch, Collinsville, Conn. 





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A REMARKABLE SHOT. 
WILLIAM HODGSON. 


I had hunted deer in the Adirondacks 
several seasons, and wanted to try for bear. 
When I reached the station I was met by 
my guide, and having provided what I had 
been told was tempting bait for bear, such 
as codfish and Limberger cheese, we started 
for the woods. 

We carried with us 2 bear traps and had 
set one when, going farther up the trail to 
set the other, we came to a meadow. We 
stopped to rest and look over the situation. 
While we were waiting, a big buck walked 
slowly out of the woods, crossed an open- 
ing, and disappeared behind some spruces. 
I had taken aim at him while he was in 
the opening, but he looked so large and had 
such immense antlers that I mistook him 
for an elk, imagining he had escaped from 
some game preserve. 

After he passed out of sight I made up 
my mind I was mistaken and that the ani- 
mal was a deer. He was walking straight 
away from me when he entered the bushes. 
Aiming about 6 inches higher than I 
thought the line of his back would be, and 
lining up on the direction he had taken 
when he entered the bushes, I pulled. The 
guide had not seen the deer, but now we 
both saw him jump from the thicket into 
the standing timber. The guide said he 
thought I had hit the deer. 

We went into the thicket, and found 
blood on the leaves. Following the trail, 
we soon found big clots of blood. We sat 
down and waited about 15 minutes, hoping 
the deer would lie down. Then we took 
up the trail again and followed it by the 
blood about 300 yards, when we found the 
animal, lying on the ground, breathing hard, 
as if he were dying. I wanted to make sure 
of him that time, and as I could not get a 
good aim from where I stood, I stepped 
carefully to one side, but when I reached a 
point whence I could get a good look at 
him, I confess my heart failed me. 

The deer raised his head, looked at me 
with his big brown eyes, and was such a 
beautiful creature that I simply had not the 
courage to shoot him as he lay, probably 
on his death bed. While I stood there 
studying the unfortunate creature, he 
jumped. I took a quick aim at his neck 
and pulled again, but there was no report. 
For years I had been using a hammerless 
shot gun, and so had forgotten to cock 
my rifle. The guide laughed at me, and I 
would have sold out cheap at that moment; 
but few words were exchanged between us. 

We waited another half hour, when the 
guide said it was time to go; that the deer 
would either be dead by that time, or clear 
out of the country. We started again on 
the trail, and at that juncture it began to 
rain. This was indeed discouraging, for we 
realized that it would soon wash the blood 
from the leaves, and we should be unable to 
follow the trail. We walked as fast as we 
could, but were forced to depend on the 
impression of the deer’s hoofs on the soft 


_ the first shot. 


ground, as the blood had entirely disap- 
peared. We were 8 or Io miles from camp, 
night was approaching, and the rain was 
increasing in volume. 

The guide proposed going to camp at 
once and coming back in the morning, but 
I said that would be entirely useless; that 
we could not find the track at all by that 
time; so I insisted on following the trail a 
little farther. 

We pressed on, but soon lost the trail 
again and made a wide circuit in order to 
pick it up. After a while we found the 
track of a big buck, but were not sure it 
was the one we had been following. Still, 
we followed. It seemed as if this deer were 
perfectly healthy, for he was making big, 
long jumps. I said to myself as we walked 
along that I would give $5 to see only 
one drop of blood. 

After following the trail about half a 
mile we again came up to the deer, and 
found him lying on a little knoll. I felt 
sure he was dead, but thought it best to 
put another bullet in him. This I did, but 
when we walked up to him we found that 
was useless, as he was already dead when 
we reached him. 

He was truly a magnificent animal, and 
we estimated he would weigh 250 pounds. 


My first shot had gone through one rib 


and through his lungs. 


We went back to the starting point the- 


next day, and paced the distance from where 
I stood to where the deer was when I fired 
It proved to be 144 yards. 
I offered the guide $10 to get the entire 
carcass to the railway station, but he said 
it could not be done, as we were 12 miles 
from there, so I had to content myself with 
the saddles and the head. The latter I have 


‘mounted, and it is indeed a beauty. 


That lucky shot broke up my bear trap- 
ping, for the weather was warm and I had 
to bring the venison out at once, in order 
to save it. I considered a deer in the ice 
box worth more than 2 bear in the woods. 





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of that, *: replied the customer. “It’s a 
credit to you.” 

“Well—er—I hope you won’t forget it’s 
a debit to you.”—Philadelphia Press. 





I have 3 sons. One is in Congress, one is 
a yellow journalist, and one is in jail. 

Oh, well, don’t despair; some day they 
may all be in jail—Mail and Express. 





Will J. L. Lancaster, who wrote the 
article entitled “Juno, the Retriever,” pub- 
lished in January, 1904, RECREATION, please 
let me know his address? 

J. A. Martin, Box 356, Austin, Tex. 





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RECREATION. 


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326 


AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 


“For sport the lens is better than the gun.” 


I wish to make this department of the utmost 
use to amateurs. I shall, therefore, be glad to 
answer any questions and to print any items sent 
me by practical amateurs relating to their experi- 
ence in photography. 





THE ANNUAL COMPETITION 


RecREATION has conducted 8 amateur 
photographic competitions, all of which 
have been eminently successful. The gth 
opens April ist, 1904, and will close No- 
vember 30th, 1904. 

Following is a list of prizes to be 
awarded: 

First prize: A Long Focus Korona Camera, 
§ x 7, made by the Gundlach Optical Co. Roch- 
ester, N. Y., fitted with a Turner-Reich Anastig- 
mat Lens, and listed at $85. ; 3 

Second prize: A No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak, 
made by the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. 
Y., fitted with a Bausch & Lomnib Lens, Plastig- 
mat Unicum Shutter, and listed at $61.50. 

Third prize: A Royal Anastigmat Lens, 4 x 5, 
made by the Rochester Lens Co., Rochester, N. Y-; 
listed at $36. 

Fourth prize: A Waterproof Wall Tent, 12 x 16 
made by Abercrombie & Fitch, New York, and 
listed at $32. : 

Fifth prize: An AlI-Vista-Panoramic Camera, 
made by the Multiscope and Film Co., Burlington, 
Wis., and listed at $3o. 

Sixth prize: A No. 3 Focusing Weno Hawk- 
eye Camera, made by the Blair Camera Co., Roch- 
ester, N. Y., and listed at $27.50. 

Seventh prize: A high grade Fishing Reel, 
made by W. H. Talbot, Nevada, Mo., and listed 
at $20. 

Eighth prize: A Tourist Hawkeye Camera, 
4 x 5, atid made by the Blair Camera Co., Roch- 
ester, N. Y., and listed at $15. 

Ninth prize: A Bristol Steel Fishing Rod, made 
by the Horton Mfg. Co., Bristol, Conn., and 
listed at $8. 

Tenth prize: A pair of High Grade Skates, 
made by Barney & Berry, Springfield, Mass., and 
listed at $6. 

The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 
one dozen 8 x 10 Carbutt Plates, made by the 
Carbutt Dry Plate Co., Wayne Junction, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 
one dozen § x 7 Carbutt Plates. 

The ito next best pictures will each be awarded 
one dozen 4 x 5 Carbutt Plates, 

A special prize: A Goerz Binocular Field Glass, 
listed at $74.25, will be given for the best picttire 
of a live wild animal, 


Subjects are limited to wild animals, 
birds, fishes, camp sceries, and to figtires 
or groups of persons, or afiimals, fepre- 
seriting in a truthful manner shooting, fish- 
ing, amateur photography, bicycling, sail- 
ing of other form of outdoor or indoor 
sport of recreation. Awafds to be made 
by 3 judges, none of whom shall be com- 
petitors. 

Conditions: Contestants must submit 2 
motinted prints, either silver, bromide, 
platinum or carbon, of each subject, which, 
as well as the negative, shall become the 
property of RecrEATION. Negatives not to 
be sent unless called for. 

In submitting pictures, please write sim- 


RECREATION. 


ply your full name and address on the back 
of each, and nittmber such prints as you 
may send, I, 2, 3, etc. Then in a letter ad- 
dressed Photographie Editor, RECREATION, 
say, for instance: ; 

No. f is entitled —— ——. 


Made with a —— —— camera. 
— — lens. 

On a —— —— plate. . 
Printed on —— —— paper. 


Length of exposure, ——- ——. 

Then add any further information you 
may deem of interest to the judges, or to 
other amateur photographers. Same as to 
Nos. 2, 3, ete. 

This is necessary in order to save post- 
age. In all cases where more than the 
name and address of the sender and serial 
number of picture are written on the back 
of prints I am required to pay letter post- 
age here. I have paid as high as $2.50 on 
a single package of a dozen pictures, in ad- 
dition to that prepaid by the sender, on ac- 
count of too much writing on the prints. 

Any number of subjects may be sub- 
mitted. 

Pictures that may have been published 
elsewhere, or that may have been entered 
in any other competition, not available. No 
entry fee charged. 

Don’t let people who pose for you look 
at the camera. Occupy them in some other 
way. Many otherwise fine pictures have — 
failed to win in the former competitions 
because the makers did not heed this warn- 


ing. 





PHOTOGRAPHIC POST CARDS. 


The use of souvenir post cards has be- 
come almost universal. In some localities 
the revenue derived from post cards during 
some seasons of the year exceeds the rev- 
enue from the sale of stamps for letters, 
and the Post Office Department has adopt- 
ed liberal rules, so that almost a 
mailable can now be sent as a post card. 
It is only necessary that the card should 
bear, on the address side, the words “Post 
card,’ and in addition only the address 
should be on that side. | 

The opportunity for the amateur photo- 
gtapher to make his own post cards be- 
comes easily within the reach of all. There 
are many possibilities in this direction, The 
negatives already on hand may be used, and 
the artistic ideas expfessed may add a 
great interest to the message sent an ab- 
sent friend. 

If the amateur is the possessor of a small 
printing press, the printing of a number of 
post cards will occupy only a short time. If 
not, a rubber stamp, containing the words 
“Post Card,” in large clear type, can be 
used. A good quality of bristolboard will 
answer the purpose, and can be easilv cut 
to the desired size, 314x5™%, by the ordinary 
print trimmer. <*> 


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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 327 


It is then necessary to sensitize the cards 
for printing. The simplest form of sensi- 
tizer is the ordinary blue print solution. 
Formulas for thé solution can be found in 
any of the annuals devoted to photography. 
For those who do not care to compound the 
blue print solution there are sensitizing 
powders on the market which are readily 
dissolved and easily manipulated. 

I can not urge_too strongly the careful 
selection of the negative for the small print 
which ig to be used to decoraté the post 
card. It ofteti happens that a choice view 
may be found in some corner of a nega- 
tive which taken as a whole would be utter- 
ly lacking in interest. The close study of 
the négatives on hand is recommended. 
These should bé €xamined not only as a 
whole but with reference to tiny portions 
which might be selected and used as an en- 
largement or a reduction, as their size may 
require. ’ 

The choice of the best portion of the 
negative may be aided and time saved by 
the use of several differently formed masks, 
the opening of which is to represent the 
size of the picture. The masks exclude 
other portions of the negative from con- 
sideration. This enables the mind to se- 
lect with much greater readiness stich por- 
tions of the negative as may seem of the 
greatest interest. _ 

In sensitizing the cards cover with a 
piece of blotter such portions of the card 
as are not to be included in the picture. 
Apply the sensitizer with a wad of absorb- 
ent cotton, remembering that a thin coat- 
ing of the sensitizér is all that will be fe- 
quired. The fingers should always be pro- 
tected from contact with the sénsitizer by 
rubber finger tips. 

With the blue print picture card a thor- 
ough washing is all that is needed to com- 
plete the picture after it has been printed. 
With other sensitizing solutions some chem- 
ical method of fixation is usually required. 
For that ample directions are contained 
with the sensitizing powders. If the words 
“Post Card” are to be printed by the use 
of a rubber stamp, Omit such printing until 
the picfure has been printed and fixéd and 
washed. Otherwise the ink used for the 
Stamp might become so much washed out 
and mingled with the picture, that an un- 
desired effect would be obtained. 

For that class of néeatives which seem 
to be so well composed that a small portion 
¢an not be used without destroying the best 
effect of the picftire it will be well fo make 
a reduced transparén¢y on a lantern slidé 
platé, and from this make a small negative 
by contact. To those who own an enlare- 
ing and reducing camera this will be easy. 
but for fhosé who are obliged to depend 
on homemade apparatus, the reducing of 
negatives will entail no small labor. 


A board will be needed, of sufficient 
length to represent the distance required 
from the negative to the camera, in order 
to reduce the negative to the size of a lan- 
tern plate or smaller. At one end of this 
board fasten rigidly a box large enough to 
admit the largest negative to be reduced. 
In the bottom of the box cut an opening 
slightly smaller than the negatives from 
which the reductions are made, and fur- 
nish the box with parallel cleats so that 
the negatives can be placed in the grooves 
thus formed. At the other end of the 
board nail parallel strips of 34 inch board 
so that the view camera will slide between 
these strips with just enough friction to 
keep it in proper position. A groove should 
also be cut through the board to admit 
the tripod screw, by which the cam- 
era can be secured at any point after the 
correct size of the reduction has been 
found. The distance between the camera 
and the box containing the negative can 
be covered by the focussing cloth laid on 
strips of wood resting at one end on the 
camera, and at the other end on the box in 
which the negative is secured. This appar- 
atus can be easily prepared by any one from 
the usual articles found about the home; 
and the flat-dweller can utilize the family 
ironing board for the camera stand if other 
boards are not available. 

It will naturally suggest itself to the 
camera worker that the box containing the 
negative will have to be placed so it may 
receive the light from a window, and 
that the light should be diffused by the use 
of tracing cloth or tissue paper. It will 
also be known to all that a kit to contain 
the lantern slide plate can be made from 
card board so it can be used in the ordi- 
nary plate holder in the same manner as 
the usual negative plate. When it seems 
necessary to enlarge a portion of the nega- 
ative a similar apparatus will answer the 
purposé, provided the camera is furnished 
with a sufficient length of bellows. 


It may be, however, that some of thé 
téaders of this article have little time dur- 
ing the day that can be devoted to photo- 
graphy. For this class there is abundant 
opportunity to prepare the post cards from 
papers which are designed for use by ar- 
tificial light. Several manufacturers of bro- 
mide or gaslight papers have placed on the 
market post cards ready for exposure. 
These goods are easily manipulated and the 
results are all that the most exacting could 
wish. In this kind of work use printing 
frame of liberal size, so that all sizes of 
negatives can be accommodated with one 
frame. Cover the inner portion of the 
glass of the printing frame with a heavy 
nonéactinic paper. In the lower right 
corner of the paper mark off a space of the 
exact side of the post cards to be used, and 


328 RECREATION. 


frame the right angle line thus formed with 
strips of cardboard, forming in this man- 
ner an angle in which the post cards may be 
placed. Each card will then be in accurate 
register. Cut an opening through the thick 
paper of sufficient size to accommodate the 
largest picture to be used, and by the use 
of masks on the negatives it will be possi- 
ble to bring each picture in proper position 
on the card. 


In making a series of exposures from dif- 


ferent negatives, select either a negative of 
the greatest or the least density of the col- 
lection, and from this make a standard of 
exposures, varying the exposure as the dif- 
ferent negatives are denser or thinner than 
the standard selected. It is also advisable 
to have a fixed distance for exposure be- 
tween the lamp or gas jet and the printing 
frame. Adopting such a distance gives one 
known condition, and the only remaining 
condition to be considered is the length of 
exposure, which should be governed by the 
condition of the negative used as related to 
the standard. 

Concerning the manipulation of the sensi- 
tized post cards it will usually be sufficient 
if the directions which accompany the pa- 
per are intelligently followed. Much of 
the success in the technical side of photo- 
graphy consists in following implicitly the 
formulas given. 

There will doubtless be found many 
friends who will wish to have post cards 
made from favorite negatives, and in such 
a case a means of money-making is at once 
afforded—Chas. E. Fairman, in The Cam- 
era and Dark Room. 





TO MAKE PYRO DEVELOPER. 

I should like to inquire through REcCREA- 
TION of R. Wadhams, M.D., Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa., what formula he would rec- 
ommend for making pyro developer, and 
how to size such developer. 

I read his article in November REcREA- 
TION entitled, “Why the Amateur Should 
Use Pyro,” and was much interested in it. 

I have been using Stanley plates of late, 
but I have trouble from pin holes in them. 
I dust the plates with a soft camel’s hair 
brush before and after exposure, as recom- 
mended by the plate company, but I get 
pin holes just the same. Can you suggest 
any way of preventing them? 

W. D. Lewis, Lynn, Mass. 
ANSWER. 
My developing solutions are as follows: 


A.—Pyro, I ounce. 
Saturated solution of oxalic acid, 2 
drachms. 
Water, 16 ounces. 

B.—Sodium sulphite, T 80; or : 
Crystals, 10 ounces, or dry, 5 ounces. 
Water, 30 ounces. 


C.—Sodium carbonate, T 40; or 

Crystals, 6 ounces or dry 2% ounces. 

Water, 30 ounces. 

Use 1 ounce of each,-A. B. C. Water, 

7 to I2 Ounces; or use: 
A.—6™% drachms, water, 7% to 12% ounces. 
B.—6_ drachms. 
C.—1 ounce. 


v By using this 3-solution developer, I can 
make up any mixture to correspond to the 
formula given by any plate maker for his 
individual plate; always remembering the 
following rules: Too much pyro chokes 
up the whites and gives too much contrast; 
too little pyro gives slow development and 
lack of contrast. Too much sulphite gives 
blue negative; too little, a brown negative 
and stain. Too much soda makes fog, and 
dense, flat negatives; too little makes con- 
trast and slow development. Addition of 
water mares negative in high lights and 
gives detail; less water gives contrast. 
Hence I vary the preparations according to 
the kind of negative I want. 

In regard to bubbles, I never wet the 
plate before developing. I try to pour the 
developer over the whole plate with one 
motion. I have few air bubbles. 

As regards pin holes, I doubt if dust 
plays so important a role as is supposed. 
It is an easy excuse for those manufactur- 
ers who make dirty plates. Try dusting % 
of the plate and see if you can tell, after 
development, which half was dusted. I 
suggest that Mr. Lewis try another make 
of plates. 

R. L. Wadhams, M.D., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 





After my exposed plates have been laid 
away some time the film side becomes 
frosty looking. This appearance can be 
readily corrected by soaking the film in 
pure water, and while immersed using a 
camel’s hair brush gently over the emul- 
sion. Will you please state cause of this 
appearance and remedy? Have always ta- 
ken great care with original washing. 

A. N. Wolff, St. Paul, Minn. 


ANSWER. 


In all probability the white deposit you 
find on your negatives is sodium hyposul- 
phite which was not completely washed out. 
To test it make a stock solution of potas- 
sium permanganate 20 grains, sulphuric acid 
I drop, water 2 ounces. Dilute a small 
quantity of this solution with water until 
the color is light. Add to this the water 
in which the negatives were washed to re- 
move the white deposit; if it is hypo the 
solution will lose its color. The remedy 
would be to wash the negatives longer in 
running water. 

If the negatives were stored in a damp 
place it is possible the deposit is a mould. 
—EpIror. 


Eo 


RECREATION. XV \ 


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A new Velox paper with a semi-gloss 
surface that adds lustre and life to the 
shadows. Its breadth of gradation adapts 
it to use with almost any negative. 


Furnished in single or double 
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I received the J. C. hand trap which you 
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By means of Premo Film Pack Adapter any 3}x i} or 
4X5 Premo or Poco becomes a daylight loading film 
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The Film Pack (12 exposures ) 
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had sent to me for 3 subscriptions. It is just 
the thing for wearing around the house and 
for hunting or fishing. I thank you for 
sending it so promptly. 

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I have received the Davenport gun that I 
earned as premium, and find it entirely sat- 
isfactory in every way. I have shown it to 
lots of my friends and they are surprised 
to know that a gun can be got with so 
little expense and labor. 

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NOT GAME. 

Early on the morning of August 8th, last, 
I shouldered my Parker and struck out for 
a hickory grove South of my house and 
near the old sugar camp where, in my boy- 
hood, I used to tote the sugar water. I 
made my way to the top, which is pretty 
steep for old legs to climb, Getting there I 
stopped to listen. I soon heard grays cut- 
ting and presently a fine fellow ran from 
one hickory to another to get a nut. Just 
then a load of No. 6’s brought him down in 
good shape, a clean kill. 

Standing still a few minutes, I got in an- 
other shot; a clean kill was the result. 
Soon another gray made a rush off a hick- 
ory on to a small tree near, stopping on a 
limb. He did not offer a very good mark. 
{ dropped him, however, but seeing he was 
about to get into a tree with a hollow near 
the ground, I sent the second load of 6's 
after him. I would rather score a clean 
miss than cripple my game. Having 3, I 
gathered them up and went home. I always 
make it a rule to stop shooting when | 
have a reasonable bag of any kind of game. 
I think’ 3 or 4 squirrels or rabbits should 
satisfy any one. 

R. B. Stowers, Cupio, Ky. 


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ing RECREATION as closely as you should, or 
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XXiV 





CAMPING IN COLORADO. 
A. L. COLE, 


We outfitted at Leadville, a way-up min- 
ing town. The organizer, paymaster, guide, 
scout, angler, game smeller and physician 
in charge of the party was Dr. J. H. Cole. 
The other members were his wife and son, 
and Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Cole, of DuBois, 
Pa. The doctor provided a good team and 
wagon, mattresses, a large wall tent, stove 
and cooking utensils, plenty of provisions 
and fishing tackle, guns and ammunition. 
We headed for Bear river, Routt county. 
The route lay over Tennessee Pass, down 
she Eagle river, across the divide of the 
waters of the Grand, then over another 
divide to Bear river, and down the Bear 
nearly to Hayden. 

From the first night out, which was spent 
on the Eagle, to the return, covering nearly 
4 weeks, we had trout in abundance. 


If Nature had intended to provide an al- 
most perfect country for such a trip she 
could not have succeeded better, The cli- 
mate is superb, game abundant and scenery 
sublime. The whole distance presents one 
grand and wonderful sight, but so varied 
and changing that there is no monotony 
in the scene. 


Before leaving the railroad line, we spent 
Sunday at Red Cliff, a small mining town 
on a narrow strip of land along the Eagle 
river, with mountains so high that the sun 
appears late and disappears early in the 
day. We selected the only level spot to be 
found for a camp site, and discovered Sun- 
day morning that we were within 20 feet of 
the home plate on what was used as a base 
ball ground. We were entertained Sun- 
day by a game between Red Cliff and 
Leadville, which was witnessed by almost 
the entire population of the town. They 
could not be charged with sacrilege, con- 
sidering the life they had to lead the other 6 
days of the week. 


Near this town, on the mountain top al- 
most directly above it, is the little town of 
Gillman, built so near to the precipice of 
Eagle River canyon that it makes one’s 
head swim to walk the main street, with the 
roaring river 2,000 feet below and almost~ 
squarely underneath. One daredevil has 
built his house on a projecting cliff so it 
can only be approached from one way, and 
if he should happen to step out the back 
door, he would be dashed to the rocks, 
hundreds of feet below. 


On this great peak, known as Battle 
mountain, by reason of some traditional 
Indian battle, there are rich gold 
mines, driven in the sides in places almost 
inaccessible. 

After leaving the line of the railroad at 
Wolcott, the road leads through a succes- 
sion of cedar hills where the soil and rocks 
are as red as paint, and the cedars as blue 
as the sky. Just before reaching the Grand 
river, we camped 3 days at Leary’s ranch on 
Piney creek. This is the first trout stream 


RECREATION. 
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I ever had the pleasure of casting a fly on. 
An hour’s fishing at any time would give us 
10 pounds of the finest trout anyone ever 
saw. The Doctor caught one that measured 
17% inches in length. 

After reaching the head waters of the 
Bear river, one is in a beautiful grassy 
valley, the home of the cattle grower and 
the hay farmer. This valley seems to be 
natural timothy land. Wherever a little 
water can be run on the soil it produces a 
wonderful growth of clean timothy. 


The next stop was at Steamboat Springs, 
a little town with a big name, and a long 
way from a steamboat. Here are several 
hundred springs, of all varieties one can 
imagine; hot, warm, cold, soda springs, sul- 
phur springs, milk springs, iron springs, 
and several other kinds, all in close prox- 
imity to one another, and of all sizes and 
smells. There is a large building used as a 
bath house, with several vats or pools, 16 
by 20 feet in size and 3 to 6 feet deep, 
supplied with hot water direct from the 
earth. For 25 cents one can enjoy the most 
delicious bath that can be wished for. 


At the end of the journey, 20 miles below, 
we found an old Pennsylvanian in a log hut, 
alone except for a dog that danced to the 
music of his violin. We felt at home there, 
with a man not only from our own State, 
but one who was graduated in the same 
class in a Pennsylvania school with our 
present Governor. Thus are demonstrated 
the favors fortune bestows; but when one 
considers all, is it not hard to tell which one 
she has favored, the one whom she has 
made Governor of a great State, or the 
one whose lot has been cast in the heart 
of the great Rocky mountain wilderness, in 
the midst of all nature’s primitive bless- 
ings? 

In a week’s stay at this place, we saw 
deer every afternoon from our tent door, 
and in a short trip up any one of the many 
canyons or gulches a dozen could be seen 
any evening. Of course they did not all 
get away. 

From there we retraced our route, and 
reached Leadville in the midst of an August 
snow squall, having had a most delightful 
and profitable trip. Its delight and its suc- 
cess were due first.to Doctor and Mrs. 
Cole, and second to the good people along 
the way, all of whom seemed waiting to do 
some act of kindness for the camper, of 
whom there are many in that country. 

Pleasant associates, a delightful cli- 
mate, enchanting and wonderful scenery, 
plenty of fish, grouse, sage hens, and an 
occasional deer! What more could we 
ask for to make a camping trip complete? 


Then you admit having killed deer and 
grouse in violation of the State law. 
need not tell you this is wrong. You know 
it as well as I do. You have laid yourself 
liable to arrest and prosecution, and in case 
you return to Colorado at any future time, 
the State game warden should prosecute 
you to the full extent of the law.—Eb1ror, 


RECREATION. XXV 


+ Thinking 
Made 








An underfed Brain that has gone tired is a poor tool and can’t do good work. 


For Brain is physical—wears away under the daily grind just like flesh or 


muscle and MUST BE REBUILT by selected food. 


When the proper food GRAPE-NUTS is selected the greatest brain 
maker in the world is put to work in you, rich in the Phosphates that fill the 
delicate little gray cells in the Nerves and Brain, and in a short time you will feel 
a vigor and renewed mental strength that can come only to the properly nourished 


Brain. 


A strong, keen, money-making set of brains CAN BE BUILT ON 
GRAPE-NUTS and anyone who wants such a set of thinkers’’ should try the 
food, following the suggestions laid down in the book, “The Road to Wellville,’’ 


found in every package. 
GRAPE-NUTS 10 days will show. Fact. 


There’s a reason. 


RECREATION. 





Underwood's Original 


DEVILED HAM 


LOOK ON THE CAN For jo The pure and delicate Deviled Ham which 


roy been 7 = market for years and J 

= es an hace pe! ound wantin r-cured ham 

a THE emer RED DEVIL and fine, _ spices is ail hit ee use. Itis 

r delicious for sandwiches, at lunch, picnic, or 

tea, and in the chafing-dish. Our Book con- 

tains a_lot of unique and practical receipts. 
We will send it FREE. 


UN DERWOOD’S ORIGINAL 















DEVILED HAM 





Free: If you send a new subscription to 
RECREATION through me of direct to the 
office to be placed to my credit, I will send 
you, free of charge, any one of the articles 
mentioned below: 

Shot gun bench crimper, sells for 75 
in I0-I2 16-20 gauge. 

Shot gun cleaning rod, three attachments, 
sells for 50 cents, in 10-12 16 gauge. 

Micrometer powder and shot measure, 
adjustable, and for both black and smoke- 
less powder, sells for 65 cents. 

U. S. Government rifle cleaner, any cali- 
ber, with attachments, sells for 60 cents, 
packed in neat canvas bag. 

A duck, snipe or turkey call, sells for 75 
cents each, best made. 

A hand painted sporting picture, suitable 
for framing, and just the thing for your den, 
worth $1.50. 

“Hunting in the Great West,” by G. O. 
Shields. H. S. Hill, 815 11th Street, N. ~., 
Washington, D. C. 


cents, 


Rubbing down with methylated spirits is 
a most useful means of reducing harsh and 
over dense negatives. Cut the end of a bot- 
tle cork flat, spread wash leather or flannel 
on this, moisten with spirit, and rub evenly, 
backward and forward, the whole of the 
negative. The high lights will be evenly 
planed down and the shadows not reduced. 
—The Camera and Dark Room. 


The Mitchell hand trap has just arrived 
O.K., and am sure it will be the means of 
my spending many a pleasant hour. [ shall 
always feel grateful to you for giving me 
so much for so little. 


A. A. Aukency, Hagerstown, Md. 


: AN. 
Dru Smoke 

without potsionons nicotine to injure > NN 

health,or old-pipeodor to cling to clothing 


we MAY BELLE cx"e-= PIPE. 


What 
The fire is almost 


First Shade (in Hades)—Br-r-h! 
makes it so cold to-day? 
out ! 

Second Shade—That is because they have 
decided to use for fuel only those publish- 
ers who didn’t lie about the sale of their 
books. 

But I didn’t know there were any here. 

There aren’t.—Life. 


I am in receipt of the Laughlin fountain 
pen sent me as a premium for 2 subscrip- 
tions to your most interesting magazine. It 
is a handsome pen in every respect, and I 
am highly pleased with it. Please accept 
my sincere thanks for it. 

E. W. Stevenson, Govanstown, Md. 





Do you want a Good, Reliable, 
Substantial, Well Made 


Single Barrel Shot Gi 


If so, send me 


{0 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS 


and I will send you such a 
Gun as a premium 


It is made by the DAVENPORT ARMS 
CO., and this means it is made of good 
material and that only good workmanship 
is put on it. 


‘This is one of the many remarkable op- 
portunities RECREATJON is offering to 
men and boys to fit themselves out com- 
pletely for shooting and fishing. 


Sample Copies for Use in Canvassing 
Furnished on Application. 


Address 


may be bought at any 's, but be 
sure you see on the can fie | Lf ic RED DEVIL, 
; Wm. Underwood Co.,Boston,Mass.,U.S.A. 


1s SO made that it removes the n'cotine and collects ‘t in an absorhent. 


Easily cleaned, always sweet and healthful. 1.00 by mail. With 
amber stem $2.50. Money cheerfull+ refunded if not entirely satisfactory. 
Free Booklet A-12, NEW ERA PIPE CO., Norristown, Pa, 


RECREATION 


23 W. 24th St., New York City. 





RECREATION. XxVii 


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td) 


CRYSTAL 
Domino 


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Nok 


es eal 


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Sold only in d|b. sealed boxes! — 


Convenient in form, perfect in quality, brilliant in appearance, no sugar made can equal it in excellence. Every piece 
sparkles like a cluster of diamonds, the result of its perfect crystallization. You will pte) mene moment you open a box. 
YOU WILL BE BETTER PLEASED WHEN YOU HAVE TRIED IT IN YOUR TEA, COFFEE, ETC. 


SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. 


Remember that each package bears the design of a ‘‘ DOMINO’’ MASK, ‘‘ DOMINO ’’ STONES and the names of 
the manufacturers (HAVEMEYERS & ELDER, New York). INSIST UPON HAVING THE GENUINE. 





A VENANGO COUNTY DEER HUNT. 


One Friday, late in November, it snowed, 
and 3 tenderfeet decided to hunt for deer 
the next day. Saturday morning found us 
starting for a 6 mile tramp-to the deer 
woods of. Venango county, Pennsylvania. 
We were tempted to take hounds along for 
their ‘“ow-w-w, wow-w-wow-w-w” on a 
trail is certainly music; but hunting deer 
with dogs is against our law and a live gf 
dog in the deer woods here is a dead dog , \ . Famous the world 
before he goes far. In fact, any of our 7 «6 WAM over for purity. 
hunters would let a deer pass unharmed in u! ‘ Th 
order to make sure of the dog behind it: CFE ey Orcas: 

On our way to the woods we picked up The secret of their 
a guide who knew the runs and crossings. | € perfect blend is that 
Soon after we reached the hunting ground : they are kept six 
we came across the track of a deer. We 
followed the trail 2 hours and came to 
where the animal had lain down and then 


months before being 
drawn off and bot- 


back tracked. There we separated. I had not tled. Be sure you 
gone far before I heard the crack of a rifle. | b | || have them in your 
I jumped on a stump expecting to see a deer i camp, on the yacht, 
bounding through the brush, but all was and on your outing 


quiet. Hastening in the direction of the tri " 
shot, I soon found my partner bleeding his ds pts ae you 
game—a 4-pronged buck that weighed a go. They are ready and require no 


few pounds over 100 when dressed. mixing. Simply pour over cracked ice. 

We hung our deer up and hunted all day a 
with never a sight of another except one For Sale by all Fancy Grocers and Dealers ¢ 
which fell to the guns of other hunters. —————————— 


We had a hard time carrying our prize] ] GE. HEUBLEIN & BRO. 


through the wood and over a hill before we 
Ny Se take dies 29 BROADWAY, N.¥. HARTFORD, CONN. 


F. A. Ross, So. Oil City, Pa. 





XXVili RECREATION. 


Saves Time and Money 


No Stropping 
No Honing 


Stopping Stropping 


Is where you save time, pother, danger and work, 


The Gillette 


Safety Razor 


Always sharp, always ready to use. Guaranteed to shave all faces, under all conditions. Nothing to 
adjust, nothing to learn—simply shave. Twenty double-edged blades furnished with each razor, each one 
will give an average of twenty smooth, satisfactory shaves. When one gets dul] put in another, when all are dul) we sharpen 


and return them all ready to use for fifty cents. 


health risks. Write f 
satisfied after thirty days’ trial. 


GILLETTE SALES COMPANY, -_ - 


or free 


MOJAVE INDIAN BEAD WORK. 


For each new yearly subscription to REcRE- 
ATION Sent us we will send by mail, postpaid, 
a Beaded Watch Fob, made by the Mojave 
Indians. For 3 new yearly subscriptions we 
will send a fine Beaded Belt, 24 inches or 
more in length and made in beautiful design 
with mild color combinations. We also have 
other Indian work to offer for subscrip- 
tions. 

State color desired; can furnish almost 
anything from large stock. 

Mojave Indian Trading Co., 
Mellen, Mohave Co., Arizona. 


Lady—How dirty your face is, little boy! 
Boy—Yes’m; we ain’t had no company 
for more’n a week.—Illustrated Bits. 








TRADE MARK 
.REGISTERED 


/ WATERPROOF * 


COURT 
- PLASTER 


Heals Cuts, Abrasions, Hang-Nails, 
Chapped and Split Lips or Fingers, 
Burns, Blisters, Ete. Instantly 
Relieves Chilblains, Frosted 
Ears, Stings of Insects, 
Chafed or Blistered Feet, 
Callous Spots, Ete., Ete. 


—_ 
iW Sh 


A coating on the sensitive parts 
will protect the feet from being chafed 
or blistered by new or heavy shoes. 

Applied with a brush and immedi- 
ately dries, forming a tough, trans- 
parent, colorless waterproof coating. 


Sportsmen, Motorists, 
Golfers, Mechanics, Etc. 


are all liable to bruise, scratch or 
scrape their skin. **“NEW-SKIN” will 
heal these injuries, will not wash off, 
and after it is applied the injury is 
forgotten, as **“NEW-SKIN’ makes a 
temporary new skin until the broken 
skin is healed under it. 

EACH 
Pocket Size (Size of Nlustration), 106¢. 
Family Size, - - - - 25e. 
2 oz. Bottles (for Surgeons and 
, Hospitals), - - - - 506¢. 
} 


DOUGLAS MFCCO 
i WORM. At the Druggists, or we 
|_NEW WOR} a will mail a package any- 
cs a \xp55=8 where in the United States 


on receipt of price. 


3 Douglas Mig. Co. 


My Y 96-102 Chureh St. 
- Dept. W, New York. 








Forty edges ready to shave with and no work to get the four hundred shaves, 
ards to fasten, no pulling, noscraping. You can shave yourself in the time used to reach the barber shoy 
descriptive booklet. Sold direct if not carried by yourdealer. Money refunded if you are not 
References: Continental National Bank, Chicago; 


un and Bradstreet Agencies. 


1211 MANHATTAN BUILDING, CHICAGO. 


To renovate worn leather, dissolve a lit- 
tle nigrosin aniline dye in alcohol, and mix 
it with a thin shellac varnish. Apply this 
with a soft brush to the leather, and, when 
dry, polish it lightly with beeswax and tur- 
pentine—Photo News. 


Success to ReEcREATION. Keep after the 
hogs. You are doing a world of good, and 
all good men are with you in spite of the 
Marlins, the Peters, the Winchesters, and 
the game and fish hogs. 

W. W. Gallaher, Mound City, Mo. 


I received the Harrington & Richardson 
gun, and find it is even better than you 
claim it to be. 

F. E. Alter, Fort Wayne, Ind. 


A Fountain Pen 


has become a necessity with every busi- 
ness man. You can get a 


Laughlin 
Fountain 
Pen 


Made by the Laughlin Manufacturing Co. 
Detroit, Michigan 








For 2 Yearly Subscrip- 
tions to RECREATION 


And you can get these 2 subscriptions in 
20 minutes, any day. 

The Laughlin is one of the best pens in 
the market, and thousands of them are in 
daily use. 

There is no reason why you should be 
without one. 


Sample Copies of Recreation for 
Use in Canvassing 
Furnished on Application 


», and you take no 


RECREATION. XX1x 





AN EXTRAORDINARY BARGAIN 


609 Special 
Ostermoor Mattresses 


XTRA WEIGHT AND THICKNESS—the exceptionally luxur- 
ious kind—recently completed by us under contract’ for a large 
apartment hotel at $25.00 each—will be sold at a sacrifice. 

Sudden destruction of hotel by fire delays delivery indefinitely—we 
need the room for regular stock—necessity, therefore, compels us 
to dispose of them at once, and we offer them, while they last, 
at the extraordinary price of $18.50 each. 





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The mattresses are all full double bed size, 4 feet 6 inches wide, 6 feet 4 inches long, in 
two parts, with round corners. 

They are full five-inch border, with Imperial Double Rolled Edges, exactly like photo- 
graphic illustration. 

The filling is especially selected sheets of Ostermoor Patent Elastic Felt, all hand laid, 
and closed within ticking entirely by hand sewing. Mattresses weigh 60 lbs. each, 15 lbs. 
more than regular, and are naturally far softer and more luxuriously comfortable. 

The covering is of the beautiful Mercerized French Art Twills, in pink, blue or yellow (or 
stripes in linen effect); also plain, narrow blue and white. The mattresses are made up in 
the daintiest possible manner by our most expert specialists. They represent, in the very 
highest degree, the celebrated OSTERMOOR merit of excellence, and are a rare bargain 
both in price and quality. 


Price $18.50 Each _....., 


4 ut & Cc" 
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ah FR 






We pay Transportation Charges anywhere in the United States, 
Only while they last; first come, first served. 
The opportunity to secure same is lhmited. 
Terms of sale: Cash in advance; none sent C. O. D. 
Notr:—Ostermoor Mattresses, regular stock, same size, two parts, cost $15.50 each. 
They have four inch border, weigh 45 lbs., and are covered with A.C. A. Ticking. These 
special Mattresses cost $30.00 each, finish nearly two inches thicker, weigh 15 lbs. more, 
have round corners—Imperial Stitched Edges—ciose diamond tufts—and beautiful Mer- 
cerized Art Twill covering—and are far softer, and much more resilient. If you wish to 
know more about the “‘Ostermoor,” send your name on a postal card for our free book, 
“*The Test of Time’” whether you intend to purchase or not. 


OSTERMOOR & CO., 114 Elizabeth Street, New ‘ork. 


When ordering, please state first, second, and even third choice of color of covering, 
in case all you like are already sold, as there will be no time for correspondence, 





Canadian Agency: The Alaska Feather and Down Co., Ltd., Montreal, 


XXX RECREATION. 





A VALUABLE PRESENT 


For Your Wife, Your Mother, Your 
Sister or Your Best Girl 


For 25 Yearly Subscriptions to Recreation, I will send you 
a set of 


1 DISH AND 12 
TOMATO PLATES 


made by Higgins & Seiter, 50 West 22d Street N. Y. Listed at 
$19.50. 

And, for 20 Yearly Subscrip- 
tions to REcREATION, I will send 
you a set of 


12 WATERMELON 
PLATES 


listed at $16.50. (See illustration) 


“~HESE are fine, thin, white 
china plates, beautifully hand 
painted, with pictures of tomatoes 
and tomato vines, or watermelons 
and watermelon vines, in natural 
colors, and each set of plates is 
enclosed in acase made in an exact 
imitation of a large tomato or a 
, watermelon. 
No more beautiful or appropriate present could possibly be 
found for a lady than one of these sets. 
You can earn one of them in a few hours, and at the same time 
earn the everlasting gratitude of the lady to whom you may give it. 
SEND FOR PACKAGE OF SAMPLE COPIES FOR USE IN CANVASSING 





RECREATION. XXXi 


Here is the brush that will cure all scalp disorders, from dan= 
druff to baldness, if conscientiously used. We have 
hundreds of unsolicited testimonials to that effect. The 
entle electric current imparted by the brush will abso- 
utely cure nervous headaches and neuralgia. My brush 
has been on the market for 26 years and has stood the 
test of time. Made from selected bristles—no wires— 
in five sizes and sent postpaid to any address. 
No. t, $1.00 No. 2,$1.50 No.3,$2.00 No. 4,$2.50 No. 5, $3.00 
Prices differ only aig to size and power. If not 
satisfactory your money will be refunded. 


Dr. GEO. A. SCOTT, 870 Broadway, NEW YORK. 
Agents Wanted Everywhere 


EN E "Ss BORATED 
N N TALCUM Tooth iy 


the Internationa! Dentifrice 


Beautifies the teeth, hard- 

ens the gums,sweetens the 

BAP ‘ brence Preserves as well 

OSitive Rey; _ a3 eautifies the teeth 

: ste e ° . ~ 

7~ For —*° Relief =<» ™ | Comes in neat, handy metal 

PRICKLY HEAT, : ge ) boxes. No powder to 

CHAFING, and “3 ~~ sgscatter, no liquid to 

SUNBURN, AND 4 ALL. AFFLICTIONS: et od ;. spill or to stain gar- 
“A little higher in price, perhaps, than worthless sobs : <e 

stitutes, but a reason for it.” Removes all odor of perspl> 

ration. Delightful after Shaving. Soldeverywhere, or mailed 

on receipt of 25c. Get Mennen’s (the original), Sample Freee 


Cee NEN SO NT PN COS8 YH ©. H. STRONG & CO., Proprietors, 
” Chicago, U. S. A. 





An Irish woman went to a photographer’s 
and after stating that her husband was 





dead, requested a picture of him. On being Brown paper is an excellent mount for 
asked for a likeness, she said: warm toned matt prints. If the print is 
“Shure, if I had w an picture of him, wat | first mounted on a piece of white paper, 
wud I come here for? and the edges cut to leave a white margin 
The photographer, always ready for fun, | of about % inch, the effect is good—Ex- 
replied: change. 
“If you give me $5 and a description of — 
your husband, I think I can accommodate The poor, benighted Hindoo, 
you.” He does the best he kindo; 
“Well,” answered the woman, “he had red He sticks to his caste 
hair, gray eyes, was tall an ‘thin an’ rather From first to last, 
narvus.” And for pants he makes his skindo. 
On receiving the picture, she said, with — 
tears streaming from her eyes, The Suitor—They say that Love is blind. 
“Oh, Dennis, how you have changed !"— The Heiress—But nowadays he. has a 
Master Printer. marvelous sense of touch.—Luife. 





ERVOUSNESS Eziausted or debilitated 


Nerve Force from any Cause 
Cured by WINCHESTER’S SPECIFIC PILL. 


It contains no Mercury, Lron, Cantharides or any injurious ingredient whatever. 








This Pill is purely vegetable, has been tested and prescribed by physicians, and has proven to be the best, safest, and most effective treatment 
known to medical science for restoring Vitality, no matter how originally impaired, as it reaches the re of the ailment, Our remedies are the best 
of their kind, and contain only the best and purest ingredie nte that money can buy and science pre = Neo therefore we cannot offer free sample 


et teed et INO ng ag Treatment or C. O. D. Scheme 


PERSONAL OPINIONS: Dear Sirs: 1 have used a bottle of your Hypophosphites of Manganese for liver and kidney compla 
8 OWn person and received much benefit, so I will enclose five dollars and will ask von to send me as n ay As 


you can by express prepaid for that amount, until we can cet it through the regular channels J am confident it ix just what I have Leen fn 
search of for many years. Iam prescribing your Banctibvephites of Lime and Soda, and am pleased with the preparation Yours sincerely, 
Da. T. J. Weer 

I know of no remedy tn the whole Materia Medica equal to your Specific Pill for Nervous Debility ApoLrH Breure, M. D., Professor of 


Organic Chemistry and Physiology, New York. 


sere caren aa Winchester & Co., Chemists, 5-717 Beekman Bldg., New York. 


securely sealed. 


For Weak Lungs use Winchester’s Hypophosphites, —Astabsished 1858 


XXXil 


RECREATION. 





Deafness 
Can Be Cured 


I Have Made the Most Marvelous Dis- 
covery for the Positive Cure of 
Deafness and Head Noises and 
I Give the Secret Free. 


With This Wonderful, Mysterious Power 1 Have 
Made People Deaf for Years Hear the Tick 
of a Watch in a Few Minutes. 


Send Me No Money—Simply Write Me About 
Your Case and I Send You the Secret 
by Return Mail Absolutely Free. 


After years of research along the lines of the 
deeper scientific mysteries of the occult and in- 
visible of Nature-forces I have found the cause 
and cure of deafness and head noises, and I am 
enabled by this same mysterious knowledge and 
power to give to every unfortunate and suffering 


: c 
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I Have Demonstrated That Deafness Can Be Cured 
—Dr. Guy Clifford Pewell. 


person perfect hearing again; and I say to those 
who have thrown away their money on cheap 
apparatus, salves, air pumps, washes, douches, 
and the list of innumerable trash that is offered 
the public through flaming advertisements, I can 
and will cure you and cure you to stay cured. I 
ask no money. My treatment method is one 
that is so simple it can be used in your own 
home. You can investigate fully, absolutely free 
and you pay for it only after you are thoroughly 
convinced that it will cure you, as it has thou- 
sands of others. It makes no difference with this 
marvelous new method how long you have been 
deaf nor what caused your deafness, this new 
treatment will restore your hearing quickly and 
permanently. No matter how many _ remedies 
have failed you—-no matter how many doctors 
have pronounced your case hopeless, this new 
magic method of treatment will cure you. I 
prove this to, you before you pay a cent for it. 
Write to-day and I will send you full information 
absolutely free by return mail. Address Dr. 
Guy Clifford Powell, 730 Auditorium Building, 
Peoria, Ill. Remember, send no money—simply 
your name and address. You will receive an 
immediate “answer and full information by re- 
turn mail. 


MEN, BE MANLY! 


Nature intended you to be 
so—to be strong in mind 
and body, full of confidence, 
vim and happiness. But if 
you are not. and have 
wasted your st: ength caus- 
ing drains, loss_=, varicocele, 
impotency, etc., nature also 
has a remedy for you. It is 
Electricity, and in my forty 
years’ experience I have 
assisted nearly 100,000 weak 
men to regain the happy, 
bubbling vigor and strength 
that makes us men among 
men. Let me do so for you. 
My world-famed E.vectric 
Bevralsocures rheumatism, 
lame back, kidney, stomach 





and liver troubles, etc. Standard for forty years. Book 
for men, full of information, sent free, sealed. Address 


DR. G. B. SANDEN 


1155 Broadway New York 





Pupil—Professor, your mnemonic system 
is wonderful, and I am sure that any one 
after mastering the rules, can learn to re- 
member anything. But I am handicapped 
by one difficulty. 

Professor—What is it? 

Pupil—I can’t remember the rules. / 





DO YOU WISH TO IMPROVE YOUR 
SHOOTING? IF IT IS AS GOOD AS 
IT CAN BE, DO YOU WISH TO KEEP 
IT SO? IN EITHER CASE, THE J. C. 
HAND TRAP WILL BRING WITHIN 
YOUR REACH THE FULL ADVAN- 
TAGE OF A SHOOTING RANGE. 
THESE TRAPS WILL SUCCESS- 
FULLY THROW ANY OF THE CLAY 
TARGETS NOW IN USE, GIVING A 
LIFE LIKE REPRESENTATION OF A 
BIRD IN FLIGHT. I WILL SEND 
YOU A J. C. HAND TRAP FOR 5 
YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO REC- 
REATION. SEND IN YOUR CLUB 
NOW, AND IMPROVE ON YOUR 
SHOOTING, 


XXXIil 


RECREATION. 








Varicocele 
Hydrocele 

















Cured to Stay Cured in 5 Days. 


No Cutting or Pain. Guaranteed 
Cure or Money Refunded. 


Under my treatment this insidi- 

VARICOCELE. ous disease rapidly disappears. 

Pain ceases almost instantly. The stagnant blood is driven 

— from the dilated veins and all soreness and swelling sub- 

sides. Every indication of Varicocele vanishes and in its 

stead comes the pleasure of perfect health. Many ailments 

are reflex, originating from other diseases. For instance, 

innumerable blood and nervous diseases result from poison- 

gale ; ous taintsin the system. Varicocele and Hydrocele, if neg- 

H. J. TI M. D lected will undermine physical strength, depress the mental 

. J. TILLOTSON, M. D. faculties, derange the nervous system, and ultimately pro- 

The Master Specialist of Chicago, who Cures Varicocelé, Guce complicated results. In treating diseases of men I 

Hydrocele, and treats patients personally. always cure the effect as well as the cause. I desire that 

Established 1880. every person afflicted with these or allied diseases write me 

(CorraicHtEp ) so I can explain my method of cure, which is safe and per- 

manent. My consultation will cost you nothing, and my charges for a perfect cure will be reasonable and 
not more than you will be willing to pay for the benefits conferred. 


H is what you want. I give a legal guaranty to cure or refund your money. 
Certainty of Cure What I have done for others I can do for you. Ican cure you at home 
2, One personal visit at my officeis preferred, but if 

Correspondence Confidential. it is impossible for you to call, write me your con- 
dition fully, and you will receive in plain envelope a scientific and honest opinion of your case, Free of 
charge. My home treatment Is successful, My books and lectures mailed free upon application. 


H. J. TILLOTSON, M.D.,140 Tillotson Bldg, 84 Dearborn St., CHICAGO 
































A Washington hostess invited an attaché | He killed the noble Mudjokivis; 


of one of the foreign legations to dine with 
. her. The invitation was formally accepted, 
but on the morning of the appointed day a 
note, written by the foreigner’s valet, was 
received, which read: 
“Mr. Blank regrets that he will not be 
able to be present at Mrs. Swift’s dinner to- 
night, as he is dead.”—Philadelphia Ledger. 


The Savage rifle arrived safe. I am well 
pleased and can not thank you enough for 
it. It is a perfect beauty and every one 
who has seen it thinks so. Who would 
not work for RECREATION ? 

William Burgess, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 


With the skin he made him mittens, 

Made them with the fur side inside, 

Made them with the skin side outside; 

He, to get the warm side inside, 

Put the inside skin side outside; 

He, to get the cold side outside, 

Put the warm side, fur side inside; 

That’s why he put the fur side inside; 

Why he put the skin side outside, 

Why he turned them inside outside. 
—Exchange. 


I am a REcREATION fiend, and there are 
plenty of others here. Whatever you do, 
soak it to the game hogs. 

Otto Turner, Pendleton, Ore. 








dy is worse than the disease. 


improved, and in heaith you will 
benefited. 
Here is what I will do for you: 


wevenng pills, 
vately. 
according to 


- \HENRY_C 


TO FAT PEOPLE: 


I know you want to reduce your weight, but prob” 
oy you think it impossible or are afraid the reme- 
8 Now, let me tell you 
that not only can the obesity be reduced in a short 
time, but your face, form and complexion will be 
wonderfully 
Tama regular practicing phy- 
sician, having made a iy | of this subject. 
irst, Isend you a/| obesity are remedied speedily. All patients receive 
blank to fill out; when it comes, I forwa 
weeks’ treatment. You make no radical change in 
our food, but eat as much or as often as 
o bandages or tight lacing. No harmfu 
he treatment can be taken pri-| difference, 
ouwill lose from 8 to S pounds weekly, | new book on obesity; its cause and cure;—it w 
and condition of body. At t 
end of five wee TB RADFORI and I will 
» BRA 


FORD, M, D., 24 East 23d Street, N, Y, 


ou please. | fidential. 
drugs nor | envelopes and packages sent. 











send further treatment if necessary. When you 
have reduced your flesh to the desired weight, you 
can retain it, You will not become stout again. 
Your face and figure will be well shaped, your skin 
will be clear and handsome, you will feel years 
younger. Ailment of the heart and other vital or- 
gans will becured, Double chin, heavy abdomen, 
flabby cheeks and other disagreeable evidences of 


rd a five | my personal attention, whether being treated by 
mail or in person; all correspondence is strictly con- 
Treatment for either sex. Plain sealed 
Distance makes no 
Satisfaction guaranteed, Send for m 


convince you. Address 


RECREATION. 


XXXIV 





Sent on Approval 


TO RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE 


es 
We save you from 25% to 40% on fine Office and 
Library Furniture. We manufacture the goods we 
sell. We guarantee quality and prices satisfactory. 


Fountain Pen 


Guaranteed Finest 
Grade 14k. 
SOLID GOLD PEN. 


To test the merits of 


RECREATION 


as an advertising medium 

we make this grand spe- 

em cial offer, your choice of 
= These 

Two 


No. 10 H Office Desk 
48 in. long by 30 in. wide; with 
we ee model Ses com- Sectional Bookcase 
plete as illustrate uarter- ‘ d ‘, 
sawed oak front; balance of tp en Es pip lag 


desk plain oak golden ¢. 9. 80 sawed oak, art glass $18, 5 





polish finish. Price doors, drawer base, 
ao Other roll top desks up to Plain glass, no drawer— 
Styles 00 pi a Ask 4 yes cata-| $13.50, Ask for catalogue 
For Only to any ogue NO. 2—malled tree. No.1 —mailed free. 
Address We prepay freight east of Mississippi River and north 


: ; of Tennessee (points beyond on equa! basis). 
(By Registered mail 8 cents extra) , 


Holder is made of finest 


THE FRED WIAGEY CO.,Ltd. reise, occes2o virion sc 


quality hard rubber, in four 
simple parts, fitted with 
very highest grade, large 
size 14k, gcld pen, any flex- 
\\ ibility desired—in feeding 
device perfect. 

Either. Style—RICHLY jf 
GOLD MOUNTED for pre- [f 
sentation purposes, $1.00 |§ 
extra. » 


Grand Special 
Offer 


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yrs 





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oak: if y you A not find it 
as represented, fully as 
fins a value as you can 
secure for three times the 
price in any other make, 
if not satisfactory in every | 
respect, return it and we | 
will promptly refund your 
money. 

Illustration on left is full | 
size of Ladies’ style; on | 
right, Gentlemen’s style. ff 
Lay this RECREATION Down| 
and Write NOW. ' 

Safety Pocket Pen Hold- |7aaa 
er sent free of charge with At 
each Pen, 


oo A bee eee a 





ADDRESS ; 


Laughlin [lfg. Co. 


424 Griswold St., DETROIT, MICH, 








DO YOU WANT ALLENS) 


Ifso, why not get a good one? 
And why not get it free of charge? 
This is easy. 


Any old box will answer the purpose if it 
- does not leak light; but you must havea 
fine lens to make a fine picture. 


You can get 


A Royal Anastigmat 
Lens, 4x5, Series No. I, 


Made by the Rochester Lens Co., Roches- 
ter; New York, 


And listed at $45, | 
For 20 yearly subscrip- 
tions to RECREATION. 


Youcan get any other lens made by this 
Company on a basis of one subscription 
to $2. of the list price of the lens, 


Sample copies of RECREATION for -use in 
soliciting furnished on applicatien, 


RECREATION. 


XXXV 


FRENCH — GERMAN —SPANISH 


ASTER 


LANCUACE-PHONE METHOD 


Combined with DR. RICHARD S, ROSENTHAL’S METHOD OF PRACTICAL LINGUISTRY 


No longer unnecessary memorizing of verbs, declensions or rules. 


thousands of times if you like. 
French, German or Spanish, 
system of teaching languages. 


You hear the exact pronunciation of each word and phrase 


It requires but a few minutes’ practice in spare moments to acquire a thorough mastery of conversational 
College professors all over this and other countries, and the press generally, endorse this perfect and natural 
Send for testimonials, booklet, and letter telling all about this 20-century selentifie marvel, 


INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE-PHONE METHOD, HI6 Metropolis Bldg., Boway & 16th St, N.Y. 


















NOW DEPOSITED IN THE BANK 


$79,000.00 


IN CASH CIVEN AWAY. 


To arouse interest in, and to advertise the 
GREAT ST. LOUIS WORLD'S FAIR, 
this enormous sum will be distributed. 
Full information will be sent you ABSO- 
LUTELY FREE. Just send your 


name and address on a postal card and 
we will send you full particulars, 
World’s Fair Contest Co., 
108 N. 8th Street 
St. Louis, Mo. 





New Jersey 
Military Academy 


Freehold, New Jersey 


$400 per year. 


For Catalogue, address the Principals 


Col. C. J. WricuT, A. M., WALTER HEWETSON, A. B. 





Free :—I will give anybody sending me 
I subscription or renewal, any one of the 
articles named below: 

Ideal Shell Closer, 10-12-16 gauge, sells 


for 50c. 

Ideal Shell Loader, 10-12-16 gauge, 
sells for 5o0c. 

Perfection Gun Oiler, can not spill 


when not in use, worth 50c. 

Web Shot Shell Belt, ro-12-16 gauge, 
sells for 75c. 
Henry B. Floyd, 

Washington, D. 


723 Eighth St., N. W. 





IN ANSWERING ADS. PLEASE 
MENTION RECREATION. 





WOULD YOU ACQUIRE 


Manly Bearing 

Erect Carriage 

Grace and Elegance of Movement 
Perfect Muscular Development 


If so take a course of training in 


THE NEW METHOD OF FENCING 


as taught by 


LIEUT, J. MARCZI DE ZOLDY 


Late of the 25th Regiment, Austro-Hungarian Army. 
STUDIO: 
489 Fifth Avenue, New York City 


Write for terms and full information 


aE ;. Copies of 
Societe Master Paintings 


AN OFFER SAVING OVER HALF 


After supplying our members and patrons we 
have left on hand a few sets of our superb copies 
of famous paintings done in carbon-tint. We have 
decided to use these sets of ten pictures as a means 
of bringing us in touch with art-lovers and persons 
who appreciate artistic things generally. 

The complete set, at once, will be 


Sent on Approval 


After the pictures are 
received and found 
satisfactory send 


A en 


and $:r a month 
thereafter for 5 months. 


Each subject is prepared for 
framing on mounts especially 
made for them or can be 
used as they are, un- 
framed, a custom now 
much in vogue, They 
make splendid gifts 
for weddings or 






















List of Titles and Artists 


Each, mounted, 20 x 25 ins. 


1 THE MILL ., . « Ruysdale 
SSPRING ..« «e+ » Corot 
8 PLOUGHING. . Rosa Bonheur 
4 THE GLEANERS . . « Millet 
5 REMURANDE . . Rembrandt 
6 DIVINE SURPHERD. Murillo 
7 SHEEP IN SNOW St On MSchenck 
8 BRI\GING INTHE COWS Dupre 
9 DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIKE 
Gainsborouch 
10 GIRL WITH THE MUFF Le Bran 

























Lovers’ 

Society 

1135 Broadway 
New York 


birthdays In- 
ferior copies 
sell in art 
shops for 
$s each 
















: copy. Send on approval 

FREE If you mail us Set of Ten Copies of 

the blan k «¢ p- Master P Lintings and 

posite promptly, we will in- Five Pasto-C arbo : 
clude in your pack ge free of Proc.s. If satisfacts ry. 

s Addi 1 Pj igre to pay §r within 

expense,5 itiona 1c- five days, and $1 a month 


tures, the gems of the Pasto- 
Carbon set issued last 
fall Each mounted 
eee © inches. Formerly 
sold for $2.50 each. 


thereafter for five months. 
If not satisfactory, will return 
the sets within five days. 





XXXVI RECREATION. 


GOING into CAMP? 


If so, you will need 


A TENT 


You can get one big enough for 4 men 
and their camp outfit, by sending me 


8 Yearly Subscriptions to RECREATION 


at $1 each. You can get another tent 
big enough for 6 men by sending me 


10 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS 


at $1 each. 


Why pay out money for a tent when you can 
make your friends pay for it? 

Sail in and fit yourself for your summer 
vacation. ; 

This is a great opportunity, and will hold good 
for only a few weeks. 

Sample copies of Recreation for use in can- 
vassing furnished on application. 


RECREATION. 


XXXVil 





WANT A REEL? 


You can get one for nothing. 
Or at least for a few hours’ work. 


Send me 


15 Yearly Subscriptions 


RECREATION 


and I will send you 


A TALBOT REEL 


Listed at $20 
Made by W. H. Talbot, Nevada, Ilo. 


This is one of the finest pieces of fishing 
tackle ever made. It is built like a gold 
watch. Equal toany Kentucky reel you 
ever saw. 

In Tournaments, Always a Victor 
Among the Angler’s Treasures, Always the Chief 

I have but a few of these reels in stock 
and this offer will be withdrawn as soon as 
the present supply is exhausted. 


Sample copies of RecrEaTion for use in canvassing 
furnished on application. 





Marks was an Irish setter dog, raised 
and owned at Grand Haven, Mich. Marks 
was a general; no man could tell him any- 
thing about hunting that he had not known 
for years. A wounded bird never got away, 
on land or water, when Marks was sent for 
him. He was good on quails, woodcock, 
snipe, and ruffed grouse. On one occasion 
while climbing over a rail fence he stiff- 
ened on the top rail, with the birds just 
on the other side. Another time he pointed 
at the end of a hollow log. We kicked the 
log and out came one bird, which was 
dropped. Marks brought it in, then point- 
ed at the same place as before. We kicked 
again, and out came bird No. 2, closely fol- 
lowed by bird No. 3. No. 2 was shot, 
while Marks caught No. 3 and still pointed 
the log with a live bird in his mouth. We 
at more from that log, making 5 birds 
in all. 

Marks was 13 years old when he died. 
He will never be forgotten by those who 
have followed him in the field. 

L. N. Van Duzer, Grand Haven, Mich. 





“Miss Angeline,” began the poor but 
proud young man, “if I were in a position 
to ask you to be my wife ; 

“Good gracious, Mr. Throgson! In a 
position! The idea! Do you think I 
would want you to get down on your 
knees ?”—Chicago Tribune. 





W hen you think of the 
incandescent Electric 
Light youthink of Edison. 
When you think of Beer 


as a product of the per~ 
fected science of modern 
brewing you think of 
PABST. Only the 
choicest hops, the richest 
malt and the most scru- 


pulous care could produce 
such a brew as ) 


Pabst 





2 a = eS an = 


Clear as crystal, mellow 
in taste, and exquisite in 
flavor, every drop of it is 
filtered and every bottle 
sterilized. It is by com-~ 
mon acknowledgment of 
experts and laymen the 
standard brew of America 


XXXViii 


RECREATION. 





SOME RARE OPPORTUNITIES 


These goods are all new, and will be shipped 
direct from factory. Prices named are those at 
which manufacturers and dealers usually sell. 
Here is a good chance to get 


A Book; a Gun, a Camera 
A Sleeping Bag, a Fishing Rod 
A Reel, a Tent, 


Subscriptions need notall be sent at once. They 
may be sent in installments as taken andcredit will 
be given on account. When the required number 
is obtained the premium earned will be shipped. 


FREE OF 
COST 


TO ANY PERSON SENDING ME 


TWO new yearly. subscriptions to RECRE- 
ATION at $1 each, 1 will send a copy of 
Hunting in the Great West, cloth; or an 
Ingersoll Watch or Cyclometer, listed at 
$1; or a Recreation Waterproof Match 
Box, made by W. L. Marble and listed 
at 5Uc; or a Shakespeare Revolution Bait 
listed at 75c; or a Laughlin Fountain 
Pen; or a dozen Trout Flies, assorted, 
listed at $1; or a pair of Attachable Eye- 
glass Temples, gold-plated, made by Gall 
& Lembke; or one Rifle Wick Plug, made 
by Hemm & Woodward, Sidney, Ohio, 
30 caliber to 50 caliber, or Shotgun Wick 
Plug, 20 gauge up to 10 gauge, or a pair 
of chrome tanned horsehide hunting and 
driving gloves, listed at $1.50, made by 
J. P. Luther Glove Co. 


THREE new subscriptions at $1: each, a 
safety pocket ax, made by W. L. Marble 
and listed at $2.50: or a dozen Bass Flies, 
assorted, listed at $2: or a pair of Shot- 
gun Wick Plugs made by Hemm & Wood- 
ward, Sidney, Ohio, 20 gauge to 10 gauge; 
or a Polished Buffalo Horn Gun Rack, 
made by E. W. Stiles; or a pair of gaunt- 
lets, for hunting and driving, ladies’ size, 
listed at $2.50, made by J. P. Luther 
Glove Co., or a Press Button Jack Knife, 


made by The Novelty Knife Co., and 
listed at $1. 

FOUR new subscriptions at $1 each, an 
Ideal Hunting Knife, made by W. L. 


Maxhle and listed at $2.50: or a 32 eali- 

@&tomatic double action revolver, 

made by Harrington & Richardson Arms 
oO 


FIVE_new subscriptions at $1 each, a copy 
of Cruisings in the Cascades, cloth; or 
an Ideal Hunting Knife made by Ww. L. 


Marble, and listed at $3: or a pair of 
lock lever skates, made by Barney & 
Berry, listed at $4.50: or a J. C. Hand 


trap made by the Mitchell Mfg. Co., listed 
at $4: or a Bristol Steel Fishing Rod; 
listed at $6, or less: or a Yawman & Erbe 
Automatic Reel, listed at $6 to $9. 


SIX new subscriptions at $1 each, a Hawk- 
eye Refrigerating Basket made by the Bur- 
lington Basket Co., or one dozen Eureka 
golf balls listed at $4; or a Pocket Poco 
B 314%4,x44, male by the Rochester Op- 
tical Co., listed at $9. 


SEVEN new subscriptions at’ $1 each, a 
copy of The Big Game of North America, 
or of The American Book of the Dog, 


cloth, or one set Lakewood golf clubs, 
5 in number, listing at $5; or a series 
11F Korona ‘Camera, made by the Gund- 
lach Optical Co., listed at $10. 


EIGHT new subscriptions at $1 each. A 
series 1, 4x5 Korona Camera, made by 
the Gundlach Optical Co., listed at $12, 
or an Acme single shot gun, made by the 
Davenport Arms Co., and listed at $8. 


TEN new subscriptions at $1 each, a Cut- 


Glass Salad Bowl,: made by Higgins & 
Seiter, and listed at $4. DO; or a Water- 
proof Wall Tent 7x7, made by Aber- 
crombie & Fitch, and listed at S38; or a 
Rough Rider rifle telescope, made by The 
Malcolm Rifle Sight Mfg. Co., and listed 
at $12; or a Pneumatic Camp Mattress, 
listed at $18; or a pair of Opera Glasses 
made by Gall & Lembke and listed at $10. 


TWELVE new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
Davenport Ejector Gun, listed at $10, or 
a Cycle Poco No. 3, 4x5, made by the 
Rochester Optical Co., listed at $15; or 
an 8 ft. folding canvas boat, made by the 
PN Saving Canvas Boat Co., listed at 


FIFTEEN new subscriptions, $1 each, a 
Shakespeare Reel, Silver Plated, listed at 
$15: or a set of rabbit plates made by 
Higgins & Seiter, and listed at SS: o 
a Field Glass made by Gall & Lembke;: 
or a Kenwood Sleeping Bag, complete, 
with canvas cover, listed at $16; or a 
Bulls-Eye rifle telescope, made by The 
Malcolm Rifle Sight Mfg. Co., and listed 
at $16; or a 10 ft. special canvas boat, 
made by the Life Saving Canvas Boat 
Co., and listed at $35: or a pair of horse- 
hide hunting boots, listed at $10; or a 
Queen Hammock, made by the King Fold- 
ing Canvas Boat Co., and listed at $15. 


TWENTY new subscriptions at $1 each, 
a 14-karat Gold Hunting-case Watch, 
with Waltham Movement, listed at $20; 
or an Elita single shot gun, made by the 
Davenport Arms Co., and listed at $18; 
or an Acme Folding Canvas Boat, No. 1, 
Grade A, listed at $27; or a Mullins Duck 
Boat, listed at $20: or a Queen Ham- 
mock, made by the King Foiding Canvas 
Boat Co., and listed at $20. 


TWENTY-FIVE new subscriptions at $1 
each, A 4x5 Planatic lems, made by the 
Rochester Lens Co., and listed at $45: 
or a 11-foot King Folding Canvas Boat, 
listed at $38. 


THIRTY new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
Waterproof Tent, 1444x177, made _ by 
Abercrombie & Fitch, and listed at $25. 


THIRTY-FIVE new subscriptions at $1 
each, a 14-ft. King Folding Canvas Boat 
listed at $48. 


FORTY new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
Savage .308 Repeating Rifle: or a No. 10 
Gun Cabinet, made by the West End Fur. 
niture Co., and listed at $32. 


FIFTY new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
No. 20 Gun Cabinet, made by the West 
End Furniture Co., and listed at $38; 
or a Colt Automatic Pistol, made by the 
Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co., and 
listed at $25. 


Address, Recreation iy You 


—— 





RECREATION. XX XIX 





\ ‘ys 


Fortune Knocks 


ONCE AT EVERY MAN’S DOOR 


Only of late has Idaho become known. as a great mining state. There has been no sudden 
rush of gold-seekers like there was to the Klondike, but itis a fact recognized by min- 
ing experts that nowhere are greater possibilities than in the sections where the 
properties of the 


Mammoth and: Great Eastern 
Milling and Mining Company 
heat othe set IDAHO COLD FIELDS 


from which has been taken over $160,000,000.00 of placer gold alone. 

The rich ledges of the Mammotk and Great Eastern and Union Gruups are now 
being developed, and the ore is strictly free-milling. The company owns these two 
great groups of claims, a total of 14 claims each 600x1500 ft., with every requisite for 
the cheap mining and milling of ore. Shafts have been sunk and several tunnels made, 
Assays made range from $43.87 to $518.22 per ton. The lowest mil) run averages $8.65 
per ton on the plates (concentrates $124.34). A new 50-ton mill will reduce the total 
cost of reduction to less than $2 per ton, leaving a sure net profit of over $300.00 per day 
—$100,000.00 per year—which* will be vastly increased by progressive development when 
the shafts and tunnels are extended to the richer ore bodies. The possibilities of the 
Mammoth and Great Eastern properties are almost boundless. 

It is now proposed to sink a shaft on the new property 500 feet, and drift both ways 
on the ore shoots every 100 feet, blocking out as large a body as possible ; also to inetalla 
mill at the earliest possible date with at least 50 tous per day capacity and to commence 
to produce bullion before January 1, 1905. 


OUR PROPOSITION 


We have 500,000 shares of non-assessable Treasury Stock. We are ready for the 
installation of a mill and anxious to produce bullion to be paid out in dividends. To ol- 
« tain without delay the necessary capital for this purpose and for further development, 
the Board of Directors now offer a block of 100,000 shares of their Treasury Stock at 


TEN GENTS PER SHARE 


If subscribed and paid for on or before April ist, 12 o’clock noon. 


10 Shares $1 100 Shares 310 1,000 Shares 3100 


After Aprfl Ist the price will be 15 eents per share : after May Ist 20 cents ; after June Ist 25 cents., and after July lst no stock will be offered at 
any price. The experimenting is over ; the bard work is done ; the golden harvest is in sight. The prompt investor will reap the benefit. 








A few dollars invested now in Mammoth & Great Eastern may mean financial Independence when you 
most need money. The investment will prove better than the best Insurance Policy. You pay but 
once—dividends once begun will keep on forever—and: you have the use of the money while you live. 


This is not a visionary scheme or a “ wildcat’ speculation. The pay dirt is in sight in practically unlimited quantity. There are no middle men—no 
commissions paid to agents—no Wall street connections—all orders for stock go direct to the company and not one dollar is paid to the officers. All 
money received for stock is used to develop the mine. When the mill is installed and bullion produced all the stockholders will share In the dividends. 

The Directors of the Company are the best known men in one of the leading towns of the Dominion of Canada, safe and conservative men of 
affairs: Charles E, Monteith, President, a long time resident of Idaho and interested in several mining companies; William Gordon, Vice-President, the 
largest dry goods merchant in Chatham; George B, Douglas, Secretary, solicitor for The Sutherland Innix Co., Ltd., the largest Cooperage manufacturing 
coucern in Canada; Dr. J. R. Battisby, Treasurer, the leading Presbyterian divine of Chatham. ‘The Directory also includes James Innis, Managing 
Director of the Sutherland Innis Co., Ltd.;G. A. Witherspoon, proprietor of the largest drug business In Chatham, and N. H. Stevens, President of the 
Canada Flour Mil Co,, Ltd. None of these men are professional promoters or speculators rhe Superintendent, Andrew Prader, is a practical miner of 
fourteen years’ experience and of established reputation, and has been interested in this enterprise from the beginning These men have engaged in a 
legitimate enterprise—to work the mine, not the investor. This makes non-assessable stock, the proceeds of which go Into development, an absolutely 
Safe Investment. Not One Chanee to Lose—A Million Chances to Win. But prompt action is necessary to get in on the ground floor, The stock will 
positively advance on APRIL Ist. 

Orders for stock accompanied by cash may be sent direct to the company, or to the Bank of Montreal, Chatham, Ontario, Canada. Full particulars 
free. Write at once for handsomely illustrated booklet giving photographic views and maps and valuable facts and figures, which will be mailed 


FREE on request. 
DO. IT TODAY (‘ar vour™boor aGaint 


Mammoth & Great Eastern Milling & Mining Company 
Chatham, Ontario, Canada 








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xl RECREATION. 












For Hunters, Anglers, Prospectors, Ranchmen, 


The Press Bulton Knife And all others who go 
«1S THE THING. into the Woods or Hills 


A single pressure ofthe button opens it. It locks open, cannot : 
close on the fingers, saves the finger nails, has 2 blades hand-forged Our 5-inch Press Button Hunt- 
from Wardlow’s best English steel, andis in every respect as good iINg Knife can not be excelled. 
aknifeas can be made. Ladies’ and Gentlemen's sizes in Stag Can be opened with one hand, 
Shell or Ivory handles, including moisture-proof Chamois case and will not open or close acci- 
securely mailed to any address for 75 CENTS, 

dentally. 


Handsome Stag Handle 


Price, One Dollar 


Send for catalogue K for description and prices of other styles. 


THE 
NOVELTY 
KNIFE CO. 








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Going Fishing? 
Well fixed for rods? If not, 
send me 5 yearly subscriptions to 


RECREATION 


and get a Bristol Steel Rod— 
any one listing at $6.00 or less. 


Everybody knows what a Bristol 
Steel Rod is. It is equal in 
strength, durability, suppleness, 
and all the other good qualities to a 
split bamboo rod costing $20. 


Sample copies of RECREATION for use in canvassing furnished on application 


RECREATION. xli 


P. D. ARMOUR, 


1 if 
i THE Head of the great Armour Packing Company, Chicago, IIL, 
.—— (in a personal letter to Dr. Keeley) said: 


I have sent about two hundred of 
cf o> my employees, from butchers to fore- 
{ fj men, and all have been permanently 
y cured. I do not think there is any 


Alcohol, having debcite panes, one thing, or any one man, who 


Opium, = %,,, "= es vies ff ever did the good to humanity that 


easily to the Treatment 


Tobacco % 22 stered at the} you are doing with your cure. 


following Keeley Insti- 


tutes : 
ds Using i os Details of treatment and proofs of its success sent free on application. 


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At present, July, October, November and 
December are open season for woodcock in 
New Jersey. The open season for rabbits, 
quail, grouse and squirrels is November 10 
to December 1. Without exaggeration, aan 
there are almost as many rabbits, squirrels . s— 
and birds killed during October as during EE ES 
the legal season, by persons ostensibly hunt- 
ing woodcock. I have heard guns dis- 


charged in places where I am certain no ‘IF fo ZG 
woodcock existed, and have seen a man nay 4/77 _. oe a 
shooting quails in August. This condition ll. VME YY 


of things is generally known, but because 


of the open season for woodcock it is next ‘Mi il vl 

to impossible to catch violators of the law. (ei ey 2 

I wish someone would suggest a practical mg S T =* 

remedy. I promise to do my part. Perhaps : ull ‘ll ‘] ‘ne IAAI =~ 

a letter to our representatives at the State Ia = ] rt ) 
‘ea = 

te 
MEXICAN OPAL AND SOMBRERO ; 


Capital would do some good. i I: 
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a 
FREE WITH EACH SUBSCRIP- = = 


Jos. E. Kelly, New Market, N. J. 
TION TO RECREATION. i 
To anyone sending a new subscription for Ai Stallman Dresser Crunk 























.s ial ais KEEPS YOUR pie Ag she 
RECREATION through me, I will send free a FLAT AND SMOOTH 
beautiful, genuine Mexican Opal as large as Everything in reach. No heavy trays, but light, easy run- 
. p . ee eis ning drawers. Holds as much and costs no more than a good 
a pea, together W ith a miniature Mexican box trunk. Hand riveted, almost ae structible. Once tried, 
Sombrero, made of silver and horsehair | always. recommended. Sent C. O. D., privilege examina- 
7 = tion. 2c stamp for catalogu Ment RECREATION, 
beautifully dyed. Arthur Thomson, Box a at ee re 
F, A. STALLMAN 


332, San Antonio, Texas. 87 W. Spring St, Columbus, O, 


xlii RECREATION. 


“BRIS TOL RODS 


SL Or 


Brook .Trout 


HE Bristol Steel Fishing Rod has all the good points of other 
rods, with many valuable and exclusive features of its own. 
It is all nerve and backbone. Casts a fly with fluency and 
preeision and controls at will the course of the struggling fish.- 
We believe the “ Bristol’ can stand more use or abuse than 
any other rod made and is unequalled for all kinds of fishing. 
Ask your dealer about the reduced pricec. 


FREE fer the asking—our descriplive catalogue “J™ 


THE HORTON MFG. CO. 


BRISTOL, CONN., U. S. A- 





Small Profits—Quick Sales 


TROUT 
FLIES 


for trial—send us 


15¢ &, 
306 ii euter ps re we me 
60C i. 
60C 2. a — ap eg 


Are You an Amateur 
Photographer ? 





1 rie 4 ent “= Quality A Flies 
Quality B Flies 
Quality C Flies 
Bass Flies 


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ice, 84 cents If so, would you like a Camera that will photograph 


A whole range of mountains 
A whole sweep of river 
‘A whole army 

A whole fleet of ships 

A whole city 


Or any other vast stretch of scenery or moving 
objects ? THE SWING LENS DOES IT. 


Ghe AL VISTA 


Is the thing 
One of the greatest inventions of the age. 


SPLIT BAMBOO RODS 
My oink const Od SCRIS + wal te 


With cork grip and extra tip, in wood form 


THE H. H. KIFFE CO. 
523 Broadway, New York City 


Catalogs of any of above goods free on application. 
Mention REcKEATION, 


I will give you a No. 5-B as a premium for 


For particulars address \v 


Recreation, 272.7974‘, 


12 subscriptions. 





RECREATION. xlili 








Fisk’s Aerating 
Minnow Pail 


gay The only 
Minnow Pail in 
which minnows 
can be kept 
shi indefinite- 
y 


| Ml cM 


Has an air 
chamber at the 
bottom holding 
26ocubicinches 
of _ condénsed 
air forced in by 
the Air Pump 
attached, and 

a simple 
rubber attach- 
ment the air is 
allowed to es- 
cape into the 
watergradually 
supplying the 
fish with ‘the 
oxygen con- 
sumed by them. 
One pumping is sufficient for tén hours. Height, 1 foot; 
diameter 10 inches; weight, 7% lbs.; water, 2% galloas; 
keenvs 50° to 150 minnows, according to their size. 


IT KEEPS THEM ALIVE. 
Price, $5 Net. Sold direct 


Send forcircular. Mention RECREATION. 


J.M. KENYON G&G CO. 
214 Twelfth St., Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A. 





11-foot 


used by the U. S. Navy. They are simple, wonderful. 
Beware of imitations. 


patented article. 


















The 
Comfort 
Back 


adjusts itself with 
the rise and fall 
of the shoulders. 
Gives ease—takes 
strain. 


PRESIDENT 


SUSPENDERS 


Satisfaction, a new 
pair or your money 
back. . Metal. trim- 
mings cannot rust 
—no leather to soil 
the shirt. 

For summer com- 

fortask for the 


LIGHTWEIGHT 
«PRESIDENT 


Price 50c and $1.00 
anystore or mailed. 


THE C. A. EDGARTON 
MFG. CO., 
Box 311, Shirley, Mass. 





Folding Canvas Boats 


were not satisfactory until the 


iH IT N G 


was produced. It’s a revelation 
in boat construction, nothing 
like it ever made. onsinkadble 
Can't tip over. Puncture Proof, 
wear longer than a wooden boat. 
No cost for storage, 


No repairs. 
always ready, folds. into a small 
neat package, carry by hand; 


A thoroughly 
Made only by ourselves. A cat- 


alog of I00 engravings-and 400 testimonials sent on recetpt of 6 cents. 

Bottom Boards rest on the frame, not on the canvas, ribbed longitu- 
dinally and diagonally. They are stffer and safer than a Wooden Boat 
because the lines are fuller, and are much easier to row or paddle. 


KING FOLDING CANVAS BOAT CO. 


Mentiun RECREATION, KALAMAZOO, MICH., U.S. A 





xliv RECREATION. 










UP TO 


GASOLINE ENGINES and LAUNCHES 5p4Te 


Self-Starting Jump or Break Spark Catalog Free 


D. M. Tuttle Co. ENS Fe Canastota, N. Y. 


A Press Button Hunting Knife 


Is one of the best articles a hunter ever carried 





-Y —— — ss 


<<-— £4, @ 





It has a 4 Inch Blade made of the Best Silver Steel 


The knife cannot come open in your pocket. 


It cannot close on your hand when in use. 
only when 


It opens and closes 
YOU PRESS THE BUTTON 


If you once use one of these knives you will never use any other. You can get one as a premium for 


3 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO RECREATION 


Sample Copies furnished on request, 


RECREATION. 





If you want 
both style and 
durability geta 


Matthews 
Torpedo 
Launch 


Built after the 
most approved 
models. 

Any power or 
motor desired 

_ installed, 

’ Send for our 
free booklet of 
MARINE LAws 
AND TABLES. 

Send roc for 








catalogue. Designed for use in any kind of a boat requiring from 1% H. P. 
to 20H. P. Either single or double cylinder. Simple, mechanical, 
handsome, durable, positive, economical, and moderate priced. 

Mention Our speed control, propeller equipment, and many other features 

RECREATION should be investigated. OUR NEW PLANT is the largest 


in the world devoted exclusively to the manufacture of Marine 
Gasoline Engines. We operate our own pattern, foundry, forge, 
and machine departments. We manufacture every part of our 
engines, from tly wheel to propeller, 

Every engine is connected to its propeller and given an actual 
water test before placed in purchaser’s hands. 


SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. ADDRESS DEPT. C 


Smalley Motor Co., Ltd., Bay City, Mich.,U.S.A. 


Matthews Boat Co. 


BASCOM, OHIO, U.S.A. 








“We will never give up,’ said the South 
American military leader. 

“Give up what?” asked the coldly practi- 
cal man. 

After a moment of reflection, the military 
leader candidly replied: “Anything we can 
get our hands on.”—Washington Star. 


I enjoy reading RECREATION more than 
any other magazine I ever saw. 
Geo. Hayden, Jacksonville, II. 








CANOES and ROW BOATS 


Canvas-covered, built of cedar, light, staunch, grace- 
ful. Made of best materials by skilful workmen. 
Styies for all purposes; wide range of sizes and prices. 
Send Now for free illustrated catalogue. 


OLD TOWN CANOE CO., 28 Middle St., Old Town, Me. 





TO OWNERS OF GASOLINE ENGINES, 












She—You’d better sit by this open win- 
dow, dearest, in case papa should come 
into the room suddenly. 

He—But there’s a fierce bulldog outside, 
darling. 

“T know it. 
the lesser.” —Exchange. 


But of 2 evils, always choose 


Wanted—First-class rod maker who 
understands the business thoroughly. Ad- 
dress Wm. Shakespeare, Jr., Kalamazoo, 


Mich. 
&.. THE TEST OF TIME 


has proven the superiority 
of the 


Towa Marine Envi 


OVER ALL OTHERS 
Has record of 86,400 miles 





















AUTOMOBILES, LAUNCHES, Ete. in fourseasons andstillin 

The : > 2 

Auto-Sparker service. Send 8 cents for 
does away entirely with all starting and descriptive catalogue. 
running batteries, their annoyance and Mention RECREATION, 
expense, No belt—no switch—no bat- 
teries. Can be attached to any engine $ 
now using batteries. Fully guaranteed; Iowa Marine Engine 
write for descriptive catalog. Works 
Motsinger Device Mfg. Co. 

75 Main St., Pendleton, Ind. BELLEVUE, IOWA 

. 
Mullins Galvanized 





Steel Pleasure Boats 


Made of steel. Practically indestructible. Air chamber each 







catalogue end. Cannot sink. Cannot leak. Require no caulking. Ideal 

boat for family use, summer resorts, parks. Guaranteed. Will seat five 
a5 foot 29 00 Especially valuable at summer persons in comfort. The modern row-boat for pleasure, safety and durability. 
boat, crated . resorts, for family boating. W. H. MULLINS, 228 Depot Street, Salem, Ohio 


xlvi RECREATION. 





* 


The Western Recreation Launch 





Absolute Launch Satisfaction 


Is contained in the ‘*‘Western Recreation.’’ It pos- 
sesses those essential points, Grace, Beauty of Outline, 
Symmetry, Simplicity and Safety. Speed is there too 
if you want it. Most reasonable in first cost, most 
economical to maintain. 


The Best Finished, Handsomest, Most Reliable. 































We build them with either Torpedo or Semi-Elliptic 
Hulls, and, in completeness, it is the ideal and de- 
pendable craft for pleasure and security. 


THE WESTERN MARINE ENGINE 


WILL PLEASE THOSE WHO BUILD THEIR OWN HULLS. 





Beautiful Art Catalog describing our Launches 
and Marine Engines will be sent upon receipt of 
Tencents. Write for Catalog L, 


Western Launch and Engine Works, 


= No. 12 Linn St. 
——— MISHAWAKA, IND. 





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WARM BLACK TONES ON VELOX. 


The color of the silver precipitate with 
the various developers is the ‘same whether 
one uses sodium sulphite or potassium 
metabisulphite as preservatives, but the em- 
ployment of acetone sulphite in large quan- 
tities influences it. This is principally due 
to the fact that an addition of soda, potash, 
caustics, tribasic sodium phosphate or other 
alkali liberates acetone from acetone sul- 
phite. Such developers are specially suited 
for Velox and Rotox, and produce varied 
tones, black to sepia. The following devel- 
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while the ordinary metolquinone formula, 
otherwise good, gives a cold black: 


Selected for 
exclusive 
use at 


Rdigol 7559-081 .cvo bee eae I grain 
Hydroquinodne. ; 02.64. oe ee eae 
Acetone sulphite ............--- 3 grains 
Tribasic sodium phosphate 





GASOLINE OR 


E.ectric Power ; (Onre) -o 508 wrk pod dek nc cele 
ad Water «fined vhelssaiele thc ort th eee 
Ten per cent. bromide solution..10 drops 

AUTO BOATS —Photog. 








AND ENGINES 
PALMER 





Send for a copy of our Quarterly 
Publication ‘*The Launch.’”’ 
Catalog for the postage roc. 









merits 


TRUSCOTT BOAT MFG. CO. 


Sst. Joseph, Mich., U. s. A. 


Automobiie Motors 


Staifonary and 


Gasoline motors for working and pleasure boats, 144 to 25 h. p. 
Launches in stock, Send for Catalog. PALMER BROS,, Cos Cob, Conan. 


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OPERATED BY GASOLINE VAPOR 


The Fay & Bowen Marine Motor is a revelation to those who have used others. Reliable, safe, 
durable and easy to operate. Remarkable speed contro]. Best of all, it starts when you start it. 
No handle or crank is used. Our patent igniter is absolutely unique and always instant and 
positive in action. It is really the only perfect and satisfactory igniter. 

Motors complete from 14 to 25 actual Horse Power ready for installation. 

We also build a line of the finest launches afloat, complete and with our motor installed and 
all ready to run. We make these in either the usual round stern model or our flat stern torpedo 
model in lengths from 18 to 35 feet. We-can furnish large cabin launches on special order. For 
excellence of workmanship and beauty of finish and design our boats are unsurpassed. Ask for 
description of our fast torpedo outfits. 


Send for Catalogue and live testimonials from satisfied 
customers. Our customers are our best advertisers. 


FAY & BOWEN ENGINE CO. min Zico, Auburn, N. Y. 


af 


The 3% x 4% pocket Poco, given by ReEc- : 
REATION as a premium for 6 new subscrib- 
ers, arrived all safe. I wish to thank you 


very much for your promptness in sending 
it, and I am well pleased with the camera. CANOES 
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I have no doubt it will prove as good as it 
looks. I had no difficulty in securing the 
required number of subscribers, and hope 
to be able to secure more. ;. 

Harry Messenger, Danville, Que. 





Mrs. Buggins—I don’t feel at all com 
fortable in these new shoes, 


Mr. Buggins—What’s the matter; don’t 
they hurt ?—Philadelphia Record. 


Buy a Canoe This Year 


and then at the end of the sum- 
mer’s vacation you will have some- 
thing to show for it. You'll get far 
more pleasure and benefit from 
paddling on lake or river than from 
expensive livery teams. Next year 
you will be already equipped for 
another season, 

For quality of materials, strength of con- 
Struction and beauty of design—for speed, 
lightness and durability, I can give you best 
value for your money. All styles and sizes, 
either al) cedar or canvas-covered cedar, 













Fitted with powerful Auto- 
mobile, four cycle marine engine, 
cannot sink, cannot rust. Ca- 

pacity ten to twelve people. 


a / Nonsinkable Stee! Launches, Row Boats, 
Sail Boats, Canoes, Duck Boats, etc. 


Made from the best quality Apollo Steel—will 
last a lifetime Send for catalogue. Write for 
agents’ discount. 


MICHIGAN STEEL BOAT CO., 1275 Jefferson Ave, 


DETROIT, MICH., U. S. A. 


Send for my Catalogue of pleasure 
boats, all-cedar and canvas-covered 
canoes, oars, paddies, sails and 
fittings—free for the asking. 


J. H. RUSHTON, 817 Water St., Canton, 







xl vili RECREATION. 


THE LATEST, SAFEST AND BEST CANVAS BOAT 


p eS __ Is what we offer you. A Boat built on modern lines that will 

, $ : Prove a pleasure to own and use. Selected materials used through- 
out, and it comes to you guaranteed the best. A handy and safe 
boat for fishing and shooting. Send 4 cents in stamps for catalogue 
and reliable testimony. 


Mention RECREATION. 


LIFE SAVING FOLDING CANVAS BOAT CO. 
757 Portage St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 











Latest patent and improved Canvas Folding Boat on the market. 
Puncture proof; Tempered steel frame. 0 bolts to remove, 
Folds most compact of any boat made. 





Detachable Even Spoclers & Hook=Shields 


{\ are the real thing. A boon to anglers. For proof ask 
any of the 7,000 users. In every case, as far as we know, 
they have given perfect satisfaction. In future buy 
only reels fitted with spooler or reels spooler will fit, 
preventing regrets later on. Our free catalogue (B) 
gives names of reels spooler will fit, price and descrip- 
tion of Spoolers, Hook-Shields, Gun-Cleaners, Fish- 
Scalers, Ball-Bearing, Jeweled and _  Steel-Pivot- 
Bearing Reels fitted with even Spooler, also New Rubber Hook-Shield. 


We exchange goods with Dealers any time to keep them in line with requirements in their locality. 


A. W. BISHOP & SON, "RACE Wis. USA. 





Send for catalogue of our full line of Folding j 
Canvas Boats and Canoes, which have been R 
adopted by Governments of United States, Can- 
ada and England. Just filled an order for U.S. 
Government, who prefer our boats. Received medal and award at Chicago World’s 
Fair. If you investigate we will get your order. Mention RECREATION. 


Acme Folding Boat Company, Miamisburg, O. 
MULLINS “Get There” Steel Duck Boat’ 


Price $20—crated on cars Salem, | 
Endorsed by Thousands of { 
Sportsmen, Air Chamber each | 
end. Always’ ready. No Trepairs. > 
Send for handsome free book, Mention) 
Recreation. = | 

W. H. MULLINS 
228 Depot Street Salem, Ohio’: 


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AOME FOLDING BOA +» MIAMISBURG, 0, 


Mt yp IPOE NAAM 3. 





A Sportsman’s 
Boat 











14 feet | 
long, 36-inch 
beam. 


RECREATION. xlix 


RELIANCE 


MARINE MOTORS Ga: 


LIGHT POWERFUL ECONOMICAL 





1 to 6 Cylinders 4 to 150 horse power 


Special Design for Auto Boats 


Write for information and prices 


RELIANCE MFG. CO. 


City Island, N. Y. City te Eeeine Reems 


Mention RECREATION. 





: BU OUR OWN BOAT 
Watch this space ou oe plead 
in May : 


RECREATION 


BROOKS BOAT MFG.CO. sta. B - BAY CIT Y-MIC 





For cut of a Husband (of popular author)—Do you 





N ew Fishin ¢g mean to tell me, Doctor, that my wife is in- 
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T a Cc k ] e B oO x ! is rare 20, bee as that, but she is hope- 
essly foolish. 

Decidedly the most Novel “Well, that’s a relief. I was afraid her 

and Practical Box ever de- usefulness as a writer was impaired.’’—Life. 

signed. An_ enthusiastic Novelcra ft Trimmed 


artist and sportsman says: 
“It is a revelation 
anda revolution’”’ 


For Advance Circular and 
particulars address 


Merriam Mfg. Co. 


Durham, Conn. 


Mention ReEcREATION, 


Bamboo Cane Poles 


and other untrimmed rods 
are made ready for reel 
fishing in one-half minute, 
Are reliable, practical, sen- 
sible, economical and con- 
venient. Complete set 
trimmings, mail or dealer, 


75 Cents, Dozen $7.20 


Patented, United States 





and Canada, 1902 


The Novelcra ft Mfg. Co. 


Spring and Superior Streets, Cleveland, O 


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ine Fishing 





Tackle Free 


I want every enthusiastic fisherman, whe- 
ther amateur, beginner or professional, to 
have a personal knowledge of the-fine points 
of the Shakespeare Reels and the marvel- 
ous catching qualities of the Shakespeare 
Baits—and to do this I propose to send to 
every man or woman who fishes for the 
real sport there is in it, one of my reels 
and baits for free trial on their next fish- 
ing trip. Write to-day. Send your name 
and address and the name and address of 
the leading sporting goods dealer of your 
city to Wm. Shakespeare, Jr., 398 Shake- 
speare Bldg., Kalamazoo, Mich. The Shake- 
speare Reel is especially designed for accu- 
rate and long-distance casting, and it is with- 
out doubt the best reel in the world, and 
you will say so when you see it. The metal 
used in the Shakespeare Reel is hard-drawn 
brass and the finest English Stubb steel. 
Painstaking care is used to sécure perfect 
accuracy- in every detail. In beauty of de- 
sign, and simplicity of construction it is un- 
equaled. Its easy, silent running suggests 
perpetual motion and it is fitted with the 
most perfect drag and click ever invented. 
Words will not describe its beauty, its use- 
fulness, nor its many advantages over all 
other reels. My reels and baits are for 
sale by all first-class dealers but I want you 
to see them and try them for yourself and 
I will send them to you direct, express pre- 
paid, for a free trial. The Shakespeare Baits 
are really marvelous. With them the fish- 
erman is sure of a good catch, no matter 
where the fish are, in the lake or stream. 
If they are in deep water, Shakespeare 
makes the bait that attracts them. If they 
are in shallow water, Shakespeare makes the 
bait that catches them. If they are hidden 
in the lily pads or moss, Shakespeare makes 
the bait that makes them strike. And Shake- 
speare offers $100 in prizes for the photo- 
graph and authentic dimensions of the big- 
gest large or small mouth bass caught this 
year. Write to-day for particulars. His 
little booklets, “How to Catch Bass” and 
“The Art of Bait Casting,” are free to every 
angler, Write to-day. 








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This will save you one-third — the 
middleman’s profit. A Sportsman’s 
Cabinet is a right place for the guns, 
the ammunition, the boots, the fishing 
rods and tackle — everything. We 


make cabinets from $17.50 to $48. 


West End Furniture Co., 
Williamsport, Pa.: 
Enclosed find 2c stamp for which send 


me your complete catalogue of Sportsmen’ s 
Cabinets. Write plainly. Mention Recreation, 


Name 
Street 


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Be your own Taxidermist 


LEARN TO MOUNT ALL KINDS OF 
BIRDS, ANIMALS, 


HEADS, ETC. 


We teach Taxidermy perfectly 
by mall. Easily and quick] 
learned. STANDARD MET 

ODS, Expert instructors, ae 
sonable price. Our S HOOL 
FOR SPORTSM EN, BY 
SPORTSMEN, is endorsed by 
all leading taxidermists and 
sporting magazines. The spring 
shooting season is at hand. You 
will secure some beautiful speci- 
mens. They deserve a place in 
your home, den, or office. Are 
you interested? Our new illustrated catalog is just 
ready and IT’S FREE TO EVERY READER OF 
RECREATION. WRITE FOR ONE TODAY. 


The Northwestern School of Taxidermy, Inc. 
411a Bee Buitodinc OMAHA, NEB. 





9 Glass Eyes for 
Stuffed Birds, 
and Animals 


Materials 


Send §c. in stamps for catalogue 


FRED. KAEMPFER, **$TA7",§7- 


Taxidermy work done in all its branches 
Mention RECREATION 


INDIAN 
CURIOS 


WHOLESALE & RETAIL 
CURIO DEALERS’ 
SUPPLY DEPOT. 
Bead Work, Baskets, Elk Teeth, Mexican 
Goods, Beads, Fossils, Minerals, Arrow- 
Heads. Pottery, Aliska Ivories, Shells, 
Agates, Photos, Great Stock, Big Cata. 5c., 
stamps. Mention RECREATION. If a dealer 
aay 9. | OS = mlneghi/ es 

DEADWO)D . .  &. DAKOTA 


Squabs are raised 1n 1 month, bring dig 
prices. Eager market. Astonishing 
rofits. Easy for women and invalids. 
se your Spare time profitably, Small 
space and capital. Here zs something 
worth looking into. Facts given in our 
= Sears BOOK, ‘ Howto make mone 
th Squabs. > PLYMOUTH ROC 
SOUAE CO., 289 Atlantic Ave,, Boston, Mass. 


RAPPER Send 2 ‘glad MUSKRAT 
SKINS mail or so cents for 

10 different numbers 1903 pay NTER-TRADER- 

TRAPPER, regular price 10 cents a copy, 


Taxidermists 


Oologists’and 
Entomologists’ 
Supplies 


























a year; for x skin, or 25 cents, 5 numbers. ffer 
good until May «. A. R. Harpinc, Gallipolis, Ohio. 
FOR SALE 


t Pig! E jack rabbits, prairie dogs, squirrels, deer, 
mandarin, wood and other wild ducks, geese. 
swan, and other game birds and animals. 


CHAS. PAYNE, Wichita, Kansas; 


INE MOUNTED GAME HEADS, 
BIRDS, ETC.., for sale at unheard-of prices, 
Send 10 cents for photos. 

JOHN CLAYTON, Taxidermist, Lincoln, Maine 








IN ANSWERING ADS. PLEASE 
MENTION RECREATION. 





The Best Collection in existence of 
the Mammals and Birds of Minnesota 


CONSISTING OF 





MOUNTED MAMMALS, HEADS, ANTLERS, 

SKINS, RUGS, MOUNTED BIRDS, SKINS, 

EGGS, FRESH SKINS, RELICS, 
CURIOSITIES, ETC. 


Send Stamp 


ERNEST L. BROWN 


The Minnesota Taxidermist. Warren, Minn. 


BIG INDIAN 
TROUT AND GAME PRESERVE 
Big Indian Ulster Co., New York 


Brook Trout Fry, Yearlings and all sizes 
of large trout for stocking purposes and 
the table on hand. 

All inquiries cheerfully answ ered, 

Mention RECREATION. 








Burnt Work — Something Great. To 
persons sending new subscriptions to REc- 
REATION through me, or sending them direct 
to the office to my credit, I will send the 
following prizes: 

For I new yearly subscription to RECREA- 
TION I will give a neat barrel match safe 
mounted on an oval back, both burned 
and decorated, equal in value to 75 cents. 

For 2 new. yearly subscriptions to REc- 
REATION I will give a 6-inch round picture 
frame burned and decorated with beauti- 
ful old fashioned poppies tinted with 
water colors. This would cost you $1.25 
at the least. 

For 5 new yearly subscriptions to REc- 
REATION I will give either a round stool 14 
inches high with round upholstered top 
or a square stool same height with square 
upholstered top. These would probably 
cost you $7 or $8 finished as I finish them 
with designs burned in the wood and 
leather. 
E. A. King, Pleasant Prairie, Wis. 


RECREATION. lili 


Sportsman’s Coat 
Sheds Water like a Duck’s Back 


An absolutely rain-proof coat. Water will positively re . 
not soak through tt or adhere to it. Made of soft, a 
smooth, pliable cloth that will not rustle or <@) 

crack. Lined throughout with same ma- e 

terial; reinforced by gun cap on shoul- a 


der and flap over shoulder seams. 

Patent bellows under arms permits 

free arm movements and affords 

perfect ventilation. Ample and 

roomy pockets for every pur- 

pose, protected by large flaps. 

Full cut—well tailored and trimmed. 
Material in light tan or dead grass colors. 
A perfect coat 


For Fishermen 


as well as the hunter. Rain-proof qualities, fit and 
satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Price 
$5.00, express prepaid, to all points east of the Mis- 
sissippi River. In ordering send snug breast meas- 
ure close up under the arms, stating color desired. 
Samples on request. 


BIRD, JONES & KENYON, No.1 Blandina St., Utica, N.Y. 





DEVELOPER TESTS. 
A few simple tests by which to recognize F OR 


the main constituent in a developer, or the 
developing agent in a solution, are as fol- 


t 
lows: 
Pyrogallic Acid.—Nitric acid gives a deep 
red color. Ferric chloride gives a blue, 


becoming brown. Ferrous sulphate gives 
no reaction. Ferricyanide of potash gives 
deep red. ax any SUMMER or WINTER 

Hydroquinone.—Nitric acid gives dark 
red, changing to yellow if excess. Ferric 


chloride gives dark brown, gradually be- Gat aitake a0 


coming paler. Ferrous sulphate gives light The 

yellow. Ferricyanide of potash gives no re- Thom Son- 

action. B t p 
Metol.—Nitric acid gives deep red, grad- es 

ually becoming light yellow. Ferric chlo- P Quimby 

oH gives deep red brown. Ferrous sul- 1S ES 

phate gives nothing. Ferricyanide of potash H | 

gives dark reddish yellow. . the un Ing 


Eikonogen.—Nitric acid gives reddish 
color. Ferric chloride gives reddish brown. Cheapest 
Ferrous sulphate gives violet red color if 
alkaline. Ferricyanide of potash gives noth- 
ing. 

Glycin.—Nitric acid gives yellow red 9g Iz ~ 
color. Ferric chloride gives reddish brown. I M a k € t h ec B es t 
becoming green and then violet. Ferrous 


Boots 





sulphate gives nothing. Ferricyanide of All work guaranteed, I refer by per- 

potash gives light yellow. mission to the Editor of RECREATION. 
Pyrocatechin.—Nitric acid gives reddish Measurement blanks and prices on ap- 

yellow color. Ferric chloride gives deep plication. Mention RECREATION, 


green. Ferrous sulphate, if floated where T. H. GUTHRIE 


solutions meet, gives a crimson ring. Fer- 
ricyanide of potash gives nothing—The | 33 William St. NEWARK, N. J. 
Camera and Dark Room. 


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THE | | 


1902 Model 


LEATHER-COVERED Pneu- 


matic Recoil Pad is now per- 
fect. No pump. no valve, no 
recoil, no flinch, no headache, 
no bruised shoulders, no 
money if not satisfactory and 
returned at once. 


PRICE, $1.50. 


J.R. WINTERS 
Clinton, Mo. 





KOENIG’'S SHELL EXTRACTOR, 


Every shooter should 
have one—carryit ina 
vest pocket, Fits any 

auge shell. Koenig’s 
Gun Catalogue, Free. 


10 Cts. Postpaid. 
E.G. KOENIG, NEW JERSEY & LARGEST GUN House 


SOUTH BROAD ST., Newarn, N. J, 


For Sale: L. C. Smith 12 gauge Shot 
Gun with 26 inch barrels, weight 6 lbs. 
12 oz.;. $115.00 grade with automatic 
ejectors, hammerless, fine English wal- 
nut stock, engraving and checking. Has 
not been shot over a dozen times. Price 
$50 cash. $4 Leg of Mutton Case and 
Marble cleaning rod included. Address 
_ T. P. Peckham, care Savage Arms Co., 
Utica, N. Y. Mark all communications 
“Personal.” 





“Young Faddlethwaite doesn’t seem to 
have any moral courage,” said her father. 
“I don’t know anything about that,” she 
answered, “but he wears stunning clothes 
and has 3 automobiles.”—Chicago Herald. 





Free: To any one sending me § new 
yearly subscriptions to REcrEATION, I will 
give I pair Snowshoe Rabbits or will sell 
for $4a pair. Stanley L. Trees, Tie Siding, 
Wyoming. 





For Exchange: 2 years RECREATION, 
1902-1903; 3 years Sports Afield, 1901-1902- 





SOME GOOD GUIDES. 


Following are names and addresses of 
guides who have been recommended to me, 
by men who have employed them ; together 
with data as to the species of game and 
fish which these guides undertake to find 
for sportsmen, 

If anyone who may employ one of these 
guides should find him incompetent or un- 
satisfactory, I will be grateful if he will 
report the fact to me: 


FLORIDA. 
C. H. Stokes, Mohawk, deer, alligators, turkey, 
quail, and snipe, 
: IDAHO. 
John Ching, Kilgore, elk, bear, deer, antelope, 
mountain sheep, trout and grouse. 
Chas. Petty’s, Kilgore, ditto. 
MAINE, 
H. R. Horton, Flagstaff, deer, bear, moose, cari- 
bou, fox, grouse and trout. 
Eugene Hale, Medway, ditto. 
MONTANA. 
A. R. Hague, Fridley, elk, deer, mountain sheep, 
bear, grouse and trout. 
Chas. Marble, Chestnut, ditto. 


WASHINGTON. 
Munro Wyckoff, Port Townsend, deer, bear and 
grouse. 
WYOMING. 
S. N. Leek, Jackson, elk, bear, deer, mountain 
sheep, antelope, grouse and trout. 
CANADA, rhs 
Carl Bersing, Newcastle, N. B., moose, caribou, 


deer, bear and grouse. 
NEWFOUNDLAND. 


John C. LeMoine, Birchy Cove, Bay of Islands, 
caribou, salmon and trout. 


For Sale: 71% lb. 12 gauge W. W. 
Greener, Forester grade, hammer gun; 
30 in. choke barrels; 14 in. P. grip stock; 
2%, in. drop; in excellent condition; cost 
$85.00; will take $30.00 cash; no trades. 
John Spencer, Blacksburg, Va. 








For Sale or Exchange: Guitar, Type- 
writer, Bicycle, Cameras, 2-22’s, 30-30, 
25-35 rifles; Baker Gun, Steer Horns. 





1903, for best offer. Frank R, Seaver, Enclose stamps.. Josiah Winants, Little 
Darien, Walworth Co., Wis. Falls, N. Y. 
Date,_ 190 


G. O. SHIELDS, 





Editor and Manager of RECREATION, 23 West 24th St. New York. 
Herewith find $1.00 for which please send me RECREATION one year 


beginning with_ 





Name, 





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RECREATION. lv 
Tq POWDER! POWDER! 
UNIVERSAL All kinds of powder for Rifles, 
i FASURE | Pistols axi Shot Guns, 


measured accurately {rom 
1 to145 grains. 4 different measures 
ini. The latest and best tool. Ask 
your dealer for it. 






2s 3s Every shooter should have 1. Send 3 
5% 5% stamps for Ideal Hand Book, 146 pages 
68 ©§ of information to shooters. 

=2 22 IDEAL MFG. CO.,12USt., New Haven, Conn, U. S.A. 





The PHIL B BEKEART CO., of San Francisco, Cal., Agents for Pacific Coast 


When you write kindly mention Rrcre\TIon 


CEDAROLEUOM [hic The Ideal Lubricant and Rust-Preventive 


Keep up with the times and in this New-Year try something ‘‘ NEW” and ‘‘BEST OF ALL.” 

It is colorless and you can use it anywhere on your gun or rifle. Manufactured of the purest 

chemicals, it meets a demand and need, Far superivr to any oil or vaseline. It is specific for 
cleaning rifles and guns after using nitro-powder as well as black. Will prevent RUST. 

Its peculiar substance makes it the finest of LUBRICANTS for the mechanism. Put up in a 

neat tube with an injector, and is handy to carry in your pccket. Postpaid sampie, 15 cents. 


CEDAROLEUM Co. Mention Recreation. PERKINSVILLE, VT. 
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fire arms in perfect condition. Sent postpaid, $1 per set for Shot 
Guns; soc. for Rifles; 25c. tor Revolvers. Give gauge and length of 
barrel. Send for circular giving full particulars. 


i  < —— ia BRADLEY'S SHOT GUN SIGHT 
= = mx \ a 


Sa, Makes wing shooting easy and certain. Scores greatly increased 
at trap and in field. Instantly attachable and detachable. Price, 
post-paid, 50 cents. mene for circular. 

Address C. BRADLEY, CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE, 























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No one knows,” he replied, Think I can pacify 
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TION is taken the friends of game protection | or exchange for a .30-.30, 32-40, .303 or 
increase amazingly. 32 Special Rifle. W. G. Pollock, Little 

J. J. Mather, Springboro, Pa. Falls, N. Y. 





No Rifle complete unless mounted with one of our 


IMPROVED TELESCOPIC OUTFITS 






We make them from 3-power up. With our side 
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SEND FOR OUR CATALOGUE 
Mention RECREATION. 
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“ Collan-Oil ” 


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harness positively 


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) Practical Common Sense CAMP 
in 6 Sizes. STOVE 


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out oven. The light- 
est, strongest, most 
compact, practical 
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combination sheet 
steel top, smooth out- § 
: side, heavy lining in 

Eo As ’ fire box and around 
oven, holds its shape, telescopic pipe carried inside the 
stove. Burns large wood and keeps fire longer than any 
other. Used by over 9,ooo campers and only one stove 
returned, 

For catalogue giving full particulars, mention RECREA- 
TION and address 


D. W. CREE, Manufacturer, Griggsville, Ill. 


THE BRADLEY SHOT GUN SIGHT! 


Wing Shooting 
is made easy and 
certain by using 
this gun sight. 
‘Scores at trap 
z z and in field 
greatly increased byits use. Right and left birds are 
bagged as easily as straight-away birds. 


Price 50 Cents, Postpaid. 
C.L. BRADLEY, Inventor, CLARKSVILLE TENN, 

























An office-seeker who wanted to repre- 
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asked, “Do you speak Japanese?” 

The applicant faltered; then said he did. 

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ese.”’—Argonaut. 


_ 





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read it, follow its advice; but do not take 
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game hog. 

Dr. C. A. Peterson, Hoboken, N. J. 





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you sent me for subscriptions for RECREA- 
TION. I have tried it and found it all and 
more than the King Company represents. 

H. A. Trotter, Buffalo, N. Y. 





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down !”—Exchange. 





NEWHOUSE 
STEEL TRAPS 


Made since 1848 by ONEIDA COMMUNITY 





S. NEWHOUSE 
(The Old Trapper and Trapmaker) 


Fifty years ago this famous old Trapmaker of 
the Oneida Community would not let a trap 
leave his hand till he KNEW that it would hold 
any animal that got intoits jaws. Even greater 
pains are taken now than then in selecting the 
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This is why all experienced Trappers insist 
on having the 


“* NEWHOUSE ” 





‘‘T have seen an Indian trade his pony for one 
dozen Newhouse Traps.’’—Pofular Magazine 
Writer. 





Eleven Sizes for Catching 
Every Fur Bearing Animal 


Every Trap Cuaranteed 
Illustrated Catalogue Mailed 
2" Send twenty-five cents for “The Trapper’s Guide,” 
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ONEIDA COMMUNITY 


ONEIDA NEW YORK 


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H. & R. SINGLE SHOT GUN) 


Automatic and Non-Ejecting 





The cheapest abso.utely safe gun, with improve- 
ments found heretofore only in the highest priced. 


PERFECT IN MODEL 
AND CONSTRUCTION 


mer; rebounding lock. 


Your dealer can supply, or we will 
Write for Catalog. 


sell to you direct. 


12, 16 and 20 gauge; barrels 28, 30 and 32 
inch, plain steel and twist. Top snap; center ham- 


SIMPLEST ‘TAKE 
DOWN ’’ GUN MADE 











HARRINGTON. & RICHARDSON ARMS CO. 


Dept. R, WORCESTER, MASS. 
Makers of H. ( R, Revolvers 





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Miss Roseate—Fred says he admires me 
because I am the picture of health. 

Miss Pallid—Yes, the silly fellow was 
always crazy for anything hand-painted !— 


Life. 


I received the Bristol steel rod you sent 
meas a premium. It is the finest rod I ever 
had in my hands. I have shown it to sev- 


eral friends and they are stuck on it. 


J. A. Lewis, Fruitvale, Cal. 





Prosecuting Attorney—Was the prisoner 
in the habit of singing when he was alone? 

Pat McGuire (witness)—Shure, an’ I 
can’t say, for Oi was niver with him when 
he was alone.—Chicago Journal. 





THE BAKER 


THE GUN 
THAT’S SAFE 







also that would please you, 


SO DURABLE TOO 
IT LASTS A 
LIFETIME 


Corre ~ 2 
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If you want to be right up in the front ‘rank of style and efficiency shoot one of our 
Special Paragons with Whitworth or Krupp fluid steel barrels. We have other patterns 
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at your pleasure. 
Up-to-date dealers sell them. 






a =x j " MEN WHO USE 
ba Robin Hood 
¢ 


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“! Smokeless 
Powder 


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If you will send me 


30 Ycarly Subscriptions 


to 


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I will send you 


A No. 10 Trieder = Binocular 


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Listed at $38. 





Every well-informed man knows the great power of this 
modern prismatic field glass. It is indispensable to every 
hunter, and is one of the latest and best on the market. 

I have but a few of these instruments on hand and the 
offer will be withdrawn as soon as the supply is exhausted. 
Therefore, if you want one 


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MENTION RECREATION 


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LISTED AT $48 


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Syracuse Hammer Guns 








Carry the same guarantee as our Hammerless Guns. 
e 
Built for Nitro Powder. 
Bored the Syracuse way. Made of the best material. . 


Are, without doubt, the strongest built and hardest shooting Hammer 


guns made. 


‘Each gun targeted with Nitro Powder.”’ 





Roller Bearing c Double Wedge-Fast Bolt 
Tumbler Through Extension Rib 


List Price $24. 


12 gauge, 30 in. High quality steel barrels. Left barrel full, Right 
barrel modified choke. Weight 7% to 7% Ibs. 





DESCRIPTION : 
Top lever action. High quality hammered steel barrels. Particularly adapted to Nitro 
Powders. 


Interchangeable locks. Roller bearing tumbler; this roller bears on mainspring, and gives 
an extremely easy and smooth cocking motion. 

Low circular hammers. 

Imported walnut stock, handsomely checkered grip and fore-end. Full pistol grip with 
oinamental caps. 

Double scored butt plate. 

One-piece lug with extra wide hinge bearing. 


Double wedge-fast bolt through extension rib. 


N. B.—But a limited number to be marketed this year. Write for further par- 
ticulars. Mention RECREATION. 


SYRACUSE ARMS CO. 


SYRACUSE, N, Y, 


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302-304 Broadway, New York 





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NEW LEFEVER 


It is a plain gun, and sells at a popular 
price, but has all our latest improvements. 


Send for 
1904 
Catalogue 
and 
Discounts 


D. M. ee le Sons & Co. 


Not connected with 
Lefever Arms Company, 


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Mention 
RECREATION 


RECREATION. lxv 





A glance at a 22-caliber Savage Repeating 
Rifle will convince you that it is different from 
any other rifle you ever saw. Its beauty of 
outline and finish will always be a source of 
pleasure. Besides being the best gun for small 
game and target practice, it is the safest and 
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honest guarantee. It will not jam or stick 
when you are in a hurry for a second shot, 
since accuracy and reliability are two of 


its particularly strong features. 
Write to-day for catalogue G. 


We have a special department entirely devoted to 


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UTICA, NEW YORK, VU. S.A. 





Baker & Hamilton 


Pacific Coast Agents 
San Francisco and Sac- 
ramento, California 





Papa—See here, Willie, you mustn't 
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every year ?>—Exchange. 


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I received the Harrington & Richardson 
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the best and most accurate pistol I ever 
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A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Everything the Name Implies 








$1.00 A YEAR. G. O. SHIELDS (COQUINA), 23 WEST 24TH STREET, 
1o CENTS A Copy. Editor and Manager. New YorK 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER PAGE. 
His Imaginary Buffalo Faced About and Raised Up, Fully 8 Feet High...........--.--... FRONTISPIECE 
DRAGS WO TUM Bi CTI G 98 oin 00 oe a aaiie neces co ncnnesedees tote ns occas cccnacscenscdssece sececacens MC. Hy wz 
Casting in Sluggish RE eee eras acldeua oct dhe vie cote sas chemes sc sche ppeccanivect nea aeons E. J. MYERS 333 
How to Build a Log Canoe, Illustrated.......... ........ Cabin tedvc fabs ceqsersyesssssO; SEIEEDS SN 
Ge 5 Ten OE ate Wodas <a dcbdieasc mud dewwodnresvecvensseieveceaeces E. E. WEBSTER 337 
How George Killed the Bear. Illustrated......... .......2.2. cess cscs caceeceesecccneees W.S. Britt 339 
TS MEME a ocd varewidca desde wtedp vn vives, Mae Min Late aA ee Vid cvonwchckaes L.C. ELERICK 340 
A Visit to Banquet Mountains..... re Te Ree Steen hoes sate hee het Pea vias te Palade Joun W. BRYAN 341 
The Capture NEE Se ree ce at Po ee ta aia a God distin a mle a o's wreiere <idgiois’s 1a A SA DON CAMERON 343 
Song of the Angler. HMRC rete cee a bo tick y Ce ere ee +. seseeesseeee «e+» BENSON B, MOORE 344 
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Guns and Ammunition... .............5......... 373 etn -sieees 387 
Watural History Pee tO et 378 RILOY Of CORN. Nodes ov be dcetor tte uedes ocacluy a 388 
The League of American Sportsmen........... 382. Amateur Photography-..-.---------+++++-1--+ 392 


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Volume XX, 


MAY, 1904 


Number 5. 


G. 0. SHIELDS (COQUINA), Editor and Manager 


A RACE. | Wir A GRIZZLY, 


M. C, H. 


The mention of Shot Gun valley in 
my old friend Rea’s story in a former 
number of RECREATION, calls vividly 
to mind an exciting chase I had in 
that section 20 years ago, while on a 
hunting and trapping trip early in 
the spring. My brother Frank and 
I were riding leisurely up the valley, 
with pack animals and a few loose 
horses following, when directly ahead 
we saw a huge bear some half mile 
distant. To stalk him was out of the 
question as the ground intervening 
was as level as a barn floor, with the 
new grass but a few inches above the 
ground. This fact did not bother us, 
for, as is well known by men familiar 
with Bruin and his habits, he is sel- 
dom on the lookout, doubtless know- 
ing he is not liable to be pounced on 
unaware by any of his neighbors who 
may be in quest of a square meal. His 
nose is all right; but as a light wind 
accompanied by a drizzling rain was 
in our favor, we hoped to ride within 
gun shot range before flushing him. 
Being armed with 44 caliber Ballard 
carbines, shooting distance meant not 
to exceed 150 yards. When still 400 
yards distant the huge brute paused in 
his search for ground moles and, ac- 
cidentally no doubt, glanced in our 
direction. Two mounts, 4 packs and 
a few loose horses meeting his gaze 
brought him at once in an upright po- 
sition. One square look was _ suffi- 
cient. Dropping on all fours he 
broke for the nearest hills like a 
frightened horse. 

Having been out of winter quarters 
long enough to work off his surplus 


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fat, he led us a lively chase. I had 
the better horse, soon distanced Frank 
and rapidly gained on the big fellow, 
who in the meantime turned more to 
the right and took the water of Shot 
Gun river like a duck. We crossed 
the stream, 40 yards wide and about 
3 feet deep, with a rush and without 
my pulling rein. On reaching the 
farther bank we soon struck a higher 
bench, the rim of which was an ugly 
mass of large broken lava rock. That, 
too, was made without slowing down 
and then came the race in earnest 
across the wide, low bench, covered 
with scrub sage and buck brush. A 
mile farther and I was within 50 
yards and commenced slinging lead. 
My war horse, Old Sport, had, the 
fall before, packed me alongside of 
more than one buffalo and was ex- 
erting all his strength to add another 
to the string; but after 2 or 3 shots, 
none of which counted, and when 
within 30 steps, his imaginary buffalo 
stopped suddenly, faced about and 
raised up fully 8 feet high. Old 
Sport spiked, plowing up the mud 
with his feet and nearly landing me 
over his head, as I had dropped the 
reins and at that moment had raised 
the gun to my shoulder. Before I 
could catch sight the race was on 
again and more powder and lead were 
wasted. Old Grizzly repeated his 
tactics, bringing us to several sudden 
halts; but would not face the music 
long enough to give me a steady shot. 

As the chase had covered several 
miles, my horse began to show signs 
of weakening. His heaving sides were 


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covered with foam and were working 
like a bellows. Some change in the 
programme was necessary, so I dis- 
mounted at the next halt. Sport by 
that time was thoroughly frightened 
as well as nearly played. Not caring 
to part with him under the circum- 
stances, I threw the reins over his 
head as I went out of the saddle, slip- 
ping my leg through them, dropped 
on one knee just as the bear settled 


THE 


EAGLE’S GIBRALTAR. 


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down for another spurt, and there was 
no more lead wasted. With his fore- 
paw the bear marked the spot on his 
rear where the first shot stung him 
and continued to notify me where each 
succeeding bullet landed until, ex- 
hausted with his repeated efforts in 
that line, he quit for good, furnishing 
me with a beautiful silvertip robe, 
larger than any buffalo robe in our 
packs. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY A. J, BRUNQUIST. 


Winner of 27th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 





Willie—Mamma, can I go to bed half an 


hour earlier to-night ? 
Lewison—What for? 


Mrs. 


“T want to say my prayers ahead for a. 


week.” 


CASTING IN SLUGGISH WATERS 


E. J. MYERS. 


On many rivers the water empties 
into deep dark holes that deaden the 
current into a sluggish stream barely 
able to more than move the drift to 
the bar where the shallowing water 
pours over the shingle. 

The Quat-a-wam-kedgwick’ is fa- 
mous for its holes, the like of which 
do not éxist even on the Grande Cod- 
roy. There the great salmon lie, but 
whether at the lower bar or in the mid- 
dle of the pool you do not know, for 
you can not see 3 feet below the dark- 
ness that blackens up to the surface. 
If the salmon take your fly it 1s never 
with a rise, nor swell nor roll, but with 
a straightening of the line as if the 
fish was intent on going to the anti- 
podes or running up the bank and 
climbing the mountain side. Many a 
time that is all you know, for never a 
sign is vouchsafed beyond motion. 

Usuaily there is so much slack that 
the line seems as if it were uncoiling 
on the surface of the water, for the 
rod never bends but trembles and shiv- 
ers ina shily-shally way. The reel-is 
dumb until it gives a frantic wail, and 
well it may, for that salmon never re- 
turns. 

Then you will wonder why your 
guides did not back water or use some 
other one of a thousand expedients to 
get a taut line, but unless you have 
cast on the big holes and learned to 
handle slack, you will lose salmon, pa- 
tience and guides. The latter, in that 
case, are likely to start back for the 
village; with you, if you are wise, and 
otherwise without you, as happened to 
an old friend of mine. 

Now stop the canoe in the rapids so 
as to cast with a lengthening line 
where the heavy water stops, cast as 
long as you can to the uttermost 
length, for the partial stretch of heavy 
water will keep a line taut for some 
distance into the sluggish water 


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Though you may not see it, you will 
appreciate as you raise the rod for the 
backward throw. Then move the 
canoe to the beginning of the heavy 
water into which the rapid seems lost 
in the dead stillness of the hole, and 
continue until you reach the middle of 
the hole, pulling your fly across it from 
current to current. Now cast, and as 
you cast wriggle the rod with the right 
hand which also holds the line which 
you draw through the fingers of the 
right hand with the left, so as to avoid 
any doubling and slack in the water, 
letting the line fall in the canoe as you 
reach for another draw. 

Constantly wriggle and maintain the 
dip-dip of the rod which gives life to 
the fly while the drawing-in is done. 
The right hand will keep as taut a line 
as possible, and will serve to hold the 
line if the salmon should take the fly. 
Be sure to have a free place in the bot- 
tom of the canoe where the slack line 
falls, and that there is naught to en- 
tangle the line, because in the big holes 
you angle for great salmon, aye, 30 to 
40 pounds and more, especially the 
Restigouche fish away up the main 
river. 

Remember the danger of the slack 
between the hand and the reel, and if 
the salmon takes the fly hold the line 
with the right hand with a grim firm- 
ness that yields not a fraction of an 
inch as you deliberately raise the rod 
until it lowly bends and bows await- 
ing the salmon’s rush, which must take 
out the line through fingers that slowly 
yield to a friction that burns to the 
bone. Never mind that, for you will 
save the salmon if you are so far ad- 
vanced as to get burned, 

Fail not to raise the rod slowly until 
it is well bowed but suffer not an inch 
of the line to pass through your fin- 
gers. 

If you have been wise and thereto- 


334 


fore instructed your guides, though 
you stand or sit, you will find the canoe 
slowly moving away to the farthest 
distance of the pool, but always with 
the line projecting down into the 
water as if the salmon were running 
away from you. That is the secret 
of the battle, for that is holding the 
Hy in the salmon’s mouth and giv- 
ing him the freedom of the river for 
his first rush, which will be up the 
river. Then and not till then, let the 


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line ooze through your fingers until the 
slack is gone and you hear the reel. 
Then all the chances against you have 
disappeared and all the hazards of the 
battle are evened. 

I do especially believe in fighting the 
salmon from the shore when you are 
fishing in big holes. Have your guides 
assist you in getting ashore and place 
the canoe at the lower end of the hole, 
so as to be ready for you to follow the 
salmon if it start to rush down stream. 





A CORKING 


GOOD 


AMATEUR PHCTO BY R. C. W. LETT. 


SLORY, 


Winner of 31st Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition, 
Made with a Premo Camera, 


Pleasant Old Gentleman—Have you lived 
here all your life, my little man? 
Arthur (aged 6)—Not yet.—Lippincott’s 


Magazine. 


HOW TO 


G. 0. 
It sometimes becomes necessary for men 
traveling in a wild country to dig out a 
log canoe. There are various circumstances 
that may overtake a man in the woods or in 
the mountains, and that may lead to this 
necessity. In other cases a man may just 
simply want a canoe without being compelled 
to have it; and if all frequenters of the forest 
knew how easy it to build one, more 
canoes would have been made and used 


is 


BUILD 


SHIELDS. 


A LOG CANOE. 


I always seek the hardest work I can find 
when I go into the wilds, and I do as 
much of it each day as I can stand without 
collapsing. Some doctors will tell you that 
in exercising you should stop just short of 
fatigue. I do not agree with them. I 
make it a rule to stop just short of where I 


should drop dead if I kept on. I 
believe this is right. At any rate, a cam- 
paign of that kind, of a month, 2 months, 





FINISHING OFF THE BOTTOM. 


The picture was not light struck, as you may imagine. 


a ; = 
The white spot is caused by a smudge, 


which we had to build to keep the mosquitoes from eating us. 


than ever have been. When I say easy I do 
not mean that a canoe can be made without 
shedding several buckets of perspiration; 
but that is good for any man. In fact, it is 
just what every man who has been shut up 
in an office needs. It is good for his soul 
as well as his body to go into the woods, 
swing an axe, pull oars, climb hills, or do 
some other kind of manual labor which will 
cause him to sweat out the accumulation of 
impurities in his system. 


or 3 months, always puts me in trim for 
any other kind of hard work or trouble that 
may come to an ordinary mortal. 
Therefore, I say that any able bodied 
man who may find himself in a forest, near 
a body of water, and who may want a 
canoe, will find it easy to build one. 
Wright and I went to Spray lakes, 30 


miles from Banff, in August last and 
camped near a tract of green timber. Most 
of the forests in that region have been 





STARTING IN TO 


EXCAVATE 


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HULI. 


THE 





THE 


killed by fire, but fortunately there is a 
small patch of green spruce at the upper 
end of the upper lake in which a few good 
sized trees are to be found. We looked 
these over the second day after arriving 
there, and picked out a tree that was 26 
inches in diameter at the butt, straight as 
an arrow and free from branches up to 
about 30 feet. 

The next morning at 5:30 we sailed into 
this tree and in 20 minutes had it down. 
We cut off a log 16 feet long. Then we 
hewed off one side of this and made a flat, 
smooth surface 18 inches wide. This was 


PROCESS OF 


BLOCKING OUT. 
larger quantity of wood. We left about 2 
feet of solid timber at each end of the log 
for bulkheads. This left us an open deck- 
way of 12 feet. 

We then proceeded to cut notches about 
2 feet apart, from the top of the log down 
to the charcoal lines on the sides. When 
these notches were all sunk the next thing 
was to split out this surplus wood. For 
this we made. a number of wedges from a 
small, dead spruce we found in the vicinity. 
Standing on opposite sides of the log, 
Wright and I drove our axes into 
the end of the block, at intervals from the 





STARTING 


to be the bottom of the canoe, and begin- 
ning about 2 feet back at each end, we 
rounded off the ends from this bottom 
surface to the bark on the opposite side. 
This gave us the curves for the bow and 
stern of the canoe. 

Then we turned the log over, trimmed 
off the bark on either side, at a line that 
would give us a depth of 16 inches for the 
canoe. Then with a chalk line, which we 
chalked with charcoal instead of chalk, we 
lined these sides and proceeded to notch 
down to them. This was a more serious 
undertaking than that of hewing and facing 
the bottom; for it meant the removal of a 


FOR 


THE 


LAKE. 


charcoal line down to the deepest. point of 
the notch, until the block had started to 
split slightly. Then we placed 2 wedges in 
cither side of each block, and with the poles 
of our axes we drove the wedges carefully 
and steadily into the spiits which they 
made. Thus we were able to split out and 
remove most of each block. 

When the entire top portion of the log 
was thus removed we began excavating and 
removing the wood from what was to be 
the interior of the canoe. This required 
careful work, in order to avoid cutting 
through the shell and causing the boat to 
leak. We were able to remove most of 


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SHE FLOATS. 


the timber with our axes, but occasionally 
resorted to the use of an adz, which Wright 
had taken with him for such work. We 
gradually dug out*all the surplus wood, 
until we thinned the sides of the canoe 
down to % of an inch, and the bottom to 
1% inches. 

We gauged the thickness of each side, 
and the bottom, by using a brad-awl with 
a file mark on it. This we drove occasion- 
ally from the outside until the mark came 
flush with the outer portion of the log. 
If the point showed through to the inside, 
we knew we were down to the proper thick- 
ness. It was an easy mattcr to plug 
these awl holes so they never leaked. We 
dressed the inside as well as the outside 
of the boat with a jack plane, and then cut 
3 dry sticks, each a little longer than the 
width of the boat, which we inserted at in- 
tervals, springing out the sides so they 
would take these thwarts. When each of 
these was placed we drove a 20 penny wire 
nail through the gunwale and into cach end 
of the stick. These were intended to pre- 
vent the sides of the boat from warping in- 
ward as the timber should season. 

While resting, so to speak, we cut down 
a dead bull pine about 6 inches in diameter, 
and hewed out a neat, handy paddle. 

When the boat was finished it was an 
easy matter to slide it over the wet moss, 


a distance of about 50 yards, to the lake. 
As I said, we struck the first blow on the 
tree at 5.30 in the morning, and at 10.30 the 
next morning the finished canoe was in the 
water. 

The pictures herewith show the work in 
process, and these, in connection with the 
description I have given, should enable any 
man who is handy with an axe to build a 
log canoe wherever he may need one. 

We found the work really enjoyable. It 
is genuine fun to sink an axe to the eye in 
a pine log, and to throw out a chip as big 
as a dinner plate at each blow. Even if I 
could only get one day’s use of a canoe, I 
should take pleasure in building one every 
time I go into the woods. 

You should pull your canoe out of the water 
when through with it; turn it bottom side 
up on the bank and cover it with a good, 
heavy roof of either bark or brush, to pro- 
tcct it from the sun, and in order that some 
other sportsman may have the benefit of it 
when he comes along. 

We used our canoe about a week and had 
many a delightful cruise in it, about the 
upper Spray lake. We covered it with 
boughs and left it on the lake shore, where 
I trust some reader of RECREATION may 
find it and may have as much fun with it as 
we had. 


RONDEAU. 


WEBSTER. 


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The first of May! the day, methought, 

On which the festive trout are sought. 
With rod of steel, and feathered hook, 
I hastened to a limpid brook, 

As every loyal sportsman ought, 

The first of May. 


A rustic lad, of books untaught, 

With birchen pole by jackknife wrought, 
To that same stream himself betook, 
And baiting up his cast iron hook, 

Began to fish without a thought, 

The first of May. 


A string of fish the lad soon caught; 

My efforts all availed me naught; 
Yet, when the townsmen came to look 
Within my basket, out I took 

The wondrous trout—that I had bought, 


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The first of May. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY FRED L, LIBBY. 
RUFFED GROUSE ON HIS DRUMMING LOG. 


Winner of 35th Prize in RecreaTIon’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 
Made with a Poco Camera. 





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AMATEUR PHCTO BY H. C. MARKHAM 


YOUNG ROBINS. 
Winner of 39th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 
338 


HOW GEORGE 


W.. Ss 


My nearest neighbor at my home in 
Oregon is George Quinn. He is extremely 
fond of hunting and keeps a number of 
dogs for the sole purpose of catching what 
he calls varmints, meaning thereby bear, 
cougar, coyotes, wild cats and foxes. Chief 
among the dogs is the veteran Jack, sup- 
posedly a bloodhound, but whose ancestral 
escutcheon bears, I hear, more than one 
bar sinister. Then there are 2 younger 
dogs known collectively as the pups, and 


KILLED 


BRITT. 


THE BEAR. 


ing him to bring his dogs and run a large 
black bear which had been seen in that 
vicinity. Nothing loath, George saddled his 
horse and leading Jack and the pups in 


leash, started off. About 12 miles from 
home, in what we call the Middle Creek 
country, he saw several deer, but would 


not shoot them. He was out for bear and 
nothing but bear. 
Soon after passing the deer he saw a 


large bear cross a ridge a short distance 





THE BEAR LANDED SQUARELY AMONG THE WAITING DOGS AND WAS WARMLY 
WELCOMED. 


differentiated on occasion as this pup and 
that pup. 

Though short on names, George is ex- 
ceedingly proud of his dogs and takes great 
pains in their training. He deems no time 
wasted and no sacrifice too great that ends 
in the capture of any animal they will 
run or bay. At the approach of cold 
weather, with its salutary effect on pelts, he 
is sure to remark that “varmints are getting 
ripe and it’s most time to pick ’em.” 

One day last fall he received a letter 
from a friend living 25 miles distant, ask- 


339 


ahead of him. The dogs scented the ani- 
mal almost as soon as George saw it, and 
strained desperately at the leash. Hastily 
dismounting, George loosed the dogs and 
instantly they were off, yelping like a score. 
The bear ran as only a bear can run; and 
in spite of his clumsy and deliberate ap- 
pearance a bear can put on a hot gait for 


a short distance. However, the dogs rap- 
idly overhauled him and nipped him so 
sharply that he took to a tree within 400 


yards of the starting point. Without wait- 
ing to fill the magazine of his rifle, George 


340 


sprang from his horse and hastened to the 
assistance of his canine allies. 

The bear, a big fellow in fine condition 
and glossy coat, sat high in the tree, look- 
ing down on the yelping dogs. The first 
bullet from George’s rifle struck the bear’s 
skull and glanced, doing no material dam- 
age. The second shot broke his lower jaw. 
The remainder of the bullets in the maga- 
zine were either misdirected by the 
shooter or dodged by the shootee, for they 
could not be located at the inquest. Just 
as the last shot was fired the bear suddenly 
concluded to come down. Down he slid 
in a shower of bark and twigs, and George 
says making the most lonesome sound he 
ever heard. The bear landed squarely 
among the waiting dogs and was warmly 
welcomed. First a dog would nip him on 
one side and when he turned to strike his 
assailant another dog would bite the other 
side. This continued several minutes. 

George was in a dilemma. He could not 
kill the bear with an empty gun, yet feared 
to go back to the horse to get more shells 
lest the bear should kill the dogs before 
he could return. At length the bear suc- 
ceeded in catching and holding old Jack, 
but his efforts to bite him were less fortun- 
ate. His jaw was not in good order and 
the jaws of the pups prevented his giving 
proper attention to the work in _ hand. 


RECREATION. 


George, seeing his favorite in danger, 
rushed in and, grabbing the dog, pulled him 
out of the bear’s clutches. The veteran’s 
injuries were trifling, and aided by the 
valorous pups he attacked the bear so 
fiercely that the latter retreated to a big 
stump. Backed against that he was able 
to stand off the dogs. 

By that time George’s fighting blood was 
thoroughly aroused. Having no_ better 
weapon he opened his jackknife, which 
was of generous size, slipped behind the 
stump and jabbed the blade under the 
bear’s fore leg. Narrowly escaping a re- 
turn blow, he beat a retreat, in the execu- 
tion of which he received cordial encour- 
agement from the bear until the dogs 
stopped the pursuit. 

The bear returned to the stump and re- 
sumed his argument with Jack and the 
pups. George took advantage of that to 
get in another good jab with the knife. 
His subsequent retreat came near being 
disastrous, for he fell over a log and but 
for the interference of his faithful dogs 
would probably have ended his hunts then 
and there. However, that was the bear’s 
last rally; he weakened rapidly and George 
and the dogs soon made an end of him. 
He was exceedingly fat and was estimated 
to weigh 400 pounds. 


THE OZARKS. 


L.- C, ELERICK. 


There’s a place fond memory turns to, 
Where the mildest zephyrs play, 
*Mid the undulating Ozarks, ; 
Where all Nature’s blithe and gay; 
Where an almost endless forest 
Waves its arms in joyous glee, 

Bidding weary city dwellers 
To its glades so wild and free. 


There the air is ever laden 
With a fragrance all its own, 
With the odors of the pine woods, 
With the strengthening, pure ozone; 
And there nature lovers linger, 
Loth to leave those tree-clad hills 
For the city store and office 
And the many city ills. 


’"Mid those Ozark hills and valleys, 
Kindly Nature smiles and rules; 
There no artificial bondage 
Binds the man, but Nature’s schools 
Brace the weary mind and body, 
Rest the brain and please the eyes, 
With an ever changing landscape, 
’"Neath the deepest azure skies. 


There the rivers, full grown, bursting 
From the caverns in the hills, 
Rush and roar and flash and sparkle, 
Cool and pure as snow-fed rills; 
And the fishes, never frighted, 
By the man with rod and line, 
Leap and play in countless numbers, 
In the shadows of the pine. 


There on many a rocky hillside, 
Turkeys call and ruffed grouse drum; 


Myriad voices from the tree tops 


_- 


Bid the nature lover come. 

Bid him come, e’en though ’tis winter 
And the oaks are brown and sere, 
For the song birds there will greet him 

Every day throughout the year. 


A VISIT TO BANQUET MOUNTAINS. 


JOHN W. BRYAN, 


In May, just before the wet season, I 
started from Dagupan in a caramata drawn 
by an Australian ox, for the Banquet moun- 
tains. Reaching my destination at 7.p. m., 
I found awaiting me my friend Mr. M., who 
had invited me to stay a while on his 
coffee plantation. The 35 mile ride in a 
rude cart was exceedingly tiresome, though 
the road was fairly good. 

The following morning after breakfast 
we paid a visit to the hot springs, and tried 
the famous baths. On the way we looked 
for traces of game, in order to be able to 
hunt it in the evening, as during the middle 
of the day game generally stays in heavy 
thickets. About 4 o'clock’ we. set out, but 
our hunt was not successful. We heard the 
crowing of a wild cock, but at our approach 
he was quick to take the hint and kept his 
mouth shut and we could not trace him. 
All we got was a few wild pigeons. 

After supper my friend suggested that we 
take a moonlight walk to a creek near, 
where we could perhaps find game. This 
we did, and followed the stream up 300 
yards or so when my companion suddenly 
exclaimed, “There they are! shoot!” At 
first I saw nothing, but soon perceived 8 
or 9 hogs of various sizes standing in the 
middle of the stream where the water was 
shallow. Singling out the largest, which 
was attempting to escape, my first shot 
broke both his hind legs. The second shot, 
more carefully directed, ended his career. 
He was a monster with extra large tusks, 
which I kept as trophies. We left him lying 
there and went farther on, got a shot at 
another hog as he was making for the 
thicket, but my aim was bad and he es- 
caped. We came back to the one we had 
killed, tied his feet together, slipped a stout 
pole between them in Chino fashion and 
proceeded to camp. The _ hide 
served, but only enough of the flesh to sup- 
ply us and a neighboring camp a day, as 
meat soon spoils in this climate. 


we pre- 


I spent enough time in those mountains 
to verify to my satisfaction the statement 
that wherever man goes the crow is sure 
to be present. One day, while sitting beside 
a mountain trail, my attention was called 
to a number of crows flying here and there 
and from tree to tree. At first I thought 
they were following me. All at once one 
darted swiftly to the ground, rising im- 
mediately, with a wild hen after him. The 
hen flew back to where she came from, 
leaving the crow apparently much excited. 
The crow soon darted down again and when 
he flew out he had something in his claws. 
I shot him, and found he had a small wild 
chicken. Even here in the enchanting re- 
gion of Banquet, the paradise of Luzon, the 
crow persists in his barborous habits. 

Wild chickens are the most plentiful 
game in this province; they are found every- 
where in the woods. 

Once, while slowly walking through the 
woods, I heard the familiar clucking of a 
hen to her chicks. I stood still and found 
they were coming toward me. As it was 
getting dark and I was partly hidden by 
bushes, they did not take fright until with- 
in 3 feet of me. Then the hen flew over my 
head back in the thicket and the chicks dis- 
appeared as if by magic. They are wild 
birds in every sense of the word and it 
often takes a wild man to get them. 

The same evening I crossed the creek 
where I had killed the hog, and, to my sur- 
prise, 2 large mallard ducks flew up and 
alighted only a short distance away. I 
followed them and fired, killing one on the 
water and the other with my second barrel 
as it rose, 

During my stay I killed 2 hogs, one wild 
cat, 16 ducks, 7 chickens and a few quails 
and pigeons. I also killed one large snake 
and one lizard, or gecko, 5 feet long. After 
a visit of 20 days I returned to my army 
duties, much improved in spirits and health. 


During a recent session of the House of 
Representatives a member intimated that 
the gentleman who had the floor was trans- 
gressing the limit of debate. 

“I thought it was understood,” said the 
offending member, “that the gentleman di- 
vided his time with me.” 

“True,” responded the objector grimly, 
“but I did not divide eternity with you!” 
—New York Tribune. 


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AMATEUR PHOTO BY W. STARK. 
YOUNG NIGHT HAWK. 


Winner of 34th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 








AMATEUR © OTO BY A. J, LEWIS. 


CHICKEN THIEF. 


Winner of goth Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 
Made with a Homemade Camera. 


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THE CAPTURE OF A BOSS TROUT. 


DON CAMERON. 


Probably no fish that ever disported it- 
self in the clear, cool headwaters of the 
Susquehanna ever attained greater notor- 
iety or displayed more contempt for man 
and his piscatorial devices than did Squire 
Leggett’s big brown trout. 

This superb specimen ot Salmo _ fario, 
the most vicious and gamy of all the trout 
family, was the sole occupant of the largest 
and best pool in Big creek. This pool was 
an ideal spot for brown trout, loving as 
they do to be well hid in some dark recess 
under a projecting bank, with swift water 
above and a clear pool below. 

Two huge old elms towered high over the 
pool. The water boiling over the big stones 
above washed far under the trees, leaving 
thousands of their string-like roots awash 
and forming a perfect hiding place. The 
rest of the big hole was deep, quiet and 
perfectly clear. 

Strictly speaking, this particular trout 
belonged to no one, but the Squire had first 
claim on him by right of discovery and 
he was spoken of as the “The Squire's big 
trout.” 

It was 3 seasons before this that the 
Squire returned from. a half day’s fishing 
with his rod in pieces and a vivid story of 
a terrific struggle with a monster trout 
which ended in the destruction of the tackle 
and a victory for the fish. He showed the 
remnants of his rod and declared the fish 
would go a good 5 pounds. The listening 
disciples of Isaac only shook their heads 
and remarked that the first man to tell a 
fish story nowadays doesn’t have a ghost 
of a show. Nevertheless no one doubted 
the story, though they caviled at the alleged 
weight. 

In the next few days all the local anglers 
were busy planning a campaign against 
the trout that was certain to prove success- 
ful, and, over their pipes, could almost 
hear the big fish rattling in their baskets. 

During the next week many stealthy trips 
were made to Elm pool at all hours of day 
and night, with the result that another vet- 
eran angler fastened a Coachman in the 
fish’s jaw only to lose him among the roots; 
and Merti saw him basking in the sun 
one day and established his identity as a 
brown trout; probably one of several big 
breeders planted in the creek miles below. 
Thus it became a well established fact that 
Elm pool was the home of one of the big- 
gest and gamiest trout that ever rose to 
a fly. The next season he grew more wily, 
was hooked only a few times and got loose 
immediately as usual, always taking more 


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or less tackle with him and sometimes leav- 
ing a badly shattered rod behind. Never- 
theless he was seen many times by anglers 
who wriggled carefully through the 
grass on the high bank far enough to peep 
into the pool. He could easily have been 
shot, or perhaps snared when the water was 
low, but like true sportsmen we did not 
want the fish unless we could capture him 
in a fair fight. 

Apparently with increasing age came loss 
of appetite, or if he had an appetite it was 
satisficd with some unknown matter, as 
nothing in the line of bait seemed to tempt 
him. To us the day when the Squire’s big 
trout would threaten the destruction of 
one of our baskets in his dying struggles 
as seemed far off as the millennium. 

More than one Sunday afternoon I have 
lain sprawled in the shade on the grassy 
bank above the hole and waited patiently 
for a glimpse of the fish. I remember well 
the first time my patience was rewarded. 
The sun had just vanished behind the West- 
ern hills, leaving behind a clear, mellow 
light which penetrated every nook and 
crevice in the bottom of the creek, when, 
with a graceful, easy motion the big trout 
swung out from behind the roots into the 
middle of the pool and lay motionless within 
a foot of the surface. I was too surprised 
to move. Well hid behind a bunch of 
rushes I could only stare and take in every 
detail of his symmetrical body. His big 
jaws were warped with age; the lower one 
protruding. His mottled back had grown 
dark with continual hiding; his brown 
tinged sides were spotted with crimson and 
gold. The bright fins were broad and 
powerful and his thick shoulders spoke of 
great strength. 

A shadow darted 
he was gone and I lay staring at the 
empty pool. As I !ooked, I _ noticed 
that not another trout, big or little, was to 
be seen, although the rest of the creek’ was 
well stocked with them. 

Now this was nothing unusual, for it is 
well known among anglers that there is 
always a boss fish in every pool along a 
trout stream, who always occupies the best 
hiding place and has first choice of whatever 
food may wash into the pool. Frequently, 
if the boss happens to be an unusually large 
fish or an old and grouty one, he drives 
out all the other occupants, knowing well 
that there will be all the more provender 
for him. 

As I sat wondering whether this was 
due to a strange preference for solitude 


across the _ water, 


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or to an instinctive greediness in the fish, 
I thought of a plan to catch the famous 
denizen of Elm pool. I would take ad- 
vantage of this peculiar characteristic of 
big trout and bait my hook with another 
and smaller trout, and thus get him to bite 
from jealousy if he wouldn't from hunger. 
Anyway, I meant to give the idea a good 
test. 

Next day’s sunset found me nearing Elm 
pool. Besides the usual fishing parapher- 
nalia, I carried a small pail containing a 
lively 6-inch trout. 

I waded the stream down to within easy 
throw of the hole and deposited my pail on 
a flat rock. Then I gave my tackle a final 
examination and baited on the little trout. 
I must confess that I doubted the success 
of the experiment as I hooked the youngster 
through just behind the dorsal fin and 
watching him go wriggling down the cur- 
rent into the pool. The poor fellow seemed 
to understand his danger, for he made fran- 
tic efforts to swim back up stream. For a 
minute I watched the line as the bait 
dragged it about. Suddenly it swept toward 
the high bank with a strong, easy motion 
and I knew that something had taken the 
bait. 

A minute passed and during that short 


RECREATION. 


interval I convinced myself that the big 
trout had actually taken the bait but that 
I would never land him. Reluctantly I 
tightened the line and it seemed fast. 
gave it a quick yank and a muffled splash 
answered under the bank; then with a 
strong pull I dragged the fish clear of the 
roots almost before he realized he was 
hooked and the fight was on. 

Three times in quick succession the big 
trout rushed madly for the root-filled bank 
and as often I gave him the butt. Then 
came a series of terrific yanks; but the 
faithful old rod stood the test. 

The fight in such a small pool was ne- 
cessarily a close one. There was no deli- 
cate maneuvering. Neither of us gained an 
inch of line. I knew the fish must be well 
hooked and that the tackle was extra strong, 
so with main strength I dragged him foot 
by foot into shallower water and away from 
the dangerous roots. 

Again and again he buried his head in the 
gravelly bottom in his frantic efforts to 
rub out the hook. The shallowing water 
hampered him in his struggles and I 
dragged him flopping far up the pebbly 
shore. His jealousy had been his undoing, 
and Squire Leggett’s big brown trout fin- 
ished his career in my creel, 





SONG.OF THE ANGLER 


BENSON B. MOORE, 


The darkness is ended 
For day has descended, 
And light is extended 
To every small nook; 
The sunlight is glowing, 
Soft breezes are blowing, 
And I am a going 
Away to the brook. 


Through the green fragrant pine 
With my flies and my line 

And my Bristol rod fine, 
Lighthearted I stray; 

*"Mong the yellow broom sedge, 
Through the briar and hedge, 

And by precipice edge, 
I go on my way. 


The happy birds fitter, 
They sing and they twitter, 
The bright dewdrops glitter 
Like gems in the grass; 
The lark doth arise 
From its nest to the skies, 
And the hare, in surprise 
Bounds away as I pass. 


And my heart fast doth beat 
When my dazzled eyes meet 
With a bright sparkling sheet 
Among the green trees; 
‘Tis the clear brooklet’s breast 
Which the angler loves best, 
For ’tis here he may rest 
In comfort and ease. 


Here the gamy trout leap 
From the clear water deep, 

And the carp and bass sleep 
In cavern of stones; 

While the bright water plays, 
In the cool shady bays 

Where it mtirmurs its lays 
In low peaceful tones, 


Here the kingfishers scream. 
O’er the breast of the stream, 
And the dark turtles gleam 
On rocks white with foam; 
While the wandering mink 
Glides along on the brink, 
And the muskrat doth sink 
To his watery home, 


BUSHED. 


T. J. CUNNINGHAM. 


Six of the niggers had been to the 
camp that afternoon, headed by their chief, 
‘Paddy, and with many grimaces and ges- 
tures had made known the fact that “plenty 
fellah turkey set down long a’ libber” near 
their camp. Hugh Smith was not sur- 
prised, therefore, when about 4 o'clock his 
mate, Charlie Ficld, tossed his pick on the 
bank and remarked that he would try to 
pick up a few turkeys, as their supply of 
meat was low. The camp was pitched a 
short stone’s throw from their claim, and 
securing his gun and a few cartridges, Field 
was soon picking his way through the dense 
bush toward the river. 

Hugh continued working about an hour; 
then, filling the billy can with water he put 
it over the fire to boil for tea. 

Hugh had given Field’s absence scarcely 
a thought, but when supper was ready his 
mate had not returned and he became anx- 
ious. The sun had gone down, and this, 
in Australia, is of great moment to the 
traveler, for with the setting of the sun 
complete darkness reigns. There is no twi- 
light in this most peculiar of countries. 
Placing his hands to his mouth to form a 
megaphone, Hugh sent the Australian 
coo-ee ringing through the bush. Several 
times he repeated it, but received no an- 
swering call. He therefore ate his lonely 
meal, and when bedtime arrived, rcceiving 
no answer to his repeated calls, went to 
sleep. 

The sun had already filtered through the 
thick bush the next morning when Hugh 
started in search of his partner, climbing 
the track which led up from the creek over 
steep and dangerous pinches to the main 
diggings 7 miles away. 

After leaving camp, Field had followed 
the track which led to the river. Numerous 
cockatoos and parrots clattered along the 
way, but always remained out of gunshot. 
In about an hour he thought he must 
be near the river, and was preparing to de- 
scend an unusually steep slope, when, right 
below him, he saw a turkey dart across the 
track. Another, and several more followed 
and disappeared in a thick growth of sting- 
ing tree. To get down the slope quietly 
required care, but Field accomplished it, 
although several times he narrowly escaped 
dislodging loose stones which only needed 
the slightest touch to send them rolling 
among the game below. 

The turkeys, ignorant of danger, were 
feeding on lawyer berries, which were 
plentiful at that season. A plump hen had 
just hopped on the trunk of a fallen tree 
and offered a tempting target. The first 


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shot brought her to the ground, and as the 
other turkeys rose with a great fluttering 
of wings to the trees overhead, Field shot 
an immense gobbler, slightly wounding him. 
Disregarding the other turkeys, he lined the 
gobbler until he saw him alight in a large 
gum tree some distance in the bush. Quick- 
ly reloading both barrels, Field followed on 
the trail of the wounded bird, taking the 
dead hen with him. 

The bush was particularly dense in that 
locality, and while it completely screened 
him from the game, he had great difficulty 
in getting through it. He finally reached a 
point favorable for a shot, and cautiously 
raised his gun to take aim, but his foot 
caught in a creeping vine, throwing him to 
the ground and discharging his gun. He 
regained his feet in time to see the turkey 
fluttering into another tree several hundred 
feet away. The remaining shell in his gun 
was his last, and not wishing to lose the 
bird, which he knew he had already wound- 
ed, he continued the chase. 

When he next got within range he was at 
a disadvantage, as the tree grew on the 
side of a steep spur and the turkey had 
perched in the topmost branches. Taking 
careful aim, Field fired, bringing the bird 
to the ground badly wounded but still able 
to hop away into the bush. Had the un- 
dergrowth been only moderately dense, the 
chase would have quickly ended, but fa- 
vored by the tangled mass of vines, the 
turkey led Field a long chase before it 
finally became exhausted and allowed him 
to catch and kill it. 

Field then started to retrace his steps. 
So engrossed had he been in the chase that 
he had not heeded the lateness of the hour, 
and night was rapidly coming on. Before 
he had gone far it had become so dark that 
he could not discern objects a few feet 
away. Realizing that he could not return 
to camp until daylight, he set about hunting 
a spot where he could lie down for the 
night. At the moment he was standing in 
a thick patch of swordbush, prickly lawyer 
and stinging tree, which precluded lying 
down. Advancing cautiously in search of a 
clearing, he had gone but a few steps, when 
the ground crumbled away suddenly and 
Field plunged headlong into space. 

When Hugh arrived at the main diggings, 
he had no difficulty in getting a party of the 
miners to join him in a search for his lost 
mate. Taking with them a native, known 
as a “black-tracker,” they started back over 
the trail to Hugh’s camp. There, “Sunday,” 
the native, was given the lead. Taking the 
trail where Field left the camp, he was off 


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AMATEUR PHOTO BY U. C. WANNER. 


AIL SHOOTING ON THE SUSQUEHANNA. 


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Winner of 1st Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 


BUSHED. 


like a bloodhound on the scent. Up to the 
point where Field had first sighted the tur- 
key, the aborigine followed the regular 
track unhesitatingly, only once or twice 
stopping a second where Field had wan- 
dered from the track. As the party reached 
the summit of the slope which Fie‘d had 
descended the previous evening, the native 
dropped on his hands and knees and care- 
fully examined the ground. Suddenly he 
straightened up, and holding out the palm 
of his hand, displayed a little roll of partly 
burned tobacco. 

“One fellah Charlie no finish smok’. 
Empty pipe clos’ up here, quick fellah.” 

That was the native’s way of telling the 
others that Field had; on first sight of the 
game, stopped smoking and possibly shaken 
out the contents of his pipe. 

The tracker descended the slope, care- 
fully watching the ground and the bush on 
either hand. Coming to the point whence 
Field had first fired, he plunged directly 
into the bush. It was then plain sailing for 
the native. One can not pass through the 
thick bush of tropical Queensland without 
bending or breaking numerous vines or 
bushes that impede his progress. To the 
native this disturbed undergrowth was as 
plain as so many tracks in the snow. 

Making his way directly to the fallen 
tree where Field had shot the first turkey, 
he pointed to where the scattering shots 
had ripped up the bark; then examining 
the grass closely a moment, jerked out, 
“Catch him one fellah turkey here.” 

He jumped over the prostrate tree, and 
led the way deeper into the bush, the min- 
ers having difficulty in keeping him in sight, 
so rapidly did he pass through the tangled 
brush. For about half an hour they trav- 
eled in that manner, the trail, toward the 
end, twisting and turning in every direction. 
Suddenly the nigger stopped and held up 
his hand with the exclamation, “What 
name!” This is the native English for 
“What is that?’ None of the party had 
heard any sound to arrest their attention 
while breaking through the bush, but then 
all listened intently. A faint cry for help 
reached their ears, coming from a point 
immediately to the left. With one accord 
they rushed in the direction of the sound, 
in their excitement tearing their hands and 
clothing, with the sharp sword grass and 
lawyer vines. A cry from Hugh, who was 
in the lead, checked them in their headlong 
rush. He had barely escaped falling over a 
steep bluff, the brink of which had been 
hidden from view by the thick bush. Part- 


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ing the bushes, the searchers peered down 
on a most unusual sight. The sides of the 
bluff went straight down to a depth of 30 
feet, ending in a fairly level terrace, thickly 
covered with lawyer and _ stinging tree. 
Tightly imprisoned in a giant lawyer bush, 
its thorn-covered vines wound round and 
round him, was Hugh’s lost mate. 

The tracker was not long in finding a 
point at which they could descend to the 
terrace below. Five minutes later, sturdy 
arms had cut the wirelike vines and ex- 
tricated Field from his terrible position. 
He had fainted before they could release 
him, and little wonder, as it was an hour 
past noon, and he had lain in that position 
since the previous evening, with his arm 
broken by the fall. 

The rough miner of Australia has many 
times had to act the part of surgeon, and 
when Field opened his eyes it was not so 
much the effect of the whisky which Hugh 
had forced down his throat, as the pain 
caused by 2 of the diggers in roughly set- 
ting his broken arm. In a_ remarkably 
short time they had the injured member 
bound with splints. Although weak and 
still suffering intense pain, Field was able 
to give the party an account of his accident, 
while the native started a fire and boiled 
the billy. 

When Field fell over the bluff, his foot 
had caught in some vines, throwing him 
head foremost, and he had landed on his 
left shoulder in the center of the lawyer 
bush, breaking his arm and frightfully lac- 
erating his face and hands. With his right 
hand he attempted to free himself, but at 
every move the octopus-like vines wound 
tighter and tighter about him, until he was 
pinioned fast. In this way he passed the 
night, twice fainting from the pain and hor- 
ror of his position. When daylight came, 
he meade frantic calls for help, but with lit- 
tle hope of being heard, as the position in 
which he lay prevented his voice penetrat- 
ing far, even should anyone be in that lo- 
cality. Had not his faithful mate been so 
prompt in making a search, the dangerous 
vine would surely have held a corpse before 
the sun had set. 

After all hands had eaten their lunch of 
damper and tea, they rigged a rude stretch- 
er of saplings and carried the injured miner 
back over the long. tedious trail to the main 
camp. A week later he was taken on 
horseback to Geraldton, where, at the hos- 
pital, he received proper medical attend- 
ance, until he was able to return to the 
bush. 


Our dearest friends are those who en- 


tertain us unawares. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY O. J. STEVENSON 


FAMILY-OF .SCREECH : OWLS: 


Winner cf 38th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition, 
Made with a Poco Camera, 





AMATEUR FHOTO BY E, W, EDGINGTON. 


GOOSE SHOOTING ON THE BIG SIOUX, 


Winner of 32d Prize in RecreEaTIon’s 8th Annual Photo Competition, 
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THE GREAT 


Nee me 


TROUT. 


HENRY CROCKER, 


A versification of the trout story, 


entitled 


“Crocker’s Hole,” by R. D. Blackmore, 


by the Doones.”’ 


The trout stream, winding through the 


mead, 
With shallow current flows, 
A ribbon blue, with broidered cdge 
Of fern and crimson rese; 


Till, deepening where the banks approach, 


Above a ledgy slide, 

It runs,-a laughing, foaming flood, 
A swift, tumultuous tide. 

Then where an ancient alder tree 
Inclines above the stream 

It turns, and lapses into calm, 
As placid as a dream. 

There in a pool, secluded, deep, 
A cool and shady nook, 

Once lived the largest, lustiest trout 
That ever scorned a hook. 

Where first the noisy current meets 
The quiet from below, 

He held position dignified, 
With motion calm and slow. 

But only angler’s vision keen 
Could see the tempting prize; 

The moving, bending waters blind 
All unaccustomed eyes. 


A little younker I was then, 
Too small to cast a fly; 

I fished with pins for little fins 
Not large enough to fry. 

John Pike, a burly, blue eyed boy, 
I followed all about; 

He went a-fishing every day 
And Sundays thought of trout. 

“Come .now and look into the brook,” 
One day John said to me; 

“Don’t hurry, stupid child, kneel down 
And tell me what you see.” 

The sparkling waters blind my sight; 
The wavelets twinkle so, 

I see the flashing crystals dance, 
But nothing down below. 

When suddenly a May fly comes, 
A gray drake, rich and gay, 

With dart and leap above the pool 
Begins a game of play; 

Rising and falling like a gnat, 
Thrilling her gauzy wing, 

And arching her pellucid frame, 
A truly luscious thing. 


“He sees! He'll have her sure’s a gun!” 
Cries John, with gulp of glee; 

“Now can’t you see him, simple one,” 
“If not what can you see?” 

“Crickety Crocums!” I exclaim, 
With classic language free, 


349 


“I’ve seen that thing a long time back,” 
“But thought it was a tree.” 

“You little gump! Don’t stir a peg” 
And see him take that fly.” 

Swoop comes a swallow as we gaze, 
But missing, glances by: 

By wind of flight, or skirr of wing 
He struck the dancer brave, 

And falling, for an instant brief 
It flutters on the wave. 


Then swallow—swift, but far more true, 


The great trout makes one spring, 
And quick as lightning, out of sight 
Has snapped the shining thing. 


Sound deeper than a tinkling stroke 
But silvery as a bell, 

Rings through the leafy arches now 
‘The poor ephemerid’s knell! 

The waters scarcely show a break, 
Save a bubble sailing nice; 

And softly echoing woods prolong 
The music of a rise. 


“He’s shown me how he takes a fly,” 
Says John, “and he shall rue it.” 

Have him I must and will, and now 
The question’s how to do it. 


John Pike, a genuine fisherman, 
Can think of nothing now 
Except that mammoth handsome trout 
Beneath the alder bough. 

With calm absorption of high minds, 
Intent on timely flies, 

With cobbler’s wax, and flossy silk, 
Creation’s art he tries. 

As poet labors at his lines, 
Compressing thoughts of joy 

Into the compass of few words, 
So toils the patient boy 

About the fabric of a fly, 
Comprising all the grace 

That ever sprang from maggot foul 
Into a fairy race. 


When of the spring and summer fair 
The honeymoon draws near, 

Marked by the budding of the rose, 
The burst of bright wheat ear. 

The feathering of the plantain plume, 
And flowers in meadows sweet, 

And, foremost, for the angler’s joy, 
The waltzing May flies meet, 

The rivers should be warm and mild, 
Skies blue and fleecy white, 

The west wind blowing soft and low, 
Trout hungry for a bite. 


in “Slain 


350 RECREATION: 


On such a day, with thumping heart, 
John ventured near the brook, 

A Yellow Sally, true to life, 
A-dangling at his hook. 

It fluttered gaily on the breeze 
In such a lifelike guise 

A sister Sally came to see, 
And went away more wise. 


Up through the branches on the brink 
With Zulu skill John trod, 

To where a yard-wide opening gave 
Just room for spring of rod. 

Below John saw the friendly fish 
Swaying his tail about, 

As men who, dining with a lord, 
Their restless coat tails flout. 


With dextrous twirl, untaught by books, 


John laid his pretty fly 
As lightly as a gossamer 
Before the great trout’s eye. 
Without a pause, as quick as thought, 
The thing that happened came: 
A heavy plunge, a fearful rush 
And then began the game. 
The river’s current ridged as if 
A plow was driven below; 
The reel set up a lively song; 

The rod bent like a bow; 
Twanging like a harp string tense 
The strong line cut the brook. 
Snap goes the foolish hollow rod! 

The trout is cff the hook! 


“Bad luck,” cries disappointed John; 
“But never mind, old trout, 
Just take it easy for awhile, 
Next time I'll have you out.” 


The genuine angler’s mind is large: 
*Tis steadfast, finely poised; 

It heeds no more a vapid taunt 
Than wind or idle noise. 

In mocking tones the people cried, 
“Pike, have you caught him yet?” 

And Pike but answered patiently: 
“O you just wait a bit.” 

He made himself a splice rod, short, 
Well seasoned, stout and handy, 

With tapering tip of fine bamboo, 
Well balanced, just a dandy. - 

“Now break it if you can,” said he, 
“By any sort of trick, 

“Whatever other game you play, 
You cannot break this stick.” 

He made besides a landing net, 
Of stick, a wire ring, 

A netted bag with meshes fine, 
Of strongest cotton string. 


About the second week in June, 
May flies had danced their day, 

The wounded trout had ceased to pout, 
And ventured out to play. 

Then came a gentle rain by night 
With pleasant tinkling sound, 


Pattering among the tender leaves, 
And moistening all the ground. 

Then John come whispering to me, 
Hard panting from a run, 

“Now when the water’s clear, my boy, 
There’s going to be some fun.” 


All lovers of the rose know well 
A beetle bright and gay, 

That joys among the petals deep 
To hide himself away, 

Until some breezy waft reveals 
His back of emerald hue, 

And all his front, red Indian gold, 
And white spots peeping through. 

John with his finger and his thumb 
The sparkling vandal took, 

And offered him a change of joys 
Upon a limerick hook. 

He liked it not, but pawed the air, 
His bright wings vainly flew. 

Said John, “If he but works like that 
When in the brook, he’ll do.” 


Then calm, deliberate, self-possessed, 
And free from trembling nerve, 

John stepped upon an alder bough 
His tempting bait to serve. 

The pretty beetle on the waves 
Conunenced a lively tread, 

More active far than when ensconsed 
Within the roseleaf bed. 

To hungry fish it seemed quite sad 
To see the fair thing drown, 

And mercy, if not appetite, 
Suggested, “Gulp him down.” 


“lve hooked him in the gullet, sure!” 
Cried John, in accents plain. 

“Now then, if I don’t land you, sir, 
T’ll never fish again.” 

With rod in bowlike springel rise, 
And line like viol string, 

Winch galloping like harpoon wheel; 
Brave John rules everything. 

He dashes in through thick and thin, 
Now in the stream, now out; 

Towed by the fish from pool to pool, 
A desperate, scrambling rout. 

I tell you, for it comes again, 
As if ’twere yesterday, 

I was so scared it seemed my wits 
Were everyone away. 

I hollaed; but this thing I did, 
As if my nerves were steady; 

I followed close on John Pike’s heels 
And held that scoop net ready. 


“He’s well nigh spent, I do believe,” 
Said John, with voice like balm. 
We'd reached the meadow, far below, 

On Farmer Annings’ farm. 
“Now take it coolly, my dear boy, 
And bring the landing net. 
If he gets on another rush, 
I fear we'll lose him yet.” 


THE GREAT TROUT. 35 


How one should use a landing net 
I'd not the slightest notion; 

But John, a mighty general, 
Directed every motion. 

“O, don’t, don’t let him see it, Dick,” 
Go under, stupid one. 

Just bring it up his back now; good! 
You have him, boy, well done! 

Now hold the rod, I'll lift him out,” 
My happy master cries. 

I willingly resign the net, 
And let him take the prize. 

With open mouth and straining arms 
He makes one mighty sweep, 

And flapping down between us falls 
The giant of the deep. 

We fall beside him in the grass 
And laugh and shout for joy; 

The happiest lads in all the land 
John Pike, and this small boy. 


The beauty of that mammoth trout 
I never shall forget. 

As if it were but yesterday 
I seem to see him yet. 


His head was small, his shoulders vast, 
His back was gently bowed; 

His belly’s deep, elastic sweep 
His generous nurture showed. 

His eyes with vibrant vigilance 
Seemed watching for surprise; 

His every movement seemed to say 
That he was strong and wise. 

His latter end was shapely built. 
His counters tapered true, 

To where, like spreading swallow tail, 
His huge propeller grew. 

His color words can scarce describe : 
It seemed to tone away 


From green and brown with crimson stars 


To gold and silver grey, 

All mantled with a subtle flush 
Of opal, fawn, and rose, 

And all the iridescent tints 
That pearly shells disclose. 

Its length, its weight you want to know 
Spare me, my loving friends; 

I know just where your doubts begin. 
And here my story ends. 








AMATEUR PHOTO BY JOHN H. FISHER, JR. 


AT BREAKFAST. 


Winner of 13th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition, 


“Mamie got a diamond ring Christmas.” 
“How did she get it?’ 
“Hung up her stocking. 


“Jack, of course? 


get it?” 


But how did Jack 


“Hung up his watch.”—Illustrated Bits. 


> 


THE HUNTER'’S DUEL 


STANLEY 


Cultus Jack and Klondike Jim were ri- 
vals in more ways than one. Cultus means 
no good, and Klondike means a lot that 
is» bad. Nevertheless, both men, tall, sin- 
ewy, handsome and fearless, had much in 
them that even Western boomers found 
time to admire and at least one Western 
woman heart enough to appreciate. Fire 
Gulch was an aggregation of weather beat- 
en shacks which had sprung into existence 
in a day in consequence of a placer digging 
rush. It had been later sustained by dis- 
covery of mineral in place, and was now 
having a third period of prosperity, owing 
to construction of a railroad and conse- 
quent disbursement of money to the men 
employed. 

Cultus Jack was one of its oldest inhab- 
itants; Klondike Jim, an _ unsuccessful 
Alaskan digger, was a newcomer. They 
were trappers and prospectors. Cultus used 
a 45-90 and had once killed 8 bears in one 
week. 

The afternoon Klondike Jim arrived in 
town he had pointed his 30-30 skyward at 
a flock of traveling geese and with 3 con- 
secutive shots dropped the bugleman and 
both his flankers. The street loafers stared. 
Cultus Jack, who had hitherto held pre- 
eminence as a marksman, muttered much 
strong language beneath his breath, and 
from that moment looked on Klondike as 
a personal cnemy. 

It did not improve matters when Klon- 
dike commenced to pay particular atten- 
tion to Kitty Connor, the daughter of the 
lumber mill owner. She was a handsome 
girl, sloppily dressed, perhaps, and badly 
brought up, but she was straight and had 
for months been considered Cultus Jack’s 
special property. When he saw Klondike 
Jim taking mountain grouse to her father’s 
house he did not like it. He liked it much 
less when he discovered that each of those 
grouse had been most scientifically behead- 
ed. 

Jack hardly knew whether he hated Jim 
most for liking Kitty, or for shooting the 
grouse in such faultless fashion. He was 
becoming vaguely aware that Klondike 
might eventually prove both a better marks- 
man and a more successful wooer than 
himself. In a one-horse town like Fire 
Gulch that would be intolerable; everybody 
would know it, and all who dared would 
remind him of it. 

Week by week things got worse. Kitty 
seemed to take pride in playing the 2 
men off against each other. Klondike’s 
distrust of Cultus turned to dislike, dis- 


MAYALL, 


like to hatred and hatred to suppressed 
fury. One day the storm burst. The town 
was celebrating the return of a _ noted 
schemer who had just floated a group of 
wildcats in the European market. Horse 
races, rock drilling and rifle shooting con- 
tests had been held. Cultus had backed the 
wrong pair of rock drillers, his horse had 
been easily outrun and then, to his in- 
tense disgust, he had bcen beaten in the 
rifle match; beaten by Klondike Jim, be- 
fore the whole city and Kitty Connor. 

He was for a time speechless with rage; 
then although he had already drunk enough 
he imbibed some more 40 rod _ whiskey, 
which loosened his tongue and fired his 
mind. He was heard to declare he would 
be durned if he believed that popgun 
shooter ever hit any thing bigger than 
bull’s eyes or grouse’s heads. Jim who 
had just entered the saloon heard him. 

“Guess I hev,”’ was his quick retort, “and 
may hev to again.” 

“Was they jack rabbits or gophers?” 

“No! They was men, and Indians, and 
sich.” 

It was a direct challenge, there was no 
mistaking it. A sudden silence fell over 
the saloon. A man who was bucking a 
slot machine, with the usual bad _ luck, 
turned uneasily and looked for _ the 
best way out. The card dealing and dice 
throwing ceased and the gamblers shifted 
their feet nervously on the bare floor. 
Those at the bar lowered their glasses si- 
lently as if to draw no attention their 
way; and the barman stepped opposite the 
spot where his trusty Colt lay handy on a 
beer-stained shelf. 

Cultus Jack felt himself the cynosure of 
all eyes; his lips twitched. Ripping out an 
oath, he retorted: 

“There’s one man you'll never face on 
that kind of proposition, you Siwash!” 

“An’ who’s thet?” 

“Me, you interlopin’ skunk.” 

“Look here, Cultus,” Jim replied, moving 
closer, “I’ll face you on that kind of prop- 
osition whenever you please, an’ the soon- 
er the better fer me—an’ enuther party 
concerned.” 

Cultus Jack’s face whitened at this pub- 
lic and confident reference to the other 
party concerned—Kitty undoubtedly. He 
contented himself by nodding affirmatively. 
Klondike’s face lit up with a glare, as when 
in the hills, with rifle extended, his eye 
glancing through back sight distinguished 
the bead in line with his quarry’s heart or 
head. 


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THE HUNTER’S DUEL. 


“T’ll meet you,” he said slowly, “to-mor- 
row morning at 4 o’clock at the unfinished 
bridge. You take one bank, I'll take the 
other; you use your old cannon and I'll 
use my popgun with 3 shots inside and 
no more. At pistol fire we start toward 
each other on the top plank. If either fires 
before he reaches the end, the spectators is 
at liberty to blow hell inter him, Missouri 
Bill and Roughlock Harry will stand by to 
see fair play, an’ invite everybody to be 
prescnt and keep their mouths shut.” 

The challenge was as direct as the test 
was appalling. The bridge was over 150 
feet high and 1,500 feet long, a huge skel- 
‘eton-like trestle needing several weeks’ la- 
bor before completion. Right in the center 
was a gap of 300 feet awaiting the arrival 
of stringers from the coast before it could 
be filled in. To reach the gap the rivals 
would have to walk an elevated pathway of 
8 inch planks laid end on, not too securely, 
and which, at the height of 150 feet would 
prove impassable to 99 men out of Ioo. 

All eyes turned on Cultus Jack. He 
braced himself, but with all his pluck he 
had not pluck enough to refuse the chal- 
lenger. 

“Let her go at that,’ he said. “It’s a deal. 
I pass the bill as read.” 

At that moment an old prospector, who 
had mined from Mexico to Alaska and 
made and lost fortunes entered the room. 
He was known as Crazy Jones. 

“Boys,” he said, “I’ve had the durndest 
searin’.. I left my cabin up the hills at 
daybreak, intendin’ fer to come here an’ 
celebrate, an’ pears ter me I’ve been cele- 
bratin’ ever since. 1 found all the cricks 
up and all the trail bridges gone out. Doc, 
my old hoss, is dead in to-mile creek. On 
7-mile I lost my rifle; my grub had gone 
already. I come on as far as Silver creek 
and was a sittin’ dryin’ myself and thinkin’ 
gen’rally and swearin’ particularly, when 
I heern some slow heavy movin’ brute 
crashin’ through the scrub below. Thinks 
I, that’s a b’ar; I'll chuck ‘im a rock. So 
I picks up a nice bit of quartz, gives a yell 
and lets him have it. Bar? Waal, I should 
say, an’ a grizzly at that; the biggest, ug- 
liest brute I ever seen. He sailed up that 
hill like a big brown whirlwind; he was 
mad an’ he was hungry an’ I guess he was 
celebratin’ too. I run, boys, run till I tore 
my clothes, lost my hat and got scratched 
worse than a Derby favorite. But I left 
him all right. Just wait till to-morrow, 
I'll borrow Klondike’s dog and Cultus 
Jack’s gun, an’ let lead an’ light an’ larn- 
in’ into that dog-gone brute.” 

Late that night Klondike Jim and Cultus 
Jack happened to meet. The former hesi- 
tatingly made a strange suggestion. “Jim,” 
he said, almost blandly, “ef it’s just the 


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same to you, we'll hev’ that shootin’ scrap 
a day later, instead of to-morrow; for one 
thing, I’ve got some important business, 
an’ for another’—hesitatingly—“you'll be 
fitter yourself.” 

Cultus Jack looked straight into his op- 
ponent’s eyes. He saw no sign of cowar- 
dice there and guessed the important busi- 
ness; well, he had some himself. 

“All right, darn yer,” he replied, “let 
Roughlock Harry know, and ye needn't 
think I can’t hold my liquor.” 

Nevertheless before tumbling into their 
bunks that night, each of them cleaned his 
rifle, and Klondike scribbled a note to 
Roughlock Harry announcing the postpone- 
ment. 

Unfortunately owing to continued cele- 
brating by the messenger, the letter was 
not delivered, and for a like reason Crazy 
Jones did not set out to hunt the grizzly. 

Early next morning, a small crowd gath- 
ered near the bridge. Four a. m. came and 
passed, and no combatants. Five o’ciock 
and still the rivals were absent. The crowd 
waxed impatient; a horseman galloped off, 
and returning, reported: 

“Neither one nor ’tother kin be found. 
They’ve both funked it, I s’pose, and skinned 
out. Let’s go home, rot ’em.” 

Old man Connor took it badly; his 
daughter took it worse. The fall to her 
pride confined her to her home a week. 

Crazy Jones came once more to town, 
looking more scared and worn and hag- 
gard than before. He had with him 
the biggest grizzly hide ever seen and a 
shocking tale to tell. He had seen bear 
sign and followed it; to his intense sur- 
prise had come on a gigantic bear lying. 
stone dead. It had been dead some days 
and the pelt was worth but little. In the 
skinning, he found bullet wounds in 2 
places; one through the thorax and an- 
other through the heart. He thought it 
strange the hunter had not bagged his 
quarry. Later, on going for a drink at a 
neighboring creek hetilearned why. There 
he found Klondike Jim lying lifeless and 
an examination showed, he had been dead 
some days. A rifle ball had smashed his 
left hip; the had dragged himself to the 
stream and there died. In his clenched 
hand lay a note. 

“It was a accident. We heard Crazy 
Jones tell of a bear. Jack mus’ have krep’ 
up the other side of the creek is I kem 
this. I never knowed he was thar. We 
both fired symultanyus. He mus’ be down 
to; he yelled once and aint moved since. 
The bear’s O. K. too. Love to Kitty. It’s 
better this way than on the bridge, it aint—™ 

The scrawl, evidently written with great 
difficulty, gradually flickered away as the 


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hand that traced it and the brain that 
dictated ceased forever their life’s work. 


The note set Crazy Jones moving. He 
heard a dog whine, and a few minutes la- 
ter found the body of Cultus Jack guarded 
by his hound. He had been shot through 
the head, and death must have been in- 
stantaneous. 

Here was a strange medlcy of fatalities. 
Two shots only had been fired; the hun- 
ters had both hit their quarry and killed 


RECREATION. 


one another. The bear had probably wind- 
ed his enemies on either side, adopted an 
exposed intermediate position and fallen 
at once fatally wounded. 

Then Klondike Jim’s messenger remem- 
bered the forgotten note, and its produc- 
tion saved the dead men’s honor. Later, 
Crazy Jones had another piece of mining 
luck. He staked a claim, called it the 
Grizzly Bear, got it bonded and within 6 
months married Kitty Connor. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY THOS. C. MARTINDALE. 


GOOD-BYE TO TRAINS FOR 30 DAYS. 


Winner of 18th Prize in Recreatron’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 


BABY POLLIWOG. 


FRANK H. 


SWEET. 


Splashing about in a pool in the bog 

Is a gay and happy young polliwog, 
His young frog heart full of joy and doubt 
Of all the wonderful things about; 

But biding his time 
Till his "wogdom be past, 


His nursery left 


And his funny tail cast, 
His knowledge enlarged, 


And his legs uncurled, 
And he can go hopping out into the world. 


ALPINE ANIMALS IN 


COLORADO. 


W. H. NELSON, 


The Easterner who, in quest of health 
or pleasure, becomes a resident of the Col- 
orada Alps will find many new and inter- 
esting forms of animal life whose habits he 
may study, and whose friend he is sure to 
become if he have in him the spirit of the 
woods. 

It is my lot in these latter days to oc- 
cupy a cabin amid the peaks of the Rock- 
ies, where, if one be a worshipper of Na- 
ture, he finds himself in her temple, indeed. 
Northward the lofty peak to which Lieu- 
tenant Long gave his name rears itself a 
sovereign among giant subjects, its ‘silver 
crown sometimes glistening under the rays 
of the sun, sometimes hidden within a 
cloud. Hidden, however, or revealed, the 
peak is always sublime. Westward Ara- 
paho towers, almost as lofty as Long, while 
to the South stand Chief, Squaw and Pap- 
poose, grim sentinels, unchanged and un- 
changing when those whose wigwams once’ 
held the people who named them have 
passed away forever. The animals that 
choose their home in such a region must 
be unlike their cousins farther East and 
on lower land. 

When the first level beams of the sun set 
the frost a-glittering, out from beneath my 
cabin comes a tiny chipmunk. He is a 
lightning streak for 5 or 6 feet, then stops 
and up-ends himself, jerking his funny 
little scraggly tail and cocking his weather 
eye at me, as much as to say: “Well, old 
fellow! How do you find yourself this 
fine morning?” He is about the same size 
as the similar animal in the East, but dif- 
ferently colored. The ground color of his 
coat is cream, the stripes quite dark. He 
has much the same disposition as his East- 
ern cousin, curious, timid, venturesome. If 
I remain still he will sit as if carved from 
a striped stone. If I move but a_ hand, 
however, he is back to his den, from which 
I soon see the dainty nose protrude. He 
is scouting, and will coine on or go back as 
I stand still or move. No amount of sur- 
reptitious feeding seems to overcome his 
suspicious timidity, no number of alarms 
to drive him from his home. 

Where a massive rock projects above the 
level of the cone not far from the cabin a 
rock squirrel has his tabernacle. Tiny and 
quick, nimble and inquisitive, he is like a 
little boy of the family of squirrels, but 
chain lightning would have to get a wiggle 
on it to catch him in a square race. Every- 
thing about him is in miniature and _ his 
diminutiveness is grotesque. 

The earth in the little parks is as full 
of holes as a pepper-box lid. Little gopher 


35 


wt 


mounds are everywhere, while the ground 
under the surface seems a labyrinth of gal- 
leries and dens. 

In the cliffs not far off, the coyotes have 
their dens. Every night, when the business 
of the ranch has been suspended, and the 
passing of the domestic animals to and fro 
has ceased, the father and mother coyotes 
put their babies to sleep, slip out softly 
and steal away to the cadaver of an unfor- 
tunate cow not far from the cabin. She 
has grown ripe, too ripe, indeed, when the 
wind is in that quarter. Other couples 
come from other coyote castles, and as they 
wind their various ways toward the feast, 
each couple in turn sits down and sounds 
a call which is answered from all around. 

One of these serenaders will sound her 
call no more, and her children, doubtless, 
have died for lack of food. As the ranch- 
man, whom I shall call Leon, passed 
through part of his land, a favorite spaniel 
came yelping and running for dear life to 
the wagon and took refuge under it, with 
a coyote nipping at his heels. Had he 
been farther away when the race began 
poor Nigg’s book had been closed, for he 
was much too small and too silky to with- 
stand his rugged antagonist. With the next 
load the boy Aden was sent to invite me 
to take the Remington and go along. I 
did so, trusting No. 3 to Aden to carry, 
the asthma claiming all my attention. We 
went out on a 4-horse wagon, Leon and 
I on a seat at front, Aden and No. 3 stand- 
ing farther back. All at once Leon pulled 
up the team, saying, “Gim me the gun! 
There she is!’ Glancing to the left amongst 
the pines I saw, sure enough, the flitting 
gray shadow. It stopped facing us, its fiery 
eyes fixed on poor Nigg, who trembled in 
his refuge beneath the wagon. The range 
was short—not over 25 yards, the shot easy, 
the trees open, and in an instant 250 grains 
of lead bored a hole through the glaring 
beast—endways. It entered in the right 
breast, passing slantwise through the inter- 
nal machinery, and out in the left flank. 
She turned a back somersault and ran about 
290 yards. When Leon reached her she was 
dead. 

I have, in my time, shot many rifles, and 
some of them favorites at the time, among 
others the old English Enfield, in the inter- 
esting shindy kicked up by our unruly 
brethren of the sunny Southland. The Win- 
chester, the Stevens and the Ballard I have 
used, and I hope to be forgiven by the breth- 
ren of the trigger, if I say that the Reming- 
ton satisfies my longings as nothing else can 


350 


do. I got it for target use, but it gets there 
on game just the same. 

I am in correspondence with the Malcolm 
telescope people, advertisers in RECREATION, 
and shall presently get them to mount me 
a scope on my faithful Hepburn. This will 
give me a new lease on my eyes. I have 


talked also with the Remington people and 
shall have them put me up a supplementary 
barrel, 25-20 Stevens, which, on occasion I 





PRESQUE ISLE RIFLE CLUB, ERIE, PA. 


AMATEUR PHOTOS Br w. A. PAnKER. 


200-YARD LGUTTS, PRESQUE ISLE RIFLE CLUB. 





RECREATION. 


shall substitute for my 38-40 Remington. 
Then I can shoot in the Maryland woods 
without danger of killing some man’s cow 
in the next county. -If I ever come to Colo- 
rado again | hope to bring for use in the 
woods a Remington-Lee sporting. It is the 
truest, smoothest shooter, and the hardest 
hitter among the modern high power guns, 
and withal is shapely to the eye and light 
to the carrier. 





BARREN GROUND CARIBOU. 
: aan eA a 
(Rangifer Arcticus, Rich.) 


From Circle City, Alaska. Length of main heam 
on curve, 54% inches; greatest spread 36 
inches; total points, 16. Owned by 


G. R. Anchors, Wash., Pa. 





Editor (of magazine)—What’s the delay 
about my getting in? 

St. Peter—You paid on publication, didn’t 
you? 

“Ves.” 

“Well, some of your contributors are in- 
side and I’ve agreed to let you wait until 
all their stories have appeared.” —Exchange. 


A COCONINA SQUAW 


ALICE R, CRANE. 


One day while my son Fred and I were 
traveling through the Indian country of 
Arizona, we stopped at a trader’s store at 
Fort A for supplies. While waiting on 
the long porch of the store, I noticed a 
miserably dressed, hungry looking squaw, 
having in her arms a pappoose about 10 
months’ old, which was wrapped in a dirty, 
ragged blanket. The squaw was crooning a 
song to her child in her own language. I 
did not know to what tribe she belonged, 
and spoke to Fred about it. His curiosity 
was also aroused, and his heart went out to 
the woman in her pitiable condition. 

“Mama, I am going to ask the trader to 

The rough trader came to the door, and 
on seeing the woman, started toward her, 
as if to kick her off the porch. Addressing 
her in Spanish, he told her to be gone. 
When she started to go, we interfered. 

“These creatures,’ he said, “are hanging 
around here all the time. I didn’t know she 
was here, or I should have driven her 
off. 

At last we made him understand that we 
wanted him to let the squaw stay, and asked 
him to call her back. He did as we wished, 
but scowled while doing so. The poor 
wretch came slowly and suspiciously up to 
her old seat. 

“What tribe does she 
asked. 

“She is a Coconina, a small tribe above 
Flagstaff. During their hunting trips they 
straggle in here. They are many miles 
from home, the miserable wretches, and 
I wish they were all in the Kingdom Come 
or some other place.” 

The squaw again began to sing to her 
child, rocking herself back and forth. 

“What does she say in her song?” asked 
Fred, with tears in his innocent eyes. .. 

“Do you really want to know?” he asked, 
smiling at the boy’s earnestness. 

“Yes, please translate her song, won’t 
you,’ said Fred. I joined in the request, 
and as he translated the lullaby, I wrote it 
down. 





belong to?” I 


“Your papa’s away on the mountains, 

To hunt food for baby and me. 

Mother and baby go hungry 

Since the white man has come here to stay. 


The game that once was your papa’s, 
The white man now claims as his own. 
The Indian is robbed of his pleasures, 
The deer and the antelope gone. 


Papa's wife and pappoose must go hungry, 
Though between moons be ever so long. 
The buffalo, too, has been slaughtered; 
Our people’s been awfully wronged. 


May the egrcat Spirit that now watches o’er 
us 
Take the white man away from our home.” 


Fred could stand it no longer. Wiping 
the tears from his eyes, he took the trader, 
who was laughing at the boy's tender- 
heartedness, by the arm and went into the 
store. He soon reappeared with a sack of 
food, which he gave to the Indian woman. 

I felt that something was wrong about the 
Indian question, and some one would have 
to account some time for all the mistakes 
made. The Coconinas are a self supporting 
tribe of about 150, and have never asked 
nor had Government aid. They live in a 
timbered country, not far from the Grand 
canyon. They are seldom heard of unless 
some one stumbles on them, as we did. 

An old pioneer told me that some 30 years 
ago he ran across this tribe, numbering 
about the same as now. He had with him 
some small mirrors, for trading. The Coco- 
ninas received him kindly. He told them 
he wished to give every babe in the tribe a 
glass. 

Babies galore were taken to him, one 
at a time, until he became convinced that 
every man as well as squaw, owned a pap- 
poose. By watching,«he found that when 
one pappoose received a mirror, the child 
was at once transferred to another squaw, 
who produced it again as a new applicant 
for a glass. So did the wily red people out- 
wit the trader. 


Tommy—Ma, may I have Jimmy Briggs 
over to play on Saturday? 


Mrs. 
noise. 
to play.—Exchange. 


Fogg—No, 


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you 
You'd better go down to his house 


make too much 


CAMPING AT INDIAN LAKE. 


THOMAS A. BENNETT. 


Our idea of camping on Indian lake, 2 
miles from Millerton and 100 miles from 
New York City, was born 3 years ago when 
my fishing chum, John Campbell, set out to 
look into catalogues and camp cook books. 
During most of one winter he lay awake 
half the night making up a list of articles 
needed. Abercrombie & Fitch were se- 
lected to outfit the now famous Camp Edna. 
John is a systematic and thrifty chap, and 
nothing was too good for him, so in due 
course of time our temporary headquarters 
on a farm near Millerton was packed with 
waterproof tents, aluminum kitchenware, 
sheet iron stove, collapsible cots, chairs and 
tables, blankets, etc. 

I left New York a few days ahead of 
schedule time to select a spot near the lake 
where we could pitch our tents for one 
week. I found a little eminence in the 
woods partly cleared, with a spring of ex- 
cellent water near. With the help of an ax 
brigade, I soon had the stumps leveled, and 
by cutting a trail to the lake was enabled to 
save many steps for our party. 

As Saturday, August 30, 1902, approached 
everything was on edge pending the arrival 
of John, Winnie Smith, Bob Walker and 
Dick Pate from New York. Orders were 
given for a side of bacon, to pounds of salt 
pork, % barrel of beans, 6 packages of pre- 
pared flour, 5 hams and unnumbered sun- 
dries. Our friends’ arrival was a signal 
for a genuine war whoop. Proceeding to 
our storage warehouse, the hard, but pleas- 
ant work of going into seclusion and camp 
began. Loading our stuff on a large lum- 
ber wagon, and our new skiff on an extra 
wagon, we set out amid cheers and well 
wishes. Reaching the site about 3 p .m., 
we got the sleeping and kitchen tents ready 
and gathered a quantity of wood. John in- 
sisted on having coffee at once. Following 
our attack on the larder, lights were ex- 
tinguished and all slept except the mos- 
quitoes, our first visitors in camp. I am in- 
clined to think Winnie Smith, who came 
from New Jersey, unloaded them on us. 

At dawn I arose, dressed, gave 3 long 
blasts on the horn and the boys were wide 
awake. It was Sunday, but we resolved 


to lay in a good supply of wood to feed 
2 fires and cook enough to satisfy our ap- 
petites, which increased alarmingly. It re- 
quired 3 cooks to keep the pot boiling. The 
rest of the camp chased after wood and 
water. It seemed as if that day we did 
nothing but eat, drink and wash dishes. 

Monday morning we prepared to do some 
tall fishing. Soon after breakfast we put 
our rods in shape, gathered a quart of crick- 
ets and went down to the lake. We had 
no sooner left our anchorage, having con- 
cluded to troll a few minutes, than Winnie 
struck a 2-pounder. The water was just 
right for bass fishing, having a gentle ripple. 
We were favored with good sport and 
landed enough bass for our table that day 
with a few perch thrown in, the bass weigh- 
ing one to 2 pounds each. Tuesday morn- 
ing we again tried the bass grounds in the 
lake. I soon had a tremendous tug with 
not over 15 feet of line out and began to 
reel in my short slack, calling to Smith to 
eet the net. The bass came in sight once 
and was gone, a 5-pounder at least. We 
tried another spot and in an hour had land- 
ed 7 good sized bass. This took us to 
dinner time. We rowed back to camp and 
found lady visitors in possession, John’s 
better half and friends. They volunteered 
to do the cooking and wash the dishes. 
As they were unable to go home so late, 
we gave them our sleeping tent, and impro- 
vised a blanket shelter for ourselves. 

Promptly at 5 a. m. the horn biew and 
with a hastily made toilet the ladies showed 
themselves true campers. After breakfast 
we invited them to go bass fishing and their 
efforts were rewarded with 6 one and 2 
pound bass. We were loath to have the 
ladies leave, and for 2 days we entertained 
them. Poor Bob Walker had to go back 
to the city and lamented the fact. Visitors 
came and inspected our camp daily. During 
intervals we managed to go swimming and 
fishing to our heart’s content, not forgetting 
to pan broil our bass. Saturday came al- 
together too soon, and, our week being up, 
we pulled up stakes, resolved to come again 
another year. 


Mrs. Suburban—There goes Mrs. Tough-_ 
man. Is she in mourning for her late hus- 


band ? 
Mrs. 


Knowit—No; 


only wearing black 


for him.—Cincinnati Times-Star. 


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A HUNT IN 


THE BIG HOLE. 


CLARENCE JAY. 


In the fall of 1882 a party of 5—Colwel, 
Decker, Lockrey, father and I—pulled out 
of Barratt’s and took the hill road around 
Pointdexter’s ranch to Rattlesnake creek. 
There we turned West and passed Road 
Agent’s rock, the scene of many a hold-up 
by Plummer, Slade and others in days 
when that region was an El Dorado. A 
few miles farther on we came to Bannock 
City, shrunken to one street and about 60 
inhabitants, though once the richest gold 
camp in Montana. Thousands of acres sur- 
rounding it had been torn up and washed in 
search of gold, and the banks of the creek 
were so honey-combed with tunnels as to 
resemble a gigantic hornet’s nest. 

We drove through the town and camped 
for dinner on the creek a little way be- 
yond. Then we journeyed on up the valley 
of the Grasshopper, passing a few stock 
ranches. Late in the afternoon we ran 
into a bunch of sage hens, and Decker, 
father and I piled out, armed for war. We 
could muster but 3 weapons in the crowd, 
2 needle guns and an old 45 repeater. With 
them we managed to pick up one or 2 
birds and waste a lot of ammunition. 

At Bald Mountain we crossed the bench 
land to the divide at Big Hole basin, and, 
turning from the road to the timber a mile 
or so back, went into camp under a big 
pine. Having no tent, we used a wagon 
sheet to keep off the dew. About bed 
time we were treated to a concert by a 
band of coyotes. They made noise enough 
for a score, but Colwel said there were 
only 3 or 4. 

_ After breakfast next morning Colwel, 
father and I struck into the timber, separ- 
ating as we advanced. I had not gone far 
and was tiptoeing along with the needle 
gun at full cock, when a deer broke cover. 
Just as I fired the animal passed out of 
sight behind a tree. However, I found its 
track and a few drops of blood on the pine 
needles that covered the ground. I fol- 
lowed the trail some distance but finding 
no evidence that the deer was badly hurt, I 
turned back toward camp. 

Farther on I came to an old fire slash, 
thickly grown with young pine. In the 
middle of it I came face to face with a large 
black bear. It was a case of mutual re- 
pulsion; Bruin ran one way and I the 
other. I lost my hens, tore my clothes and 
scratched my face and hands, never paus- 
ing in my flight until I reached a ledge of 
rock. On that I perched until I heard 
several shots near. Presently a deer 
flashed through the brush and a few min- 


359 


utes later Colwel came in sight. He laughed 
heartily at my forlorn appearance and asked 
what had happened. I kept the bear story 
to myself and merely said I was resting 
on the ledge. 

I went with Colwel to help carry in a 
deer he had killed. It was a big buck 
mule deer, and the first dead deer I had 
seen. We slung it on a pole and reached 
camp with it about nightfall. 

The following morning we crawled up 
the .divide toward Big Hole. Reaching 
Bull creek, we turned to the foothills and 
crossed a low mountain that juts into the 
valley. Then came a gradual descent to 
the hot springs and a jog down the valley 
until it was time to camp for the night. 

We continued our journey and by noon 
reached Noovis’, the only ranch on Big 
Hole at that time. There we forded the 
river and turned West, camping on Trail 
creek. , 

Heading South we went on to the tim- 
ber and camped in a small opening. There 
was a spring on one side and on the other 
a creek that beaver had dammed, making 
a small pond. A well beaten game trail ran 
through the clearing, and all around we 
could see where bear had been digging 
skunk cabbage roots. We turned in after 
supper, leaving the fire burning brightly. 
About to o'clock there was a commotion. 
The horses, which were tied to the wagon, 
snorted and plunged furiously. They upset 
the wagon but did not get away. We all 
heard 2 bears rush across the creek, and 
the next morning we found tracks wider 
than my hand and 14 inches long. 

I remained in camp the next day while 
the others went hunting. About 9 someone 
began shooting, back in the timber, and kept 
at it until I counted tr shots. Pretty 
soon I heard another shot from a different 
gun. An hour later Colwel came in and 
said father had killed a moose. We put the 
harness on the horses, and, with the whif- 
fle-trees and a rope, went after the moose. 
We passed Decker sitting on a log, the 
sickest looking man I ever saw.. He had 
been the first to see the moose and had 
fired at it as long as he was able to load 
the gun. Father came up in time to see 
the animal making off leisurely and Decker 
standing with mouth open and knees knock- 
ing together, both hands full of cartridges 
and his gun on the ground. 

Before we came home I shot an ante- 
lope and a mountain sheep. The others 
were also fortunate, and we pulled out with 
meat enough to last far into the winter. 


360 


A YOUNG PORKER 
Here is a picture of another fish hog. 
His other name is L. R. Austin, and he 
lives at Van Wert, O. The picture is 
labeled “Three Hours’ Fishing on Crystal 
Lake.” It should have been tagged “Three 
Hours’ Slaughter.” 1 am informed that Aus- 


.P_ 
Sait” as 
ke bs an Ps 

2 


i 


-- - 


H. C. AUSTIN, VAN. WERT, O, 


tin is only 19 years old. I trust that before 
he is 20 he will know he has disgraced him- 
self in the eyes of all decent men, and that 
in future he may quit when he gets enough. 
His number in the fish hog book 1s _ 1,007. 
—EpIiTor. 





RECREATION, 


DUG UP AGAIN. 


In Philadelphia, they inquire, 
“Who was your sire and his sire’s sire?” 


In Boston, you must make it plain 
You have an intellectual brain. 


In New York you must show the ’mount 
Of cash upon your bank account. 


In Baltimore, you must proclaim 
The women queens, in beauty’s name. 


In Washington, they give you place 
According to your rank and grace. 


In Denver, they are so polite 
That you must either drink or fight. 


Down in St. Louis, they exclaim 
“Where is it from where you have came!” 


In Chicago, when you walk the street, 
Chey always step upon your feet. 


In San Francisco, they demand 
That, being called, you show your hand. 


In Omaha, they merely grin 
And murmur, “When did you roll in?” 


In Albany, it’s “Hello, Will, 
What’s that you’ve got, another bill? 


In Brooklyn, you will find a friend 
If only you his church attend. 


But in Milwaukee, you will hear 
‘ ” 
“We make dat famous Cherman beer. 


In Cincinnati, they all say, 
“How long do you expect to stay?” 


In New Orleans you can’t be tony 
Unless vou always play a pony. 


In Key West, you must smoke cigars 
Or line along the hotel bars. 


But Yonkers lets you cut no ice, _ 
Unless, by Jove, you’ve got the price. 
—Yonkers Herald. 


“Pa, what’s a pessimist ?” 

“A man who always thinks when he gets 
up in the morning that it’s going to be the 
hottest day of the season.”—Chicago Rec- 
ord-Herald. 


© 


Bobby—Grandma, do your glasses mag- 
nify? 

Grandma—Yes, dear. 

“Well, when you cut my cake will you 
please take them off ?”—Harper’s Bazar. 








HOW TO USE A POCKET COMPASS. 


W. L. MARBLE, 


No doubt most readers of RECREATION 
know how to use a compass, but probably 
there are others who do not, and I trust 
the suggestions I shall offer may be of 
service to them. 

First in importance is the selection of a 
compass. This does not necessarily mean 
an expensive one. I once owned one that 
cost only 30 cents, and that was accurate 
and reliable for more than Io years, in 
nearly constant use. 

The needle, or pointer, should have an 
agate bearing or jewel, firmly set in a brass 
cap, and should be accurately balanced on a 
finely tempered and pointed pivot. The 
needle should be thoroughly magnetized 
and should vibrate sensitively at the least 
change in position of the compass box. A 
needle that vibrates rapidly and easily al-* 
ways points right when it settles; whereas, 
one that vibrates slowly and settles quickly 
is liable to be off a few degrees when it 
settles and consequently to be inaccurate: 
Compasses vary so much in this respect that 
you may have to test a number before find- 
ing one that is perfect in every way. You 
want one that will tell the truth every time. 
Then you should believe it and trust it even 
if it does seem to point the wrong way. 
Don’t argue with your compass. It is al- 
ways a waste of time, for the compass is 
bound to win out. 

It is always best to select a compass with 
an arrow shaped needle. Some are made 
with both ends of the needle alike, except 
that the North end is colored blue and the 
South end is polished. Some people have 


- been known to forget which end was North. 


The size of the compass does not cut 
much of a figure. One anywhere from % 
to 1% inches in diameter is large enough 
for a sportsman’s use. Timber cruisers, 
who have to run accurate parallel lines, 
usually carry compasses with 2% to 3 inch 
needles with raised and graduated dial and 
with folding sights. 

Some people prefer a stop on a pocket 
compass. This is a little lever which 
presses the needle against the crystal when 
the cover is on. I consider the stop not 
only unnecessary, but detrimental, as it al- 
lows particles of dust to get inside the box, 
which eventually work their way into the 
pivot cavity of the needle mounting, and in- 
terfere with the free working of the needle. 
Most compasses are made so that thev can 
not be taken apart for adjustment without 
injuring the crystal, or the flange that holds 
it in place. This is a bad feature and 


should be avoided in the selection of a 


361 


compass. It often happens that the; ex- 
treme point of the post becomes dulled, or 
broken, or slightly bent over. If you can 
readily take the box apart the point may 
be sharpened with a fine whetstone and 
made as good as new. This is important 
when you are not where you can step into 
a store and buy a new compass. If you are 
going into the woods alone and where you 
must depend on the compass, always take 
along an extra one, or still better, 2 extra 
ones, so that if one should become dam- 
aged your business or pleasure may not be 
interfered with. 

The compass box should te waterproof, 
as the least moisture under the glass 
will cause the needle to stick to the crystal, 
and until this has been thoroughly dried out 
your compass is worse than none. 
to stop once in a driving snow storm, late 
in the afternoon, miles from camp, build a 
fire and dry out all 3 of mv compasses, 
which had collected moisture under the 
glass to the extent of being entirely use- 
less. They were not waterproof. 

If you are going hunting in unfamiliar 
territory, where you are to depend on your 
compass to get you out, a map showing the 
topography of the country is of great bene- 
fit and may usually be secured at the State 
land office, the county seat or at the United 
States land office. These maps are com- 
piled from the field notes of the surveyors 
and indicate the location of streams, lakes, 
roads, mountain ranges, hills, swamps, etc. 
Locate your camp on the map. You will 
usually camp on a stream, lake or road. 

If.the general course of the road or 
stream is East and West and you are to 
hunt North, you will only have to travel 
South to get back to your base line or camp. 
If your course varies to the East of North 
you should make the same distance West 
of South to get back to your starting point. 

Consult your compass often. Otherwise 
you may swing so far from your course in 
going only a short distance that you wiil 
be inclined to doubt the accuracy of the 
instrument. If you get bewildered and 
forget which way to go, always remember 
that a straight course in any direction will 
take you somewhere. A lost man once 
came to my camp who had walked con- 
tinuously 6 days and nights, and was only 
about 6 miles from his starting point. Five 
hours of travel in any one direction would 
have taken him out of the woods and 
saved him the loss of both feet by freezing. 

If you wish to lay a fairly accurate course 
and have both hands at liberty hold your 


I had 


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compass in both hands, at half arm’s length 
from the body, with the elbows resting 
against your sides and so as to bring the 
compass in direct line with center of your 
body. To settle the needle quickly tip the 
compass until the end of the needle touches 
the glass thus checking the vibration. Re- 
peat this quickly 2 or 3 times as the needle 
is passing the center of the arc it is making, 
Then carefully level the box and as soon 
as the needle stops vibrating take a sight 
on some object in exact alignment with 
your course and as far ahead as you can 
see. Walk to it and repeat the operation. 


RECREATION. 


A little practice will enable you to run an 
accurate line. 

Your confidence in the utility of the com- 
pass will increase rapidly as you become 
more familiar with it. It adds greatly to 
the pleasure and success of a trip “in the 
woods to feel that you are not altogether 
dependent on a more experienced fellow 
sportsman, or a guide, to enable you to get 
back to camp; and it is a source of great 
satisfaction to know that you can strike 
out and explore new territory alone and 
find your way back to camp with the aid 
of the most absolutely reliable guide you 


‘could possib'y have, a pocket compass. 


MY FIRST DAY’S WORK. 


ARTHUR S. PHELPS. 


The reddening dawn in the twilight gray, 
Before the rising sun 

Has kindled his fires on whirling tires, 
Behold my day’s begun! 


A tiring spin on a spinning tire. 
A league between the pines, 

The foot hill’s slope is swallowed up 
Ere Winter’s sunlight shines. 


The ice king’s sceptre has never controlled 
These hills of the Sunset State; 

The climate how rare! How balmy the air 
That streams through the Golden Gate! 


Robbed of my coat by the overbold sun, 
I am armed with mattock and hoe, 

My thousands to slay, that weary day, 
Where the weeds their faces show. 


My first day’s work! How slowly it dragged 
Its infinite length along! 
When the motor at 1o whistled loud in the 
glen, 
The conductor’s 
wrong! 


watch surely was 


My curses on Adam, who left us these 
weeds 
To hoe by the sweat of our brow! 
This mattock is dull, my shoes are half full, 
It must be noon-time now! 


At length up through the hills came a note, 
Never so sweet before; 

At the whistle from town, the tools are 
laid down, . 

And I lunch on the porch by the door. 


My first day’s work! Words fail to describe 
The taste of that cold meat and pie! 

The hunger of health, forbidden to wealth, 
Is the workingman’s proud legacy. 


In the afternoon, on the sunny slope, 
Through the orchard’s leafless trees 

Blew sweet below, from th’ eternal snow, 
Sierra’s cooling breeze. 


Before the eyes, a wondrous view, 
The fruitful valley lies; 

Earth’s workday vision, fields Elysian, 
Beyond toil, Paradise. 


My first day’s work! A drudge’s day, - 
Spent grubbing in the soil? 7 
In hand-wrought earth rich fruits have 


birth ; 


Life’s problem’s saved by toil! 





HALCYON 


In January, 1892, 2 friends and I made 
a hunting trip to Gomez peak, in the Davis 
- mountains, West Texas. We carried rifles 
for deer and bear, and shot guns for quails. 
In the way of grub we had flour, bacon, 
frijoles, coffee, sugar, dried apples, chile, 
baking powder, salt and rice. 


DAYS IN WEST TEXAS. 


_ Mexicano, by boiling and frying with chile. 
They are nourishing and a good standby. 

At the section house whence we were to 
start to the peak, we piled off the train, 
unrolled our blankets and slept till morn- 
ing. Then we got a Mr. Smith to haul 
us and our outfit to his ranch, where we 
_ passed the night. The next day we got 
another man to take us to the foothills. 
On our way up there we shot a lot of quails. 
_ We camped near a cool spring of water, 

put up our 7x7 tent, cooked our birds and 
ate supper. 

The next morning we started out to look 
for deer. We soon found plenty of signs 
and I saw a deer. I told S. to shoot, but he 
said he could not see it; so I took a crack 
at it and missed. E. saw a buck but failed 
to get a shot. 

The next morning we went out again and 
_ jumped a fat doe. I got in the first shot 
and she stopped, hit in the loin. E. turned 
loose with the cannon and we had veni- 
son. 
; A few days later I broke the foreleg of a 
_ deer near the shoulder and I failed to get 
it, though I traced it a long way. After 

losing the trail of it I started for camp, not 
_ knowing exactly where I was. 
_ down a narrow canyon I heard stones rattle, 
and on looking up saw a big buck trotting 
t slowly down the canyon. I took a shot as 
: he ran, and missed. He ran up on a little 
_ ridge where he was-sharply outlined against 







the sky. 
~ left, I dropped on one knee and drew a bead 
on his shoulder. At the crack of the rifle 
_he gave one jump, dropped his flag and 
came rolling down, shot through the heart. 
It was nearly sunset, so I hurriedly 
dressed him, saving the head and horns to 
_be mounted. I doped the entrails and blood 
with poison, took one ham and, hanging 
the balance of the carcass in a tree, started 
_ again for camp. 

I followed on down the canyon and soon 
struck the main one, which ran just back 
of camp. As I neared home I heard the 

_ pattering of feet, and on looking just across 
the ravine saw 2 yearling deer. They 
stopped and looked at me in surprise, and 


The frijoles, or red beans, we cooked a la 


As I came > 


As I had but one rifle cartridge. 


FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


The man who quits when he gets enough, with plenty of game still in sight, is a real sportsman. 


apparently could not make out how the 
buck’s head happened to be on my back. 
I drew my 6 shooter, held it with both 
hands, drew a bead on one of the deer and 
let go. I heard the ball strike the rocks 
with an angry pi—ng—and the deer scam- 
pered away. I was not sorry, for’ we had 
meat enough. 

The next day I met a cowboy who said 
he had shot a young deer that morning and 
that there were 2 together. 

When I got to camp I found E. had killed 
a deer, making one for each of us, which 
was enough. 

We went out the next morning, brought 
in the rest of my buck, and found near the 
poisoned entrails a dead civet cat, which 
looked much like a domestic cat. Its tail 
was ringed like that of a coon, and it had a 
peculiar odor. We saw panther and bear 
tracks, but failed to meet either, though we 
searched diligently for Ephraim. 

We saw plenty of Messina quails, hand- 
some little creatures, the head being marked 
something like that of the male Bob White. 
They made a chirping noise when we 
came near them and would rise in a bunch, 
take their flight together and alight the 
same way. We did not kill any of them, as 
they were near the deer feeding grounds 
and we did not carry our shot guns to that 
section. 

We remained in camp 2 weeks and I never 
enjoyed a hunt more in my life. , 

Can anyone tell me how a deer gets along 
without a gall? And of what use are the 
2 little openings at the inner corner of each 
eye? 

What is the best way to take the grease 
out of bear skins, or those of other animals? 

David F. Crowell, New Haven, Conn. 


ANSWER, 


Hornaday’s Taxidermy, and his Amer- 
ican Natural History, published by Chas. 
Scribner’s Sons, New York, will tell you 


“all these and many other useful things.— 


EpDITOor. 





A HELLROARING BEAR. 

October 11th, 1899, while hunting alone 
on a mountain side near the head waters of 
Hellroaring creek, Montana, and after 
tracking for several hours what I supposed 
was a black bear, I took a chance shot at 
a moving object about 60 feet distant and 
probably 20 feet above me, nearly concealed 
by snow-laden scrub pines. At the crack 
of the rifle the bear made a spring over 
and through tht small trees directly toward 
me. That spring measured 7 long paces. 


364 RECREATION. 


Before the bear could make another spring 
I planted a ball in the middle of his neck, 
knocking him flat to the ground. He in- 
stantly raised on his front legs, his hind 
legs not appearing able to hold up his 
body. His head was much nearer the 
ground than before. He made another 
Tunge directly toward me, covering about 
his length. All the work of lifting his body 
and carrying it forward seemed done by 
his front legs alone. He landed the second 
time in a sitting position. That instant he 
received another ball about an inch back of 
the first, which flattened him out, but he as 
quickly regained his front feet and dupli- 
cated the last jump, only to receive a third 
ball within an inch of the second, with 
a result of again bringing him to the 
ground. Again he quickly gathered him- 
self, using his fore legs only, as before, and 
made a final short lunge. At the same time 
he received a fourth bullet in his neck. 
His last charge brought him up against a 
scrub pine 3 I-2 inches in diameter, which 
he seized near the ground and tore up by 
the roots. He tore up other small shrubs, 
then gradually crawled to the left about 
his length and up an embankment some 4 
feet high, where he died. 

After skinning the beast with hatchet and 
knife, I carefully examined the wounds and 
found that the 4 bullets had entered his 
neck about 8 inches back of his ears and 
directly in line with the center of his spi- 
ne; had torn through it and entered his 
lungs, tearing them into small fragments. 
His heart and liver were not injured. About 
5 inches of his neck bone was broken into 
fragments. The marrow and spinal cord 
were undoubtedly severed by the first bullet. 
All the blood in his body seemed to have 
gathered in his lungs. None of these bullets 
could have missed the spine, and I am posi- 
tive the second bullet was the one that did 
the greatest damage to his spine. The first 
shot, which merely crippled him, struck him 
through the fleshy part of a hind leg, and 
did no injury. At each shot the animal gave 
an ugly roar. I used smokeless powder, 30- 
40 soft-nosed bullets. None of these bullets 
went farther than the lungs, and they 
seemed to convert the tissue into a projec- 
tile, for tissue, cords, nerves and all had 
taken a rotary motion. The wound in the 
animal’s neck was so large I had no trouble 
in thrusting my arm through it into his 
lungs before using the hatchet or knife. 

My hunting partner on that trip was C. 
F. Loudon, of Cincinnati. Our guides 
pronounce the beast the finest specimen of 
grizzly bear he has seen in his 34 years in 
the mountains. The taxidermist who 
mounted the skin for a rug, says it is the 
finest specimen he has ever seen and that 
I will never get another like it. 

1. am often asked why I did not run or 


climb a tree when this bear charged me. 
I can only say there were no trees near and 
time was too limited for thought. 

Geo. A. West, Helena, Mont. 


HOW WE GOT HIM. 

Early in October, a jolly crowd rolled out 
of the village of Drain, Douglas county, 
Oregon, for a trip to Bradd’s creek and a 
go at the deer. The canyons and ridges 
around Bradd’s creek are famous hunting 
grounds. Our party was under the direc- 
tion of Capt. John Woods, a veteran hunter 
from old Virginia and his right bower, 
Joe Lyons. Pete Mattoon was our driver 
and a better one never pulled a line. We 
were joined at Elkton by Pat Beckley, as 
rollicking a lad as ever lived. When he 
and Pete started down the line there was 
all kinds of fun going. 

One bright, warm afternoon Pete took 
the hounds, old Pedro and Jack, up on the 
burn above camp to see, as he expressed it, 
if he could “raise suthin,” while Joe, Pat 
and I went down on the river to await 
events. My position was under a clump of 
willows about.200 yards below the mouth 
of the creek, Pat hid under a bunch of 
river maples 300 yards above me, and Joe, 
still higher, was on a point of rock near 
the lower end of the big slide. We had 
watched and waited nearly an _ hour 
when I fell into a doze. How long I en- 
joyed the nap I cannot say, but my slumber 
was suddenly broken by the rush of a bounc- 
ing old buck. He came smashing through 
the brush directly above me. I sprang to 
my feet and threw my 30-30 to my face just 
in time to see the sunlight glimmer on his 
white flag as he disappeared in the thimble- 
berry bushes which skirted the bank. 

Ringing down the ridge and echoing 
through the canyons came the cries of old 
Pedro and Jack. They came down the trail 
to where the deer turned, and were soon hot 
after him again. They took him up the 
ridge above camp, crossed the canyon, up 
on the divide and down the long ridge 
straight for the slide. Joe evidently heard 
them coming, for we could see him shifting 





. his position and getting ready for business. 


Soon the buck burst from cover and came 
tearing down the slide with Jack not 50 
feet behind him. Pedro, game to the last, 
was making music some 500 yards behind 
them, up on the ridge. With a mighty 
bound the old forked horn jumped into the 
water with Jack a close second, and then 
began the prettiest race. I ever saw. The’ 
buck was the fastest, however, and was 
soon wading out on the bar across the river. 

As I was thinking we should lose him 
after all, Joe cut loose with his 40-82. 
His first shot hit the bank above the deer 
and started him down the bar. The old 
rifle barked again and the buck went on his 








FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


knees. Pat and I yelled a hole in the air, 
but the echo had scarcely died away when 
Jack and the deer got into rough and tumble 
and were soon coming like the wind straight 
down the bar, nearly opposite where Joe was 
standing. Once more Joe’s gun _ belched 
forth and the forked horn went all heels up, 
that time for good. . 

We got a long rope from the camp and 
after an hour’s hard work had him hung 
up. The first shot had struck him in the 
fleshy part of the neck; the one that did the 
business landed just behind the shoulders. 
He was a 4 point buck and the fat on his 
back was as thick as my hand. 
= F. C. Godley, Drain, Ore. 





FOUR SHOTS, FOUR BEARS. 
EDWARD BARNEY, 


I am a farmer living near Hubbard’s 

lake in Alpena county, Michigan. I set out 
May roth to go to Alpena on business and 
when 4 miles from home was startled by a 
noise in the bushes by the roadside, which 
I supposed might be caused by deer. Al- 
though unarmed, I stopped. Presently I 
saw 4 bears, a mother and 3 cubs, not more 
than to feet distant. The mother instantly 
rose to her hind feet, prepared for battle, 
growling ferociously to frighten me away. 
The cubs scampered up a large hemlock. 
- I backed off about 6 rods. Then the 
mother started away, calling her children 
to follow. At this I advanced to the tree. 
She charged me and I retreated. So, be- 
tween advance and retreat in alternation, 
we kept busy an hour, both never being 
in the advancing mood at the same mo- 
ment. 

At last I heard a team passing on a road 
80 rods distant, and ran rapidly to inter- 
cept it. I succeeded in doing so, sent for a 


rifle and then hurried back to the tree.’ 


Much to my gratification I was in time. 
The cubs were still among the branches. 
Many times the old bear tried to drive me 
away, but I returned to sentry duty as 
‘soon as she retired to resume her calling 
tactics. 

When 2 hours of this charge and re- 
treat had passed, Alf Robbins came with a 
rifle and 3 companions. They scared the 
mother away. Alf and I shot one of the 
cubs, which cried out, bringing the mother 
back instantly to its relief. Alf's compan- 
ions climbed trees at this juncture. The 
mother climbed into the tree with her cubs. 
We tried to get a shot at her but’ failed, 
and she presently came down and went 
away. We shot another cub and she came 
back, but again retired unhurt. 

It was then too dark to see to shoot the 
last cub, so we built a fire at the root of the 
tree and Alf and I stayed there all night; 
the others came down from their trees and 


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went home. We kept plunging around, re- 
plenishing the fire, and were from time to 
time visited by the unhappy mother, but 
not attacked. We intended to keep watch 
all night, but at last we lay down, just to 
stretch our limbs and rest, and, as might 
have been foreseen, both fell fast asleep. 
The fire was almost dead when Alf, star- 
tled by a crash in the brush near, sprang 
to his feet and yelled to me: 

“The fire is dying and the bear is here! 
Start a blaze quick!” 

I did as directed, and as the flames 
sprang up the mother bear fled once more. 
At daybreak we killed the remaining cub. 
‘In an instant the mother was upon us, and, 
getting a chance, we finished her, too. 





ON A CALIFORNIA SLIDE. 


As the deer season opened July 15th, our 
company of 5, all expert riflemen, started up 
the San Gabriel canyon early in the morn- 
ing of July 14th. When about half way up 
the canyon we discovered that the moun- 
tains were on fire not far ahead. Soon we 
met a Government ranger from Rincon who 
furnished us tools and took us to the top of 
the mountain where we went to work to 
help put out the fire. It covered about I00 
acres, but in 4 hours we succeeded in check- 
ing the flames. After there was no more 
danger of the fire’s breaking out again we 
started on, reaching our camp-ground late 
in the evening. 

The next morning we saw plenty af 
signs of deer. I became separated from my 
friends and forced to cross a dangerous 
slide about 200 feet high. Being a tender- 
foot, I was unable to get either way. I 
struggled hard to get a foothold and tried 
to brace myself with my gun. For a while 
it seemed as if I would surely be carried 
down over the precipice below. I was al- 
most ready to drop my gun and canteen 
when I saw, not far ahead, a rock embedded 
in the gravel, so I made a desperate effort 
to reach it, in the hope that should it give 
way it would leave a cavity where I could 
brace myself long enough to reconnoiter. 
It proved to be firm, so I remained braced 
against it until I could make a lunge for 
another rock and some brush a few feet 
farther on. My legs were trembling and 
so fatigued they would scarcely hold my 
weight, when my friends came back to hunt 
for me. They helped me out and we started 
to reach the river. We scrambled down a 
steep precipice and through thick brush, 
sometimes crawling over and sometimes 
creeping under. It was not long until we 
came to a little canyon, which we followed 
until we reached the falls. At first it 
seemed dangerous to attempt to make the 
descent, but it was too late to go back and 
we finally succeeded in climbing down by 


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the aid of a tree. Our way back to camp 
was then comparatively easy. 

Soon after we reached camp, Neet and 
Roll came in, sore in body and heart. After 
leaving us they had started a large buck 
and given him several bullets. He dropped 
and rolled into a clump of brush. It took 
them some time to reach the place where 
he fell, and the deer could not be found. 
After hunting the ground far and near they 
were obliged to give up. 

L. O. Newcomer, Glendora, California. 





MUSKRAT TRAPPING, 


Notwithstanding the fact that trapping 
is considered a cruel sport and all trappers 
in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales are held 
in contempt, there is a branch of the craft 
which probably affords more enjoyment to 
boys who live in the country than any other 
amusement they could choose, and at the 
same time it brings in a good supply of 
pocket money, This is muskrat trapping, 
which is the least cruel sport of the kind, 
as in 9 cases out of Io the victim is drowned 
soon after being caught, by jumping into 
the deep water and being pulled under by 
the weight of the trap. 

The outfit should consist of Io to 15 sin- 
gle spring steel traps, a good jackknife, a 
pair of rubber boots, and, if the trapper be 
of sufficient years, a shot gun; for although 
the little denizens of the marshes and 
streams are generally out during the night, 
they are also often seen in the day time. 
If one can not have the use of a boat, one 
may be successful by following the small 
brooks and when~-a narrow place is found 
building a dam with sticks or rocks, leav- 
ing a space in the middle at the surface of 
the water just wide enough for the musk- 
rat to go through, and step in the trap, 
which should be about half an inch below 
the surface. 

It often happens that nests on the out- 
skirts of ponds can be reached by land, and 
as the ponds are usually surrounded by 
paths, the occupants can easily be caught. 

The most successful method, however, is 
using a boat in some small fresh water 
pond and its inlets, where the so-called 
“haul-ups” can be reached, as well as the 
greater number of the nests, which are often 
surrounded entirely by water. A haul- -up 
is simply, as the name implies, a tangle of 
weeds and grasses hauled together and 
matted down, so that the rat can crawl up 
on it. A haul- -up, therefore, makes an ex- 
cellent place to put a trap, while good luck 
nearly always results from setting on a 
good new nest. 

Many use bait of some sort, either ap- 
ple or any garden vegetable, putting it on 
the end of a stick over the trencher of the 


trap. 
H. L. Bailey, Byfield, “Mass. 


' game. 


RECREATION. 


WHAT BECAME OF THE FOX? 

The following incident of a fox hunt was 
told me by an old friend, and owing to its 
myterious ending, may be of interest to 
many, especially those acquainted with the 
tricks and turns of Reynard. 

“While spending the Christmas holidays, 
in 187—, with an uncle, who lived on the 
old homestead, some miles from New 
Haven, Conn., my attention was attracted 
one morning by the baying of 3 hounds, on 
the trail of a fox. Knowing the lay of the 
country and the course usually taken by 
foxes in that vicinity, I called the hired 
man, and securing our guns, we hurried 
to a neighboring hill, taking positions be- 
hind an old stone fence. We were not kept 
long in suspense, for the fox came over the 
fence about 30 yards from us. 

“T gave him a charge of B B’s which 
dropped him in his tracks, apparently dead. 
I hurried toward him, at the same time try- 
ing to remove the empty shell which had 
stuck in the chamber of the gun. 

“To my surprise, before I reached the 
fox or could reload, he got up and lit out 
as though nothing had happened. The fact 
that I was directly between the fox and 
Sam prevented him from getting a shot. In 
the meantime, the dogs came up, and see- 
ing strangers, turned back. We followed 
the track of the fox and every jump was 
plainly marked by a small stream of blood 
on the snow, from either side. 

“After some 300 yards the bleeding 
stopped, but the trail still led us into the 
woods and to a small opening, in the middle 
of which it abruptly ended. An hour's care- 
ful search, beginning in a small circle, and 
continued in larger ones, failed to bring 
to light the faintest sign of fox or track. 

“While we were not called liars outright, 
our story caused no end of discussion 
through those winter evenings around the 
big stove in the village store, and I have 
never been able to explain satisfactorily to 
myself or others what became of the fox. 
Can anyone explain the mystery?” 

S. W. Stanley, Weiner, Ark. 


Possibly the holes made by the shot re- 
leased his wings and he flew away.—EbITor. 





NEW BRUNSWICK GUIDES’ ASSOCIATION. 

The annual meeting of the New Bruns- 
wick Guides’ Association was held at Fred- 
ericton, March 2d. The retiring president, 
George E. Armstrong, occupied the chair, 
The attendance was large and the proceed- 
ings most harmonious. The president re- 
ported that about 500 non-resident sports- 
men had visited the Province last season, 
and few were unsuccessful in securing 
There were also an unusually large 
number of canoeing and fishing parties, and 
they had invariably returned home well 


FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


pleased. The election of officers for the en- 
suing year resulted as follows: Honorary 
president, L. B. Knight, chief game com- 
missioner of New Brunswick; president, 
Arthur Pringle, Stanley; vice-president, W. 
Harry Allen, Penniac; secretary-treasurer, 
Robert P. Allen, Fredericton; executive 
committee, Sydney Thomas, Charles Crem- 
in, G. E. Armstrong, with the president 
and vice-president ; committee on member- 
ship, Adam Moore, Thomas Pringle and 
Fred H. Reid. 

A resolution was passed reducing the 
membership fee from $5 to $2, and it was 
decided to admit honorary members on the 
same terms as ordinary members. A num- 
ber of applications for membership were re- 
ceived and favorably reported on by the 
membership committee, It is hoped to have 
every competent guide in the Province en- 
rolled in the association within a short time. 

There was some discussion over the game 
law, and the members agreed that it would 
be inadvisable to recommend any changes 
this year. The hope was expressed, how- 
ever, that the’ government would adopt 
more stringent measures to prevent the 
slaughter of big game during the winter. 
The members of the association are nearly 
all readers of RECREATION, and took occa- 
sion before separating to express their ap- 
proval of the trouncing which that excel- 
lent publication lately administered to an 
alleged sportsman from New York, named 
Jackson, for crooked work on the Nepi- 
siguit river, in this Province. 





IN A TEXAS CANEBRAKE, 

A ride of 20 miles took 5 sportsmen to 
the Big Thicket, an immense swamp in Jas- 
per county, Texas, where we were to hunt. 
Canebrakes miles long and wide shelter 
deer, bear, bob cats, foxes and many other 
animals, 

The manner of hunting deer is the same 
all through the Southern States; they are 
driven with hounds to stands where the 
hunters lie concealed. 

Three of the party used shot guns, anoth- 
er used a 38-55 rifle and I a 30-30. 

Break of day found us on our stands 
while our guide uncoupled 4 hounds in the 
thicket facing us. In less than 25 minutes 
the dogs found game in young cane at the 
‘edge of a creek. Above the deep throated 
baying of my Cuban bloodhound I could 
hear the crashing and cracking of brush 
caused by the stampede of deer. My posi- 
tion covered an open glade, near the center 
of which I lay in wait by my saddled 
horse. Suddénly out of the swamp dashed 
a buck. My first shot only served to ac- 
celerate his speed. A second caused him to 
stagger and a third killed him instantly. 

When dressing him I found that the sec- 
ond bullet had struck the right foreleg 


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just below the brisket, completely shatter- 
ing flesh and bone. My last shot struck 
fair on the right hind quarter, the mush- 
roomed bullet ranging upward and perfora- 
ting the liver and heart. 

Later in the day I missed a doe with: 
2 shots. In the evening I saw a spike buck 
drinking at a water hole. At 15 yards, my 
first bullet struck him in the left shoulder 
and, .mushrooming, passed out on the oppo- 
site side. 

The soft nosed ammunition has no equal 
for smashing power. When hunting tur- 
keys and wild geese I use the full mantled 
bullet with great success. 

La Paloma, Beaumont, Tex. 





IS DEER LIVER GOOD TO EAT? 


I see in February RECREATION, page 132, 
that E. B. Brigham, M.D., of Indianapolis, 
Ind., credits me with writing an amusing 
article entitled “Give Them Marlins,” and 
asks, “Did he ever eat a deer’s liver and 
how many of your readers ever did?” 

Possibly he has heard someone talk who 
killed a buck late in the fall. That is their 
running time, when the neck is swollen, 
and the liver would be worthless, being 
strong, as also the meat. This would also 
be true were the deer diseased, as is true 
in the hog family; but nearly all hog liv- 
ers are diseased, while disease is exceed- 
ingly rare in venison liver. 

Any old time Western hunter will cor- 
roborate my statement that a deer, killed 
in season and in good healthy condition, 
has a liver that, when properly cooked, will 
make every man around the camp’ fire 
smile, be he Fish Commissioner or an M.D. 

When the hunter, trapper, prospector or 
cowboy kills a deer he hangs the carcass 
high and makes tracks for camp, his gun 
on his shoulder and the liver securely tied 
on his saddle or in an old red handkerchief. 
Ever notice the smile he wears on reaching 
camp with this trophy? Only one smile 
beats it, and that is the one a man wears 
when getting into camp with about 20 rain- 
bow trout, 8 or 9 inches in length. 

Yes, sir, I have eaten venison, or deer, 
liver many, many times. It is tender, juicy. 
decidedly fine in flavor. It is superior to 
any veal liver. 

What will you say, Brother Brigham, 
when I invite you to produce a deer’s liver 
and show the gall? 

I hope to go hunting next fall, and if you 
will pay express charges I will send you the 
liver from a 2-year-old buck and let you 
tell RecrREATION readers about it. Couldn't 
get a .303 Savage and join me, could you? 

Jean Allison, Jerome, Ariz. 





WARNING TO FISH AND GAME HOGS. 


Mr. E. W. Wild, editor of the Erie, Pa., 
Dispatch, endorses. RECREATION’s crusade 


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against game and fish hogs. Here is what 


Mr. Wild says editorially: 


Fish and game hogs everywhere will do well 
to take warning from the fate of Harry Winters, 
of Helena, Mont., who recently was fined $400 by 
Judge Henry C. Smith, in the district court, for 
dynamiting fish, Judge Smith said: ‘“‘A man who 
wiil dynamite fish must be absolutely devoid of 
sportsmanlike qualities. People who dynamite fish 
have been~characterized in journals relating to 
cutdoor sports as hogs; and that is an appropriate 
designation. One man is limited by law to catch- 
ing fish with a hook and line; another man comes 
a.ong, clandestinely drops a stick of dynamite 
into a hole and kills not only the large fishes 
thot are good to eat but every fish that is in the 
hoie, and the fish food besides. Not only that, 
but the fish are mutilated and some of them ren- 
dered unfit for food. I am surprised that a man 
of your intelligence and standing in this com- 
munity should do such a thing. You knew it was 
‘against the law; it is the worst possible infringe- 
ment of the game law, in my judgment. There 
is no excise for it whatever.” 

The foregoing is a splendid endorsement of the 
relentless campaign being waged against fish and 
game law violators and hogs by Recreation, the 
magazine edited by G. O. Shields, President of 
the League of American Sportsmen, and is evidence 
that the real sportsmen of the country recognize 
the necessity for the strictest possible enforcement 
of all written laws and the enactment of im- 
proved legislation, if the preservation of fish and 
of the game, song and insectivorous birds is to 
be effective. Furthermore, there is an increasing 
sentiment in favor of the observance of certain 
unwritten laws, chief of which are those reason- 
ably limiting the number of fish caught or game 
birds or animals killed, irrespective of greater 
privileges permitted by statute. The day has 
passed when a man may capture more fish or 
slay more game than meets the consensus ap- 
proval of true sportsmen, without danger of being 
branded by Mr. Shields as one of the hogs, with 
a special number attached to his name and perhaps 
his likeness published. The pen now contains a 
full one thousand men, who are thus held up to 
the ridicule and contempt of the many thousands 
of the magazine’s readers. 


43 SNIPE IN 3 SHOTS. 


For a week past thousands of frost, or gray- 
back, snipe have been arriving on. the beaches 
of Cape May county. The birds are feeding in 
flocks ef a score to several hundred, and they 
are tamer now than they will be later in the 


month, 
The birds are as fat as butter. They 
together and the sportsman who 


fly close 
uses shells loaded with 3% drams of smoke- 


less powder and 1% ounces of No. 7 shot will 
find it easy to bring down 6 to 1o birds at a 


shot. 
Former Councilman Crawford Buck, of Sea 


Isle City, did some good _ shooting Tuesday 
morning. He went up the beach 2 miles from 
town and killed 43 snipe in 3 shots.—New Jersey 
paper. 

Your letter of inquiry received. The 
truth of the matter is as follows: I came 
up to a flock of what we call frost snipe, 
and with the first 2 barrels picked up 17. 
With the second 2, I secured 20; so with 4 
shells I bagged 37 birds. 

Crawford Buck, Sea Isle City, N. J. 


You are entitled to a place in the game 
hog register if ever a man was, and your 
name goes down opposite the number 1,008. 
—EDiTor, 


RECREATION. 


OREGON WARDENS DO GOOD WORK. 

A. W. Nye, a deputy game warden of 
Eastern Oregon, recently captured 17 of the 
notorious game butchers who for several 
years have been killing deer in that State 
for the market. In many cases these men 
have taken only the hides of the animals 
they have slain and have left the carcasses 
to rot. Mr. Nye succeeded in convicting 
16 of the men, who were fined $25 each. 
This is a paltry sum, and an inadequate 
punishment when the enormity of the of- 
fense is considered; but the lesson will no 
doubt prove valuable to these men and to. 
their neighbors. 

Mr. L. S. Fritz, of The Dalles, Ore., who 
is a member of the L. A. S., captured an- 
other man and convicted him of having 
killed an elk in close season. 

Hon. J. W. Baker, the Oregon State Game 
Warden, has determined to break up the 
gang of market hunters who have been 
slaughtering deer and elk in Eastern Ore- 
gon, and every good sportsman in the land 
will wish him Godspeed.—EnbrrTor. 


ANOTHER EDITOR ON MY SIDE. 
In a recent article entitled “Down With 


_ the Game Hog,” the editor of the Canyon 


City, Ore., Eagle, says: 

“A law against the use of the deadly and 
destructive pump gun is necessary for the 
game interests of the State. There is no 
excuse for the use of a weapon of this char- 


acter. It results in wanton destruction of 
game and is of no possible advantage 
to anyone. It should be borne in mind 


that adherence to wisely enacted law for the 
protection of game is essential, if in the 
course of a few years there is to be any 
place in the State where the sportsman can 
find recreation. It should not be the aim 
of the law to interfere with the hunter 
whose methods will not work the extermi- 
nation of game, but for hoggishness there 
should be no toleration.” 


GAME NOTE. 

Hon. H. S. Huson, Probate Judge, Grand 
Rapids, Minn., whom I have before had oc- 
casion to commend for his sturdy and fear- 
less enforcement of the game laws, writes 
me that one Christ Biggerstoff was recently 


‘brought before him charged with having th: 


meat and hide of a deer in his possession 
in close season. The judge fined the de- 
fendant $55.90, and being unable to draw a 
check for the amount the culprit is serving 
a 60 days’ term in jail. Biggerstoff is an 
old market hunter and the wardens have 
been after him for several months. He 
will now have ample time in which to think 
it over and I trust he may make up his 
mind to adopt some legitimate means of 
making a living. —EDITOoR, 





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ALMANAC FOR SALT WATER FISHERMEN. 


The following will be found accurate and val- 
table for the vicinity of New York City: 

Kingfish—Barb, Sea-Mink, Whiting. June to 
September. Haunts: The surf and deep channels 
of strong tide streams. Baits: Blood worms, 


shedder crabs and beach crustaceans. Time and 
tide: Fldod, early morning. 
Plaice—Fluke, Turbot, Flounder. May 15 to 


November 30. Haunts: The surf, mouth of tidal 
streams. Baits: Shedder crabs, killi-fish, sand 
laut. ‘Time and tide: Ebb, daytime exclusively. 

Spanish mackerel—Haunts: The open sea, ais 
to September. Baits: Menhaden, trolling—metal 
and cedar squids. 

Striped Bass—Rock Fish, Green Head. April to 
November. Haunts: The surf, bays, estuaries. and 
tidal streams. Baits: Blood worms, shedder crabs, 
Calico crabs, small eels, menhaden. Time and 
tide. Night, half flood to flood, to half ebb. 

The Drums, Red and Black. June to Novem- 
ber. Haunts: The surf and mouths of large bays. 
Bait: Skinner crab. Time and tide: Day, flood. 

Blackfish—Tautog, April to November. Haunts: 
Surf, vicinity of piling and old wrecks in bays. 
Baits: Sand worm, blood worm, shedder crabs, 
clams. Time and tide: Daytime, flood. 

Lafayette—Spot, Goody, Cape May Goody. 
August to October. Haunts: Channels of tidal 
streams. Baits: Shedder crabs, sand worms, clams. 
Time and Tide: Day and night flood. 

Croker—July to October. aunts: Deep chan- 
nels of bays. Baits: Shedder crabs, mussels. 
Time and tide: Day; flood. i 

Snapper—Young of Blue Fish August to No- 
vember. Haunts: Pivers and all tide ways. Baits: 
Spearing and menhaden; trolling pearl squid. 
Time and tide: Day, all tides. 

Sheepshead—June to October 
and bays, vicinity of old wrecks. 
mussels, shedder crabs. Time and tide: Day, 
flood only. 

New England Whiting—Winter Weak-fish, 
Frost-fish. November to May. Haunts: The 
surf. Baits: Sand laut, spearing. Time and tide: 
Night, flood. 

Hake—Ling. October to June. Haunts: Open 
sea surf, large bays. Baits: Clams, mussels, fish. 
Time and tide: Day and night, flood. 

Weak-fish—Squeteague, Squit. June to October. 
Haunts: Surf, all tideways. Baits: Shedder 
crabs, surf mullet, menhaden, ledge mussels, sand 
laut, shrimp. Time and tide: Day and night, 
flood preferred. 

Blue Fish—Horse Mackerel. June to November 
1st. Haunts: Surf, open sea and large bays. 
Baits: Menhaden, surf mullet ard trolling squid. 
Time and tide: Daytime; not affected by tides. 


Haunts: Surf 
Baits: Clams,’ 





A DAY WITH THE BLUE FISHERMEN. 
CHESAPEAKE, 

How few persons who enjoy eating the 
delicious bluefish know how they are 
caught by the market fishermen! For the 
benefit of those who do not I will tell of a 
day’s fishing I had in Chesapeake bay early 
in September last. 

The fishermen go out for business and 
their boats are built to accommodate 2 men. 
If a third man goes along, a city dude, 
without experience in such a boat, he is 
an incubus; an undesirable and unwelcome 
piece of ballast. I know several of the 
fishermen, and as a boat has been -one of 


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FISH AND FISHING. 


my hobbies for years an invitation was ex- 
tended to me. l-accepted eagerly and as 
we left the beach in our skiff another fish- 
erman was offered $5 by a hotel boarder to 
take him out; but the offer was refused. 

Our craft was the ideal round bottom 
sea skiff, fitted with a light sail which could 
be quickly furled on the mast. The oars 
were laid across the bow of the boat when 
fishing, so as to be out of the way. You 
want a free hand and a clear field when the 
business begins. 

After an hour’s sail we reached the fish- 
ing grounds, where a fleet of probably 4o 
boats were already at work. Running 
through and beyond them we dropped an- 
chor on the outer edge of the fleet, where 
our skipper thought the tide would be more 
favorable for good fishing. The sail was 
taken in and across the boat was laid a sau- 
sage grinder with which to grind our 2% 
bushels of alewives, which we had taken in 
before starting. 

One man of our crew sat by the grinder 
and ground out bait as fine as sausage meat, 
This was thrown over the side a handful at 
a time, and floated away with the tide, to 
attract the bluefish. The man who grinds 
also keeps the fisherman supplied with bait 
for his hook by cutting from the back of 
the alewives 2 baits, each about 2 inches 
long. . 

Presently our lines went over, being 
thrown in the wash bait and allowed to 
drift with it on the tide. In a few 
minutes after our wash bait had begun to 
go over we had a school of fish after it and 
the fun, or rather. work, commenced. 

Catching bluefish with a troll line, from 
a yacht, is fun; but pulling them into a 
skiff with a short line, 16 to 20 feet long, is 
the greatest sport I ever experienced. One 
of the necessaries in a bluefish skiff is 
called a bootjack. -It is a board shaped like 
that old fashioned article, and stands up- 
right in the boat, close to the fisherman. 
Bent across the jaws is a heavy iron wire, 
nearly as large in diameter as a lead pen- 
cil. As the fish is pulled into the boat he 
is swung over the bootjack and the hook is 
caught under the wire. Then with a down- 
ward turn of your hand holding the line, 
the point of the hook is brought down 
around the wire, when the fish slips off and 
falls into the after end of the boat. 

The barbs are always broken off the 
hooks by the fishermen, to allow of unhook- 
ing the fish quickly. 

We fished about 3 hours and were never 
under the necessity of putting our hands 
on the fish to take them from the hook. Our 
‘fish varied in weight from 1 to 3 pounds. 


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At one time they came so close we could 
see them take the bait, and it was pull in, 
unhook, bait and throw out. Often before 
the bait had gone under the surface of the 
water the line would whiz out with an- 
other fish on the hook. 

We all wore finger stalls of wool or can- 
vas on our forefingers, for without this 
protection the skin would soon be worn off. 

The wash bait had to be kept going over 
the side by handfuls, and if the grinder had 
stopped 5 minutes the fish would have left 
us. 

When our last handful of bait washed 
away with the tide we pulled in our lines 
and made ready to get our fish to the pack- 
ing house. The skipper estimated that we 
had 600 pounds in the boat, a profitable 
day’s work for him and his mate. 

I took g fish home with me and they 
made me a good load. 

Bluefishing has become an important in- 
dustry on lower Chesapeake bay. Up to 
recent years the natives knew nothing of it 
but the Yankee fishermen began following 
the fish down the coast and fishing from 
their smacks in the bay. Now each sum- 
mer sees an increased number of native 
fishermen employed. The fish do not 
usually stay Jong in one place but are con- 
tinually moving. 

A few years ago I spent an hour in the 
same locality early in the season. A squall 
chased us home before our fishing was 
done, but in that one hour 3 of us caught 
64 bluefish, ranging in weight from 0 to 12 
pounds each. After pulling in 18 of them 
I began to have that tired feeling the doc- 
tors talk about. 





A POUND TROUT. 
F. M. 


Three long months I had been shut in 
with a severe attack of rheumatism, and 
it was the first of May before I could hob- 
ble around the yard. During the first part 
of my confinement every motion added to 
my misery, but when the pain was gone 
I longed to get out, to go somewhere far 
from the sickroom. As spring advanced, 
and the weather improved I grew more 
uneasy and the first warm days nearly drove 
me wild. The coming of robins and black- 
birds, too, told of approaching summer, and 
still I was a cripple. 

A wet, cold spring we had, and for days 
the brook back of the house was a raging 
torrent, while the meadows looked like a 
lake. Our house is in a fertile valley be- 
tween ranges of hills, and back of the house 
some 50 rods is the brook. This little 
stream, after running miles in and through 
woods and meadows, widens as it nears the 
sea, into a navigable river. All my life has 
been spent on this stream, and each year 
I have fished the length of it. Every bend 


LEETE. 


RECREATION. 


and rock, every tree and bush, is as famil- 
iar to me as my kitchen garden. It was as 
natural for me to fish as it was to eat. My 
father was an angler, and well I remember 
the baskets of trout he used to bring home. 
My grandfather, too, had a love for the 
sport, and fished as long as he was able to 
tramp the brook, and my son has inherited 
the family weakness. 

One morning along in May, I hobbled 
out to the barn, and sat in the South door, 
completely disgusted with everything and 
everybody. The weather was perfect, but 
my bodily ills kept me from enjoying it. 
While I sat in the doorway moodily gazing 
at the sunny landscape, 2 neighbors came 
down the road, Deacon Brown and Henry 
Smith, and seeing me, came in to chat. 
After the usual commonplaces the good old 
Deacon, knowing my weakness, said: 

“We saw something just now that would 
have done your heart good. As we were 
crossing the bridge a trout jumped out of 
that deep hole by the buttonball tree. He 
must have weighed a pound.” 

Left alone again, I did some thinking 
about that fish. A pound trout! Trout 
that weighed a pound were scarce therea- 
bout. Once I had caught one that weighed 
13%4 pounds, but that was years ago. I meas- 
ured on my cane about how long the fish 
would be, and with the point of it scratched 
in the soft dirt an outline of the big trout 
by the buttonball tree. I knew just where 
the fish would probably be, just back of 2 
big stones in the pool, where many of 
his kin had met their fate in years that 
were past. How I did long to have a try 
at him! I could see the tree from the barn, 
down across the meadow just below the 
bridge. A long way off it looked to me that 
morning. 

Just then there crawled out of the dirt 
at my feet a fat angleworm. That 
worm did the business for me. I caught 
him, and then poked around until I had 
6 more. My rod, thank fortune, together 
with my line and hooks, was in the barn. 
With a furtive look at the house, I slipped 
into the building, and out at another door 
in the rear with my tackle and headed for 
the brook, keeping the barn between me 
and the house. I did not move fast. It was 
not easy for me to walk with my crutches 
on the soft ground, but I kept at it, and 
after a long passage brought up at the 
brook, just above where I wanted to fish. 
Sitting on a convenient rock I jointed my 
rod, rigged my line, hooked on a worm and, 
limping painfully along, came to the little 
rapid that stopped in the pool by the but- 
tonball tree. 

The squirming lure floated in the swift 
water to the still depths below. Not a strike. 
Again, and as it passed the sunken stones 
it stopped. I felt a gentle pull and the 
line began to run out, while I helped the 





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FISH AND FISHING. 


matter all I could by paying out as the 
fish moved. Letting him have all he would 
take, I waited for him to thoroughly hook 
himself. At last I recovered the slack, gave 
a little yank and the trout was hooked. 

Oh, what a time I had then all alone, 
and on one leg at that! Back and forth, 
over and across; then to vary the per- 
formance the fish would jump clear out of 
water and do the whole thing all over; but 
the little steel rod, the silken thread, and 
the needle-like hook were too much for 
him. He yielded, but with poor grace. Full 
30 minutes elapsed from the time he first 


struck the hook until he floated into the 


shoal water and was hauled up on the 
grass, 

Then it was a matter of getting home and 
how I ever did it I don’t know. What my 
wife said I shall not tell, but the trout 
weighed a pound and a half. 


You should never plunk for a noble fish 
like a trout. Take him on a fly or let him 
stay in the water. Carve him as a dish 
fit for the gods, not hew him as a carcass 
fit for hounds.—Ep1rTor. 





SALMON KILLED* BY BLACK BASS. 

Tacoma (Wash.)—Black bass are killing land- 
locked salmon by tens of thousands in American 
lake, South of Tacoma, With rows of dead fish 
making a white streak almost entirely around the 
lake, more fish are continuously swimming wear- 
ily ‘up to the beach to die. Their death appar- 
In every case 
their tails are missing, and often their sides have 
been gouged out. These fish are 12 to 15 inches 
long, being species of salmon. This being their 
spawning time, it is believed that the vicious 
black bass, plentiful in American lake, take ad- 
vantage of their weakened condition after spawn- 
ing to attack them. The salmon being too large 
to be swallowed whole, the black bass chop off 
their tails and as much of their bodies as they 
can manage. 

The mangled fish, suffering from their injuries 
and unable to hunt food, weaken and finally make 
for the beach. where they perish miserably while 
trying to escape their enemy. Residents near 
American lake say this remarkable occurrence 

been noticeable during December for 4 
years past, . 


I referred the foregoing to Dr. B. W. 
Evermann, of the Bureau of Fisheries, 
eee D. C., and he replies as fol- 
ows: 


I do not think there can be much in the 
story told in the enclosed clipping. It is 
more likely that the fish referred to, if 
really salmon, are simply dying, as all West 
coast salmon do, after spawning. These are 
mentioned as landlocked salmon, but as 
there are no landlocked salmon on that 
coast, as far as I know, that part of the 
story is probably mixed. There is a great 
deal of evidence to show that the black 
bass introduced into trout and salmon wa- 
ters of the Northwest do great damage to 
the young of the different Salmonide@ native 
to those waters; but that black bass would 


muskalonge 


472". 


seriously injure salmon or trout 12 to 15 
inches long is a little too fishy a story. 

I am not familiar with American lake, 
but I should not be surprised if the fish 
referred to are the small form of the blue- 
back salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). This 
species reaches a length of about a foot and 
spawns ordinarily in the small streams trib- 
utary to lakes in that region, late in the 
fall or early in the winter. 


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ON THE WEBER. 


My brother and I had long contemplated 
a fishing trip. We at last decided to go on 
the Weber river, and with 5 friends set out 
July 11. 

We were in camp the day after leaving 
Salt lake. Joe Vernon caught a mess of 
trout for supper, while the others pitched 
camp. After breakfast next morning we 
went to J. E. San, living just above where 
we were camped, to ask him to supply us 
with eggs and milk during our stay. 

The 3 boys in the party decided that night 
to be up early for the morning fishing. Get- 
ting out at 5 a. m., we walked a mile up 
stream and caught 20 fair sized mountain 
trout. Two days thereafter we just laid 
around camp and enjoyed ourselves. 

We fished off and on during the follow- 
ing week, keeping the camp supplied with 
fish enough for our needs. We could have 
caught hundreds of pounds if we had tried. 
One party, camped near us, caught and salt- 
ed down over 500 trout, about 150 pounds. 

One morning my brother and I got up 
and had breakfast about 4 a. m., and then 
went fishing. We returned with 30 trout, 
and we did not fish any more for 3 days. 

Game is abundant where we were; bear, 
deer, cougar, chickens, quails, trout and 
herring. 

F. H. Strickley, Salt Lake, Utah. 


SEND ME MEASUREMENTS. 


Professor H. M. Kinsley, of Hoboken, N. 
J., superintendent of schools of Hudson 
county, has sent me 2 photos of muskalonge 
which bear on their reverse sides these 
memoranda: 

“4 feet 1 inch long, 27 pounds weight, 
captured in the St. Lawrence river August 
15, 1903, at 11 a. m.; 4 feet 8 inches long, 
37. pounds weight, captured in the St. 
Lawrence river August 24, 1903, at 5.30 

I should be glad if anglers in general 
would send me careful and complete data 
as to length, girth and weight of all large 
fishes they may take. It is not usually ne- 
cessary to have photographs of such fishes, 
but such data as the foregoing are valuable 
and interesting. I am often asked what a 
will weigh which measures 
4 feet 6 inches in length, for instance. 
If those who are fortunate in landing big 





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muskalonge, bass, trout, or other game 
fishes, would send in accurate measurements 
and weights this would enable each angler 
to judge for himself, when he measures a 
fish, as to what it would weigh. It often 
happens that a man gets a big fish when he 
does not have scales with him, but he can 
always carry a tape measure in his pocket. 
—EDITor. 


DOES ANYONE KNOW THEM? 


I send you a clipping from one of our 
local papers. One of its owners and pub- 
lishers has been up North, where he did 
some fishing. 

I admire the way you go after the game 
hogs and hope you will roast this fellow 
to a turn. RECREATION is the best magazine 
I know of and I can hardly lay it down 
until I have read it through. 

H. G. M., Essex, Ia. 


The clipping referred to contains an ar- 

ticle, occupying nearly a page of the Shen- 
andoah, Ia., Sentinel, recounting the fish- 
slaughtering exploits of the mewspaper 
man and 4 Nebraska swine. 
’ Reininger says in reply to my inquiry re- 
garding this report, “The best 3 hours’ fish- 
ing in the Crow Wing lakes gave 2 of us 
21 big mouth black bass that averaged a 
trifle over 4 pounds.” 





This means over 90 pounds of fish for 2. 


men in 3 hours. 

Reininger goes down in the fish hog reg- 
ister as No. 1,009, and I regret that he 
did not give the full names and addresses 
of his 3 fellow rooters, so that I might have 
numbered them.—EDirTor. 





FISHING CLUB VINDICATED. 


Local anglers have been awaiting with great 
interest developments in the case of the Bellwood 
Rod and Gun Club against J. H. Sheehan, of 
Johnstown, who, claiming authority as deputy 
fish warden, recently invaded this county and 
summarily tore down printed notices which had 
been posted along Bell’s run proclaiming it a 
stocked and closed stream under the act of 1go1. 
The local officials of the Blair county branch of 
the League of American Sportsmen, at the re- 
quest of the Bellwood club, at once reported the 
matter to the State Fish Commission, and asked 
for a thorough investigation of the matter, in- 
cluding the insinuation made by Sheehan that 
Bellwood people had themselves fished in the 
stream, a fact indignantly denied by the latter, 
who claim to have held the prohibition absolutely 
inviolate. 

The requested investigation was at once set on 
foot by Hon. Meehan, president of the 
State Commission of Fisheries. After an ex- 
haustive inquiry into all the circumstances of the 
case, including the reported high handed and alto- 
gether indefensible actions of the Johnstown off- 
cer, the decision of the commission was announced 
this week. Deputy fish warden Sheehan’ was 
summarily removed from office, and the com- 
mission announced that they would send as soon 
as possible 20,000 trout fry to Bellwood free of 
charge to restock the stream, which had become 
depleted through the public action of the officer.— 
Exchange. 


I wonder if Sheehan does not think he 
was slightly previous in his action.—Ebiror, 


RECREATION. 


NIBBLES. 


A subscriber sent me a newspaper ac- 
count of the taking of 69 black bass in one 
day by W. A. Withmar, of Buffalo, N. Y., 
and C. J. Bellinger, of Watertown, N. Y. 
The clipping in question shows a _ repro- 
duction of a photograph of 69 black bass. 
The caption of the photograph reads thus: 


“Catch of bass made July 18, 1903, by W. 
A. Withmar, of Buffalo, and a Watertown 
newspaper friend.” 


Replying to my request for confirmation 
or denial of the report, Mr. Withmar says: 


Your information regarding the catch of 
bass is correct as far as I remember. 
Mr. Bellinger says: 


The fellow who informed you that a 
friend and I caught 69 black bass in one 
day is a fish liar without a conscience. 


The reader can draw his own conclusions. 
—EDITOR. 





The Des Moines river has been for years 
a muddy stream when at flood, becoming 
clear at low water. For 2 years past there 
have been extraordinary floods, and at no 
time has the water been clear; but the high 
water in the stream, muddy though it has 
been, has served to dam the little rivulets 
and creeks flowing into it, and these form so 
many ponds of clear water. Having ob- 
served bass lying in some of them I took a 
few live minnows and went to a place 
where I have always had good luck with 
channel cats. I took out a dozen bass in a 
little over an hour, the smallest weighing 
34 of a pound and the largest 3 pounds. 
Next morning I tried again, catching 15. 
Then a hard shower muddied the creeks’ 
and ended my fishing. Can any reader of 
RECREATION tell how to get bass to bite 
when the water is muddy? 

E. R. Harlan, Keosauqua, Iowa. 





I am captain of a 5,000 ton boat plying 
on the great lakes. While at Huron Har- 
bor, Lake Erie, one day last spring, Henry 
Damon and I fished from East pier, Be- 
tween 7.30 and II a. m. we caught 115 sand 
pike, 3 perch, 2 rock bass and a 15-pound 
German carp. The combined catch of 12 
other men, fishing within 50 feet of us, was 
less than ours. Our fish were 8 to 12 inches 


in length. As they furnished 2 meals for 


25 hungry men, we do not think we were 
hoggish in taking them. ~ 

The real fish hogs of Lake Erie are the 
market fishermen. Their pound nets ex- 
tend from both sides of the pier 5 miles 
out in the lake. It is said they skin their 


fish at the nets and by so doing are able to 


market black bass as perch. 








FARMER’S BOY NOT GUILTY. 


The article in March Recreation by 
W. J., of Philadelphia, Pa., moves me to 
reply. As an advertisement of the killing 
power and deadly effect of the automatic 
gun, this article is a distinct success; but 
the picture he draws shows a lamentable 
lack of knowledge concerning the small 
game conditions throughout the more set- 
tled portions of the country. 

I speak from personal observation and in 
behalf of the farmer’s boy, whom W. J. and 
some other sportsmen would deprive of 
owning a modern gun, if they could make 
the price. To the man who has hunted all 
day in this country, walking up his birds 
and taking occasional snap shots at long 
range in heavy cover, the picture of the 
farmer's boys going forth with the auto- 
matic_gun, “Firing 2 shots, killing 5 birds 
on the ground and 3 more on the rise, 
making 8 out of a covey of I 5,” is amusing. 
The thing more likely to occur is this: 
murderous farmer boy, who, by the way, 
owns the land on which the gentleman 
sportsman usually goes forth, during his 
work about the farm in the summer and 
early autumn marks a brood of quails, 
which he watches with jealous care, and 
waits impatiently for the opening of the 
season when the law is off that he may 
have a few days’ hunt, after the summer’s 
work. This game butcher owns no trained 
bird dogs and seldom has a modern gun. If 
by any luck he gets a brace of birds in a 
day’s hunt he is proud and satisfied. But, 
supposing he defers his hunt a few days 
after the opening of the season. What are 
his chances for exterminating the game 
then? Just visit the city stations, during 
the first of the shooting season. There you 
will see the man, bound for the country, 
who will use the automatic gun, the 2 or 3 
dogs and every known facility that money 
can buy, for bringing home the required 
number of birds for his game dinner. If 
these fail he pays liberally to local hunters 
for assistance; but he gets the birds, and 
any local game warden having the presump- 
tion to ask the number, gets little satisfac- 
tion. I am not a champion of the automatic 
gun or the repeater. In fact, I do nearly 
all my shooting with a single shot rifle; 
but the man who so often contributes the 
idea to REcREATION that a shooter has only 
to go into the brush with his automatic 
or pump, swing his gun around, shooting 


the 6 rapid shots, and pick up the remains 


of a covey of birds, has only to try it to be 
convinced that all is not “dead bird” which 
gets up before a repeater. Moreover, this 


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GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


Anybody can shoot all day, but a gentleman always quits when he gets enwugh. 


same engine of destruction is seldom found 
in the hands of the country sportsman or 
the despised farmer’s boy. 

F. B., Lisle, N. Y. 





ANOTHER VOTE FOR ROBIN HOOD. 

About 25 years ago I commenced shooting 
with black powder, of course, and since that 
time have shot nearly all the well known 
brands of black, bulk and dense smoke- 
less. Still I am always looking for some- 
thing better, hence I always carefully read 
the Gun and Ammunition department of 
RECREATION. 

Of all brands of powder used by me to 
date, Robin Hood, in my opinion, is the 
best. For cleanliness, penetration and uni- 
formity of pattern, especially at long range, 
it excels any bulk powder I have ever 
seen; while considering the high velocity 
given by it, the. recoil is much lighter 
than any of the dense powders with a 
load that gives equal velocity. It is, as its 
manufacturers claim, a slow burning pow- 
der, starting the shot slowly but reaching 
great velocity by the time it leaves the muz- 
zle, giving remarkable killing power. Since 
shooting Robin Hood I have had fewer 
crippled birds than ever before. 

The best brands of dense powder give 
about the same velocity as Robin Hood, but 
they explode so quickly that the recoil is 
much greater and the pattern not so good. 

The only fault I can find with Robin 
Hood, and I have shot a lot of it, is that 
is makes enough smoke in thick woods and 
on damp, still days to interfere slightly with 
the use of the second barrel. On such days 
I have made a practice of taking along a 
few dense powder shells for the right bar- 
rel; then if I miss with that the bird scaree- 
ly ever fails to fall to the left if T hold 
true. a 

As a rule I load my own sills for T 


have experimented at target tin P have 
found what will give the? Best: resiilts 
with my guns. No set ‘fofmiila'”’ can, in’ 


my opinion, be given to ‘apply f° AI ating 
and conditions; in sss ok et * sa bést 
results out of a given gui ents must 
be made with it at- sina 

My favorite loadfor-tta vet brush Shoot- 
ing is 3 dramsoRobin! Hood! inow@sqidnch 
Leader shellj:one! Bi show wad) j¢black) edie 
wads cappedy by: idnathér!Bs shot ‘wad, OTe 
ounces chillethishotiaridea»G shot! wad; with 
% inch round crimp. For duck shootin; T 
increabesthei!powder: tg draniso!o With 
that load obi get omy! !bied 146 cit list avithin 66 
yards and I can hold true, and I do not 


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come home at night with a lame shoulder 
or a headache either. 
Try it and let RecreaTIon tell us the re- 
sults. 
Quilp, Boston, Mass, 





CONDEMNS THE AUTOMATIC. 

I have. read in RECREATION several pro- 
tests against the automatic gun, and I 
heartily approve the sentiment expressed in 
those letters. It seems that the game hogs 
and some of the gun makers are determined 
to wipe out the remnant of our game birds. 
Not being satisfied with double guns and 
repeating shot guns, these men want still 
more murderous and destructive weapons 
so they can finish up the birds still faster 
than they have been doing. 

I am heartily in favor of the enactment 
of laws in all the States to prohibit the 
use of both automatic and pump guns, and 
I should be glad if all such laws provided 
long terms of imprisonment for men who 
violated them. 

I have lived in the West 35 years, and 
most of that time on the frontier, where 
game of various kinds was abundant, yet I 
never killed more than was necessary for 
subsistence and never killed an animal un- 
til the meat supply in camp was practically 
exhausted. One deer or antelope was al- 
ways enough for me* at a time. Many a 
day I have watched dozens of these ani- 
mals and buffalo feeding within rifle shot 
and never disturbed them as long as I had 
2 or 3 days’ supply of meat on hand. 

I was always content with 2 or 3 prairie 
chickens or one turkey for a day’s shoot- 
ing. 

In Routt county, Colorado, in 1891, while 
on a 5 weeks’ hunting trip with W. A. Giles, 
we killed 3 deer and one of them we gave 
to a ranchman who asked us to kill one 
for him because his sight was so poor he 
could not shoot successfully. 

During that time we saw as many as 50 
deer in a day, but no such number could be 
seen there now. The game hogs, head 
hunters and buckskin hunters have thinned 
them out until it would be difficult to find 
half a dozen deer in a dav on the same 
ground. The same is true of grouse in that 
country; yet certain gun makers are anx- 
ious to make it possible for the butchers to 
exterminate in short order the few coveys 
that remain. 

F. W. Hambledon, Pueblo, Colo. 





AN EXPERIENCE WITH NITRO. 


For some time I have followed up the 
reloading of my own shot gun shells, and 
have been rewarded by highly satisfactory 
results with the exception which I am about 
to state. 

I selected a number of solid and firm 
Winchester Leader shells, 234 inches long, 


RECREATION. 


12 gauge. These I carefully resized and 
primed with the long Winchester No. 4 
primer. I then charged them with 3 drams 
of Dupont nitro powder and seated firmly 
on the powder charge a Winchester grease- 
proof 12 gauge wad. Next a % and an &% 
inch black edge It gauge wad and 1% 
ounces of shot covered with a cardboard 
wad. The shells were then firmly crimped 
and I went rabbit hunting. 

I fired several shots which were effective 
in proportion to the accuracy of my aim 
and then came ‘a miss fire. 

It was the first one I had ever known 
the gun to make. When I examined the 
shell I found that the primer had exploded 
and that the crimp in the shell was nearly 
straightened out. As I had heard that a 
strong primer was necessary to ignite nitro 
powder, I concluded that was a weak one 
and had failed to explode the powder, but 
when I unloaded the shell I found the pow- 
der entirely burned up and the inside of the 
shell and the first wad badly charred and 
blackened. 

How this powder could have burned when 
so closely confined and not even expel the 
charge from the shell I do not understand. 


- Neither do I attribute it to any defect in 


the Winchester or Dupont goods, but to 
my own lack of experience in loading nitro 
powders. ; 
-If some brother sportsman could eluci- 
date this point and suggest a remedy for 
similar occurrences in the future, I should. 
like to hear from him through this maga- 


zine. 
G. L. Hale, Chardon, O. 


‘TOO MANY GUNS. 


During a recent stroll through the woods 
near this city it occurred to me that the 
supply of guns greatly exceeds all legiti- 
mate demand. The woods I speak of have 
long been stripped of every variety of game, 
yet firearms were being discharged on all 
sides. Most of the shooting was done by 
young fellows from the city, representa- 
tives of the great class of would-be sports- 
men who delight in killing anything, no 
matter how small, that wears fur or feath- 
ers. To this class may be charged the de- 
predations that are forcing all land owners 





near towns and cities to post their property 


against trespass. The posting of land has 
become so universal in some localities that 
the conscientious sportsman is entirely de- 
prived of privileges he formerly enjoyed 
and appreciated, but the hoodlum gunner 
respects no prohibition unless it is backed 
by physical force. 

Michigan’s law is framed to protect all 
song birds and insectivorous birds. But the 
forests do not teem with game wardens, 
hence all birds, migrate and resident, fall 
victims to the chap who carries a gun. 





GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


During my walk I saw several redhead and 
speckled woodpeckers lying in different 
stages of decay, slain by those whose all 
absorbing ambition is to kill. What a silent 
void is the wood where the forest carpenter 
no longer beats his energetic tattoo on some 
dry tree! 

At the rate this extermination is pro- 
ceeding, soon there will be no gray squirrels 
and few birds near the towns. What will 
he who carries a gun do then, and what 
will gun manufacturers do? Will guns con- 
tinue to be turned out at the same, or an 
increased rate, and the rising generation 
continue to purchase while trees and stumps 
hold out fot targets or is the time approach- 
ing when guns will go a-begging? 

J. A. Newton, Grand Rapids, Mich. 





THEY DO NOT FORGET PETERS. 


Asbury Park, N. J. 

The Peters Cartridge Co., 

Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Dear Sirs: Your letter in RECREATION 
is beyond comprehension, and has caused 
considerable comment among our sports- 
men. 

I can substantiate C. W. Radcliffe’s state- 
ment that Peters shot gun shells will jam 
in the Winchester pump gun. A friend and 
I were shooting, he using your shells and 
the Winchester gun. He could not get 
them to work and we finally exchanged 
shells. He took mine, after which he had 
no trouble; I, having a Packard, could use 
your cartridges. 

Since then, J. D. Newlin & Co., of this 
place, have never carried your shells in 
stock. 

I do not condemn your ammunition, but 
simply say that your cartridges will jam in 
the Winchester shot gun. 

What Mr. Shields has done for sports- 

men is, beyond words to express, and it is 
the bounden duty of every true sportsman 
to stand by him in such matters. It is the 
least return we can give him. 
_ Unless we again see. your advertisement 
in RECREATION we shall pass resolutions in 
the 4 large gun and rifle clubs in this vi- 
cinity, with a membership of over 500, not! 
to use any of your ammunition. 

We, to a man, believe you have treated 
Mr. Shields unfairly and trust you will see 


your mistake. 
E. B. Reed, M. D. 





HOW TO CLEAN RIFLES. 

After using nearly all the leading makes 
and calibers of rifles, I was foolish enough 
to try a second Marlin. I have at last 
settled on a 25-35 Savage. For such game 
as deer, turkeys, geese, etc., it is perfection. 
By reloading shells with 86 grain bullets 


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and a few grains of powder, it is as good 
as I want for small game. As a target rifle 
it is equaled by few, if any, and excelled 
by none. Have made a better score with it 
at 200 yards than I was ever able to make 
with the 32-40 or 38-55. This was a great 
surprise to me. - 

Have tried all kinds of devices for clean- 
ing small bore, smckeless powder rifles and 
have found nothing which suits me so well 
as a brass rod with head and absorbent 
cotton. Pinch off a small piece of cotton, 
wet it and force through bore. Repeat this 
till cotton comes through unsoiled. Finish 
with a few dry pieces, then draw through 
a well oiled wick plug. You can then rest 
assured that your rifle will not rust. 

Sportsmen who are always complaining 
about the fine red rust produced in their 
rifle barrels by smokeless powder, simply 
fail to remove the residue of powder be- 
fore oiling rifle. They think they get it 
all out, but do not. To all who are thus 


- troubled I would say, work on your rifle 


with rags till they come through clean. 
Then get some absorbent cotton and you 
will be surprised to see what you can get 
out after you think your rifle is clean. 

E. F. Pope, Colmesneil, Tex. 





DISAPPROVES WINCHESTER’S COURSE. 


I have been a reader of RECREATION near- 
ly 2 years. I see statements of people who 
say they could not get along without it. I 
am like the man who, after eating his first 
olive, was asked if he could eat them. He 
said he could, but he did not see why he 
should. I could get along without ReEcre- 
ATION, but I do not see why I should. 

I see that many sportsmen condemn the 
pump gun and request the Winchester peo- 
ple not to put an automatic shot gun on the 
market. I have never seen an automatic 
shot gun, but from what I have seen of the 
pump gun, I find only one redeeming fea- 
ture in it, namely, the frequent accidental 
discharge, which will tend to make a few 
less bird dogs and game hogs. I use a 16: 
gauge Lefever, and it is either a clean miss 
or a clean kill every time. I would rather 
miss a bird than have to shoot it again or 
have it get away wounded. I would rather 
make 2 or 3 good hard shots and score 
clean kills in a day than to pot all the 
game I could carry. I have used Winches- 
ter shells and wads and have always found 
them good; but if the Winchester people 
put that awful game destroyer and game 
hogs’ weapon called an automatic shot gun 
on the market, other ammunition will be 
good enough for me. I hope that at the 
next session of the legislature of Pennsyl- 
vania a law will be passed prohibiting the 
use of any repeating shot gun other than 
‘a double barrel. 


R. B. Edmiston, Milan, Pa. 


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THE .308 SAVAGE FOR DEER. 


In March Recreation, Arthur A. Brock 
asks to hear from someone who has used 
the 44-40 on deer. I used a 44 Winchester 
several years, and killed many a fine buck 
with it. I considered it a fine gun, and so 
it was for its time, but it has outlived its 
usefulness. It is no comparison to the more 
modern small bore smokeless rifles for big 
game. If Mr. Brock really wants a good 
deer gun, I advise him to get a 303 Savage. 
They cost a little more than some of the 
other makes, but they are worth the differ- 
ence. If he believes in the preservation of 
game, I advise him to get a Marlin. I car- 
ried one 2 or 3 years, and I know of sev- 
eral big bucks still at large that would 
not be if I had had a Savage. I have 
used nearly all makes of sporting rifles, 
commencing nearly 30 years ago with a 
muzzle loader, and I consider the 303 Sav- 
age superior to them all. 

I buy RECREATION every month from our 
dealer, and it is a great magazine. If it was 
not for ReEcREATION the game hogs would 
never get roasted. I like the fight it is 
making against the automatic shot gun. I 
used to be a game hog myself, before I got 
hold of. RECREATION, but it has made a de- 
cent sportsman of me. I hand it around to 
my friends, knowing that it will do good. 

F. S. Carter, Gilroy, California. 





SMALL SHOT. 

Your action against the manufacture, sale 
and use of automatic guns is certainly in 
the interest of game protection, and as 
such should be approved and aided by all 
sportsmen. Repeating guns are to a great 
extent responsible for the rapid destruction 
of the game. They are built for that pur- 
pose and are fast fulfilling their object. 
The plea of the manufacturers that the 
game can be protected by law by prohibit- 
ing its sale, limiting the season and amount 
of game to be killed, would be all right if 
the law was thoroughly enforced and re- 
spected; but such is not the case. Everyone 
knows how game is smuggled in to dealers 
and how they dispose of it to private cus- 
tomers ; 
difficult it is to police large game districts 
and that where one offender is convicted 
and punished a hundred equally guilty es- 
cape even suspicion. 

It is evident that the manufacturers be- 
lieve the game: is doomed and that it is a 
case of making the most of a good thing 
while it lasts. 

Geo. A. Tremper, Helena, Mont. 





READERS PLEASE ANSWER. 
I should like to have your readers tell 


what they think of a 16 gauge gun, for all 


and every sportsman knows how — 


RECREATION. 


R kinds of shooting, including ducks occa- 


sionally. I should also like to know if a 
gun bored for nitro powder will make 
equally as close a pattern when black pow- 
der is used. I have owned a cheap gun 10 
years, stamped on frame “Prize Machine 
Gun.” It is a 16 gauge, with 36-inch bar- 
rels. Don’t laugh at the length. Before I 
strained the choke out of this gun by usinz 
buck shot I could outshoot any other gun 
I ever saw. I once killed a duck with my 
16 gauge at the longest distance I ever saw 
game killed with a shot gun. Two years 
ago I went to Great South bay to shoot 
ducks. I borrowed a 10 bore gun that 
weighed 11 pounds and killed as many as I 
expected to, but before I finished shoot- 
ing I wished for my old 16 bore. I could 
have done as well, and my own gun is so 
much lighter. I always use No. 4 shot 
and black powder in my 16. Smokeless 


powder scatters the shot in this gun. 


E. Kelly, Arkville, N. Y. 





I own a Winchester pump gun and like 
it, but will not defend it, for | see the point 
you are trying to impress on sportsmen. A 
man may use a repeating or an automatic 
shot gun and quit when he has a fair bag, 
but a game butcher may also use one and will 
not quit as long as there is game in sight. 
Anyone who has used both the repeating 
and the double gun knows the former is 
more destructive in the hands of a game 
hog. I sincerely hope you may be the 
means of inducing the manufacturers of 
automatic shot guns to stop making and 
putting them on the market. 

I now own a .303 Savage, and after try- 
ing and comparing it with other rifles I 
find it leads them all. The short, strong 
action and the hammerless feature are 
among its many good points. It is in a 
class by itself, and anyone who is in doubt 
what kind of a rifle to buy wilt make no 
mistake if he gets a .303 Savage for a high 
power or a 38-55 Savage if he prefer one 
not quite so et, 

. S. Ferm, Hurley, Wis. 





As a constant reader and a sincere ad- 
mirer of your magazine, and of. your work, 
I wish you would tell me, through REcrEa- 
TION, the advantage or disadvantage of the 
square nosed cartridge. As an illustration, 
take the old and well known 44 C. F., bot- 
tled necked and square nose. Has the 
square nosed bullet any advantage over the 
round or sharp pointed bullet? Has the 
bottled necked cartridge any qualities over 
the straight shell? 

I am a stranger in this great city of 








GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


bricks, mortar and iron, and my heart often 
becomes sick with longing for the woods 
in which I was reared. RECREATION is my 
solace and delight, and at the’ same time 
my sorrow; for when I read of some of 
the glorious trips to the woods described 
in your magazine, it makes me wish I had 
never left my native heath. Long life to 
both you and REcREATION. 


J. M. P., New York City. 





In looking over. RECREATION, I see that 
Mc. W. H. Pringle wishes to know how to 
keep a gun from rusting. I have found the 
following method effective: After the hrnt- 
ing season is over, fill the gun barrels with 
lard oil, plug up the ends and set the gun 
away until the next season. The inside of 
the barrels will look more like silver than 
steel after such treatment, and the same oil 
can be used again. If the barrels have con- 
tained any rust the oil will remove it in a 
few days. 

I hunt in Florida, all along the coast 
from Tampa to Key West. I once sold a 
fine Parker gun on account of its being 
slightly rusted, but since I have tried lard 
oil my Ithaca, after 5 years’ use, is as clean 
as it was the day I bought it. 

John W. Steil, Sidney, Ohio. 





Will you kindly inform me if, among 
hunters, it is generally known that a 30-30 
shoots higher in a high altitude than in a 
low one? I have never seen mention made 
of it in any of: the magazines. My expe- 
rience is that a 30-30 will shoot 5 to 6 inches 
higher at a distance of 125 to 150 yards and 
in an altitude of 7,000 feet, than it will at 
the same distance in an altitude of 1,200 
‘feet. I have wondered if a black nowder 
gun of low velocity will follow the same 
rule. Persons. in the low altitudes of the 
East, anticipating a hunt in the Rockies, 
may save themselves the disappointment 
of scoring a miss on some fine trophy, as 
was my experience, if they bear the above 
fact in mind. 

Dr. A. C. Wheeler, Roswell, N. Mex. 


Will RecrEATION readers please answer? 
—EpITor. 





I enjoy every word in RECREATION, espe- 
cially the gun and ammunition department. 
I am glad to see you take the stand you 
do in regard to the automatic shot gun, and 
I trust it will not be put on the market. 

f it is, we must say good-bye to a large 
portion of our game. I live in one of the 
best game portions of Manitoba. Ducks 
and geese are plentiful here in the spring 
and fall, and a large number are shot while 
resting here on their way North and South. 
If the automatic is sold a great many more 


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of them will be killed. The repeater is bad 
enough on the game, as it is. 
Norman T. Miller, Virden, Man. 
Your Legislature has recently passed a 
law prohibiting the use of the automatic 
gun. Long live the men who voted for 
that measure.—Epiror. 





I want a 12 gauge shot gun, principally 
for squirreis 1nd chickens, and would like 
ihe opinion of readers of RECREATION as to 
the best gun to buy. What length, weight 
and bore shail I choose? What is con- 
sidered the best American made gun? How 
can | determine the length for a stock? 

G. E. Cecil, M.D., Flat Lick, Ky. 





Have any of ReEcrEATION’s readers had 
experience with a Savage 32-40? I think 
the 32-40, with high power cartridges, 
is as near the all around gun as one can 
get. To subscribe to, RECREATION is the 
best thing a man can do with a dollar. It 
is the best magazine of the lot. 

E. R. Fellows, Brooklyn, N. Y. 





I think of buying a single barrel gun, on 
account of its superior sighting, and an El- 
terich rifled bullet shell, 6 inch barrel, to , 
use in it. Is the combination practical? 
Is there a possibility of damaging the choke 
or otherwise injuring the gun by using the 
rifled bullet shell ? 

J. P. Tilson, Wales, Mass. 





What do you consider the best long 
range rifle? 
What do Lee-Mitford:and Martini rifles 
cost in this country? 
Lee Covell, Charlevoix, Mich. 
Will some reader. of RECREATION please 
answer ?>—EDITor. 





I endorse your sentiments in regard to 
the automatic shot gun, though I have a 22 
rifle on that plan with which I have a lot 
of fun; but few men can shoot ducks on the 
wing with a rifle. I shall do all I can to 
discourage the use of the automatic gun. 

M. Kelly, Seattle, Wash. 





Please inform Subscriber, Los Angeles, 
Cal., that I was using Winchester metal 
patched soft point bullets with a full charge 
of 30 caliber Dupont powder in a U. M. C. 
shell when I shot the deer 5 times as printed 
in September RECREATION. 

E. G. Dewey, Hanover, N. H. 


He (at the theater): 


“Would you mind 
keeping that hat on?” 


“Keep it on! Why, I was just about to 
take it off.” 
“T know it. But I don’t want to see any 


more of this play than I can help.”—Life. 


NATURAL HISTORY. 


When abird or a wild animal is killed, that is the end of it. 


If photographed, it may still live an 


its educational and scientific value is multiplied indefinitely. 


BIRDS AT THE FLORIDA KEYS. 


Flamingo is at the extreme Southern end 
of Florida. The people here are truck 
growers, using the rich, shallow soil to 
raise onions, tomatoes, sugar cane, bananas 
and other staples. They are intelligent, and 
law abiding, including the game laws. We 
have curlew, teal, ducks, pelicans, cormor- 
ants, herons, cranes and many other water- 
fowl in the marshes; while deer, bear, pan- 
thers, lynxes, raccoons, opossums and small- 
er burrowing animals are numerous. Our 
rabbits are shy and I have never seen one 
yet, though signs prove them to be plentiful. 

Vegetation is peculiar; black and red 
mangos, palmetto, buttonwood and dog- 
wood cover the hummock land. The dog- 
wood is not like that of our Middle States. 
Cacti and vines grow thickly in these hum- 
mocks, while air plants that resemble pine- 
apples live on the trees. 

This island is about 20 miles long and 6 
miles wide. On the South, Florida bay 
splashes, and Whitewater bay is on the 
North. To the West we see the Gulf. The 
island is composed of a series of keys, or 
patches of ‘hummock land, surrounded by 
salt prairie. Most of this prairie is over- 
flowed in summer, but comparatively dry 
in winter. The long saw grass hides many 
creatures. We have a bird that these peo- 
ple call prairie chicken, a waterfowl that I 
believe to be a kind of darter. It has a 
coarse, cracking, squawk and greenish yel- 
low legs and is colored brownish; some- 
thing like a brown leghorn hen. 

The “man-’o-war hawk” is a big bird that 
sails over the bays and occasionally over 
these marshes. He has a big stretch of 
wing and a long neck. I have never been 
close enough to one to give a good descrip- 
tion, but he has a neat appearance, rather 
angular, and is a fishing bird. There is a 
“gull hawk” here that looks much like a 
white gull, but has a shorter neck, a heavier 
beak, and shorter, stiffer looking wings. 
He stays over the salt water. 

Our post-office is named for a bird that 
is seldom seen and is considered the wild- 
est, shiest bird in existence. He has some- 
times been seen here. Near here is a rook- 
ery where curlew roost by thousands. 
Every evening big flocks come in from the 
day’s work of finding food. The young 
ones are a slate blue color, which vanishes 
in old age, leaving them almost white. We 
have plenty of meadow larks, but no quails 
nor grouse. Doves are abundant and are 
not wild. Hawks are too numerous; fish 


hawks, blue hawks, gray hawks, red hawks 
and some that I do not know. The smaller 
sparrow hawk also exists. We see the 
butcher bird everywhere. He is a brave 
little warrior and I have seen them chase 
even the largest hawks away. 

The butcher bird has been frequently ac- 
cused of wrongdoing that can not be proved 
against him. Because a sparrow happens 
to be impaled on some thorn, or a grass- 
hopper or a beetle meets with such an acci- 
dent, it does not follow that a butcher bird 
did the cruel deed. When someone tells 
me he has actually seen the bird in the act 
of filing meat for future reference, I shall 
believe; not until then. 

The butcher bird is my friend, and should 
be everybody’s friend, because he is all the 
time working for us human beings. The 
following facts will, I hope, put truth be- 
fore some readers of RECREATION. 

The true name of this bird is unknown 
to me. I believe he is the Carolina shrike. 
He is small, with a general slate blue color, 
a black, stocky beak, with a black line run- 
ning from bill to eyes. His head is rather 
flat and broad. A black strip runs across 
each wing and his tail is of medium length. 
He is a neat, military looking bird. 

Two of these birds spend most of their 
time on the end of our ridgepoles. We 
have 2 shacks and these birds flit from one 
to the other, always alert. With remark- 
ably keen eyesight they scan the ground 
and woe to the worm which comes out 
within 50 feet of our butcher bird! With 
a quick “stoop” the bird is on his prey and 
back on his perch. 

The butcher bird is belligerent, fighting 
hawks and large birds more eagerly than 
smaller ones. Mine (I claim these 2) do 
not molest the only mockingbird I see in 
this neighborhood, nor do they trouble the 
mosquito bird, which is tiny. The truth 
is, the brave little fellow appears to feel 
responsible for the safety of his helpless 
neighbors, and keeps a lookout for hawks. 
The air of responsibility sometimes makes 
him seem worried. 

When annoyed, or when night comes and 
he is still hungry, he utters a plaintive cry, 
not unlike the long drawn chirp of a young 
chick after the old hen has turned it loose 
on the world and it is troubled about some- 
thing. : 

One evening 
the corn bin. 


I killed a small mule rat in 
Taking the pitchfork, I put 


_ the rat on the gable end, where my friend 


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was generally found. Soon he came, and 


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NATURAL HISTORY. 


noticing the strange object, he was wary, 
jumping around the rat in nervous haste. 
Before many minutes he realized that it 
was dead. Then be caught it in his little 
talons and flew out into the weeds. I failed 
to find him after that, though I tried, in 
order to see if he would put the rat away 
for future use. 

I believe some game laws give hunters a 
right to kill this bird; why, I do not know. 
I have lived in several localities, under 
varying conditions, and have yet to see any 
real harm in this little warrior. If he eats 
a grape now and then, he eats a hundred 
or so worms to pay. If he impales spar- 
rows on thorns, he drives away .hawks to 
atone. Watch him, and condemn him when 
he proves his guilt. 

One of the most common birds in the 
United States is the meadow lark, frequent- 
ly called the field lark. His habits vary, I 
suppose, under varying circumstances. In 
Alabama, they live much like quails, in 
grain and stubble fields; thus earning the 
name of field lark. This is in the winter, 
when they go in flocks. In summer they 
seek the shady places on creeks, where they 
warble sweetly and call to each other. They 
are mated then; no more flocks. 

Down here on Cape Sable we have them 
in considerable numbers on the prairie. The 
quail does not live here, only 2 having been 
seen for some time. In fact, there is no 
‘record of any for over 7 years, except those 
2. Some mean spirited man shot those. 
Therefore the lark must find other modes 
of life than imitating quail. 

Every day I see meadow larks on some 
tall weed or log end or anthill or clump 
of tall grass, warbling their joyous songs. 
One seems idle but happy. Wait! He darts 
down, is busy a minute or 2 and returns to 
his perch on the weed. He has eaten a 
worm. All day they answer. one another 
‘across the prairie. We seldom see more 
than 3 together. 


Larks eat almost as varied a diet as Eng-° 


lish sparrows. One man here, living alone, 
has them so tame that they come to his feet 
to eat oats he scatters for them. 

The lark is a gentle, innocent, helpless 
bird and is not a fighter. 

Another common bird here is the kildeer 
plover, generally called kildee. His habits 
here are not different than elsewhere. He 
is always fond of swampy ground, prefer- 
ring open fields. He is a pretty bird, 
shaped not unlike a dove. His feet are 
light colored, appearing clean, from much 
wading. The marking on kildeers is not 
easily described. When flying he shows a 
good deal of white; when walking he looks 
gray. He has a wild, shy expression, which 
he lives up to. Few birds seem so inca- 
pable of fight when attacked. A few weeks 
ago I heard a kildeer crying in great dis- 


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tress. A small, red sparrow hawk, scarcely 
larger than the kildeer, was carrying him 
away. I tried to frighten the hawk, but he 
simply refused to drop his prey and flew 
heavily into the hummock. 

There is one bird that I wish someone 
would identify for me. This is the “mos- 
quito bird,” aS we call hir:.. He is small, 
has a greenish gray back, a yellow gray 
breast and is not unlike what some people 
call a “lettuce bird” in Virginia. He is not 
the bird we see around sunflowers, looking 
like the Baltimore oriole. This mosquito 
bird flits around, apparently living entirely 
on mosquitoes. He comes within 2 or 3 
feet of men, having learned not to fear 
them. In the mornings he can be seen hang- 
ing on the window screen, catching the 
skeeters as they try to get through. 
_Among my friends in Florida are crows, 
lizards, hawks, and others. Hawks here 
do not seem anxious for feathered prey, 
preferring rats and moles. 

f course, we know tragedies occur be- 

yond our human circles, but are not often 
led to believe scandals do, too. Among my 
Florida friends are a rice bird, a mocking- 
bird, several meadow larks, and, now, one 
butcher bird. There were 3 of this last 
kind. ; 
The first tragedy occurred about a month 
before I write. We have a barrel sunk in 
the earth to use beneath a lye hopper. The 
hopper has been destroyed, but the barrel 
is there, half full of water. My friend the 
butcher bird evidently tried to get a drink 
in this and was drowned. For several days 
I missed him; then I happened to glance 
in the barrel and saw him. 

THe second tragedly occurred a day or 2 
ago, also to a butcher bird. We have been 
putting out a phosphorus roach poison, and 
I am afraid the little fellow ate some 
roaches. He had a habit of staying on the 
roof, of our shacks. We had also been 
using Paris green in the cabbage patch. 
Whatever the cause,,I found him one day 
on the gable end, looking unhappy; not 
alert as was his custom, but sitting on his 
feet. Two hours later he was dead. 

The scandal is deeply interesting. The 
old romance of “Cock Robin” has been 
equaled, if not surpassed by my friend, the 
rice bird. He is about the size of a crow 
blackbird, and nearly as black, except for 2 
red spots, one.on each wing. Each spot is 
bordered by an orange band. 

The larks and other birds come to our 
shack to drink out of our water barrels, 
the dry season being unusually dry this 
year. About a month ago I heard what | 
supposed was a lark warbling very hoarse- 
ly. Wondering if it could be ill, I looked 
out of the window and saw my rice bird. 
He was doing his best to imitate the 
meadow lark. 


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Now, I like to reason out these things, 
and I find few of our wild creatures given 
to idle talk. Accordingly, I watched, each 
morning. When a jay mocks a hawk, he 
wishes to scare smaller birds from their 
nests. He likes eggs. It is not wit, nor hu- 
mor. What made my rice bird talk lark 
language? 

Thus far I have not answered the ques- 
tion, but the same lark comes each morn- 
ing with the same rice bird, and they an- 
swer each other regularly. Frequently the 
rice bird blunders and ends with an awk- 
ward squeak. 

One of my guesses is that both of these 
birds have lost their mates and have been 
driven together. I will not go so far as to 
say they will mate, but evidences are in fa- 
vor of such a theory. 

Over in the East we see the distant Ever- 
glades. Many stories are told me about 
these mysterious regions. Gangs of out- 
laws are reported hiding in there : wild ani- 
mals are numerous and Indians can be met, 
too. How true some of these stories may 
be, I can not say. We know that the Sem- 
inoles hunt through the swamps, we can 
be confident as to game and fish; but the 
outlaw tales are unproved, to me. 

Sportsmen would find our place a good 
one for hunting or fishing. 

Thos. H. Williamson, Flamingo, Fla. 





PROTECT THESE WANDERERS. 

March 3d was warm and we had a heavy 
thunder storm. It grew calm rapidly and 
the next morning was only 4 degrees above 
zero. As I was going down Main street I 
saw a duck on the sidewalk and when I 
drew near I found it to be a redhead. I was 
within 6 feet before it flew and then it only 
went 50 feet. I again tried to catch it, 
when it flew 100 yards where it was caught 
by a boy, who is now keeping it. The duck 
acted dazed and was almost starved to 
death. Can‘you explain how it came here? 
We have had no warm weather. The ice 
on the river is 3 feet thick and all the 
small streams are frozen. It has been the 
hardest winter in the memory of the oldest 


inhabitant. 
Lyman Brooks, Charlestown, N. H. 


This duck, like thousands of others, had, 
of course, been flying North to its summer 
breeding grounds and was probably in com- 
pany with a large flock. It was doubtless 
a young bird and being’ weaker than its 
companions it gradually became exhausted 
and had to drop out of the flock. It had 
probably wandered about the fields or the 
village some hours before you found it, 
without being able to get food and was 
consequently exhausted. It was, however, 
little worse off than the average duck 
which alights in ponds and rivers from 


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which the ice has lately moved, while the 
flocks are on their way to their breeding 
grounds in the North, yet many American 
shooters disgrace themselves by killing 
these poor birds while in this half starved 
condition. In all the States which have 
laws prohibiting spring shooting there are 
men, claiming to be sportsmen, who are 
clamoring for the repeal of these laws and 
who state that such laws deprive them of 
an inalienable right’ which they should be 
allowed to exercise.—EDpITor. 





PROTECTING RUFFED GROUSE, 

The time has come when the ruffed 
grouse should be protected entirely for a 
period of years, in those parts of the coun- 
try where they have become exceedingly 
scarce. In this section, and as far as I can 
learn in every other well populated section 
throughout New England, at least, their 
numbers afford only the faintest semblance 
of sport. Increase of hunters, modern arms 
and cutting off the forests have combined 
to thin them down nearly to the point of 
extermination. Shall we let the work go 
on until this noble bird is forever lost to 
us? Who would not enjoy seeing the 
grouse as plentiful as in former years? If 
that were so, could we not get more pleas- 
ure in hunting them with the camera, or 
even watching them and listening to their 
spirited tattoo echoing among the hills 
than can be derived from continued de- 
struction ? 

Let us hear what brother sportsmen think 
of this scheme of protection. - 

John L. Woodbury, Cornish, Me. 


A PET WOODCHUCK.,. 

In May last a woodchuck was caught 
by a hunter and brought to this city, when 
apparently only about 4 weeks old. He 
soon grew too large to keep in captivity, so 
we let him have his freedom, but he would 
not leave the locality. He took refuge un- 
der the barn, and made his appearance 
every day for his bread and molasses. Last 
October he failed to appear, and thinking 
it was too early for him to hibernate, we 
gave him up for lost. The 5th of March 
he put in his appearance again. He is very 
tame with people he is accustomed to be- 
ing fed by. If they walk to the lawn and 
return without his daily rations he will 
follow them to the house and even pull at 
their clothes. 

I am a lover of nature, and spent my 
younger days almost continually in the 
woods. 





George Mallett, Defiance, Ohio. 





WAS THE CROW GUILTY? 
December 6th, J. C. O’Brien, of this 
place, was driving in a sleigh not far from 
this village, when he noticed in the road- 





NATURAL 


_way in front of him, where no other track 


of man or animal appeared, the footprints 
of a rabbit evidently traveling at a high rate 
of speed. Not far ahead he presently saw 


_in the road a crow in the act of devouring 


the freshly killed carcass of a full-grown 
rabbit. As he approached, the crow seized 
the rabbit, dragged it several feet to one 
side of the road, and flew away. Examina- 
tion showed that the tracks of the rabbit 
ended just where the crow was first seen 
with it. From the appearance of the blood 
and the body of the animal, the rabbit had 
been but lately killed. Circumstantial evi- 
dence would seem to convict the crow. Is 
this an unusual experience? | 
H. W. Carter, Norfolk, Conn. 





PROBABLY A BULL SNAKE. 


A friend describes a snake which he 
found in the mountains near here, a kind 
that I have never seen in this country. It 
was much like the Idaho rattlesnake ex- 
cept that it was longer, slimmer and had a 
black, sharp pointed spike about 1%4 inches 
long at the end of its tail. It was found 
among rocks, coiled up, with the spike or 
tail pointing upward, and was spotted gray 
in color. Killed and stretched out it meas- 
ured 52 inches in length. Can you tell me 
what snake this is and what is its range? 

Martin Erickson, Grand Valley, Ida. 
ANSWER. 

You have given a fairly good description 
of the bull snake. It has a horn on top of 
the tail and is known to inhabit Idaho.— 
EpITor. 





NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 


You ask in RECREATION if anyone knows. 


of another instance where’ moose have 
locked horns in fight and consequently 
diediipa' 2 
On the shores of the Madawaska river, 
about 3 miles from here, a grand battle 
took place 8 years ago between 2 moose. 
The battleground was on the top of a 
steep bank, overlooking the river, and 
when the fight was finished the 2 warriors 


‘lay drowned in the water beneath with 


locked horns. They were found by some 


of the park rangers who brought the heads” 


and horns in just as they were and had 
them shipped to Toronto, where they are 
at present mounted in the Parliament 
building. R. C. W. Lett, Mowat, Ont. 


According to H. P. Gillette, no human 
eyes have ever seen a bald eagle on Puget 
sound, an eagle’s nest in a fir tree, a tyee 
or steelhead salmon in an eddy or a king- 
fisher nesting in banks, like bank swallows. 
The tyee and the steelhead salmon are dif- 
ferent fishes, Onchorhynchus chonicha and 


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Salmo gairdnerti. All the ‘other things 
you have probably seen yourself; so why 
do you let such palpable truths be contra- 
dicted? C. M. J., Portland, Ore. 


As I have before stated, I like to give a 
man a chance occasionally to put his foot 
in a trap in order to give some other man 
an opportunity to lambast him as he may 
deserve.— EpitTor. 





I read in Recreation that permanganate 
of potash, when used in a _ hypodermic 
syringe, was a cure for snake bites. Please 
tell me what strength to make solution. 

C. E. Arnold, Lewisburg, Pa. 


ANSWER. 


The dose of permanganate of potash is 
one or 2 grains and it is soluble in 20 parts 
of cold water or 3 parts of hot water. How- 
ever, if bitten do not wait for hot water. 
Inject a cold water solution near the wound. 
Then dissolve a second grain and inject 
that. Hypodermic syringes only hold, as 
a rule, 20 or 30 drops. Thirty drops equals 
about ¥% teaspoonful.—EpIrTor. 





Can you help me identify a species of 
bird which I often see here? It is not quite 
so large as a robin, is plump, has a small 
head, a short beak, a long forked tail and 
small, well formed feet. Its back is a dirty 
gray color, which gets browner near the 
head, which is a sort of reddish brown. Its 
breast is buff. It stays around the apple 
trees and bushes and has a nervous way of 
shaking itself. J. A. A., Jackson, Mich. 

ANSWER. . 

The bird you describe is probably: a fe- 
male pine grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator 
leucurva.—EnItTor. 





Regarding locked moose horns: In the 
fall of 1877 I saw 2 monster pairs locked. 
The trophy was owned by Colonel Dewitt, 
a lumberman, of Maine. He told us that 
one of his men had found them in that 
position. The horns showed signs of hav- 
ing been in the woods a long time before 
they were found. 

A taxidermist named Miller told me that 
Mr. Cornell, of St. Johns, who is also a 
taxidermist, had one or 2 such specimens. 

W. S. Crooker, Brookfield, N. S. 


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A. H. Mason, Murray Hill, N. J. 





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A MESSAGE FROM THE CITY ON THE 
SOUND. 

Speech of the Hon. T, E. Kershaw, delivered at 
the Annual Meeting of the L. A. S. at Colum- 
bus, Ohio. 

The Department of Fisheries and Game, 
which I at present represent in the far-off 
State of Washington, has, until the last 
year, been looked on more as a business 
proposition than from the _ sportsman’s 
peint of view. The office of Fish Commis- 
sioner.and Game Warden was established 
in my State 14 years ago, and at that time 
there were but a few thousand people there, 
but they were all struggling for commer- 
cial supremacy. All the States of the 
Union were represented by hardy pioneers, 
who dared to brave the hardships of an 
undeveloped country for the betterment 
of their financial condition. These pio- 
neers, many of whom have since attained 
commercial prominence in the West, were 
active and aiert to their own interests, and 
thoroughly. imbued with patriotism and 
loyalty to their adopted State; men of 
keen discernment who saw that the fishér- 
ies of the North Pacific could, if properly 
fostered and protected, be made the lead- 
ing industry of the State. 

Considering that the early development 
of the West was brought about by true 
men and women of scant, or at least 
moderate means, ever having in view the 
advancement of their own, as well as their 
State’s interest, you can readily see why 
the Department of Fisheries and Game of 
the State of Washington has exerted its 
influence in building up its commercial in- 
terests with apparent indifference to the 
interests of the sportsman. 

Our first commercial hatchery was es- 
tablished in 1895, when 5,000,000 young 
salmon were turned into the Columbia 
river. From that time on, we have con- 
tinued to build hatcheries, both on the Co- 
lumbia and on Puget sound, until to-day 
we have 18 hatcheries owned and operated 
by the State of Washington, and since 1895 
we have increased the output of salmon 
fry from 5,000,000 to 84,000,000 in 1902. In 
addition to this, the Federai Government 
maintains 2 hatcheries within our State, 


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making the annual output over 100,000,000 
in salmon fry that are liberated from the 
hatcheries in streams of our State. These 
salmon fry in a few months find their way 
to the great ocean, where they mingle with 
the unknown elements of the Pacific. There 
they thrive and grow until, in the course of 
nature, instinct directs them back to the 
streams from which they descended, to re- 
produce their kind, when they are inter- 
rupted by all the late appliances known to 
men, and converted into one of the great- 
est industries of the Pacific coast. 

No State in the Union has more varied 
resources than Washington. Mining is an 
important industry, yet in rgor the fishing 
industry exceeded the mining by $3,300,000. 
Notwithstanding we have forests so dense 
that the sunlight never penetrates them, yet 
in Igor the fishing industry of the State of 
Washington exceeded the lumber output, 
both foreign and domestic, by over $1,200,- 
000. In the Eastern part of the State we 
have the finest wheat farms in the world, 
yet in 1901 the fishing industry was in ex- 
cess of our wheat crop in cash value. 

When you consider that this fishing in- 
dustry has been built up in the short space 
of g years from a few thousand dollars to 
a commercial factor aggregating $10,000,- 
000 annually, you can easily understand why 
a conservative Legislature last year voted 
for the use of my department the liberal 
appropriation of $153,000. 

The pioneer who blazed his way through 
the forest, built his log hut on the hill- 
side and cleared his garden spot, has given 
way to the advance of civilization, and in 
place of his cabin’ appear the palatial resi- 
dence, the undulating waves of cultivated 
grain. The primitive merchant, with only a 
few hundred dollars invested in his busi- 
ness, has increased his resources a thou- 
sandfold, or given way to greater aggrega- 
tion of capital. The lonely fisherman who 
netted or speared fish while his family was 
warmed by the campfire and sheltered from 
the storm by the walls of his ‘tepee, has 
given way by means of modern appliances 
to large commercial enterprises. 

Statisticians will bear me out when I say 
that no other locality has made such rapid 
strides in civilization during the past few 
years as the State of Washington. Within 
the last decade, we have advanced from a 
struggling, straggling, impoverished com- 
munity, without money, developed resources 
or influence, until to-day our resources are 
the wonder of the world, and our money 
finds market in the avenues of the metropo- 
lis. We have prestige in every State in the 
Union, and are recognized as a factor in 
both the political and the commercial world. 
Our citizens are fast reaching that finan- 
cial condition where they can share with 


their Eastern neighbors the joys and pleas- 
ures of outdoor life. 

About 2 years ago, when I took charge of 
the Department of Fisheries and Game, my 
attention was first called to the rapid in- 
roads being made on Our game, and the 
depletion of our mountain streams of their 
finny tribes. The great prosperity of our 
State during the last few years has brought 
within her borders men of wealth, men of 
leisure, men who do not view life entirely 
rom a commercial standpoint; men who 
believe the serious side of life should be 
brightened by outdoor sports; men to whom 
the whisp of a fish and the ripple of water 
are aS music; to whom wild game in the 
forest, the majestic trees, the placid lakes 
and the babbling brook in which fish 
abound, appeal in all their grandeur and 
beauty. 

As we looked with pride on this great 
influx of wealth, prosperity and civilization 
within our State, we yet realized, with 
misgivings, that it would be the cause of the 
d:sappearance of the rainbow and the cut- 
throat from our mountain streams, and 
the deer and the elk from our wooded hills. 
We realized that if our game was not to 
become extinct within a few years, heroic 
measures must be adopted, and this led to 
a conference between a few true sportsmen 
of the West and myself. The result was 
that last year we placed a code of laws on 
our statute books for the preservation of 
our game; and, while they are not perfect 
nor so radical as we would have then, still 
they work well for a beginning, and we 
expect within a few years to make the State 
of Washington one of the grandest game 
preserves on this continent. 

The law prohibits the killing at any time 
of any spotted fawn, or more than 4 deer 
during the season when it is lawful to kill 
the same. It prohibits the killing at any 
time of any female elk, moose, antelope, 
mountain sheep or goat, and, during the 
season when it is lawful to kill any of 
these animals, only one male of each 
species may be killed. No person shall, 
during the season when it is lawful to 
hunt, kill more than 10 prairie chickens, 
IO grouse, sage hens, native pheasants, 
ptarmigan, Chinese or Mongolian pheas- 
ants, nor more than 15 quail of any variety, 
25 snipe, ducks, geese or brant, in one day, 

Deer must not be run with dogs nor fire- 
hunted; ducks and geese shall not be hunt: 
ed from launches nor sink boxes. 

This is the general law, but in many 
counties some of the game is entirely 
protected until 1906 and 1908. The sale 
of all game is prohibited except during No- 
vember of each year, when ducks, geese, 
brant and snipe may be sold to the number 
permitted to be killed in any one day. 
Hotel keepers, boarding houses, markets, 


384 


cold storage houses, ete., are prohibited 
from offering for sale or keeping, or hav- 
ing in their possession any of the afore- 
mentioned game, except geese, brant, ducks 
and snipe during November. ‘Transporta- 
tion companies are prohibited from trans- 
porting any of the aforementioned game 
into, out of, or through our State, and the 
same law applies to ail of our game fishes. 
Fishes in certain lakes are protected until 
the year 1908. Song birds and their nests 
are also protected. 

Every person who hunts in the State of 


Washington during the season when it 1S 


lawful to hunt, must first procure a license 
from the county auditor in the county in 
which he wishes to hunt, and if he desires 
to hunt in more than one county, he must 
obtain a license in eacli*county in which he 
hunts. The annual license fee is $1, and 
there is no discrimination between resident 
and non-resident applicants. The fee is 
piaced in the hands of the County Treas- 
urer, goes into the game protection fund, 
and is used for the purpose of employing 
county game wardens. In any case where 
the county commissioners fail to appoint a 
game warden, the State game warden has 
the right to appoint one. 

I have, during the past year, correspond- 
ed with or personally seen the Board of 
County Commissioners in most of the coun- 
ties of my State, and urged the necessity 
of building up our game preserves. 

This year I am building the first trout 
hatchery in our State. It is located on the 
beautiful Lake Chelan, far up in the Cas- 
cade mountains, and is an ideal spot for the 
enterprise as well as a pleasant resort for 
the tourist. ‘The hatchery will be modern 
in all its details, and will be supplied with 
a complete system of ponds and basins for 
rearing all the choice varieties of game 
fishes. At the convening of the next Legis- 
lature I shall ask for an appropriation for 
the construction of 2 more game fish hatch- 
eries. One will probably be located in the 
prairie country, on the Little Spokane river, 
about 9 miles from Spokane, in the Eastern 
part of our State. The other will probably 
be located in the Western part of the State, 
on Lake Crescent, a most picturesaue body 
of water high up in the Olympic range, 
and one of the most beautiful places known 
to man. These hatcheries will likewise be 
modern in all their equipments, and when 
completed and in operation, my State will 
be as well equipped for supplying our 
streams and lakes with game fishes as any 
States in the Union. 

Before I return home, there is one mat- 
ter to which I wish to call your attention. 
In 1905, the Lewis and Clarke Exposition 
will be held in Portland, Oregon, just 
across the Columbia river from the borders 
of my State, and a few hours’ ride from 


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the beautiful city of Seattle. Transporta- 
tion will be furnished so cheaply as to in- 
duce visitors to attend the exhibition from 
the remotest corners of the continent. Ata 
meeting of the Game Protective Associa- 
tion of my State, which I attended at Se- 
attle a few days before leaving home, it 
was unanimously decided to use all honor- 
able means to induce this association to 
hold its Seventh annual convention in 
Seattle, during the summer of 1905. If you 
accept our ‘invitation we promise you a 
hearty welcome. You will meet, on the 
shores of the Pacific, a whole souled class 
of people; men who have had the courage 
to leave the luxuries of life behind them 
and by their energy and enterprise help to 
raise an empire out of the wilderness of the 
West. You will meet men who are build- 
ing up the great West, generous men, cour- 
ageous, enterprising, broad minded men, 
true and brave, who know what is right and 
who dare to do it. We will show you the 
great wheat farms of our State, the home 
of the grouse and the prairie hen. We will 
show you the mighty rivers of the West, 
the Columbia and the Fraser; the spawn- 
ing grounds of the Chinook and the sock- 
eye; the magic cities of the West that are 
the wonder of the commercial world; the 
grandest mountains in the world, enclosing 
the most beautiful inland lakes. We will 
show you the wooded hills, the range of the 
deer and the elk, and will let you listen to 
the sweet music of our mountain streams, 
the paradise of the rainbow, the Mediter- 
ranean of the ‘West, and will let you breathe 
the pure air from the placid Pacific. We 
will show you the eternal snow-capped 
peaks of Mt. Tacoma, Mt. Baker and Mt. 
Hood, standing as sentinel guards over this 
great empire of the West. 

You can gaze on mountain streams and 
cataracts tossing their spray far into the 
heavens, glistening in the rays of the sun 
with prismatic tints that would cause the 
rainbow in all her glory to blush with 
shame. You can see the threatening smoke 
ascending skyward from volcanic erup- 
tions, and then turn your vision to the 
peaceful harbors of the Pacific, and beho! 
the great ocean steamers rocking as quietly 
to their anchors as sleeping babes in. their 
cradles. We will show you on our bench- 
lands the finest timber in the world, gigan- 
tic trees of fir, hemlock, cedar and spruce, 
measuring 14 feet in diameter, and climbing 
heavenward 200 feet before shooting forth 
their first limbs. We will show you val- 
leys of wild flowers, sending forth such 
fragrance and perfume as to discourage all 
the sweets-of Arabia, and which will give 
you eternal dreams of paradise; we will 
dine and wine you to the queen’s taste, and 
will entertain you with songs and stories by 
the most beautiful women on earth. 


PURE’ AND IMPURE FOODS. 
Edited by C. F. Lancwortny, Pu.D, 


Author of “On Citraconic, Itaconic and Mesaconic Acids,” “‘Fish as Food,” ete. 


“What a Man Eats He Is.” 


THE IMPORTANCE OF POULTRY. ‘ 
Poultry of various kinds has for many 
centuries supplied a large proportion of 
the food of civilized man, and in almost 
every country of the world the poultry in- 
dustry is an important branch of agricul- 
ture. According to the returns of the cen- 
sus for 1900 the total number of chickens, 
including guinea fowls, on farms in the 
United States was 233,598,085; the total 
number of turkeys, 6,599,367; geese, 5,676,- 
863; and ducks, 4,807,358. From the statis- 
tics gathered it appeared that poultry was 
kept on 888 per cent of the farms in this 
country and that the total value of the 
poultry raised on farms in 1899 was $136,- 
891,877. Although many of the hens and 
chickens are bred for their eggs rather than 
their flesh, a good proportion of the birds 
finally appear in the meat market and al- 
most*all the other varieties of poultry are 
bred primarily for the table. It is safe to 
say that 125,000,000 chickens and other 
kinds of poultry are consumed in this coun- 
try each year. 

In its strictly technical sense the word 
poultry is used to describe birds domesti- 
cated for their eggs or flesh. Game birds, 
that is, wild birds killed for sport or food, 
are often used on the table and, as in the 
case of some wild ducks, may be closely 
related to domestic varieties; but as long 
as they are in their wild state they can not 
be classed with poultry. Not all domesti- 
cated birds are necessarily poultry. Pig- 
eons bred for ornament or as carriers would 
not come under that head although they do 
belong there when bred for their flesh. 
Pea fowls were formerly often bred for the 
table and were an important variety of 
poultry, but now they are bred mainly for 
ornament, and form only an almost negli- 
gable part of the poultry industry. 

Thus the kinds of birds included under 
the term poultry may differ in different 
places and at different times. Here and 
in Europe, however, it now commonly in- 
_ cludes common fowls, or chickens, turkeys, 
geese, ducks, guinea fowls, pigeons and, less 
commonly, pea fowls, pheasants and swans. 

Ducks, geese and swans belong to the 
order Natatores, or swimmers, character- 
ized by their web feet and long thick bills. 
Chickens, turkeys, guineafowls, peafowls 
and pheasants belong to the same scien- 
tific order of birds, the Gallinace@, or comb 
bearers, and resemble one another more 


or less closely in structure and _ habits. 
They are distinguished from other birds 
in that the flesh on the breast and wings 
is lighter in color than on the rest of the 
body. This difference in the flesh in dif- 
ferent parts of the birds is not fully un- 
derstood; it is generally supposed that the 
light flesh has less muscular power; at 
any rate those birds, whose chief means 
of locomotion is walking and who conse- 
quently do not need as strong wings and 
breasts as flying or swimming birds, have 
paler. breast and wing flesh. The differ- 
ence in color is apparently due to vari- 
ations in the quantity of hemoglobin (the 
principal red substance of blood) present 
in the flesh. Investigations carried on in 
France a number of years ago showed 
that the red color was a product of mus- 
cular activity. In other words when mus- 
cles work as actively as those of the breast 
of flying birds, hemoglobin is produced. 

Geese have been known as table birds at 
least since the days of Ancient Egypt. In 
all probability, chickens were domesticated 
in Burmah, in early times, from the jungle 
fowl, native in Southwestern Asia and 
Oceanica. No one knows when they were 
first tamed by man, but they were surely 
used in China in 800 B. C., if not earlier. 
The ancient Babylonian monuments men- 
tion them, and it was probably from Persia 
that they were introduced into Greece at 
the time of Alexander the Great. Since 
then they have spread all over the world 
in the track of European settlement. 

As regards the size of chickens for tabie 
birds, the live weight of standard bred 
cocks ranges from Io to 12 pounds, hens 
from 7 to 9.5, cockerels from 8 to I0 
pounds, pullets from 6 to 8 pounds and 
broilers about 2.5 pounds. A good table 
bird should have a large proportion cf 
flesh to the size of its bones, and a large, 
full breast, on which is found the delicate 
white meat. Long, thin legs and wings 
are undesirable, as they contain much bene 
and little meat. In England dark legged 
chickens are considered better than those 
which have legs and body of the same 
color, but in this country the preference is 
for the latter, though the reason for either 
choice is not clear. Light colored birds 
perhaps pluck cleaner than dark ones and 
are easier to make attractive for the mar- 
ket, which demands a skin free from vis- 
ible pin feathers. Almost any of the stan- 


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386 


dard breeds, except some of the fancy va- 
rieties, can be made into good table birds. 
However, some of this class, notably 
games, are thought-especially desirable for 
the table. 





THE VALUE OF OATMEAL AS FOOD. 


An English physician recently asserted in 
the London Daily Mail that instead of 
being a wholesome and nutritious food oat- 
meal porridge is rapidly attaining the pro- 
portions of a national curse. 

According to the New York Times, “This 
characterization of a food staple which has 
attained a recognized place in the contem- 
poraneous dietary, as a curse from any point 
of view, would seem to involve some exag- 
geration. Very likely more has been claimed 
for porridge as the equivalent of beef than 
its real value for dietetic purposes would 
warrant, but it undoubtedly has its place in 
the domestic economy, and has become im- 
portant. It seems to be the one breakfast 
cereal which wears well, and while perhaps 
too hearty for large consumption in sum- 
mer, it could not well be spared as a food 
for either horses or men.” 

That the view expressed by the writer in 
the Daily Mail is not shared by all who 
have studied the problem is shown by the 
fact that one of the best known authorities 
on dietetics in Scotland attributes the poor 
condition of many laborers’ families at the 
present time to the substitution of bread 
and tea for the old fashioned oatmeal por- 
ridge and milk diet. Unsanitary surround- 
ings and poverty, so great that it prevents 
the use of meat and other foods with por- 
ridge or bread, are factors which must be 
considered in discussing at all accurately 
the bad health noticed among the poor in 
Scotland. 

The truth of the matter is that both 
bread and oatmeal are good foods when 
well prepared and reasonably used. Oat- 
meal is a starchy food and should not be 
overloaded with sugar when eaten, a cus- 
tom which is responsible for much of the 
indigestion attributed by many Americans 
to its use. Milk contains considerable ni- 
trogenous material and may appropriately 
accompany oatmeal; these 2 foods in com- 
bination being probably more nutritious 
than bread and tea_if the diet were to be 
limited practically to either of these combi- 
nations. It is important that oatmeal should 
be thoroughly cooked at a temperature high 
enough to insure the proper changes in the 
starch molecule. Oatmeal, such as we are 
all familiar with, cooked so that it is more 
like a poultice than a food, is enough to 
bring any article of diet into disrepute. 
Well cooked and eaten without too much 
“sugar, oatmeal is undoubtedly a wholesome 
food of abcut the same nutritive value as 
wheat bread. 


RECREATION, 


TILES IN GERMAN MEAT SHOPS. 


Perfect cleanliness in handling food prod- 
ucts should be insisted on by purchasers. 
The use of tiles, marble and metal, which 
may be easily cleaned, in place of wood, in 
fitting up markets, etc., is growing and 
should be encouraged. Apparently more at- 
tention is paid to such matters in Europe 
than in this country and many will recall 
the attractive shops in Paris and other con- 
tinental cities, for the sale of bread, cooked 
meat, and other provisions. 

On this subject the American Consul at 
Manheim, Germany, writes as follows: 
“Americans visiting Manheim frequently 
comment on the attractive meat shops to be 
seen here. This attractiveness is secured 
largely by ‘the use of ornamental tiles for 
floors, walls and even ceilings and counters. 
The tiles on the walls are similar to those 
used in bathrooms in the United States. 
They are generally of light shades, arranged 
in patterns of artistic design. The floors 
are also laid with tiles of different colors. 
These tiles, however, are unglazed and are 
heavier and of cheaper quality than those 
on the walls. 

“In one of the most attractive of these 
stores, the walls are of ivory-colored tiles, 
with panels of flowers and other designs. 
The counter, which runs along 2 sides of 
the room, is of the same ivory-colored ma- 
terial, ornamented in gold. It presents a 
rich, handsome appearance. Even the book- 
holders, scales, and gas fixtures are tiled. 
The general effect of the room is sugges- 
tive, above all, of cleanliness. 

“Stoneware furniture for stores is a nov- 
elty in Germany and seems to be applicable 
especially to meat shops, fish and other 
markets, kitchens, sculleries, etc. The most 
important center for its manufacture in 
this country is Mettlach, where there are 
several large factories.” 


A lawyer had as client a negro who was 
accused of stealing chickens. Things were 
going in the darkey’s favor, until he was 
placed on the stand. 

“Are you the defendant in this case?” 
asked the judge. 

“No, sir,’ replied the negro, with an 
amazed look on his face, and pointing to 
his counsel; “I’se the gen’leman that stole 
the chickens; there’s the defendant.”—Ar- 
gonaut. 





“Mr. Mills,” said the spokesman of the 
workingmen’s committee, “we have come 
to tell you, sir, that we want shorter hours 
and——” 

“Very well,” interrupted the busy manu- 
facturer, “we'll begin right off with shorter 
dinner hours.”—Exchange. 


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the best piano possible at the lowest pos- 
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ano dealers are very large, usually not less 
than $75 or $100, and often as much as 
$250. 

To enable buyers to save this amount, 
Wing & Son, a firm of piano manufactur- 
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ing their pianos direct from their factory 
at wholesale price. They do not supply 
their pianos to dealers or retail stores, and 
do not employ salesmen or agents. Their 
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of 13th St., New York City, and are among 
the oldest in the United States, having been 
established over 36 years ago. In that time 
Messis. Wing & Son have manufactured 
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These are the days when sportsmen’s 
wants are supplied before they really exist. 
For years there have been tin tackle boxes 
on the market that seemed to answer every 
purpose, but now the Merriam Mfg. Co., 
of Durham, Conn., has put ont a new one 
that makes the old ones look like 2 bits and 
a nickel. This new box has the call on the 
others for the reason that there are no trays 
in it to be lifted out and in and packed 
from time to time. All the interior space 
of the box can be utilized for tackle of 
various kinds, and when through assorting 
and placing the goods you simply shut 
down a trap door, close the lid of the box, 
Jock it and there you are. Everything is 
securely held in place and when wanted 
any article in the box can be reached in 
an instant, 

This new contrivance is fully described 
and illustrated in a circular issued by the 
Merriam Mfg. Co., and every angler in the 
land should have a copy of it. In writing 
for it please mention RECREATION. 





Bird, Jones & Kenyon have devised and 


387 


are making a hunting coat that is a de- 
cided improvement on anything of the kind 
I have ever seen. It is made of brown 
duck canvas, of various shades, which is 
treated by a chemical process that ren- 
ders it entirely waterproof and that at 
the same time leaves the cloth soft and 
pliable. The trouble with such goods here- 
tofore has been that the waterproofing 
process has made them stiff and noisy 
when worn in the woods. This new pro- 
cess duck is almost as flexible and pleasant 
to the touch as buckskin, yet is absolutely 
waterproof. 

The coat is known as the Duxbak, be- 
cause it sheds water like that well known 
watershed. 

Write for a circular and a sample of the 
‘cloth, and be sure to mention RECREATION. 





The Blair Camera Co. has issued a 
beautiful little book describing and illus- 
trating certain new features in cameras, 
shutters, etc., which this house is put- 
ting out. The book is full of valuable in- 
formation and the cuts are of so high an 
order that they show you exactly what 
each camera is. Full details are given as 
to prices of all cameras and the various 
other goods which the Hawk-Eye people 
supply. Write for a copy ot the book 
and please mention RECREATION. 





The Ithaca Gun Co., which has been 
conducted as a copartnership for the 
past 22 years, has recently incorporated 
under the laws of the State of New York. 
The officers are Geo. Livermore, Pres.; 
-L. P. Smith, Vice-Pres.; C. H. Smith, 
Sec.; Paul Smith Livermore, Treas. The 
management remains unchanged and the 
incorporation is the result of an increase 
in business from year to year until the 
Ithaca Gun Co. became too large to be 
run under a copartnership. 





Readers of RECREATION are cautioned 
against doing business with Henry Flohr, 
who claims to be a representative of Rec- 
REATION. He is a swindler and should be 
arrested and locked up wherever found. 
He has taken a number of subscriptions to 
RECREATION, and has failed to send in any 
of the money collected for them. 





The Sunny South Handicap Amateur 
Average was won by M. E. Atchison with 
his Parker gun. 


EDITOR'S CORNER. 


The Tacoma, Washington, Lodge of Elks 
has passed a resolution which, after reciting 
the reckless and wicked slaughter of. elk in 
the Olympic mountains for their teeth, de- 
clares that the members of the Tacoma 
lodge will not buy nor wear elk teeth in fu- 
ture, unless they can be assured that elk 
are not being killed for the purpose of pro- 
curing such teeth. 

The resolution also advises other lodges 
of Elks throughout the country to take. sim- 
ilar action. It is high time all members of 
that order should take this important step. 
The real badge of the Order of Elks is a 
gold or bronze elk head, and the wearing of 
elk teeth is a custom which certain mem- 
bers of the order have copied from sports- 
men. Many a man who hunts and kills an 
elk feels inclined to wear one of its teeth 
on his watch chain; but a man who has 
never hunted elk and who simply happens 
to belong to an organization named after 
that animal has no excuse for wearing a 
tooth or any other part of an elk. _Further- 
more, it seems ridiculous that any organiza- 
tion should contribute so largely as this one 
has to the extermination of the animal for 
which it is named. 


Two Chicago game hogs, whose names, 
unfortunately, I have not been able to 
learn, went to Arkansas last fall to shoot 
ducks. They openly disregarded the game 
law of that State, one section of which 
provides that no non-resident of the State 
shall be allowed to hunt therein at any time. 
These Chicago chaps, however, seemed to 
imagine they would not be disturbed in 
violating the law. They reckoned without 
their host. When the men returned to For- 
est City from their 2 weeks’ trip to De 
Roach lake they had with them over 500 
ducks. Sheriff J. D. McKnight, of St. 
Francis county, confiscated the birds and 
strangely enough allowed the men to leave 
town on the next train without being pros- 
ecuted. They should have been fined to 
the full extent of the law, but they prob- 
ably got a lesson that will keep them out of 
Arkansas in the future. 





The Manitoba Legislature has passed the 
League bill prohibiting the use of the auto- 
matic gun in that Province. This is the 
first legislative body in the world to take 
such action. 
important game bird Provinces in Canada. 
Its vast wheat fields are the breeding and 
feeding grounds of more prairie chickens 


Manitoba is one of the most’ 


388 


than can be found in any other Province, 
or in any State of the Union, and the 
Northern portions of that Province are 
great breeding grounds for ducks and 
geese. It is gratifying to know that the law 
makers of Manitoba have a proper appre- 
ciation of the value of these birds, and that 
they should have been the leaders in the 
movement against this modern slaughtering 
machine. 





_ Leon Kurtes, of Bellville, Ill., saw a deer 
in the woods near his father’s house and 
immediately seized his gun, went after it 
and _ killed it. It proved to be a doe and 
to have belonged to little Mamie Bauer, the 
daughter of a man living a few miles from 
Kurtes, and it had a string of bells around 
its neck. Kurtes was arrested, taken into 
court, and fined $50 and costs. The boy 
said he did not know the deer was a pet, 
and that he did not know there was any 
law in Illinois to prohibit the killing of 
deer. He said he saw the animal and was 
seized with a desire to bring down his first 
pair of antlers, but he probably mistook the 
string of bells for horns. He will be able 
to judge better of markings hereafter. 





Gus Ottevere, of Whatcom, Wash., has 
been for some time smuggling game into 
that town and selling it to restaurants in 
violation of law. Game Warden F. D. Ad- 
ams got a tip that Ottevere was returning 
from one of his rural tours with a number 
of ruffed grouse concealed in a nail keg. 
The warden laid for Smart Aleck Ottevere, 
caught him and took him into the justice’s 
court, where he was fined $100 and costs. 
I regret I have not the name of the justice 
who tried the case, in order that I might 
do him proper honor; but whoever he may 
be, he is a brick. 





A bill was introduced in the New Jersey 
Legislature last winter, at the instance of 
certain fruit growers, allowing the killing 
of robins whenever, in the opinion of a 
farmer or a fruit grower, the birds deserved ‘ 
killing; but the Senate killed the bill by a 
vote of 46 to 8. The Senate is all right. 





Otto Hofstead, of Butte, Mont., was ar- 
rested and fined $25 and costs for merely 
offering venison for sale. It would not pay 
him to make many such offers as this in a 
day. “ 





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399 

AN UNEXPLORED ALASKAN RE- 
GION. 
E. K. HILL. 


In the exploitation of Alaska and its 
gold fields, it seems strange that the world 
has overlooked a section of that country 
destined, I think, to become a center of 
attraction to the gold hunter, and to the 
tourist. 

In the summer of ‘96, seeking a respite 
from the drudgery of teaching, I planned 
a vacation trip Northward from Seattle, 
Washington. In company with Professor 
Bailey and other teachers I found my way 
to the strawberry carpeted sand beaches of 
Yakutat bay. 

To stretch one’s self on the mossy 
mounds; to bask in the sunshine; to look 
up to the still, white summits of the lofty 
St. Elias range: that was sufficient relaxa- 
tion for a tired schoolmaster. 

But we were there for exploration as 
well as for rest. .With boats and camping 
outfit, we were soon venturing out on Dis- 
enchantment bay, which forces its sinuous 
length 40 miles into the heart of the loft- 
iest and grandest range in North America. 
No one can describe the impression pro- 
duced by that culmination of Arctic gran- 
deur and desolation. The spruce forests 
shrink back as if in horror at the life- 
destroying breath of stupendous glacial 
torrents which, with constant thunder, pour 
into the troubled waters of the bay. 

After camping along the beach, rowing 
amid the icebergs, exploring the dead gla- 
ciers and the accessible mountain slopes, 
for a few weeks, we determined to seek a 
passage Eastward to the Alsek river. 
Jack Dalton had come over from the White 
river and passed down the East branch of 
the Alsek to the coast, some years before; 
but neither white man nor native had ex- 
plored the West branch, arising North of 
Mt. St. Elias. After trying several im- 
passable dead glaciers, both with packs 
and with sled, and spending a month floun- 
dering in the snow among high peaks and 
ridges, we finally discovered a low pass. 
Through it we drew a large load over to 
the river in 4 days, and returned in 3. 
When snow is on the ice, from January to 
June, the passage is easy, even with a large 
load on your sled. There is no steep climb- 
ing and no narrow gorge. 

The river country abounds in game. I 
killed 2 bear the first day after reaching 
timber and saw tracks of many other fur 
and game animals. 

The West branch of the Alsek is a large 
stream, and will probably furnish an easy 
passage to its head waters. Thence it is 
but a short distance to the tributaries of 
the White, the Tanana and the Copper 
tivers. 

It would seem that the Northeast side of 
the St. Elias range should be a rich field 
for the prospector. I shall guide a party 
into that country in the early spring. 


AN OCULAR DEMONSTRATION. 
. M. WHITFIELD, __ 


“Yes,” said the old man with the glass 
eye, as he removed that vitreous substitute 
from its usual place and carefully polished 
it with a ragged handkerchief—“yes, its 
likely I’ve had more surprisin’ adventures | 
than any o’ you fellers.” The loungers in 
the village store winked at one another, 
and the old man continued:. 

“Once while I wuz a herdin’ sheep up in 
Judith Basin, I went out with my old 8-bore 
to see if I could get a shot at a coyote that 
had. been killin’ my lambs. As I turned 
a bend in a coulee on my way back to 
camp, thar sat an old black bear not Io 
yeards ahead of me. Soon’s my hair 
had laid sufficient, I backed off a few steps 
an’ blazed away. The b’ar stood a minute 
as if he’d forgot sunthin, then started off 
through the sage brush like he wuz goin’ 
to hunt fer it. 

“Meantime I rammed a load of powder 
into th’ old gun an’ wuz a-feelin’ fer my 
buck shot when Mr. B’ar come out o’ th’ | 
brush a-pintin’ right my way. I see he 
wuz somewhat riled, an’ not wishin’ to 
have no fuss with him I lit fer th’ nighest 
tree. Mr. B’ar made fer th’ same one. 
i managed to git up it fust, though none 
too soon, fer th’ b’ar wan’t move’n a len’th 
behind. I wound one leg around a limb 
an’ fired that load o’ powder right in his 
face. At that, he slid down th’ tree and 
went to pawin’ dirt an’ sneezin. I loaded 
with powder ag’in the best I could under 
th’ circumstances, but when I felt fer mv 
shot pouch, I found I’d lost it while 
makin’ fer th’ tree. 
~ “Well, th’ b’ar kep’ a gittin’ madder all 
th’ time an’ wuz comin’ up th’ tree again. 
Th’ hair wuz all burned off his head whar 
I’d shot th’ powder in his face an’ it made 
him look like one o’ them ’Gyptian mum- 
mies, but he want nigh so dead! 

I drawed my legs up as far as I could 
an’ wuz a-tryin’ to think of a prayer, when 
all to once this old glass eye o’ mine be- 
gun to twitch. Quicker’n it takes to tell 
it, I out with it, rammed it into th’ old 
gun an’ took a snap shot at th’ b’ar just 
as he wuz pullin’ off one o’ my boots. 
Down he went all in a heap an’ he Jaid 
so durn still I thought mebbe he wuz a- 
playin’ possum on me, an’ I sot right 
where I wuz fer some little time. Finally, 
I clim down out of th’ tree an’ took a 
circle around the b’ar, an’ I'll treat the 
house if I didn’t catch sight of the old 
glass eye just as it winked at me. It had 
gone through the b’ar and jest pricked 
through the skin on the other side. This 
is th’ same old eye, an’ a fine time I had 
rubbin the powder marks off'n it.” 


A woman may think her husband a fail- 
ure, but marriage; never. 


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392 
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 


“For sport the lens is better than the gun.” 


I wish to make this department of the utmost 
use to amateurs. I shall, therefore, be glad to 
answer any questions and ‘to print any items sent 
me by practical amateurs relating to their experi- 
ence in photography. 





THE ANNUAL COMPETITION 


RECREATION has conducted 8 amateur 
photographic competitions, all of which 
have been eminently successful. The gth 
opens April Ist, 1904, and will close No- 
vember 30th, 1904. 

Following is a list of prizes to be 


awarded: 

First prize: A Long Focus Korona Camera, 
5 x 7, made by the Gundlach Optical Co., Roch- 
ester, N. Y., fitted with a Turner-Reich Anastig- 
mat Lens, and listed at $85. 

Second prize: A 4 x 5 Petite Century Camera, 
with Goerz Anastigmat Lens and Century Shutter, 
listed at $73. 

Third prize: 
made by the Rochester Lens Co., 
listed at $36. 

Fourth prize: A Waterproof Wall Tent, 12 x 16, 
made by Abercrombie & Fitch, New York, and 
listed at $32. 

Fifth prize: An Al-Vista-Panoramic Camera, 
made by the Multiscope and Film Co., Burlington, 
Wis., and listed at $30. 

Sixth prize: A No. 3 Focusing Weno Hawk- 
eye Camera, made by the Blair Camera Co., Roch- 
ester, N. Y., and listed at $27.50. 

Seventh prize: A 12 x 12 Waterproof Wall 
Tent, listed at $16.30. 

Eighth prize: A Tourist Hawkeye Camera, 
4 X 5, and made by the Blair Camera Co., Roch- 


A Royal Anastigmat Lens, 4 x 5, 
Rochester, N. Y.; 


ester, N. Y., and listed at $15. 
Ninth prize: A Bristol] Steel Fishing Rod, made 
by the Horton Mfg. Co., Bristol, Conn., and 


listed at $8. 

Tenth prize: A pair of High Grade Skates, 
made by Barney & Berry, Springfield, Mass., and 
listed at $6. 

The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 
a pair of chrome tanned leather driving or hunt- 
ing gloves made by the Luther Glove Co., and 
listed at $1.50. 

The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 
a Laughlin Fountain Pen, listed at $1. 

A special prize: A Goerz Binocular Field Glass, 
listed at $74.25, will be given for the best picture 
of a live wild animal. 


Subjects are limited to wild animals, 
birds, fishes, camp scenes, and to figures 
or groups of persons, or animals, repre- 
senting in a truthful manner shooting, fish- 
ing, amateur photography, bicycling, sail- 
ing or other form of.outdoor or indoor 
sport or recreation. Awards to be made 
by 3 judges, none of whom shall be com- 
petitors. 

Conditions: Contestants must submit 2 
mounted prints, either silver, bromide, 
platinum or carbon; of each subject, which, 
as well as the negative, shall become the 
property of Recreation. Negatives not to 
be sent unless called for. 

In submitting pictures; please write sim- 
ply your full name and address on the back 
of each, and number such prints as you 
may send, I, 2, 3, etc. Then in a letter ad- 


RECREATION, 


dressed Photographic Editor, RECREATION, 
say, for instance: 

No. I is entitled ——- ——. < 

Made with a —— —— camera. 


—— —— lens. 

On a —— —— plate. 

Printed on ——- —— paper. 
Length of exposure, ——- ——. 


Then add any further information you 
may deem of interest to the judges, or to 
other amateur photographers. Same as to 
Nos. 2, 3,¢tc. 

This is necessary in order to save post- 
age. In all cases where more than the 
name and address of the sender and serial 
number of picture are written on the back 
of prints I am required to pay letter post- 
age here. I have paid as high as $2.50 on 
a single package of a dozen pictures, in ad- 
dition to that prepaid by the sender, on ac- 
count of too much writing on the prints. ._ 

Any number of subjects may be sub- 
mitted. . 

Pictures that may have been published 
elsewhere, or that may have been entered 
in any other competition, not available. No 
entry fee charged. 

Don’t let people who pose for you look 
at the camera.- Occupy them in some other 
way. Many otherwise fine pictures have 
failed to win in the former competitions 


because the makers did not heed this warn- © 


ing. 





IMPROVING NEGATIVES. 
III. 


Faulty negatives may be much improved 
by a judicious choice of printing paper, but 
some negatives fail to give satisfactory 
prints, even when used with whet is appar- 
ently the correct, paper. Often these may 
be modified and improved in other ways. 
Take, for instance, an over exposed nega- 
tive. It is full of detail but thin. The sky 
prints a dirty gray and there are no high 
lights. Although a slow printing paper like 
carbon velox, or even slow cyco, gives 
a fair print, a vastly better one can be 
made by intensifying the negative. This 
is a simple operation and the newest recruit 
in the art need not hesitate to try it. There 
are various formule for intensification, 
but probably the one most used is that 
which employs bichloride of mercury as the 
active agent. Intensification by this meth- 
od consists in first bleaching the negative 
in a solution of bichloride of mercury and 
then blackening it in a weak solution of — 
sodium sulphite or ammonia. 

To prepare the bleaching solution, take 
4 ounces of-water and to it add 40 grains 
each of bichloride of mercury (corrosive 
sublimate) and ammonium chloride (sal 
ammonic). While these are dissolving, 
which takes some time with the bichloride. 
put the negative to soak in a tray of cold 


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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 393 


water, as it is important to free it from 
hypo before attempting to intensify it. Let 
it wash for half an hour, by which time the 
bleaching solution will have dissolved 
ready for use. Place the negative in this 
solution, and it will at once begin to turn 
milky white. 

Leave it in the solution until it is white 
clear through to the back. There is no 
danger of overdoing this part of the opera- 
tion, and a few minutes more or less will 
make little difference in the result. When 
the plate is thoroughly bleached pour off 
the bleaching solution and keep it for fu- 
ture use. Wash the bleached negative thor- 
oughly for half an hour at least, and in the 
meantime make up a solution of sodium 
sulphite, about 20 grains to an ounce of 
water. Having given the bleached negative 
a thorough washing, place it in the sulphite 
solution, and it will immediately begin to 
turn brownish black. As soon as the black- 
ening process is complete pour off the soda 
solution and give the negative another half 
hour’s wash. The whole negative will have 
become thicker and the color changed to a 
warm brown black, and the negative will 
print much slower than before. The print 
will show decidedly more snap and con- 
trast than those previously made. The 
whole process may be repeated if the first 
trial fails to give satisfactory results, al- 
ways being careful to give the negative a 
thorough washing between the operations. 

There are other methods of intensification 
which may easily be tried, but the foregoing 
is probably as satisfactory as any for the 
amateur. Intensification is of value only 
when there is detail in the negative to work 
on. On under exposed negatives which are 
thin but which lack detail in the shadows 
it is disappointing, for it only adds con- 
trast, but can not bring out detail which 
does not exist. It really makes the nega- 
tive worse instead of showing improve- 
ment. It is almost impossible to make any 
improvement in badly under exposed nega- 
tives, and the best course is to throw them 
away. 

For negatives which are thin from over 
exposure simple intensification is probably 
the best means of improvement. Some over 
exposed negatives, in which development 
has been prolonged in the attempt to gain 
contrast, are thick and heavy looking, slow 
in printing, and yield flat, washed out prints. 
On these it is best to perform a sort of 
compound operation, first removing some of 
the extra. density with a suitable reducing 
agent, and then, if the prints still lack con- 
trast, intensifying the negative as previ- 
ously described. 

As with intensification there are various 
methods for reducing a negative, but the 
best one is that known as Farmer’s method, 


which makes use of a solution of red prus- 
siate of potash and hypo. To prepare it 
weigh out 4% ounce of hypo and dissolve it 
in 4 ounces of water. In another bottle 
or graduate dissolve ferricyanide of potash 
(red prussiate of potash), 40 grains in one 
ounce of water. This should be done in a 
weak light, as light causes a chemical 
change to take place in the ferricyanide. For 
the same reason the operation of reducing 
should be performed in a dim light. 

To use the solution, add a few drops 
of the ferricyanide solution to the hypo 
and pour it over the negative, which has 
previously been well soaked to soften the 
film. It is advisable to give the negative 
this preliminary soaking before subjecting 
it to the action of any chemical solution, in 
order that the action of the solution may 
be uniform. The negative should be 
watched closely, and if it does not begin to 
lose density in a few minutes, add a few 
more drops of the ferricyanide solution, the 
rapidity of action depending on the quantity 
of this chemical in the solution. It is bet- 
ter to use a rather weak solution, as its ac- 
tion is more likely to be even and can be 
more easily controlled, but at the same 
time too long soaking in the bath may 
stain the negative yellow. 

After a few trials you will learn how the 
operation should proceed, and will mix 
your solutions accordingly. Keep a close 
watch on the negative, and as soon as it 
appears thin enough give it a thorough 
washing, for half an hour at least. If, on 
making a trial print after the negative has 
dried, it still lacks contrast, intensify it as 
already explained, and in all probability it 
will show great improvement. The action 
of Farmer’s reducer on a plate is like that 
of a carpenter's plane on a board. It 
takes off an even layer from the whole sur- 
face, changing the relative densities of the 
different parts little, but slightly increasing 
the contrast. For harsh, under exposed and 
contrasty negatives a reducer of the oppo- 
site sort is needed, one that will take hold 
of the dense portions, while acting slightly 
on the thin parts. It is only within the last 
few years that a reducer of this character 
has been known, but at the present time we 
have an excellent article for this purpose, 
known as ammonium persulphate. It can 
be bought at any photographic supply store 
for about 20 cents an ounce, an ounce being 
sufficient for dozens of negatives. To use 
it, dissolve 30 grains in 3 ounces of water. 
Prepare also a solution of sodium sulphate, 
say 75 grains to an ounce of water, which 
is practically a 10 per cent solution. Give 
the faulty negative a good preliminary wash- 
ing and then place it in the reducer. Re- 
duction begins at once and must be care- 
fully watched. Just before the right point 


304 | RECREATION. 


is reached rinse the négative and place it 
in the sulphite solution, which at once 
checks all reducing action. After 5 minutes 
in this bath give the negative a 2 minute 
wash and place it in the fixing bath for 10 
minutes. After this, wash for half an hour. 
This process is useful, and I advise every 
amateur to keep a supply of persulphate on 
hand, as by its use one may produce a won- 
derful improvement in many faulty nega- 
tives. ; 

Local reduction or intensification may be 
tried with the foregoing solutions in case a 
small portion of the negative needs treat- 
ment. For instance, a window in an in- 
terior view which is badly blurred may be 
reduced by careful work with a soft brush 
wet with Farmer's solution, which has been 
mixed with a few drops of gum arabic so- 
lution to prevent it from spreading. This 
reducing solution soon loses its power and 
should be mixed just before use. This 
brush work is slow and requires great 
care, but the results often repay one for 
the time and labor involved. 

In case of a landscape negative having 
a sky which. has good clouds, but which is 
too dense to allow the clouds to print out, 
this method is useful. Give the negative a 
good soaking, then hold it in a slanting po- 
sition, sky down, over a tray containing 
2 or 3 ounces of the reducer. With a tuft 
of cotton go over the sky, spreading the 
reducer evenly and working close to the 
horizon line. Rinse off the reducer fre- 
quently, as this prevents a sharp line at the 


horizon, where the action of the reducer 


stops. 

Both bichloride of mercury and potassium 
ferricyanide’ are poisons and should be 
handled carefully or serious results may 
follow. 

C. M. Whitney, Bayonne, N. J. 





HALATION. 


The chief cause of halation is that 
strong light penetrates the film, passes 
through the glass, strikes the back 
surface of the plate and is reflected back 
into the film, thus giving a double light 
action where the light has acted too strong- 
ly already. For example, notice the halo 
about the windows in interiors, and the 
edges of dark objects taken against a bright 
sky. In photographing snow scenes and 
clouds halation is exceedingly troublesome 
and generally present. To prevent halation 
we must either prevent the light passing 
through the plate or else absorb it when 
it does pass through, so it will not be re- 
flected back again. 

The first method is to use a double coated 
plate. These plates have first a slow emul- 
sion and then a quick emulsion on top. So 
much of the light is absorbed before pene- 


trating this double coating that there is 
little if any to be reflected back again. The 
chief objection to the double coated plate 
is that development must take place in a 
much diluted developer, which prolongs de: 
velopment; and in addition these negatives 
are so dense that it is often difficult to judge 
when development should be stopped. Fix- 
ing takes place slowly and the negatives 
must be washed twice as long as the ordi- 
nary plate. 


To absorb the light when it has once , 


passed through the plate, coat the back 
of the plate with some opaque substance. 
Some plate makers have backed plates on 
the market. For those who desire to back 
their own plates numerous preparations are 
on the market. Another good method is 
to coat the back of the plate with a sheet 
of black paper. Care must be taken that 
the paper is in actual contact over the whole 
surface of the plate. Paper cut to the 
proper sizes can be bought of the supply 
dealers. 

When developing plates which are liable 
to show more or less halation it is well to 
develop tentatively, never overdeveloping 
and often stopping as soon as detail is com- 
plete, even though density is lacking. Such 
negatives will show much less halation than 
if fully developed and can be intensified 
sufficiently to make good prints. 

R. L. Wadhams, M.D., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 





SNAP SHOTS. 


-Some time ago I saw a formula in REc- 
REATION for an instantaneous toning bath. 
I. have tried it. several times and 
have found it satisfactory in every re- 
spect except one. About every third print 
tones with metallic brown spots on it. 
Whether that is my fault or not I have not 
been able to determine. Will you advise 
me what the matter is? 
L. R. Anderson, Oxford, Iowa. 


ANSWER. 


Metallic spots appearing on printing out 
paper in the toning bath, are often caused 
by using metal forms for trimming prints, 
either oval or square. Small particles of 
the metal adhere to the paper. The spots 
may also be due to defective paper. I sug- 
gest referring the matter to the manufac- 
turer of the paper.—EDITorR. 





A negative might often be improved by 
intensifying. Before intensitying, a nega- 
tive should be placed in a weak reducer a 
few seconds, then washed thoroughly, after 
which it should be intensified. Give this a 
trial and you will be surprised at the su- 
perior results obtained over the old method. 

C., Bethlehem, Pa. 


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RECREATION. XVli 





Vacation Days 


Are Kodak Days 


The Kodaker has all the vacation delights that others 
have—and has pictures besides. And there’s pleasure in 
the making as well as in the possessing of Kodak pictures. 

Every step is simple now. No dark-room at any stage 
of the work, and better results than ever. 





KODAKS, from $5.00 to $97.00. 


he 1904 Catalogue ts an 


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Pheer Se news letter from 


age the Home of the Rochester, N. Y. 


Free at the dealers 
or by mati, 


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Century Cameras 
With Revolving Back 


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The most valuable improvement made in the 
construction of Hand Cameras’ in recent years. 
Ask your Dealer or write us to-day for new 

Catalog, describing complete line of 1904 
Centurys—from the dainty little Petite to 
the King of all Cameras, the Century 
Grand. | | 

CENTURY CAMERA CO., Rochester, N.Y. 


Do you want a Good, Reliable, 
Substantial, Well Made 


Single Barrel Sot Gu 


If so, send me a 


{0 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS 


and I will send you such a 
Gun as a premium 

It is made by the DAVENPORT ARMS 
CO., and this means it is made of good 
material and that only good workmanship 
is put on it. 

This is one of the many remarkable op- 
portunities RECREATION is offering to 
men and boys to fit themselves out com- 
pletely for shooting and fishing. 


Sample Copies for Use in Canvassing 
Furnished on Application. 


Address 


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To bring up wunderprinted platinotypes 
during development, remove them from the 
developer and hold them in front of a fire 
or over a smokeless gas stove. The heat 
acts on the developer remaining in the 


prints, and so strengthens the image.—Ex-. 


change. 





I received the rifle wick plug from Hemm 
& Woodward and pronounce it the best rust 
and pitting preventive I have seen. Please 
accept my thanks. I soaked the wick in 
gun oil and expect no rust in the rifle 


barrel. 
W. J. Trebilcock, Ishpeming, Mich. 





To cover the top of the developing table 
a remnant of good linoleum has served me 
excellently a year or more. Ordinary floor 
polish both cleans and protects it well; 
and it is sufficiently soft to prevent break- 
ages.—Photography. 





I am in receipt of the Marble safety 
pocket ax sent me as premium, and am 
pleased to say it is very satisfactory. It is 
certainly a work of art and is put up in 
shape that reflects great credit on the maker. 

L. D. Crandall, Truxton, N. Y. 





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I received the Davenport gun you sent as 


a premium, and am well pleased with it. 
J. P. Williams, Kingston, Wis. 


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It’s done in daylight with the PREMO FILM PACK 


The Folding Film Premo is pocket size; 
fitted with a lens and shutter capable of the 
most delicate photographic work. 

The 3% x 5% size is particularly adapted 
to making post card pictures. 


PRICES 
PREMO FOLDING FILM 34x44 3x5 4X5 
CAMERA, No.1 $10.00 $12.50 $12.50 
PREMO FILM PACK, 12 Exposures, .70 .80 .g0 


ASK THE DEALER OR WRITE US FOR PREMO CATALOGUE 


Mention RECREATION, 


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If So, Send Me 


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AND I WILL SEND YOU 
A 14 ft. King Folding Canvas Boat 


LISTED AT $48 


capable «f carrying 2 men and an ordinary camp outfit. There 
are thousands of these boats in use, and nearly every man who is 
using one of them praises it on every occasion. 


Sample copies of RecReaATION for use in canvassing will be 
furnished on application, 


Address 23 West 24th St., New York 


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If your dealer is one of these, or if no dealer in 
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Write for catalogue and discounts. This is an 
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RECREATION. 


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The reputation, skill and accuracy which stand behind the Goerz lens are 
offered with the "Sector" Shutter. 


“It’s a Goerz Product’”’ 


The mechanism of the "Sector" Shutter is beautifully simple yet combines 
those necessary qualities which will be appreciated by all photographers. We 
want you to know all about the "Sector.". Send your name and address and an 
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one year’s subscription to RECREATION, or 
sending it direct to be placed to my credit, 
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May also be used with glass plates. 
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No. 3 Combination Hawk-Eye, pictures 34% x 4%, 
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Condensation of moisture on the window OIL PORTRAITS ON APPROVAL 


or negative when printing is done in frosty 
weather may be prevented by cleaning and If you will send me a photo of yourself ora 
polishing the glass of each with a cloth mois- | fiend and state color of hair eyes and com- 
tened with glycerine—Photography, ; 3 : . 

plexion, I will paint and send you on approval 


an oil or pastel portrait, miniature or life size. 





The double, hammerless Syracuse gun 








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XXIV 
a - 1” ! te 
MY FIRST RIFLE. 
Bs ahh 

When about 11 years of age, my cousin, 
who was about the same age, put it into 
my head to ask my father to buy a gun, his 
father promising him one providing my 
father should agree to get me one. My 
uncle no doubt imagined the matter would 
end there. 

The mere mention of gun was sufficient 
to arouse my ambition to own one, as that 
had long been my fondest dream; so I im- 
mediately set to work, on the ground that 
my cousin was going to have a gun and 
that I was as good a boy as he was. | 
argued that by getting 2 guns together we 
could get a discount on them. 

After several days of coaxing and good 
behavior, my father gave me $6.40, which 
was the price of a 22 caliber rifle and 1,000 
cartridges. 

I held my breath for joy. I pinched my- 
self to see if I was awake, for it seemed too 
good to be true. 

I lost no time in rushing over to my cou- 
sin’s house, which was 2% miles across 
farms, to deposit the money with him, as 
they were to send for the rifles. Between 
gasps I stated my errand. Then my cousin 
pinched himself to see if he was awake. I 
produced the cash, carefully knotted in one 
corner of my handkerchief. This was con- 
vincing, and without saying another word 
we both struck out at top speed to a large 
tree by the roadside, fell in the shade, rolled 
over, laughed and kicked each other. 

After our spasms were over, we began to 
speculate on how long it would take the 
guns to come. We thought that if we could 
get the money off that night we would 
surely get the guns early Monday morning. 
But the money did not go until Saturday. 

We watched the clock and counted the 
days 2 whole weeks, and never in my life 
did school days seem so long. 

On Tuesday morning over 2 weeks after 
the guns were ordered, my parents sent me 
to town to my grandmother’s on an er- 
rand. She imparted the joyful news that 
my uncle had been in the evening before, 
had taken the guns out, and that my cousin 
would bring my gun over the following 
Saturday. 

I wanted to take a day off and see the 
guns, but was told that it would not be 
long until Saturday. This did not seem to 
shorten the days. Every night I went to 
bed early, that I might pass as much of my 
time in sleep as possible. 

Finally Saturday morning arrived, cold 
and clear. After doing my morning chores 
about the farm, my thoughts not being en- 
tirely on my work, I stationed myself where 
I could command a good view of the road. 

I had not long to wait, for I soon saw 
the 2 boys coming. That was enough. I 
climbed down from my perch and started 
across the orchard. On seeing me they 
gave a wild yell, and I returned the 
salute ‘without stopping. I could sée 
the bright barrels and the varnished stocks 


"RECREATION. ee 





flash in the sunlight, and oh! what a sight 
it was! Over 20 years have passed since 
then, but I can never forget that brilliant 
spectacle. 

Another moment and I was reaching for 
the nearest gun. What a beautiful piece of 
workmanship it was! Nickel-plated mount- 
ings, octagon barrel, just the right size and 
a breech loader. 


My cousin promptly told me which one 


he would like to have, but added that I 
might have my choice, as he had sent in 
the order. I granted him choice, as both 
guns to me seemed immaculate. 

The next thing to be done was to shoot 
at something. A cartridge was promptly 
placed in the breech and almost as quickly 
fired at the well curb less than 20 feet away. 
In my excitement I almost missed it; but 
this did not discourage me. I loaded and 
fired again, with better success, placing a 
ball within 2 inches of my first. If a grizzly 
had appeared at that moment he would 
have received 2 balls from our deadly 
weapons. . 

After shooting all day at real and imag- 
inary animals, some of the latter the largest 
that had ever been seen in those parts, my 
cousins returned home and I cleaned my 
gun, oiled it, rubbing some of the browning 
off the barrel in my effort, and put the gun 
in a corner near to my bed where I could 
reach out in the night and get it should 
burglars enter the house. I awoke several 
times that night and reached for the gun, 
although no burglars were in sight or hear- 
ing. I carefully took aim where one might 
have been standing and pulled the trigger. 

The next day being Sunday. I took an 
inventory of stock, and found that I had 
shot away 120 cartridges. 

Although I have owned a dozen guns 
since, some of which were high priced ones, 
none ever gave me the delight and the sat- 
isfaction I had in the possession of my first 
little 22 rifle. 





Pretend to love your enemies. There’s 
more money in it than in showing them 
your hatred. If you rob a man of his coat 
try to get his cloak also. 


If your right eye offend you, go to a 
specialist. 

Don’t let your right hand know what 
your left hand is doing. There is no use 
in being too much ashamed of yourself. 


Take no thought for to-morrow. Look 
out for the day after to-morrow, and to- 
morrow will take care of itself. 

Consider not your raiment. Pay your 
dressmaker or your tailor enough so you 
will not have tow 





Amateur—This is my latest attempt at a 


landscape. What do you think of the per- 
spective? 
Artist—The perspective is its strong 


point. The farther away you stand the bet- 
ter it looks ——Chicago Tribune. 


RECREATION. XXV 





Young Man 


If you intend to win out in life you will need a clearer head and steadier 


nerves than the coffee drinker usually has. ; 
Science tells us plainly that coffee contains elements which directly at- 


.tack the heart, kidneys, nerves, and cause indigestion and many other ails. 


You can have a hot beverage with the coffee flavor and rich color without 
any of the bad effects of coffee if you will shift to well boiled POSTUM 
COFFEE, the food drink, delicious when properly made (that’s easy), and 


absolutely free from the Caffein and other nerve-killing elements of coffee. 


Read the little book, ‘““The Road to Wellville,’’ you will find in every 


“=. DOSTUM. 


P.S. Discuss this coffee question in- the family and observe the experi- 


ence of each. 


RECREATION. 


Here is the brush that will cure all scalp disorders, from dan= 


druff to 


baldness, if conscientiously used. 


We have 


hundreds of unsolicited testimonials to that effect. The 


gentle electric current imparted by the brush will abso- 


Tately cure a headaches and neuralgia. 


has 


My brush 


yeen on the market for 26 years and has stood the 


test of time. Made from selected bristles—no wires— 
in five sizes and sent postpaid to any address. 


No. 1, $1.00 No. 2, $1.50 
ay 


My book sent free ahh 


S5 75 PAID FOR RARE 1853 QUARTERS; $ paid 
. for 1804 dimes; $15 paid for 1858 dollars; big 
prices paid for hundreds of other dates; keep all money coined 
before 1879 and send ten cents at once for a set of two coin 
and stamp value books. It may meana fortune to you. 
Address C. F. Clarke, Agent, Le Roy, N. Y., Dept. 3. 





Free: To any one sending me 5 new 
yearly subscriptions to Recreation, I will 
give I pair Snowshoe Rabbits or will 
sell for $4 a pair. Stanley L. Trees, Tie 
Siding, Wyoming. 


For Sale:—Columbia Graphophone 
with 17 Band Disk Records, all perfect 
and warranted. Cash $45; will take $22. 
R. G. S., 280 Putnam Ave., Detroit, Mich. 


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COURT 
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Heals Cuts, Abrasions, Hang-Nails, 
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Burns, Blisters, Ete. Instantly 
Relieves Chilblains, Frosted 
Ears, Stings of Inseets, 
Chafed or Blistered Feet, 
Callous Spots, Ete., Ete. 


A coating on the sensitive parts 


will protect the feet from being chafed 
or blistered by new or heavy shoes. 
Applied with a brush and immedi- 
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Sportsmen, Motorists, 
Golfers, Mechanics, Ete. 


are all liable to bruise, scratch or 
scrape their skin. “NEW-SKIN”™ will 
heal these injuries, will not wash off, 
aud after it is applied the injury is 
forgotten, as **NEW-SKIN’’ makes a 
temporary new skin until the broken 
skin is healed under it. 


EACH 

Pocket Size (Size of Nlustration), 10¢. 

Family Size, - - - 25e. 
2 oz. Bottles (for Surgeons and 

Hospitals), - - - - 50¢ 


At the Druecists, or we 
will mail a package any- 


ZZ : where in the United States 
i on receipt of price. 





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i Dept. W, New York, 


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Agents Wanted Everywhere 


If not 





Los Angeles and San Francisco and Re- 
turn, $67., via Southern Railway and New 
Orleans. Berth rate in through tourist 
sleepers from Washington $8.50 in each 
direction. Tickets will be sold April 22d 
to 30th, 1904; going transit limit June 2sth. 
Stop overs at points in Texas and Califor- 
nia. Final return limit June 30th, 1904. 
Going via New Orleans and returning via 
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from New York to points in California on 
sale daily during April $50. For further 
information write to or call at Southern 
Railway Offices, 271 and 1185 Broadway, 


New York. 
ALEX. S. THWEATT, 
Eastern Passenger Agent. 


A Fountain Pen 


has become a necessity with every busi- 
ness man. You can geta 


Laughlin 
Fountain 
Pen 


Made by the Laughlin Manufacturing Co. 
Detroit, Michigan 





For 2 Yearly Subscrip- 
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The Laughlin is one of the best pens in 
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daily use. 

There is no reason why you should be 
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RECREATION. XXVii 


Thousands Pity Y ou gee 


If You Don’t Know 


The Sure Relief, Prevention, Cure 
Now Dispensed the World Over by 


Orangeine 


Powders. 2 





**Easy to Carry,’’ ‘‘ Easy to Take,’’ ‘‘Never Harms,”’ 
**Produces Quickly the Desired Effect’’ on 
Colds, Headache, Grippe, Neuralgia, Fatigue, Stomach Upsets and ‘‘Those Every Day Ills 
of Life,” ‘‘Saves time and money from worse than waste,” Increases life’s energy and produc- 
tiveness. Assures ability to meet life’s labors and engagements free from pain ‘and suffering. 


Expressions from Experience. 
Mr. Wm. Hughes, a prominent banker, of } Fg mole R.I., Mr. C. A. Henderson, Auvstinburg, O., writes: “I would not 
says: ‘‘I can substantiate all claims you make for Orangeine, be without Orangeine foraday. It is all and more than you 
for I have seen it, do wonderful work in my own family and claim for it.’ 


ong my friends.” 
ee Mr. J. W. Tillinghast, Buffalo. N. Y., writes: ‘‘Daring the 
Mr, Albert C. Smith, President Suffolk Hospital & Dispen- ast year, myself, and my family, including two little boys, 
sary, 4 Charter St., Boston, Mass., writes: ‘‘Orangeine has fully nave learned the high value of Orangeine. Incipient colds 
proved its remedial value, ‘and we are giad to say that we never are quickly dispelled, headache stopped, physical or mental 
allow our institution to be without this medicine. 7 fatigue corrected.” 


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NOTE—Orangeine is now sold py all progressive druggists in Ie packages (2 powders); 25c (6 powders); 50c 
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The Orangeine Chemical Co., 15 Michigan Avenue. Chicago. 





Every true sportsman is glad to see REc- A GAME HOG IN BUSINESS. 





REATION continue its warfare on the game 
hog, who is the common enemy alike of the 
game and the hunter. It is only justice 
that you are meting out to the destroyer of 
the game, and if he will break the laws of 
decency and of statute then let the law 
punish him. However much the sportsman 
may enjoy the chase, he is willing to stake 
his judgment against the instinct of the 
wild animal, and is satisfied with enough. 
His motto is “fair play or go hungry.” 
However, let us hope that through the com- 
bined efforts of RECREATION and the intelli- 
gent and fair minded hunters, even the 
game destroyer may be educated to be fair, 
and to do the right thing by the animals 
and by his fellow men. 

Geo. W. Lacea, M.D., Brooklyn, N. Y. 


ENN EN’S icin 


PRICKLY HEAT, 
CHAFING, aad 
SUNBURN, Aisne" 


“A little higher in price, perhaps, than worthless oabett, 


Stitutes, but a reason for it.’’ Removes all odor of perspi- 
ration. Delightful after Shaving. Sold everywhere, or - ed 
00 receipt of 25c. Get Mennen’s (the original). Sonol Free. 





A clothing dealer in an Ohio town print- 
ed this announcement in a local paper last 
spring. 
to the hunter who kills the 
Ducks in one day, be- 


We will give, free, 
largest number of Wild 
tween March 15th and April 15th, a first class 
Hunting Jacket guaranteed to fit. The only con- 
dition is that you must show us the ducks. 


No question about the bristles there— 
Epiror. 


Andrew Ellsworth, of Fairmont, Ind., 
killed 2 rabbits in violation of the State law. 
Game Warden Bravy took Ellsworth before 
the judge, who fined him $42.50, a mighty 
stiff price to pay for rabbit stew. 


Tooth Soap 


the International Dentifrice 


Beautifies the teeth, hard- 
ens the gums,sweetens the 
breath. Preserves as well 
as beautifies the teeth, 
Comes in neat, handy metal 
boxes. No powder to 
yscatter, no liquid to 
spill or to stain gar- 


\ At all Druggists. 


@ C.H. STRONG & CO., Proprietors, 
Chicago, U. S. A. 





XXVill RECREATION. 


The Cure of Morphine, 


Laudanum and other Drug Habits. 


A CURE PERMANENT AND COMPLETE 


is made with an absolute certainty by the St. James Society of New York. By the use of a clean, pure 
and scientific preparation the insidious drug habit is promptly driven away, and health, strength and 
joy in life comes in its place. 

Frequently only a ten days’ trial treatment, which is entirely free of cost, will bring about a thor- 
ough cure. The effect of the treatment is simple. It first removes absolutely the irresistible craving 
for the drug. Then it places all the functions of the body in a normal condition, so that the former 
sufferer gets back his vigor; his health, happiness and confidence return. . 

There is absolutely no question about this. We could fill this whole magazine with letters from 
those who, with a sincere and intense gratitude, have thanked the Society for its cures. Here is one of 
them, from a prominent resident of Homer, N. Y.:— 

“A trial bottle of your remedy came duly to hand, and with that alone a perfect cure was effected, 
for I have not used the drug after beginning your treatment, and am now a free man. I begin to eat 
well and sleep well. Thanking you for your kindness and hoping you are enjoying God’s choicest 
blessings, I am your grateful friend forever.” 

For the protection of those who seek our relief, we keep in strictest confidence all correspondence. 
The names of all those who write to us are locked securely in a steel vault and never under any cir- 
cumstances disclosed to any one. If you desire, your letter will be returned to you with our answer. 
We keep in closest secrecy the affairs of those who come to us, .for we give encouragement and com- 
fort to those who are bitterly unfortunate. Our medical director may be seen privately at any time 
with the positive knowledge and assurance that he keeps all confidences, and an effective system of rec- 
ords enables us to follow the progress of each patient daily. 

No matter how long the habit has been fastened upon you, no matter how large the quantity of the 
drug you habitually consume, no matter if physicians and your friends haye told you that your case 
was hopeless, we know that our treatment will completely cure you, for we have already cured many 
thousands during the last six years. 

We are now shipping our antidote to all parts of the world. It is used by 84 large sanitariumg 
and by 4,000 physicians in their private practice. ; 

Write to us about your case today; you will receive help without a cent of cost to you. 

Freely address in strictest confidence the St. James Society at its general offices, Suite 118, 1,183 
Broadway, New York, N. Y. 








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x 


— 


RECREATION. XXIX 


and other 
health and effects a cure. 
Used and recommended by leading 


STOMACH TROUBLES 
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years The Old 


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’ 
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of 
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t 
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— 


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CURES 





Certain California game and fish wardens Burns, scalds, bruises, cuts, sprains, 
have been especially busy.of late. Here are ~ 
reports of a few cases they have run down: wounds, lameness, soreness, neural- 


Mrs. Ellen Crow was arrested yesterday for : ‘ , 
offering quail for sale and having a larger num- $14, theumatism, sunburn, bites, 


ber in her possession than the law permits. She 
had 85 birds in a hamper when apprehended, 
while the law limits the number to 25. The Fish 
Commissioners regard her arrest as an important 
capture, because she disposed of the Capa pooe 
by her husband and other hunters with head- 

ws soil in the hills back of Hayward. The men STOPS 
made a regular practice of shooting quail in vio- 
lation of the game laws and sent their wives to N bl d 
dispose of the contraband birds, in order to es- ose ceca, 
cape detection. The women brought the quail in , 
hampers and baskets. Mrs, Crow was released on bleeding lungs, hem- 
depositing $50 cash bail. 

Deputy Fish Commissioner W. P. Huestis ar- 
rested Walter Karnnon at Forest Home, Hum- mS otrhages and all 
boldt county, with about 1oo pounds of deer meat 
in his smoke house. Justice Deigham, of Rio 
Dell, fined Kannon $25 for the offense, saying 
that he imposed the minimum fine out of consid- 
eration for the prisoner’s family. ; : 

Deputy Fish Commissioner Thomas Rhodes ar- ‘ ‘ Sold in sealed 
rested Ben Jarvis near Fort Bragg, Mendocino : 
county, with fresh deer meat in his possession, bottles with 
Justice Whipple of Fort Bragg fined Jarvis $30. ’ . 
Deputy Rhodes also arrested E. O. Sallinen and eter buff wrappers 
OM. C. Sallinen for using set nets in the Noyo 
river, near Fort Bragg. Justice Whipple, before 
whom they were taken, held them te answer he- 
fore the Superior Court at Ukiah.. The minimum ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE 
penalty for the offense is $100. 

Deputy Fish Commissioner A. F. Lea arrested 
C, Farratti and A. Marchotti near Hopland, Men- 
docino county, for having the head and hide of 
a female deer in their possession. They pleaded 
guilty before Justice Armstrong, of Hopland, of 
having killed a doe and were fined $so. 


stings. 


toothache, earache, 


pain. 





” 


XXX RECREATION. 


“HIGGINS &SEITER; Take good care of 


your hands 





Rich Cut 
Glass 


Fine 
China . 
You may need 


them next year 


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Send me 
2 yearly subscriptions to Recreation 
and I will send you 
a pair of Leather Hunting Gloves 
made to your measure, by the 
Luther Glove Company 
Berlin, Wisconsin 





Sample copies for use tn canvass- 


ine furnished on request 
Flemish Punch Bowl No. 8635 


Free:—To any person sending a new 

: 7 - : yk _| yearly subscription to RecrEATIoN through 
Ir in. high, 13 in. opening, plain ivory hg me I will send a-fine Nickel Folding Drink- 
ures, background, dark green ing Cup and Dog Whistle, listed at 60 cents, 

and brown, $5.65. or a hard rubber, water proof Match Safe, 

listed at 50 cents, or a Canvas Belt with 
loops, listed at 60 cents, or a Revolver 
Leather Holster’ Belt, listed at 50 cents, or 
a choice of a Horn Whistle or Star Vest 
Pocket Whistle, or a Duck, Snipe, ‘Turkey 
or Echo Call, each listed at 50 cents, or a 


Near Sixth Avenue 


We illustrate our ““"4 Less than 
Elsewhere’’ policy by pricing 
this extra fine 


Flemish Punch Bowl 


(see illustration) 


For thousands of other offerings equally 

attractive send for Catalogue No. 14°'U"’ 

having delicately tinted pictures of 

choice china. Free to all interested 
in purchasing. 


West 2lst and West 22d Streets 
NEW YORK CITY 


“ Buy China and Glass Right”’ 


Rifle Cleaning Rod, 22 or 32, with scratch 
and bristol brush, listed at 50 cents, or a 
choice of a Dandy, Star or Perfect Oiler, 
very fine and handy, and each guaranteed 
not to leak, listed at 50 cents each, or a 
Powder or Shot Measure, listed at 35 cents, 
or a coin Money Purse, genuine soft kid, 
three compartments, listed at 50 cents, or a 
Money Pouch, made of fine sheep skin, with 
draw string, very fine, listed at 75 cents, 
or a self-closing rubber Tobacco Pouch, 
listed at 50 cents, or a high grade French 
Brier Pipe, listed at 75 cents, or a Fountain 
Pen, listed at 75-cents, or a lightning Fish 
Scaler, or a spring lock Hook Shield, or a 
Spring Gun Cleaner, or a Rubber Hook 
Shield, or a Little Giant Small bore Rifle 
Cleaner. 

Edward Jacobs, 227 Mulberry St., Coshoc- 

ton, O - 





I buy no sporting goods that are not ad- 
vertised in RECREATION. | 
- §,. W. Peregrine, Portland, Me. 


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LITTLE HELPS FOR THE AMATEUR. 


A good method of toning bromides 
brown is with copper ferricyanide, as every 
degree of tone, from blackish brown to 
brilliant red, is obtainable, according to the 
length of time the solution acts. Immerse 
the fixed and well washed prints in the 
following: Dissolve 140 grains of neutral 
potassium in 8 fluid ounces of water, then 
add 20 grains of crystallized copper sul- 
phate, and finally 9 grains of potassium 
ferricyanide. Keep the prints in motion, 
and allow the bath to act until the desired 
tone is produced; then wash thoroughly. 
The solution must be used while fresh. 


When negatives take a long time to print 
on account of being too yellow, as is some- 
times the case when developed with pyro, 
they can be toned to a suitable color in the 
following bath: 


Sulphocyanide of ammonium, 8 grains. 
Chloride of gold, 1 grain. 
Water, 2 ounces, M. 


What is commonly called green fog or 
iridescent stain, caused by the use of old 
plates, forcing under timed plates in devel- 
opment, or the use of plates that have not 
been properly stored, may be removed by 
bleaching the image in a solution of: 


oy io RRA Sa nae ea 5 ounces 
Ferrichloride OY eee? Go -@rains 
Bromide of potassium......120 grains 


When bleached, wash the plate well 
and re-develop in old iron oxalite devel- 
oper. This process is usually effective, if 
the stains are not too old. Very light stains 
may sometimes be removed by rubbing 
them with a tuft of absorbent cotton satu- 
rated with methylated spirit. 

In local reduction it is often. well to mix 
the reducer with glycerine to prevent it 
from spreading over portions of the nega- 
tive where it is not wanted. When fine 
lines or portions of the negative are to be 
reduced the solution should be applied with 
a fine camels’-hair brush, while the film is 
dry, but when large portions are to be re- 
duced the film should be wet. Excellent 
results may often be accomplished by local 
reduction, but some skill and great care 
are required to make the process a success. 
—Exchange. 





I thank you for the pair of shot gun 
wick plugs, manufactured by Hemm & 
Woodward, of Sidney, O., which were sent 
to me for subscriptions for RECREATION. 
They are the right thing, without a doubt, 
for proper care of barrels. 


C. N. Ong, Lacon, III. 





There is something about RECREATION 
that always appeals to a true sportsman, 
and makes those who are not sportsmen 
wish to be such. 

J. C. Wise, 2d Lieut. oth Infantry, 
Madison Barracks, N. Y. 


Perfect alt and 
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The malting process invented and per- 
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the process in common use. But malt 


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palatable and wholesome —the very 
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blended with the choicest hops in a 
brewery where purity and cleanliness 
are supreme from brewing vat to bottle. 


Pabst Blue Ribbon is the brew of 
all brews for the home and the club. 
Pabst Blue Ribbon is a malty beer, 
exquisite in flavor and full of health 
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RECREATION. 





AN OLD 
E,NGLISH CANDY 


Let me tell you if you want to get 
all the sweets of life you cannot 
afford to ignore or overlook —__ 


MACKINTOSH’S 
EXTRA CREAM 
TOFFEE 


an old English candy that 
I am introducing intathis 
country. Its exquis- 
ite flavor has made 
it popular in Great 
Britain, and the 


same quality is cre- 
ating a demand ‘*¢ 


it in this country. 
I have put it on the 
American market 
because I know 
American people 
like good things. 
Ask your dealer to 
supply you with 
MAC KIN TOSH’S 
TOFFEE. Try him 
first. You can, how- 
ever, buy a hand- 
some family tin 
weighing four Ibs. 
for $1.60 by mail. 
Large sample pack- 
age sent for 10c. in 
stamps. LAMONT, 
CORLISS & CO., Im- 
porters, 78 Hudson St., 
New York City. 
Dealers supplied everywhere ., \ 
through them, 





Cocktails 


Famous the world 
over for purity. 
They never vary. 
The secret of their 
perfect blend is that 
they are kept six 
months before being 
drawn off and bot- 
tled. Be sure you 
have them in your 
camp, on the yacht, 
and on your outing 
trips wherever you 
go. They are ready and require no 
mixing. Simply pour over cracked ice. 


_ For Sale by all Fancy Grocers and Dealers 


G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. 


29 BROADWAY,N.Y. HARTFORD, CONN. 








New Hampton, Iowa. 
The Peters Cartridge Co., 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 


Dear Sirs: I note the withdrawal of your 
ad and support from RECREATION with sur- 
prise and regret. 

When you inserted your advertisement 
you doubtless knew the scope and circula- 
tion of the magazine; also that Mr. Shields 
edited a department known as Guns and 
Ammunition. It is now apparent that you 
intended to continue your ad only as long 
as you were exempt from criticism, as on 
its first appearance you withdrew your 
patronage. Other makes of guns and am- 
munition have been criticised more severe- 
ly than you, though, as in the case of every- 
thing good, their friends outnumber the 

critics 100 to one. The pages of RECREATION 
were open to your defence and if you or 
your friends had offered any it would un- 
doubtedly have appeared. The more “mani- 
festly unjust” the criticism and more ignor- 
ant the critic, the more easily is he refuted 
and disproved. 

The experience of my friends and myself 
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neck of the shell completely off. The Stev- 
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defective; such being the case, might not 
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By reference to your files you will Gnd 
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The only inference possible from your 
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I trust that future issues of RECREATION 
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your withdrawal was an error of the head 
and not of the heart, 

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RECREATION. XXXIli 


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XXXIV RECREATION. 


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If so, you will need 


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Anything that can be built of natural wood 


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RECREATION. 





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1 received the Bristol steel rod as a pre- 
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RECREATION. 


-THE STORY OF A DOG. 
yc eS eee 

At my feet it lies, quiet, cosy, warm. 
All ‘see in it a mere tanned dog skin, 
but to me it holds many a golden memory 
of happy days. My friend, Chas. York. 
wrote me, “I send you to-day a dog that 
I believe will -_prove a good one.” Pres- 
ently a box was brought to. my door by 
the American Express man, who said. 
“There, Mr. E——, I have brought you a 
nice, new dog.” He had brought me one 
a few months before from Philadelphia, 
an Irish setter, that had all the faults of 
his race and none of its virtues. I felt 
relieved when at last he went the way of 
all the earth. I tore the slats from the 
new box and took out the prettiest Llewel- 
lyn I had seen for many a year. 

I named him Turk, and he became part 
of the household and grew in our affece 
tions. At 6 months he stood his first 
woodcock; at 8, his first grouse; at 13, 
his first quail. From that time until death 
came to him he never neglected duty. 

One morning we started out for wood- 
cock, and when we came to the chaparral 
the dog.went and soon froze. I flushed 
my bird. Bang! went my gun, and on flew 
the bird. Soon another point was made, 
another flush, another shot and miss. Ten 
such chances, 10 misses, and Turk came out 
of the brush, dropped on his haunches be- 
fore me and looked up into my face, as 


if to say, “You cannot shoot.” Then he 
turned and started for home. I whistled, 
I called, but he kept right on. I tried to 


tramp up the birds, but found I could not, 
and, finally thinking the deg “had more 
sense than I had, I returnea home. As I 
entered the house the dog came out from 
under the porch wagging his tail, as if to 
say, “You won’t whip me, will you?” I 
spoke to him kindly, and he danced around. 

Early next morning we went to the same 
ground and soon the dog came to a point. 
“Steady, steady!” Whir! Bang! “Go. 
fetch.” In came the dog wagging his tail 
with a timber-doodle in his mouth. So on 
through the day, anywhere, everywhere the 
dog would go, so delighted was he. That 
day there was no sneaking home ashamed 
of his master. 

When old and blind, and one of his sons 
had taken his father’s place, Turk would, 
when he heard us making preparations to 
hunt, raise his sightless eyes to our faces 
and beg to go with us. I would some- 
times take him along. He would set off 
on a trot, only to bump his head against 
a tree or stump. Then I would take him 
to the carriage and lay him there, and if 
I took a bird and put-it near his nose he 
seemed content. 

Poor old fellow, I sit to-night with my 
feet on your glossy hair and think of you 
somewhere enjoying your well earned rest 
Peace to you! @ 

To-night I ‘see again the hill and dell, 
the marsh and field and the old dog mak- 
ing game and standing at point. I close 
my eyes and hear the whir-r-r of wings. 


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At least you’re not Yezo.” 

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So the Russ had a vodka of inski 

“I'm glad Yokohama,” And the Jap took an egg Nagasaki, 
The Jap said, “to Tokio, Then each of them smoked a cigarski, 

And I re-Fusiyama Then there, my friends, you are areski. 


To cover my kokio.” —Boston Traveler. 





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RECREATION. 


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RECREATION. xiv 





IN THE ADIRONDACKS—The New Hermitage 


At Lake Bonaparte, New York, 


Once the property of King Joseph Bonaparte, and named in his honor, 


The hotel has all the modern improvements and accessories, Broad verandas, wide roomy 
halls, large open fire-places, reading rooms, billiard rooms, telephone, daily mail. 

Guests have the opportunity of enjoying delightful rowing, canoeing, bathing. The finest 
fishing in the Adirondacks, Croquet, Tennis. 

A park containing 800 acres; beautiful walks and drives. 

Handsomely illustrated book, giving full information, sent on request. Mention Recreation. 


DAVID SCANLIN, Proprietor, Bonaparte, New York. 





‘At the Gateway of the Adirondacks.” 


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THE NEW 


Fort William Henry Hotel 


One hour north of Saratoga Springs 


Lake George, New York 


Owned by the Hudson Valley Railroad Company. Hourly trol- 
ley service between Lake George and Sarvatoga. Situatedina WwW. Ww i B R oO WwW N = 


delightful wooded park on the shores of the most beautiful of 

me pew lakes. Every modern improvement; hotel elaborately MANAGER 

refitted and refurnished; perfect fire safety equipment; modern « vears with Sagamore Hote ake 

plumbing; boating; bathing; golf; fishing; charming drives. ag years with Sagemore Motel, Lake George 
OPEN JUNE TO OCTOBER 


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We save you from 25% to 40% on fine Office and 
Library Furniture. We manufacture the goods we 
sell. We guarantee quality and prices satisfactory. 


ti} 1 mis| 
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48 in. long by 30 in. wide; with | | 
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sawed oak rane 3 balance of ar try atte Gum 
eSk plain oak golden sawed oak. art glass 
polish finish. Price $19.80 doors, drawerbase S1Oc2> 
Other roll cor desks up to| Plain glass, no drawer— 
re) 


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logue No. 2—mailed free. No. 1 —mailed free. 


We prepay freight east of Mississippi River and north 
of Tennessee (points beyond on equal basis). 


THE FRED JACEY C0., Ltd. ee eeeb en rs, 


We are making and selling the 
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color by jet of air, enabling the 





artist to do better work and save 
time. No studio complete with- 
outit. Circulars free. Mention 
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—— Air Brush Mfg. Co. 
A RT WOR K » 126 Nassau St., Rockford, IIL, U.S. A. 


Please accept my thanks for the Korona 
camera which you sent me. On ttrial it 
proves far superior to my _ expectations. 
Your premiums are certainly worth work- 
ing for. 





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Wm. C. Ewing, Ft. Wayne, Ind. 





RECREATION sgrows mof¥e interesting each 
issue. E. T. Tremaine, Brockton, Mass. 


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RECREATION. xl vii 


BETTY 


ZANE 


Ghe Heroine of Wheeling 


N historical romance— 
thrillingly interesting 
from beginning to 
A true story of the 


struggle for independence and 
the siege of Fort Henry, 
September 11, 1782, told by 


a descendant of the Zanes who 


bore such an important part 


in the events of that period. 


Illustrated in India Tint 


P. ZANE GREY 


A TRUE STORY 3] 50 By 
7) 


OPINIONS OF THE PRESS 


New York Sun—‘‘The incidents of pioneer life 
would excite interest even if they were less well 


handled.” 
New York Times-—“Entertaining reading.” 
Syracuse Herald—‘‘Has handled his subject well.’ 


Southern Star (Atlanta)—‘“It has the life, the col- 
oring, the very breath of those pioneer days.” 
Recreation—“Recounts vividly the perils, the hard- 
ships and the privations of the sturdy pioneers.” 
Public Opinion—‘‘Written primarily for the benefit 
of the Revolutionary Daughters Societies, will 

interest others equally.” 

Brooklyn Daily Eagle—‘One welcomes most cor- 
dially the appearance of a Fenimore Cooper fron- 
tier story which is told without melodramatic 
exaggeration, without tiresome prolixity (Cooper’s 
fatal fault), and with a just and well poised ad- 
mixture of history and romance.”’ 

Zanesville Daily Courier—‘‘Every school girl knows 
and loves Betty Zane, the heroine of the be- 
leaguered garrison at Wheeling, long, long ago. 
Dr. Grey has portrayed the real Betty Zane; and 
has given us the real thing in pioneer life.” 


FORT HENRY 


PUBLISHED BY 


CHARLES FRANCIS PRESS 
30-32 WEST THIRTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK CITY 





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RECREATION. 





SOME RARE OPPORTUNITIES 


These goods are all new, and will be shipped 
direct from factory. Prices named are those at 
which manufacturers and dealers usually sell. 
Here is a good chance to get 


A Book, a Gun, a Camera 
A Sleeping Bag, a Fishing Rod 
A Reel, a Tent, 


Subscriptions need notall be sent at once. They 
may be sent in installments as taken andcredit will 
be given on account. When the required number 
is obtained the premium carned will be shipped. 


FREE OF 
COST 


TO ANY PERSON SENDING ME 


TWO new yearly subscriptions to RECRE- 
ATION at $1 each, 1 will send a copy of 
liunting in the Great West, cloth; or an 
ingersoil Watch or Cyclometer, listed at 
$1; or a Recreation Waterproof Match 
Box, made by W. L. Marble and listed 
at 50c; or a Shakespeare Revolution Bait 
listed at 75c; or a Laughlin Fountain 
Pen; or a dozen Trout Flies, assorted, 
listed at $1; or a pair of Attachable Eye- 
glass Temples, gold-plated, made by Gall 
& Lembke; or one Rifle Wick Plug, made 
by Hemm & Woodward, Sidney, Ohio, 
30 caliber to 50 caliber, or Shotgun Wick 
Plug, 20 gauge up to 10 gauge; or a pair 
of chrome tanned horsehide hunting and 
driving gloves, listed at $1.50, made by 
J. P. Luther Glove Co. 


THREE new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
safety pocket ax, made by W. L. Marble 
and listed at $2.50; or a dozen Bass Flies, 
assorted, listed at $2; or a pair of Shot- 
gun Wick Plugs made by Hemm & Wood- 
ward, Sidney, Ohio, 20 gauge to 10 gauge; 
or a Polished Buffalo Horn Gun Rack, 
made by E. W. Stiles; or a pair of gaunt- 
lets, for hunting and driving, ladies’ size, 
listed at $2.50, made by J. Luther 
Glove Co., or a Press Button Jack Knife, 
made by The Novelty Knife Co., and 
listed at $1. 


FOUR new subscriptions at $1 each, an 
Ideal Hunting Knife, made by W. L. 
Marble and listed at $2.50; or a 32 cali- 
ber, automatic double action revolver, 
made by Harrington & Richardson Arms 
Co. 


FIVE new subscriptions at $1 each, a copy 
of Cruisings in the Cascades, cloth; or 
an Ideal Hunting Knife made by W. L. 
Marble, and listed at $3; or a pair of 
lock lever skates, made by Barney & 
Berry, listed at $4.50; or a J. C. Hand 
trap made by the Mitchell Mfg. Co., listed 
at $4; .or a Bristol Steel Fishing Rod, 
listed at $6, or less; or a Yawman & Erbe 
Automatic Reel, listed at $6 to $9. 


SIX new subscriptions at $1 each, a Hawk- 
eye Refrigerating Basket made by the Bur- 
lington Basket Co., or one dozen Eureka 
golf balls listed at $4; or a Pocket Poco 
B 3%x4%, made by the Rochester Op- 
tical Co., listed at $9. 


SEVEN new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
copy of The Big Game of North America, 
or of The American Book of the Dog, 


cloth, or one set Lakewood golf clubs, 
5 in number, listing at $5; or a series 
11F Korona Camera, made by the Gund- 
lach Optical Co., listed at $10. 


EIGHT new subscriptions at $1 each. A 
series 1, 4x5 Korona Camera, made by 
the- Gundlach Optical Co., listed at $12, 
or an Acme single shot gun, made by the 
Davenport Arms Co., and listed at $8. 


TEN new subscriptions at $1 each, a Cut- 
Glass Salad Bowl, made by Higgins & 
Seiter, and listed at $4.50; or a Water- 
proof Wall Tent 7x7, made by Aber- 
crombie & Fitch, and listed at $8; or a 
Rough Rider rifle telescope, made by The 
Malcolm Rifle Sight Mfg. Co., and listed 
at $12; or a Pneumatic Camp Mattress, 
listed at $18; or a pair of Opera Glasses 
made by Gall & Lembke and listed at $10. 


TWELVE new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
Davenport Ejector Gun, listed at $10, or 
a Cycle Poco No. 3, 4x5, made by the 
Rochester Optical Co., listed at $15; or 
an § ft. folding canvas boat, made by the 
soo, Saving Canvas Boat Co., listed at 
») 


FIFTEEN new subscriptions, $1 each, a 
Shakespeare Reel, Silver Plated, listed at 
$15; or a set of rabbit plates made by 
Higgins & Seiter, and listed at $8; or 
a Field Glass made by Gall & Lembke; 
or a Kenwood Sleeping Bag, complete, 
with canvas cover, listed at $16; or a 
Bulls-Eye rifle telescope, made by The 
Malcolm Rifle Sight Mfg. Co., and listed 
at $16; or a 10 ft. special canvas boat, 
made by the Life Saving Canvas Boat 
Co., and listed at $35; or a pair of horse- 
hide hunting boots, listed at $10; or a 
Queen Hammock, made by the King Fold- 
ing Canvas Boat Co., and listed at $15. 
or a Mullins Duck Boat, listed at $20. 


TWENTY new subscriptions at $1 each, 
a 14-karat Gold Hunting-case Watch, 
with Waltham Movement, listed at $20; 
or an Elita single shot gun, made by the 
Davenport Arms Co., and listed at $18; 
or an Aeme Folding Canvas Boat, No. 1, 
irade A, listed at $27; or a Queen Ham- 
mock, made by the King Folding Canvas 
Boat Co., and listed at $20; or a Mul- 
lins’ Bustle Ducking Boat, listed at $27. 


TWENTY-FIVE new subscriptions at $1 
each, an 11-foot King Folding Canvas 
Boat, listed at $38. 


THIRTY néw subscriptions at $1 each, a 
Waterproof Tent, 14144x17, made _ by 
Abercrombie & Fitch, and listed at $25. 


THIRTY-FIVE new subscriptions at $1 
each, a 14-ft. King Folding Canvas Boat 
listed at $48. 


FORTY new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
Savage .303 Repeating Rifle; or a No. 10 
Gun Cabinet, made by the West. End Fur. 
niture Co., and listed at $32. 


FIFTY new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
No. 20 Gun Cabinet, made by the West 
End Furniture Co., and listed at $38; 
or a Colt Automatic Pistol, made by the 
Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co., and 
listed at $25. 


Address ; West 24th St. 
ess; Recreation 7.5 Yor 


RECREATION. xlix 


FAITHFUL DOGS 


AND TWO 


FAITHFUL REMEDIES 


You can’t expect lively activity and strength out of a wormy 
dog, any more than strength in a wormy piece of wood. 

Nausea, colic, pains, restlessness, fever, fits—these are all symp- 
toms of worms, all of which disappear with the administration of 


Sergeant’s Sure Shot 


50c. per Bottle 


Or take a dog suffering with any ailment common to dogdom 
— Stomach out of order, Cold or Distemper, Fever, Mange and 
General Debility or Nervousness—he needs something that will cor- 
rect the trouble at once, and then built up all the enervated organs. 
The safe, sure thing that will do this are 


Sergeant’s Condition Pills 
50c. and $1.00 per Box 


Ask your Druggist for these Dog Remedies, or your Sporting 
Goods man; if he hasn’t them, send us the price, and we’ll deliver 
them post-paid. 

Get our handsome Dog Book and a set of Pedigree Blanks 
free. Send address and 3 cents to cover postage. 


POLK MILLER DRUG CO., Richmond, Va. 





l RECREATION. 


Folding Canvas Boats 


were not satisfactory until the 


FA ITN G 


was produced. It’s a revelation 
in boat construction, nothing 
like it ever made. onsinkable 
Can't tip over. Puncture Proof, 
wear longer than a wooden boat. 
No repairs. No cost for storage, 
always ready, folds into a small. 
neat package, carry by hand; 
used by the U. S. Navy. They are simple, wonderful. A thoroughly 
patented article. Beware of imitations. Made only by ourselves. A cat- 
alog of I00 engravings and 400 testimonials sent on receipt of O cents. 

Bottom Boards rest on the frame, not on the canvas, ribbed longitu- 
dinally and diagonally. They are stiffer and safer than a Wooden Boat 
because the lines are fuller, and are much easier to row or paddle. 


KING FOLDING CANVAS BOAT CO. 


11-foot Special 


Mention RECREATION. 


rs YOUR OWN BOAT 


BY THE BROOKS SYSTEM" 


Exact size PATTERNS of every piece.Complete IN= 
rep Each “— pail ILLUSTRATED. Experi= 
nnecessary. Hundreds have built this boat. 


eer working Spare time,at a total cost of $14.00 - 
Boat oy of all kinds a an we to ae 
at prices from $3.00 up. We also build comple 
WT TLLUIA ted boats and knock down frames. ‘ 
Wt) fd EYL PARTICULARS FREE-25 ¢ brings 64 p. illustrated catalogue. 
10) bm Set Of working instructions and illustrations. 





Apple Automatic Gants 


For Gas Engines, Automobiles, las Ete, 
HAS FEATURES FOUND ON 

NO OTHER, No batteries, : 
no belt, no switch, no com- 















mutator troubles. Entirely 
enclosed, making it dirt and 
water proof. Easily attached. y 
Send for complete descrip- 
tion of this and other ignition 
apparatus. 
The Dayton Electrical Mfg.Co. 
126 RrEBOLD BLpG.,DaytTon,O 





Morris Canvas oe Canoes 


Special Indian model for safety, Catalog on request. 
Mention RECREATION. 


B. N. TIORRIS, Veazie, [Maine 








EASIER TO ROW _ 


oe, 


Write today SLALOM 
for free catalogue. 
15 foot $ 29 ecg | valuable at summer 
boat.crated resorts, for family boating. 


_y ABSOLU » TELY SAFE 


KALAMAZOO, MICH., U.S. A 





The No. 1 Korona camera you sent me 
as a premium for securing subscribers to 
RECREATION arrived yesterday. Am I 
pleased? Well, I guess yes! The camera 
is so much better than I expected that I 
shall try for another premium. 

P. L. Bock, Highspise, Pa. 





Funny! how we love our friends, 
And what we’d give for them; 
We sigh for them, 
We'd die for them, 
Until—we live with them. 
—Exchange. 


RECREATION is a great magazine, and you 
are waging a noble fight. All true sports- 
men are with you, heart and soul, in your 


work. 
L. W. Johnson, Trenton, N. J. 





I am in receipt of the Laughlin fountain 
pen you sent me. It writes beautifully and 
I am much pleased with it. 

Richard Dillehunt, Decatur, Ill. 


Mullins Galvanized 
Steel Pleasure Boats 


Made of steel. Practical indestructible. Air 
chamber each end. Cannot leak. Require no 
caulking. Ideal boat for family use, summer 
resorts, parks. Guaranteed. Will seat five persons in com- 


fort. The modern row boat for pleasure, safety and durability. 


W. H. MULLINS, 228 Depot Street, Salem, Ohio 


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At every summer resort, on lake 

or river,;nowadays you will find 

these most graceful craft gliding 

back and forth. Don’t waste your 
time envying your friends who have 

been wise enough to invest in a 

canoe, but get one for yourself, and 

pass your summer days on the water 
where it’s cvol, restful and refreshing. 

I make scores of sizes and styles of canoes, 
and one of them will surely meet your require- 
ments. Before ‘buying any kind of a pleasure 
boat or canoe, investigate what I have to offer. 
ly experience of 30 years, and my large establish- 

ment will give you the very best service. , 

Send for my complete Catalogue of pleasure 
boats, all-cedar and canvas-covered canoes, oars, 
paddles, sails and fittings—free for the asking. 


J. H. RUSHTON, 817 Water St., Canton, N. Y. 


Generally acknowledged to be the most scientifically con- 
structed, most handsomely designed and finished marine gas 
engine on the market. Suitable for any kind of a boat requiring 
from 1% to 20H: P. Either single or double cylinder. Our 
speed control, propeller equipment, igniter mechanism, lubricat- 
ing arrangement and other features deserve your attention. 
We have the largest exclusive marine gas engine plant in the 
world; operating our own pattern, foundry, forge, and machine 
departments. Our guarantee carries with it a weight that means 
something. : 

Every engine is connected to its propeller and given an actual 
water test before placed in purchaser’s hands. 
Send 4c in stamps for 1904 catalogue. ADDRESS DEPT. C 


Smalley Motor Co., Ltd., Bay City, Mich.,U.S.A. 
















noe Blumer—What play shall we see to- Dr. Robert Reyburn, Dean of the Med- 
ee! Von BI I hj ical Department at Howard University, 
pier on Blumer—Is there anything de- | and the attendant physician to the late 


ex-President Garfield, believes in bicycling 
‘oNT ’ 2 53 ’ : ; J g 

“No. We've seen all the decent plays. | first, last, and all the ¢ime. In a recent 
We've already been one night this sea- 


be article he said: “Bicycling has done more 
son.” —Exchange. 


for the physical benefit of women than all 
—— other exercises put together, and I cor- 
Get a Stick Pin Free:—To any per- | dially recommend it.” 
son sending a new subscription for ReEc- 
REATION, through me, I will send free, as 


a premium, a genuine Mexican Opal “Pop, is Greenwood Cemetery a part of 
mounted in a gold filled stick pin. Don 3rooklyn ?” 

M. Harris, 43 Elberon St., E. Cleveland, “No, my boy, Brooklyn is a part of 
Ohio. Greenwood Cemetery.”—Life. 





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ABSOLUTE LAUNCH SATISFACTION 


Is contained in the ‘‘Western Recreation.’’ It possesses those essential points 
Grace, Beauty of Outline, Symmetry, Simplicity and Safety. Speed is there too if 
you wantit. Most reasonable in first cost, most economical to maintain. 


THE BEST FINISHED, HANDSOMEST, MOST RELIABLE. 


We build them with either Torpedo or Semi-Elliptic Hulls, and in completeness, it is 
the ideal and dependable craft for both pleasure and security. 

: ° Will please those who build their 
The Western Marine Engine own hulls. Beautiful Art Catalog 
describing our Launches and Marine Engines sent upon receipt of 10c, Catalog L. 


Western Launch and Engine Works, No. 12 Linn St.. Mishawaka. Ind. 


lit RECREATION. 






GASOLINE ENGINES and LAUNCHES $578 


Self-Starting . Jump or Break Spark Catalog Free 


D. M. Tuttle Co. Pid Suge Canastota, N. Ys 





A Press Button Hunting Knife 


Is one of the best articles a hunter ever carried 





It has a 4 Inch Blade made of the Best Silver Steel 


he knife cannot come open in your pocket. It cannot close on your hand when in use. It opens and closes 
only when 
If you once use one of these knives you will never use any other. You can get one as a premium for 


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RECREATION. liii 


RELIANCE 


MARINE MOTORS Ga: 


LIGHT POWERFUL ECONOMICAL 





1 to 6 Cylinders 4 to 150 horse power 


Special Design for Auto Boats 


Write for information and prices 


RELIANCE MFG. CO. 


City Island, N. Y. City ao Peabo Moana 


Mention RECREATION. 





A stage villain was supposed, at the end 
of the sth act, to plunge a knife in his heart THE TEST OF TIME 
and to die hard, rolling and kicking all THR 
over the stage. When his cue came he i! 
did plunge in the knife, but instead of 
dying, he lay down on the floor, crossed 
his legs and burst into loud, long laughter, 
the dagger still sticking in his breast. The 
audience was amazed at such conduct. The 
actors were stupefied. The manager, nearly 
beside himself, hissed from the wings in a 
loud whisper: 

“You fool, what are you laughing at? 
This is your death scene.” 

“Death scene?” said the recumbent vil- 
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“T know it is, and with such a salary as 
you give me death comes as a happy re- 






has proven the superiority 
of the 


lowa Marine Ene Tne 


OVER ALL OTHERS 


Has record of 86,400 miles 
in fourseasons andstill in 
service. Send § cents for 
descriptive catalogue 
Mention RECREATION, 


. a Vy Iowa Marine Engine 


4 


‘he Works 


















lease.’—New York Tribune. BELLEVUE, 10WA. 
: Send for catalogue of our full line of Folding 
+ Canvas Boats and Canoes, which have been 
3 


adopted by Governments of United States, Can- 
ada and England. Just filled an order for U.S 
Government, who prefer our boats. Received medal and award at Chicago World’s 
Fair. If you investigate we will get your order. Mention RECREATION. 


Acme Folding Boat Company, Miamisburg, O. 
A Sportman’s MULLINS “Get There” Steel Duck Boat 


Boat Price $20—Crated on cars Salem 


Endorsed by Thousands of Sports- 
, men. Air Chamber each end a ready 
No repairs. Send for handsome free book. 

Ww. H. UL. LINS 
228 Depot Street, . - Salem, VOhio 


AOME FOLDING BOAT ©O., MIAMISBUKG, 0, 












14 
ft. long, 
36-inch beam. 


liv RECREATION. 


HE LATEST, SAFEST AND BEST CANVAS BOAT 


Is what we offer you. A Boat built on modern lines that will 
prove a pleasure to own and use. Selected materials used through- 
out, and it comes to you guaranteed the best. A handy and safe 
boat for fishing and shooting. Send 4 cents in stamps for catalogue 
and reliable testimony. 


Mention RECREATION. 


LIFE SAVING FOLDING CANVAS BOAT CO. 
757 Portage St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 





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Latest patent and improved Canvas Folding Boat on the market. 
Puncture proof; Tempered steel frame. No bolts to remove, 
Folds most compact of any boat made. 


MOJAVE INDIAN BEAD WORK. NOTICE! 


For each new yearly'subscription to RECRE- 7 a 
ATION sent tis we will send by mail, postpaid, | Readers of Recreation are 


a Beaded Watch Fob, made by the Mojave ° 
Indians. For 3 new yearly subscriptions we Cautioned 


will send a fine Beaded Belt, 24 inches or : : 
more in length and made in beautiful design against sending any money to 


with mild color combinations. Wealsohave | @ A. Henry, Jr., Hibbing, Minn. 
other Indian work to offer for subscrip- | I have reason to believe he is a fraud. 











tions. 
State color desired; can furnish almost 
anything from large stock. My hunting boots have arrived safe. I 
Mojave Indian Trading Co., am much surprised and pleased with them. 
Mellen, Mohave Co., Arizona. Every time I wear them this next season I 





. adits =k ae will think of you and Recreation. Thank 
IN ANSWERING ADS. PLEASE | you much for such a fine premium. 


MENTION RECREATION. H. V. Potruff, M.D., Munhall, Pa. 


A FEATURE OF THE WORLD'S FAIR 


promptly obtamed OR NO FEE. Trade-Marks, 
Caveats, Copyrights and Labels registered. 
TWENTY YEARS’ PRACTICE. Highest references. 
Send model, sketch or photo. for free report 
on patentability. All business confidential. 
HAND-BOOK FREE. Explainseverything. Tells 
How to Obtain and Sell Patents, What Inventions 
Will Pay, How to Get a Partner, explains best 
mechanical movements, and contains 300 other 
subjects ofimportance to inventors. Address, 


— H. B, WILLSON & CO. attire). 


TRUSCOTT BOAT MFG. CO. 786 F Street,N.W., | WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Agents in the principal cities. ST. JOSEPH, MICH. 





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owen Motors & + 


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OPERATED BY GASOLINE VAPOR 


The Fay & Bowen Marine Motor is a revelation to those who have used others. Reliable, safe, 
durable and easy to operate. Remarkable speed control. Best of all, it starts when you start it. 
No handle or crank is used. Our patent igniter is absolutely unique and always instant and 
positive in action. It is really the only perfect and satisfactory igniter. 

Motors complete from 14 to 25 actual Horse Power ready for installation. 

We also build a line of the finest launches afloat, complete and with our motor installed and 
all ready to run. We make these in either the usual round stern model or our flat stern torpedo 
model in lengths from 18 to 35 feet. We can furnish large cabin launches on special order. For 
excellence of workmanship and beauty of finish and design our boats are unsurpassed. Ask for 
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Send for Catalogue and live testimonials from satisfied 
customers. Our customers are our best advertisers. 


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scriptions, or a pair of Flying Squirrels | article he says: “Bicycling taught the 
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now using batteries. Fully cuaranteed; 
write for descriptive catalog, 


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75 Main St., Pendleton, Ind. 





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Ghe JOHNSON 


Trayless Tackle Box 


A paragon of capacity and 
Practical 


Convenience 





Patent applied for. 


No trays to spread out and spill about. Our box opens 
out flat like a suitcase, and there is everything 
for Fishing literally at your finger ends. 


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mention RECREATION 


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for an assorted sample doz. 
15 
C Regular price, 24 cents. 
30 ea rer s, camels 4°" Quality B Flies 
60C %: eros waple = Quality C Flies 
assorted 


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SPLIT BAMBOO RODS 
Fly Rods 57 cents Bait Rods 


10 feet, 6 ounces 9 feet, 8 ounces 
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ine Fishing 





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I want every enthusiastic fisherman, whe- 
ther amateur, beginner or professional, to 
have a personal knowledge of the fine points 
of the Shakespeare Reels and the marvel- 
ous catching qualities of the Shakespeare 








Baits—and to do this I propose to send to 
every man or woman who fishes for the 


real sport there is in it, one of my reels 
and baits for free trial on their next fish- 
ing trip. Write to-day. Send your name 
and address and the name and address of 
the leading sporting goods dealer of your 
city to Wm. Shakespeare, Jr., 4083 Shake- 
speare Bldg., Kalamazoo, Mich. The Shake- 
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fect accuracy in every detail. In beauty of de- 
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equaled. Its easy, silent running suggests 
perpetual motion and it is fitted with the 
most perfect drag and click ever invented. 
Words will not describe its beauty, its use- 
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other reels. My reels and baits are for 
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to see them and try them for yourself and 
I will send them to you direct, express pre- 
paid, for a free trial. The Shakespeare Baits 
are really marvelous. With them the fish- 
erman is sure of a good catch, no matter 
where the fish are, in the lake or stream. 
If they are in deep water, Shakespeare 
makes the bait that attracts them. If they 
are in shallow water, Shakespeare makes the 
bait that catehes them. If they are hidden 
in the lily pads or moss, Shakespeare makes 
the bait that makes them strike. And Shake- 
speare offers $100 in prizes for the photo- 
graph and authentic dimensions of the big- 
gest large or small mouth bass caught this 
vear. Write to-day for particulars. Fis 
little booklets. ‘How to Catch Bass,” “Shake- 
speare Fine Fishing Tackle” and “The Art 
of Bait Casting,” are free to every angler. 
Write to-day. 


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It is colorless, hasa pleasant 
odor, is non-poisonous and 


LEAVES NO STAIN 





PRESTO is guaranteed to keep mosquitoes, black flies, midges, and 
punkies from biting. ; 


Presto Kills all Insects 


and is invaluable as a kennel requisite, eradicates unpleasant odors and 
kills fleas and their larvae. No sportsman’s camp is complete without 
a bottle of PRESTO. 

Make your dealer send for it, for if you use Presto once, you will 
want more. Sample Can will be sent by mail for 20e postpaid. 


- Presto Manufacturing Co. 
Lock Box 1248 When writing mention RECREATION. OSSINING, N, Y. 


Balboa Gane Poles 


and other untrimmed rods are Novel- 
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mailed 75c, dozen $7.20, Patented 
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NOVELCRAFT MFG. CO. 
Cleveland, - Ohio 





A well known actor was telling his 16 
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for his age, that he ought to be doing 
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“Why, when George Washington was 
your age, my son, he was surveying the 
estate of Lord Fairfax.” 

“Well, when he was as old as you, pa, 
he was President of the United States.” 
Argonaut. 2 


I received the Korona camera sent me for 
securing subscribers to your unrivaled mag- ; 
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have been slow in writing you, but mean- | $! for 1 yearly subscription to Recrea- 
time have given the camera a most severe | tion, I will give a sportsman’s pocket 
test, which has proved it to be a perfect medicine case. For 2 subscriptions, a 
instrument. physician’s pocket medicine case. Walter 


C..W. Hanson, Lake City, Minn. Lusson, Ardmore, Pa. 


Our «& Y Detachable Even Spoolers 




















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Blades, 4% to8 inches. Prices, $2.25 to $3.50. For sale by dealers everywhere, or 





direct, prepaid. Send for new 32-page catalogue, showing 18 new special- 


ties, and mention Recreation. 


Marble Safety Axe Company 


Burnt Work — Something Great. To 
persons sending new subscriptions to ReEc- 
REATION through me, or sending them direct 
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For 1 new yearly subscription to RECREA- 
TION I will give a neat barrel match safe 
mounted on an oval back, both burned 
and decorated, equal in value to 75 cents. 

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frame burned and decorated with beauti- 
ful old fashioned poppies tinted with 
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For 5 new yearly subscriptions to REc- 
REATJON I will give either a round stool 14 
inches high with round upholstered top 
or a square stool same height with square 
upholstered top. These would probably 
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with designs burned in the wood and 
leather. 

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LOVE A LA MODE. 


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T. Ybarra in Life. 


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BLACK BASS—“ He is a fish that lurks close all win- 
ter, but is very pleasant and jolly after mid-April and 
May and in the hot months.’’—IzaAak WALTON. 
Get your bite—the ‘‘Bristol’’ will do al- 

most all the rest. It has the necessary 

spring, snap, and stiffish back required ina 

Black Bass Rod.The most resilient material 

used in rod making is Steel, which makes 

them tough and elastic, with a rebound 
found in no other rod but the “ Bristol.” 
Sold by all dealers: they will give 
you the benefit of reduced prices 
Free Our handsome catalog “D"’ describing 
all the “ Bristol’’ steel rods. 


THE HORTON MFG. CO., Bristol, Conn. 


- BRISTOL k 


: Sor 
Brook Trout 


HE Bristol Steel Fishing Rod has all the good points of other 
rods, with many valuable and exclusive features of its own. 
at is all nerve and backbone. Casts a fly with fluency and 
precision and controls ‘at will the course of the struggling Ssh.; 
We believe the s* Bristol’’ can stand more use or abuse than 
anyother. “rod made “and is unequalled for all kinds ‘of_ fishing; 


Ask your, dealer, about the reduced prices. 


FREE) yy the 1 ee descriptive catalogue ude 


THE,.HORTON MFG) CO, 


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SUMMER or WINTER 


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T. H. GUTHRIE RECREATION 
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RECREATION. Lxi 


Sportsman’s Coat 


Sheds Water like a Duck’s Back 


Positively waterproof and rain defying, 
Will not rustle. Made of cloth as soft and 
pliable as chamois. Lined throughout with 
same material. Treated by a process that 
resists a driving rain or an all day drizzle 
and yet permits perfect ventilation. 


Waterproof qualities guaranteed through- 
out the life of garment. It’s nearly all 
pockets. Double stitched throughout; re-in- 
forced shoulder cap. Patent bellows under 
arm allows free arm movement with gun or 
rod. Full cut, well tailored and trimmed, 
Light tan or dead grass color. 


Easy as a Sweater 


Price $5.00 express prepaid to all points 
east of Mississippi River. Send snug breast 
measure under arms. State color desired, 
Cloth samples free. 


BIRD, JONES & KENYON, 
No. 1 Blandina St., Utica, N.Y. 


Private Secretary: There’s a Duke out- 
side waiting to see you, sir. 

American Magnate: I can’t see him just 
now; there’s a directors’ meeting. 

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like it.” 

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him quiet.”—Exchange. 


Willie: Mamma, as I was walkin’ down 
the road to-day, I saw 2 boys ridin’ on 
ponies and they were havin’ a fine time. 

Mother: Willie, are there no g’s in your 
vocabulary ? 

“Yes, ma’am, 2: Hully Gee and Gee 


Whiz.”’—Life. 








Practical Common Sense CAMP 
i in 6 Sizes. STOVE 


Either with or with- 
out oven. The light” 
est, strongest, most 








compact, practical 

stove made. Cast 

combination sheet 

steel top, smooth out- 

“ side, heavy lining in 

fire box and around 

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stove. Burns large wood and keeps fire longer than any 

other, Used by over 9,000 campers and only one stove 
returned. 

For catalogue giving full particulars, mention RECREA 


TION and address 


DW. GREE, Manufacturer, Griggsville, Ill 


























* Collan-Oil ” 


preserves leather and 
tenders shoes and 
harness positively 


Waterproof WA TERPR OOF 
LEATHER Used by the U. S 


the Army and Navy 
ce eee and National Guard. 
RUST Send 2sc. for trial can, 
PREVENTER AGENTS WANTED 
Write for terms and circulars 


J. R. BUCKELEW 
Dept. A. 131 Chambers St., N. Y. 


The pleasure of ont door life and 
Sports is Otten marred by the dis- 


comfort of mosquitoes, black flies, 
and other insects, which make life 
a burden. There is nothing so ef- 
fective in ridding one’s self of these 
Lerrors as 


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DRIVES AWAY tains 12 atic 
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on receipt of 2 


THE GULECIDE CO., 1705 Summer St., Boston, Mass. 


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A VALUABLE PRESENT 


For Your Wife, Your Mother, Your 
Sister or Your Best Girl 


* For 25 Yearly Subscriptions to Recreation, I will send you 


a set of 
1 DISH AND 12 
TOMATO PLATES 


made by Higgins & Seiter, 50 West 22d Street N. Y. Listed at 
$19.50. 

And, for 2O Yearly Subscrip- 
tions to RecrEATIoN, I will send 
you a set of 


12 WATERMELON 
PLATES 


listed at $16.50. (See illustration) 


HESE are fine, thin, white 
china plates, beautifully hand 
painted; with pictures of tomatoes 
and tomato vines, or watermelons 
and watermelon vines, in natural 
colors, and each set of plates is 
enclosed in acase made in an exact 
imitation of a large tomato or a 
watermelon. 
No more beautiful or appropriate present could possibly be 
found for a lady than one of these sets. 
You can earn one of them in a few hours, and at the sametime 
earn the everlasting gratitude of the lady to whom you may give it. 


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RECREATION. 


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A New Star 


has arisen, Not new in principle. There 

is nothing superior to the self regulating, % 
self ventilating Star that has proven so § 
popular for years, We hold on to the 
principle. Its hatching genius has given f% 
itagreatname, But we have takenan- 
other step to popularize it and bring it 
within reach of poultry raisers every- § 
where. We have reduced the price, 


Poultry raisers may now have the ad- } 
vantages of all the genius and perfected 
appliances of the famous 


Star Incubators 


At $6.00, $12.00, $20.00. 


Wo These prices for 50, 100 and 200 Egg Incuba- 
4 tors are not duplicated by any other machine 
that stands in the first rank. No necessity 
longer to experiment or tamper with unknown 
appliances. All may have the machine of 
proverbial high per cent hatches of strong 
chicks. Write today for the new Star Cata- 
log and see the special offers. We will 
mail copy free. It willsave you half your 
| money, while you get the surest hatching 
incubator in the world. 


? Star Incubator @ Brooder Co., 
Box 25, Bound Brook, N. J. 





9 Glass Eyes for 
roaee Birds, 
and Animals 


Materials 


Send sc. in stamps for catalogue 


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Taxidermy work done in all its branches 
Mention RECREATION 


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stamps. Mention RECREATION. If a deale1 
say 80. iy Le W. STILWELL, 


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Squé ibs are raised in 1 month, bring d/g 
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oo Easy for women and invalids, 
se your spare time profitably. Small 
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worth looking into. Facts given in our 
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th Squabs. * PLYMOUTH ROCK 
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Aquarium Fish Fo0d 





HIS food is the result of several years’ careful ex- 

perimenting atour laboratury on various kinds of 

fresh-water fish in balanced and other aquariums, 
It contains the precise combination of vegetable and ani- 
mal matter most suitable for the maintenance in good 
health of aquarium fish, in which are included tadpoles 
and shell-fish, 

Most beginners with aquariums over-feed their fish 
with disastrous results, especially where a sufficient 
number of scavengers (tadpoles, snails) is not kept, This 
food of all known products is less harmful when fed in 
unnecessarily large quantities. A small amognt should 
be sprinkled on the surtace of the water each day, and 
under no circumstances should the daily meal be given 
unless every vestige of the last meal has disappeared, 
These remarks, of course, refer especially to balanced 
aquariums, 


Price per Tin 10c, by mail 15c, 25c, 
and $1.00, postpaid. 


We also manufacture a specially prepared food for 
dogs, puppies, rabbits, cats, poultry, game, pigeons, fish, 
birds, etc, Write tor our /ree catalogue “Dog C ulture,” 
with practical chapters on the feeding, kenneliag and 
management of dogs, with a chapter oncats, Mention 
RECREATION. 


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There had been a change of curates in 
the parish, and Larry Doolin was asked 
how he liked the new man. 

“Middlin’,” replied Larry; “but he can’t 
come up to Father James. “Iwas he 
could tell you all about hell. Shure, to hear 
him describin’ it, you’d think he was bred, 
born atid reared there.”—Sporting Times. 

“T wasn’t always in this condition,” said 
the ossified man in the dime museum. 

“How did it happen?” asked the obese 
lady. 

“A girl once gave me the marble heart, 
and it spread,” explained the hardened 
freak.—Chicago News. 





To Sportsmen. Our new 
Illustrated Catalog. It tells 
how we can teach you to 


Be Your Own Taxidermist 


Learn to save your fine trophies. They 
are magnificent for your home, or den. 
Taxidermy is easily and quickly learned 
under our instruction. Complete course 
of 15 lessons and personal instruction. 
Standard methods, reasonable coat. The 
spring shooting season is open. You 
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GUIDE TO TAXIDERMY. 


Full of valuable information, with 
complete instructions how to pre- 
pare and mount 


"Ss BIRDS, ANIMALS and FISHES, 


Also a complete list of all North 
American Birds, with Prices of 
q# theis Eggs, Skins, and mounted 
hi Specimens, an Exhaustive Line 

of Ornithologists’, Oologists’ and 
| Taxidermists’ Supplies; valuable 







information for the amateur. 
Recipes, etc., etc. 


| } Cloth Bound, 35c., postpaid. 
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102 UNION ST., WORCESTER, MASS. 





For Sale.—Winchester 12 bore, 30 inch 
full choke, with extra 28 inch cylinder bar- 
rel, drop 3% inches, straight stock, made 
at factory; gun used 4 months. With box 
leather case, if sold at once, $30; cost $57. 





Frank Erxleben, 605 North 18th street, 
Omaha, Neb. 

For Sale: Beaver Fur Lined Coat with 
cuffs and collar to match. Cost $400; 


in fine condition; will exchange or sell at 


a bargain. 
R. G. S., 280 Putnam Ave., Detroit, Mich. 


For Exchange:—A Lyman _ sighted 


25-35 Winchester Carbine, practically 
new, for a 45-70 Extra Light weight 
model ’86. W. D. Church, Republic, 
Wash. 





For Sale:—Fine mounted moose head. 
Also deer head. For details and photo 
address Box 26, Ely, Minnesota. 





For Sale or Exchange -—5 x 7 Eastman 
Kodak in good condition. 
rens, Grand Forks, N. Dakota. 





hand 5x7 Film 
Box 221, Silver- 


Wanted:—A_ second 
Stereoscopic Camera. 
ton, Colo. 

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Don’t have 


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SOME GOOD GUIDES. 


Following are names and addresses of 
guides who have been recommended to me, 
by men who have employed them; together 
with data as to the species of game and 
fish which these guides undertake to find 
for sportsmen, 

If anyone who may employ one of these 
guides should find him incompetent or un- 
satisfactory, | will be grateful if he will 
report the fact to me: 

OREGON. 
Charles H. Sherman, Audrey, bear, deer, grouse 


and trout. 
FLORIDA. 
C. H. Stokes, Mohawk, deer, alligators, turkey, 
quail, and snipe, 
IDAHO. 
John Ching, Kilgore, elk, bear, deer, 
mountain sheep, trout and grouse. 
Chas. Petty’s, Kilgore, ditto. 
MAINE. 
H. R. Horton, Flagstaff, deer, bear, moose, cari- 
bou, fox, grause and trout. 
Eugene Hale, Medway, ditto. 
MONTANA. 
A. R. Hague, Fridley, elk, deer, mountain sheep, 
_ bear, grouse and trout. 
Chas, Marble, Chestnut, ditto. 


antelope, 


WASHINGTON. 
Munro Wyckoff, Port Townsend, deer, bear and 
grouse. 
WYOMING. 


S. N. Leek, Jackson, elk, bear, deer, mountain 
sheep, antelope, grouse and trout. 


CANADA. 
Carl Bersing, Newcastle, N. B., moose, caribou, 
deer, bear and grouse. 
NEWFOUNDLAND. 
John C. LeMoine, Birchy Cove, Bay of Islands, 


caribou, salmon and trout. 
A. M. Pike, bear, caribou, salmon trout. 





FOR SALE 
Fine Alaskan Moose. Caribou, 
and Elk Heads. Price for group $350. 


Photos and descriptions furnished. 


C. A. Bartlett, Leadville, Colo. 





My doctor orders that I take RECREATION 
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G. O. SHIELDS, 


Date, 


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Editor and Manager of RECREATION, 23 West 24th St. New York. 
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Volume XX. 


JUNE, 1904 


Number 6 


G. 0. SHIELDS (COQUINA), Editor and Manager 


ANIMAL LIFE IN A CUBAN CAVE. 


AUGUST BUSCK. 


_ The entire Eastern end of Cuba is 
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uninitiated companion, appeared a 
mighty column of black smoke, which 
gradually spread out like a cloud and 
dispersed in the evening shadows. 
From having previously observed 
similar phenomena, though never be- 
fore of such magnitude, I knew it 
was innumerable bats, which had is- 
sued from their quarters under 
ground for their nightly flight. To 


investigate such a bat cave was a par- - 


ticularly desired object for me, for 
entomological reasons. That evening 
we found in the neighborhood a na- 
tive who was willing and able, for a 
consideration, to conduct us to the 
entrance of that cave the following 
day. 

Early next morning a friend and I 
rode out to the native’s primitive 
palm hut, where we left our horses. 


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Then, led by our guide, who cut our 
way through the dense underbrush 
with a dextrous swinging of his ma- 
chete, we moved in under the humid 
shade of the tropical forest. After 
more than an hour’s difficult travel 
we reached a small clearing in which 
appeared the mouth of the cave, a 
large, nearly square, hole in the 
ground, some 30 feet in diameter and 
about 25 feet deep, with perpendicu- 
lar walls full of large and small cre- 
vices. At one side of this excavation 
was the real entrance to the cave pro- 
per, a deep, black, apparently bottom- 
less opening, about 15 feet square. 

I crawled down in the antechamber, 
which was comparatively easy on ac- 
count of the numerous holes, making 
good steps to descend by; but I 
stopped short and regained the sur- 
face quickly as my hand_ touched 
something moving, which, without 
taking time to look, I realized was a 
large snake. Then we took a closer 
look and found that every hole in the 
wall was the home of a beautiful, but 
not quite reassuring, large snake. 
There were hundreds of them in that 
half dark chamber. 

This was sufficient for my compan- 
ion, who hitherto had been anxious to 
follow me and help me explore the 
cave. He concluded he could see all 
he wished from above. The guide, 
however, was more courageous and, 
as I knew that no poisonous snakes 
are found in Cuba, he and I soon 
went down in the chamber, snakes or 
no snakes. They proved harmless, 
lazy fellows in spite of their size of 
4 to 10 feet. With some difficulty 


398 


we pulled a few of them out, and half 
a dozen accompanied me home in a 
box. They are now enjoying more 
civilized quarters in the National 
Zoological Park in Washington. 

It was a unique situation to stand 
there in the center of the antecham- 
ber, while the guide felled a tall tree, 
with which to enable me to proceed 
down in the real cave. Around me 
these strikingly marked reptiles 
moved about in the recesses of the 
wall, disturbed by the unusual pres- 
ence of man, and a dozen or more 
small owls glided noiselessly through 
the air from side to side to find safer 
and darker resting places. The floor 
of the cavity was a soft black soil, ac- 
cumulation of decayed leaves; and 
the turning over of a few loose rocks 
revealed some large centipedes, a 
scorpion and several cockroaches and 
spiders. 

The guide returned with a tall, 
slim, branchless, trunk, 30 feet long, 
on which I was to clamber down in 
the real cave; but when we sent it 
down the opening it disappeared en- 
tirely and without any sound. I be- 
gan to dispair of being able to inves- 
tigate farther down. To tell the 
truth I had some feeling of relief 
in thus escaping, with honor saved. 
that uninviting darkness. However, 
the guide had more sense of responsi- 
bility, having contracted to enable me 
to go down in the cave itself. He 
was already engaged in felling an- 
other taller tree; and he did not rest 
until he had fastened 2 together 
and plunged them down the aperture. 
That time they reached bottom leav- 
ing some 5 feet of the trunk exposed, 
which meant that the hole was _ be- 
tween 40 and 50 feet deep. Then he 
indicated with what I thought a ma- 
licious smile, that he had done his 
part and it was up to me. [I could 
find no excuse to escape, so down I 
went, candle, matches and revolver in 
my pockets and my insect net between 
my teeth. 

Once down I found myself in a 


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huge chamber into the depths of 
which the light from my candle only 
penetrated slightly. However, I could 
realize that I stood on the highest 
part of the floor, and that this de- 
clined on all sides. Far away to the 
right I saw the sparkle of water. The 
floor consisted of tons of guano, the 
accumulated excrements of centuries 
from the millions of bats inhabitating 
the cave and now clinging in immense 
clusters under the roof. 

The guano was covered, more than 
an inch deep, with red mites; a strug- 
gling, moving mass of animal life. 
which soon covered my shoes and 
leggings. The fermentation of this 
enormous mass of guano created an 
almost unbearable heat and _ stench, 
which- made a prolonged stay impos- 
sible. Besides I dared not walk many 
steps for fear of falling into some 
bottomless hole or being buried in 
some soft part of the manure. It is 
essential on such an exploration that 
there be 2, tied together, so that if 
one slips in the unknown darkness, 
the other can haul him up again. 
That part of his mission my friend 
above had not realized. I had to 
content myself with what I could ob- 
serve near my tree trunk, which lI 
had no desire to leave under the cir- 
cumstances. 


The wall next to which I stood — 
was covered with pupariums of flies, — 


the larvze of which fed in the manure. — 


Countless little black gnats swarmed 
around my candle and other flies were 
caught in my net. 

I fired a shot from my revolver, 
to disturb the bats, and the result 
was startling. As the large flocks 
dislodged and flew to deeper, distant 
galleries, an astonishing multitude of 
their parasites fell from them and 
their roosting place and came down 
over me like a thick rain, extinguish- 
ing my candle and darkening the light 
from the entrance above me. Large 
and minute, winged and unwinged, 
they lodged in my hair and mustache 
and clothing. Being an entomologist. 


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ANIMAL LIFE IN A CUBAN CAVE. 


these parasites were the principal ob- 
ject of my visit, and under other cir- 
cumstances | should have delighted 
in seeing so many of these interest- 
ing insects. In fact, there is a re- 
markable new form of bat louse, col- 
lected on another memorable cave ex- 
pedition in Porto Rico, named in my 
honor; an honor which it may be 
difficult for non-scientists to appreci- 
ate! I was most anxious to obtain a 
collection from the Cuban cave; but 
at the time I felt altogether too buggy. 
I at once began the climb upward, 
rather more than half suffocated by 
heat, stench and lice. 

Again I breathed pure air! After 
securing my snakes, and filling my 
cyanid bottles with the contents of 
my net and the scrapings from my 
clothes, we made for our horses and 
galloped to the river for a refreshing 
clean up and a swim. 

We had arranged with our native 
to return to the cave in the evening 
in order to witness the sight of the 
outflying bats, some of which I also 
wanted to secure for identification, 
and for the smaller, more tenacious 
species of parasites, not so easily dis- 
lodged; so the bath over, we pro- 
cured, in a country store, some chicken 
and rice in curry, the national dish. 
That, with good bread, fried bananas, 
good wine and excellent coffee fully 
satished our hunger. Afterward we 
lounged away the hottest part of the 
day in the dense shade of a mango 
tree with a real Havana, and just be- 
fore the sun went down were we with 
our guide at the cave. 

We found others waiting for those 
bats. From each hole in the walls 
of the antechamber reached out the 
head of a snake, with its tongue play- 
ing, ready for a meal. These snakes 
evidently subsisted exclusively on 
bats and led as ideal, lazy a life asa 
snake could wish, merely opening 


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their mouth at mealtime and closing 
it again over a bat; a veritable snake 
paradise at the entrance to inferno. 

A few single bats flew up from 
below, made a circuit in the ante- 
chamber and disappeared down again; 
probably scouts, sent to see whether 
the advance of the army would be 
safe. Presently a roar, as of a storm, 
was heard from the cave as the mil- 
lions of small animals loosened them- 
selves and made for their exit. For 
a full half hour we had a sight sel- 
dom witnessed. Ina dense black col- 
umn rose the multitudes of bats out 
of that hole. A single stroke with 
my butterfly net would bring 30 te 
50 whining, biting, fluttering fellows 
into my large collecting box and a 
sack brought along for the purpose. 
Both were soon filled and I contented 
myself with looking at the strange 
spectacle. Darkness had come and 
the guide kindled a brush fire, which 
illuminated the weird scene. The up- 
ward stream seemed never to cease; 
but as suddenly as it had begun it 
ended. A few stray bats, kept back 
probably by the unusual light, circled 
about and away, and the hole was 
empty darkness again, in which the 
snakes digested their late dinner in 
peace. 

To quiet the protest of Mr. Co- 
quina, whose propaganda against 
wanton killing I most heartily en- 
dorse, I report that the bats we col- 
lected were examined the same night 
and with the exception of a few, 
which had been bitten and killed by 
their comrades, were liberated to find 
their old or other quarters, none the 
worse for the experience, except that 
they did not get any supper that night 
and that they were relieved of some 
parasites now treasured in the col- 
lection of the United States National 
Museum. 


“Drink, and the world drinks with you.” 
“True; but you settle with the waiter 


alone.” —Life. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY W. E, LURCHIN. 


PATCHING THE CANOE, 


Winner of 47th Prize in Recreation’s 8th Annual Photo Competition. 





owAlcUR FMUTO Bt FRANK G NASH. 


GREAT BLUE HERON. 


Winner of 43rd Prize in Recreation’s 8th Anntal Photo Competition. 
4co0 


THE NEW METHOD OF FENCING, 
F. SCHAVOIR, M.D, 


President Stamford Fencer’s Club. 


From prehistoric times, when our 
hairy ancestors playfully let daylight 
into one another by means of stone 
knives and axes, the art of attack and 
defense has been of vital importance to 
the male half of the human race for the 
preservation of a whole skin and a 
more or less precious life. 

The other and more beautiful half 
of humanity has also been highly in- 
terested in the art, not so much in an 


natural, then, that during all ages the 
play of the sword should have formed 
an important part of every man’s edu- 
cation, more especially if either by 
choice or general conscription he had 
to serve his country as a soldier, 

The earliest swords of which we 
have any positive knowledge are 


bronze, though the Mexicans used 
wooden swords when the Spaniards 
first invaded their country. 


When the 





Dr. F. Schavoir. 


active way, but rather as an interested 
spectator for whose benefit or favors 
the lords of creation would cut, slash 
or split one another with the most 
reckness enthusiasm. 

Aside from these praiseworthy en- 
deavors to cut one another’s throat 
pour les beaux yeux of woman, the 
time is not far past when a man was 
frequently called upon to defend his 
property and his life against the gen- 
‘try who made their living by whatever 
they could take by force. It is but 


SALUTE 


401 


Lieut. J. M. de Zoldy. 


art of tempering steel was discovered, 
that material at once superseded all 
others, and it has maintained its su- 
premacy ever since. In spite of all 
modern inventions nothing better has 
yet been produced, and a rightly tem- 
pered blade is a thing of such high 
quality that poets and prose writers 
have sung its praise, and extolled its 
virtues in innumerable instances. Ro- 
mantic writers attribute to their he- 
roes a love and affection for their 
sword which can only rank second to 





FENCING POSITION. 


the impassioned feelings they experi- 
ence for their heroine. It is but natu- 
ral that man should conceive an affec- 
tion for an object which has stood by 
him in his hour of danger and trial. 
Have you ever noticed the affection- 
ate, caressing way in which a fencer 
takes up his sword? It is not merely 


a piece of steel to him, but a dear 
friend, on whom he relies, and whose 
intimate qualities he appreciates and 
understands. 

The form of the sword has been 
varied from time to time, and accord- 
ing to the way in which it was intend- 
ed to be used. -The sword of the ancient 





HEAD CUT 


(PARRY QUINTE.) 





FLANK CUT 


Greeks was about 2 feet long, either 
leaf shaped or straight, with 2 edges 
and a sharp point. It was a most use- 
ful arm, as it availed for either cut or 
thrust. 

The ancient Roman sword was of 
about the same length as that of the 
Greeks, but the blade was always 
straight and the point shorter. As far 
as known, neither of these 2 great na- 
tions of antiquity carried the art of 





STOMACH CUT 


(PARRY SECONDE.) 


fencing to perfection, but rather de- 
pended for success on shock tactics, 
and the hope of getting in the first 
blow. Every soldier was provided 
with a shield, and that in itself would 
preclude any fine sword play, which 
can only be developed by the meeting 
of blade with blade. 

During the middle ages warriors 
seem to have depended more on the 
force of the blow than on the artistic 


(PARKY PKIME.,) 
403 


404 


way of placing it. Swords were 4, 5. 
or even 6 feet long, with almost round- 
ed points, and so heavy that 2 hands 
were required to wield them. That 
the strongest arm must win in such 
a contest is evident, and the art of 
fencing could not make any great 
strides forward. During the 16th’cen- 
tury, however, the sword was nar- 
rowed and finer pointed, a better hand 
protection was provided, and the ra- 
pier was born. 

Up to that time whenever a single 
handed sword was used, the other 
hand and arm were provided with 


RECREATION. 


in time it was used only for the 
thrust. 

From the East came the curved 
swords, such as the scimitar, yataghan 
and talwar, which proved most effec- 
tive as cutting weapons. The advan- 
tage of a curved arm in a hand to 
hand skirmish was soon appreciated 
and made use of by Western peoples, 
and during the Napoleonic wars a 
much curved sword was used. How- 
ever, as the point of the weapon was 
so much deflected from a straight line, 
it was almost useless for a thrust, and 
accordingly the curve has been gradu- 





FLANK CUT (PARRY LOW TERZE.) 


either a shield or a buckler. The 
shield was generally oblong or oval, 
3 to 5 feet long, while the buckler was 
round and rarely over 2 feet in diam- 
eter. These parts of a combatant’s 
armament were used to ward off blows 
and thrusts, and they were made of 
wood, hide or metal, or several of 
these materials combined. With the 
advent of the lighter sword and the 
rapier, parrying blows and stabs could 
be given with the weapon itself, and 
there the true art of fencing began. 
The rapier is a straight weapon, with 
sharp edge and point, and though at 
first used for cutting and thrusting, 


ally diminished, so that but a slight 
deviation from the straight line is now 
noticeable. The modern weapon has 
one sharp edge, and a sharp, long 
point. This modern sabre is still fur- 
ther characterized by its lightness; in 
spite of which it is a most formidable 
weapon, and when handled by an ex- 
pert a deadly implement. It can be 
used for cut, thrust or slash. It is a 
most convenient guard against either 
of these, and the dexterity which some 
acquire in its manipulations is nothing 
short of marvelous. 

The home of scientific fencing in 
the earlier periods was undoubtedly 


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THE NEW METHOD OF FENCING. 405 


Italy. During the 17th and 18th cen- 
turies numerous schools flourished in 
that country, and almost every one of 
the larger cities had its own style of 
fencing, which was sometimes much 
at variance with other methods ; some- 
times only differed in minor details. 
Of course the weapon used was the 
rapier, or small sword, and only the 
thrust was attempted. Parrying was 
done with the blade or hilt of the 
sword, and sometimes a cloak or coat 
rolled around the left arm was used 
to parry or deflect thrusts. It is that 
method of fencing which inspired 


and continued to be held in that coun- 
try for a long period. England, Ger- 
many and other European countries 
took up the small sword reluctantly, 
considering it the arm of a weakling, 
but in recent times they have all at- 
tained marked proficiency. Since the 
beginning of the nineteenth century 
the broad sword was taken up, and its 
use spread rapidly, as it appealed to 
more energetic and aggressive natures. 
This weapon is about 3 feet long 
and the blade is 34 to an inch in 
width, with one sharp edge and a mod- 
erately sharp point. It is used for cut- 





STOMACH CUT (PARRY LOW QUARTE.) 


Alexander Dumas, the father, to write 
those fascinating descriptions of the 
heroic exploits of Bussy, D’Artagnan, 
and numerous other characters in his 
unparalleled romances. 

Another and more recent epic on 
fencing was written by Conan Doyle 
in “The White Company,” of which 
Sir Nigel Loring is the hero, always 
ready to enter a sword contest, sug- 
gesting to his opponent that they might 
gain much honor and advancement 
from the encounter. In Spain Don 
Cesar de Basan is the hero of swords- 
manship. During the 17th and 18th 
centuries the supremacy in the art of 
fencing passed from Italy to France, 


ting only, and the principles of this 
stvle of fencing are simple and few. 
Up to within the last 10 years there 
were thee 2 methods of fencing: the 
small sword, or rapier, which was 
practised with the foil, and in which 
the thrust only was employed; and the 
broad sword, which confined itself to 
cutting. The German student, in or- 
der to satisfy his craving for gore and 
glory, employs a hybrid arm, called the 
Schlager, which has the shape of the 
rapier, or straight sword,- but is used 
like the broad sword for cutting. Its 
field of usefulness is limited to the 
head and face only, probably because 
that part of their anatomy is the hard- 





CORPS A CORPS. 


est to penetrate; for, mind you, they 
do not wish to inflict any harm on each 
other! They are generally the best 
of friends, before and after their mew- 
sur, and except for a few drops of 
blood and a few gashes in the skin 
their encounters would be as harmless 
as a modern French duel. 

Within a decade a new style of fenc- 
ing has been introduced from Italy, 
which once more takes back to that 
country the supremacy in the art. It 
is called the Italian sabre, and its mer- 
its and superiority were so readily rec- 
ognized in Europe that every country 
which takes any serious interest in the 
art has adopted this method. The 
governments have introduced it»into 
their military academies and regi- 
mental fencing schools. This method 
is as much superior to the older ones 
as the electric light is to the old tallow 
dip candle. It combines everything 
that was useful and practical in the 
several older methods, and adds to this 
a variety of combinations and scien- 
tific calculations, which were out of 
the question with the older styles. 

It seems remarkable that it should 
have taken centuries to evolve a meth- 
od which appears so obviously better, 
when once understood, yet it is with 


(FILO IN TERZE.) 


this as with as many other things, 
“like the egg of Columbus.” Chev- 
alier Luigi Barbasetti was one of the 
first to introduce the new art abroad. 
He opened a fencing school in Vienna 
and soon he was busy from morning 
till night teaching the new method to 
officers, cavaliers and representatives 
of the upper classes. The new school 
jumped into vogue and renown at once, 
and it became the proper thing to go to 
Barbasetti for tuition. 

Mr. J. Marczi de Zoldy was one of 
the most promising pupils of the now 
famous master, and the numerous 
medals he has won attest the benefit 
which he derived from the instruc- 
tion. 

In this new method, the position 
which the fencer takes is derived from 
both the older styles. While in small 
sword or foil the knees were bent, and 
an almost sitting position assumed, 
with the left arm raised back of the 
head, in the broadsword and cutlass 
exercise the knees and legs were al- 
most straight, though separated, and 
the left arm was held behind the back, 
eripping the belt in the center. In the 
new method the knees are bent and 
the left hand held behind the back, 
hooked in the belt, combining thereby 


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THE NEW METHOD OF FENCING. 


the useful points of both the old styles 
and eliminating the awkwardness of 
the left hand over the head and the 
stiffness of the legs. 

Another important distinction be- 
tween the old and the new method of 
sabre fencing is the use in the latter of 
a remarkably light weapon, avoiding 
thereby the fatigue which results from 
even a short bout with the old style 
sabre. The modern blade is hardly 
one-third the weight of the older kind, 
the hilt is proportionately lighter and 
a fencer, after a little training, will be 
able to manipulate his weapon a long 
time without fatigue. Aside from the 
reduction in weight, there is an in- 
conceivable advantage of more subtle 
manipulation, permitting a much more 
accurate direction of cuts and thrusts. 
The grip on the sabre is not in the 
palm of the hand, as with the old 
clumsy weapon, but between the index 
finger and the thumb, the other 3 
fingers simply steadying the hilt 
against the palm of the hand. In this 
way the fencer has the point of his 
blade under perfect control. He can 
feel it, so to speak, and can direct it 
with an accuracy unattainable with the 
old style grip This sensation of accu- 


407 


racy is called the doigté, and when 
once acquired will allow of the most 
subtle sword play. As a blow with 
the flat of the blade would count for 
nothing in an actual contest it should 
be the fencer’s endeavor to prevent 
the flat blows with the sword, but with 
the old style grip it is almost impos- 
sible to avoid them, while with the 
modern weapon they occur but seldom 
and are considered a disgrace to the 
fencer who perpetrates them. The 
true art in fencing is the placing of a 
cut or thrust accurately and in cor- 
rect form. The clumsy tyro will hit 
as hard as he can, while the master of 
the art will touch gracefully and with 
just sufficient force to inflict a serious 
wound were the affair in good earnest. 

The points of the body to be at- 
tacked are 5 cardinal and 7 minor 
ones. The top of the head is the first 
point, and is reached by the straight 
downward cut; the sides of the face 
on the right and left are the next 2 
important points of attack; then the 
flank, that is, the right side of the 
body, and last the front of the body, 
which is turned to the left, down to 
the waist. 

The minor points to be reached are 





THRUST. 


408 


the neck on either side, the flank and 
body, high and low, and the right 
arm. for each cut there is a parry. 
Everything aimed at the left side of 
the body is parried in “Prime” at the 
right side of the body in “Seconde ;” 
at the right side of the face, when the 
sabre points upward, the parry is in 
hehe, ” and if aimed at the left side 
“Ouarte.’ The parry for head cut 
is in “Quinte,” and the sabre is held 
high, pointing forward. 

There are several auxiliary parries, 
sometimes called emergency parries, 
such as low Terze, low Quarte, or the 
Seaxta and Septime, which latter 2 pro- 
tect the head and face. 

After each parry there is a riposte, 
that is to say, a return cut, and in this 
way cuts and thrusts are exchanged 
until one of the contestants is hit, 
which he announces with the word 
“Touché.” The thrusts are essentially 
the same as those of the foil, besides 
the combinationse with cuts which en- 
large their application to an infinite 
variety. To place a simple cut or 
thrust and make it reach its objective 
point is the most perfect art, but this 
is so difficult that feints are resorted 
to: that is to say, the attack is initi- 
ated with several cuts or thrusts which 
are not finished, but induce the oppo- 
nent to lay himself open at a certain 
point; and to see that point and send 
home the edge of the blade is the final 
object. 

One of the finest points of this new 
method of fencing is the possibility 
of making calculations in such a way 
as to place a touché after 2 or 3 par- 
ries and ripostes. After the second 
riposte the attack is called in second 
intention ; after the third, in third in- 
tention, etc., to any length, according 
to the skill of the fencers. 

A number of physiological as well as 
psychological facts have been made 
use of in this method, such as tempo 
attacks, that is, the choice of the right 
moment to execute certain motions; 
and fractions of a second are impor- 
tant factors, 


RECREATION. 


To describe adequately this method 
would require a book, and a good 
exposé of it has been written by Mr. 
J. M. de Zoldy, which is now in 
press. 

The question arises, Of what benefit 
can be the acquiring of an art, when 
nobody but a military man carries a 
sword, and when duelling has become 
obsolete, at least in Anglo-Saxon 
countries. : 

. In continental Europe even to-day 
the sword is the final arbiter of dif- 
ferences between men of the upper 
classes, especially among officers of 


-the armies and navies. Whenever one 


man feels so aggrieved by another 
that a simple explanation or apology 
can not be accepted, or is not offered, 
he has a right to challenge that per- 
son, and such a challenge is a formal 
affair, indeed. In the first place, the 
agerieved party chooses from among 
his friends or acquaintances 2 men to 
act as his seconds. These visit the 
person to be challenged, make him ac- 
quainted with their errand, and ask 
him to designate his seconds. After 
this the affair is entirely in the hands 
of these 4 men, and it is their first 
duty to try to adjust matters in an 
amicable way. Should this prove un- 
feasible or undesirable, the details of 
the duel are arranged, weapons chos- 
en, time and place for the encounter 
appointed, and preparations made for 
the care of the wounded. 

In military circles a court of honor 
is appointed by the commanding off- 
cer, and its decisions are final. Should 
a person decline to fight, after his 
seconds have decided that he should, 
or in case of an officer after the court 
of honor has authorized the duel, he 
would be declared without honor and 
shunned and ostracized by people of 
his usual surroundings If an officer, 
he would be asked for his resignation, 
and should that not be forthcoming 
he would be cashiered, as every other 
officer of his regiment would decline 
to serve with him. 

We may think these usages barbar- 


THE NEW METHOD OF FENCING. 


ous, and not in keeping with the ad- 
vance of civilization, and some of their 
features certainly savor of medizval 
times; but there are some good points 
also in this custom. With the equaliza- 
tion that is given by the sword be- 
tween men of different build and phy- 
sique, the weaker man has, if skillful, 
an even chance with a man of more 
powerful build, and the big, brutal 
bully has no advantage from his 
greater strength. 





HEAD CUT 


As any act of boorishness, coarse- 
ness or unprovoked insult is bound to 
see its perpetrator called to account, 
men become most careful in their deal- 
ings with one another, as sometimes 
even a sneer is sufficient cause for a 
challenge 

According to statistics published 
November 14th, 1903, there were 
6,000 duels fought in Germany dur- 
ing the preceding 12 months, 22 of 
which resulted fatally 

Fencing is, therefore, conducive to 
good manners, not only as a restrain- 


409 


ing factor, but because it is a 
chivalrous sport in which every con- 
sideration is shown the opponent. 
Never would a fencer think of taking 
an unfair advantage of his adversary. 
Should one by mischance drop his 
sword, or make a misstep, the oppo- 
nent at once lowers his weapon until 
his antagonist has regained his proper 
position. An unfair blow is a dis- 
grace, unless a proper apology is at 
once offered. Courtesy and fair play 


(PARRY SEXTA.) 


are sine qua non conditions of fenc- 
ing. That this sport tends to make 
its adepts graceful and self possessed 
has often been observed, and there is 
no better exercise to overcome awk- 
ward self consciousness or clumsi- 
ness. As a means of self defense, 
fencing is important. A fencer armed 
with an ordinary walking stick can 
easily keep at bay one or 2 assailants, 
even if similarly armed; and it is out 
of the question that if attacked with 
fists only a moderately skillful fencer 
should not come out victorious from 


GY Sere ae 


OUTSIDE CHEEK CUT 


an encounter with 2, or even 3, men 
not conversant with the art. 

It has been noticed in all times that 
men who devoted much of their time 
to fencing were usually healthy and 
robust, their muscles were strongly 
developed, and they were hardy and 
capable of enduring great fatigue. 
3odily health and vigor are what we 
are looking for at all times, and it is 
the opinion of those well qualified to 
speak with authority, that fencing 1s 
the exercise par excellence which in- 
vigorates and produces a stalwart 
frame. It gives to its devotees a car- 
riage which no other exercise will 
produce, coupled with gracefulness of 
movement and self reliance expressed 
in every attitude The eye is trained 
and quick decision is learned. Every 
muscle of the body is brought into 
play, and the blood circulation is stim- 
ulated to a maximum. Chest ex- 
pansion is improved to a remarkable 
degree, and every normal function of 
the body is brought to its best stand- 
ard. A good appetite, good sleep and 
general good health are some of the 


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(PARRY SEPTIME.) 


rewards which can be obtained from 
fencing. 

As a sport, fencing can bear the 
most critical comparison with other 
exercises. There are a number of 


FINALE. 


THE NEW METHOD OF FENCING 


methods of physical training, which, 
if faithfully and persistently carried 
out, will produce great bodily advan- 
tages; but the trouble with them is 
that not one in a hundred persons will 
persevere with them. Though faith- 
fully performed for a short time after 
they are taken up, they soon become 
burdensome and are consequently ne- 
glected. The reason for this is that 
they do not appeal to the mind; they 
are simply and purely physical, and 
the mind has absolutely no part or in- 
terest in them. 

Not so with fencing. Here is an 
exercise which, thovgh requiring the 
most strenuous physical effort, has to 
be guided by the mind, and guided 
with intelligence, acumen and decision. 
Not one moment of indifference or in- 
attention is permissible. That is what 
makes fencing the sport of brainy 
men, and fascinates its followers. It 
is a mental relaxation because it de- 
mands concentrated attention, and 
thereby diverts the mind from the or- 
dinary worries and thoughts of hum- 
drum existence. The sport is refined, 
because it precludes roughness or bru- 
tality; it equalizes between the most 
diverse personalities. The short man is 
a match for the tall one, the slight for 
the strong; and skill is the only factor 
which bears weigha in sword play. 


4Il 


The stimulus of personal contest 
between man and man is one of the 
most attractive features, and a bout 
between evenly matched fencers is a 
sight worth seeing. With it all, there 
is an entire absence of danger from 
personal injury, the head, body, arm 
and hand are effectively protected, and 
after the most spirited passage at 
arms there will not be found a scratch 
on either contestant. 

The entire absence of roughness 
makes it essentially a sport of gentle- 
men, and in late years women of re- 
finement have taken up fencing with 
great benefit and no drawbacks. 

Our President, who is certainly a 
model sportsman, has taken an inter- 
est in and is learning the art. In dip- 
lomatic circles in Washington it is 
practised assiduously. In Europe, 
fencing as a sport is enjoying a great 
revival, thanks to the new _ school, 
which has revolutionized the old, 
worn-out methods. 

It is to be hoped that men of leis- 
ure, as well as professional and busi- 
ness men in this country, will give 
this sport the attention it deserves. 
Those who will try it will persevere 
and those who persevere will be re- 
warded beyond their expectations with 
health and enjoyment. 


HARD EGGS. 


GEO. A. WILLIAMS, M. D. 


I buy some egg on hardware store, 
Maybe she was some bone; 

Two day, two night, she cook all right, 
She was so hard like stone. 


I put Lim on some hen for set, 
Maybe she hatch bimeby; 

I leave him stay ‘bout sixty day, 
Dem hen, she almos’ die. 


I'll tink dem egg she was too hard, 
Maybe she was too old; 

Dem hen she sneeze, she almos’ freeze, 
She catch so much bad cold. 


I take some ax for break dem egg, 
She knock him on stone wall; 

For ‘bout half day, | work dat way, 
She nevare break at all. 


Dem egg she was so awful hard, 
I'll don’t like any more; 

She make me mad, I feel so bad, 
Like I nevare was before. 


ON SNUBBING. 


E. J. MYERS. 


How to snub, or even check the 
rush of the salmon is the most difficult 
of all things connected with salmon 
angling. 

The only large salmon I ever 
hooked and played, one clearly over 
40 pounds, I lost by snubbing; i. e., 
checking and restraining the outgoing 
line. The fish in briefest instant broke 
a 14 pound dry strain leader. 

Several times have I tried it and 
disaster has come every time. It inev- 
itably obtains that you must give the 
salmon his head and follow him until 
he quiets, whether it be a mile or miles 
away. Sure as fate if you snub, some- 
thing gives way. If the fly does not 
tear out, the leader, line or rod will 
break, the canoe will capsize or you 
will fall down, and the salmon will 
escape. Some link in the chain of 
causation breaks, and mourning fol- 
lows. 

I was fishing on the reefs at the up- 
per pool of the Overfalls on the Grande 
Codroy, at the head of which is a 
heavy rush of water in which it is 
difficult to hold a large fish, while be- 
low are the treacherous sluices and 
boulders where the line must come to 
grief if the salmon gets out of the ba- 
sin. There it is that you are between 
the devil and the deep sea; and there, 
with knowledge of these facts, I cast 
and hooked the salmon of all’ salmon 
that have ever been on my line. Pat 
Downey affirmed it was the largest he 
ever saw dead or alive. Pat knows a 
thing or 2 of size, for what there may 


be of torch and spear, which surely 
kill the big salmon, that Pat has not 
practiced, I can not imagine. 

This salmon showed himself as he 
rose and fairly wallowed on the sur- 
face with a swash that sent the waves 
to my feet, and started for the sea with 
a rush that made the reel scream. Once 
and twice I checked and held the fish 
in the pool by giving the butt a-la- 
Davy Humphry. Then came the sea- 
ward start that means the next pool, if 
not lower. 

My only hope of saving the fish was 
in holding him in the basin-like pool 
barely 30 yards long and half as wide. 
I threw the rod into position and put 
my fingers on the reel spool just before 
the salmon reached the end of the 
pool. Immediately the rod broke at 
the ferrule between the second joint 
and the butt, apparently its strongest 
part, but in fact at the only weak point 
in the tackle, and in the disaster the 
reel fell off the rod. That is why I 
don’t believe in patent locks but take 
a bit of string for safety. 

That salmon may be going yet, the 
presumption being that the fact once 
shown still continues, and certainly no 
salmon with that fly in his jaws has 
been landed on the Grande Codroy. 

In sinking the wood into the male 
ferrule, a space scarce 1-32 of an inch 
had been left between the wood end of 
the butt and the female ferrule, and 
there, notwithstanding the metal band, 
it unaccountably broke. 


“They have called in 2 doctors for con- 


sultation.” 


“And do the doctors agree?” nee 
“I believe they have agreed on the price. 


~Philadelphia Ledger. 
412 


AMONG THE ISLANDS OF GEORGIAN BAY. 


MAY 


One pleasant July day we left Toronto 
at noon, starting Northward toward the al- 
luring shores of Georgian bay. The rail- 
road ride was not tedious, but it was a re- 
lief to reach Penetang, embark on the 
steamer “City of Toronto,” and start off 
comfortably in the cool breezes of a sum- 
mer afternoon, past log booms and rafts, 
dainty sailing craft. picturesquely ugly 
dredges and tugs, to the wilderness beyond. 


BRAGDON., 


Yankanucks from Pittsburg, flying both 
flags, and a cozy looking point in the early 
lamplight called Sans Souci. 

It was starlight when we reached Rose 
Point and Parry Sound, the little metropo- 
lis of the Thirty Thousand islands. There 
we spent the night, and early in the morn- 
ing, as the “City of Toronto” backed si- 


lently away, we heard the distant whistle of 
“Britannic, ’ 


the which came to take us 





BY COURTESY OF TRE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY, 


GEORGIAN BAY DISTRICT. 


It was an afternoon and evening of delights 
sailing among wild little wind-tossed is- 
lands, lagoons like those of the South seas, 
breakers and rollers sometimes, and smooth 
land-locked harbors, with the signs of 
habitation few and far between, but charm- 
ing. We passed a University club settle- 
ment at Go-Home bay, a pleasant club of 


still farther into that unknown Northland. 

Soon we reached the open. Gulls circled 
around and raced our ship; barges towed 
by sturdy tugs, loaded schooners and 
steamers, showed that we were in one of 
the highways of the lakes. The fresh, 
strong breeze and the sparkling sunshine 
were intoxicating. As we came in among 





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BY COURTESY OF | HE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY, 


GEORGIAN BAY DISTRICT. 


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AMONG THE ISLANDS OF GEORGIAN BAY. 





AMATFUR ©: OT) BY M/Y BRAGD N 
THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA STOOD 
REVEALED, 


the islands again, we found them wild, 
beautiful and apparently untrodden by the 
foot of man. The breeze wafted odors of 
pine, spruce and cedar; one forgot the 
world behind and the cares of every day. 

The next event of the day was dropping 


415 


stead of into the friendly security of “The 
Little Corporal,” as the biggest skiff is 
called. 

We spent days and nights of unalloyed 
happiness among those beautiful islands, 
with daily sails in the channel and across 
the open water to Point au Baril, which 
consists of a lighthouse, a prosperous fish 
dock and store, 2 or 3 houses and a hotel. 
There were also excursions to Hemlock or 
down, Sturgeon bay to fish, sails to Hang- 
dog Point, long paddles among the unex- 
plored channels of lovely island groups, 
“island shopping” excursions, for everyone 
who comes to these glad lands has a long- 
ing to possess, and the islands are as cheap 
as they are beautiful, and picnics on the 
rocks, where the cares of earth are far 
away, and one feels small in the bigness of 
the world. 





NEAR POINT AUX BARIL. 


off from the “Britannic’s” lower deck into 
the trembling maw of a little’skiff; and as 
the big boat moved away the island of St. 
Helena, the end of our journey, stood re- 
vealed, looming hospitably above the spark- 
ling waters of Bonaparte bay. The lively 
house party on the dock welcomed the new 
arrivals with congratulations, for they ex- 
pected, it seems, to hear us gurgle as we 
dropped into the waters of the channel, in- 


By COURTESY OF TrKE GRAND TRUNK @AILWAY. 


GEORGIAN BAY DISTRICT. 


We enjoyed the moonlight nights, the 
stars, the weird Northern lights, and the 
long mornings of blueberrying, raspberry- 
ing and gooseberrying. Nature fed us. 
The bass bit below our rocks; the muska- 
longe followed our shining troll. The In- 
dians knew where the frogs’ legs grew, and 
said that in season wild ducks sell for 10 
cents apiece, or you can shoot them your- 
self; while venison is 4 or 5 cents a pound, 





MORNING SCENE AT POINT AUX BARIL. 


BY COURTESY OF THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY, 


GEORGIAN BAY DISTRICT. 


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AMATEUR PHOTO BY MAY BRAGOON, 


THE SURVEYOR’S BRIDGE. 


and bear steaks, smothered in onions, are 
cheap and good. 

A fisherman’s wife at the Point made us 
good bread, and the lighthouse keeper kept 
also a cow. Each evening, when he 
came to the range light a mile down toward 
St. Helena, he brought our big pail of milk, 
left it in a barrel on the shore of the is- 
land, and it was our nightly pleasure to row 
up at sunset, get the milk and leave an 
empty pail. 

Though the Point was a mile and a half 


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PIAZZA 


away, and there was only one other shack 
and a surveyors’ camp nearer, we were 
never lonely, for the house was always full, 
and Bonaparte bay faced the channel, where 
all sorts of fishing craft, lumber tugs, 
freight boats, pleasure yachts and 4 times a 
week the big “Britannic” passed. Sometimes 
the picturesque Ojibway Indians silently 
paddled by at evening, outlined against a 
primrose sky; and dear, big hearted Cana- 
dian friends came often, laden with baskets 
of good things to picnic somewhere with 
us, or sit around our fire, or dance on our 
piazza to the tunes of an Indian’s fiddle. 
More than once friends from the Point 
were stormbound there. Then cots, ham- 
mocks and tents overflowed, and everyone 
helped bake pancakes in the morning on 
the merry little Klondike stove. 

One year before, this place was a wilder- 
ness. Saint Helen herself was only a fish- 
ing guest up at the hotel, with Him and his 
Wife for chaperones; but they bought an 
island, and she bought St. Helena—2 or 3 
acres, with rocks and woods, a jungle, hills 
and ravines, bays and promontories—all for 
a song. A little American hustling, with 
a big brother to go up in the spring and 
assist, built the pretty shack, the cost of 
which, including the island, was less than 


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I GO A-FISHING. 


$300! Lumber is cheap up there, and so is 
Indian labor. 

A generous piazza surrounds the living 
room, which is all windows. There is no 
ceiling but the roof, with a dormer up to- 
ward the peak in front, to let in more light 
and air. The furnishings are simple but 
pretty and appropriate. The bread box is 
covered with a steamer rug and serves as a 
divan beneath one window. The china 
closet, made of a box lined with green 
paper, is filled with blue and white dishes 
and German brown ware. One touch of 
elegance is Napoleon’s bust, adorning a 
shelf; and a rustic corner desk holds the 
birch bark guest book. The sofas are cots, 
with many pillows, and are always avail- 
able for chance guests over night. The 
crewning luxury is a red brick fireplace 
and chimney gracing the place of honor 
opposite the front door. There are 2 square 
bedrooms behind the living room, with 2 


cots in each. The wide windows open to . 


the woods, and the partitions extend only 
half way to the roof. Another bedroom at 
the left behind the piazza, and the kitchen, 
or galley, at the right and opposite, com- 
plete this gem of a house. Saint Helen 
reigns supreme, and all her guests are 


happy. 


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PLAN OF ST. HELEN. 

_ Behind, paths are carved through the 
jungle, rustic seats are built on distant 
rocks, bridges are planned across ravines 
and chasms, and although coming years 
may transform this lovely spot into some- 
thing nearer perfection to most eyes, the 
charm of this first year of pioneering will 
never be excelled. 

Other people have bought surrounding 
islands. All F and G groups are gone 
and H is fast disappearing. The ‘artist has 
named hers Mandalay and the Ph. D. has 
a Wonderland. The skipper is putting a 
shack on Oneishta, and there is to be a 
log cabin on the surveyor’s rock. It is 
even rumored that a man from New York 
is to build a 2 story house soméwhere 
across the channel! and Him and his Wife, 
around the corner at Duazyupleze, are to 
have a real steamer dock, where the “Bri- 
tannic” may stop! 

It will change, but it can not lose its 
charm. The sweet winds will always blow; 
the white winged gulls will circle there; 
the happy beasts will not go far away; the 
clouds and sun, the clear, cold, water and 
the painted rocks can not change. The 
happy isles are there forever, and as the 
summers go the memories will remain. 


I GO A-FISHING. 


R. S. STRINGFELLOW. 


Somewhere I have read of an angler, 

Who gained a wondrous fame. 

He lived in the land of Israel; 

St. Peter was his name. 

“T go a-fishing,” he said one day 

To his friends in Galilee; 

“I go a-fishing.” So says the Book; 

And off he went with line and hook, 
A-fishing in the sea. . 


Since then along that storm-beat shore 
Many a wave and billow roar; 
And in the rush of wave and blast 
Many a life has breathed its last. 

But still the anglers go! 


“T go a-fishing,” ‘tis often said, 
Although St. Peter’s long since dead. 
But the words of this reverend saint and sage, 
There on the good Book’s sacred page, 
Live on and on from age to age, 

And still the fishers go! 


“T go a-fishing!” Three fishers, this time, 
Will be the subjects of my rhyme. 
*Twas in midsummer’s sweltering days; 
The sun beat down with scorching rays, 
When off to the West these fishers went, 
With heart and mind on pleasure bent, 
Away to the West, these fishers three. 
With jocund song, right merrily 

They pass the time away! 


“T go a-fishing!” Three fishers bold 

Now emulate the saints of old. 

To mountain stream and shady nook, 

Afar with rod and line and hook, 

They make their way; through hot sun- 
shine, 

To where, ’neath shady cliff and pine, 

They hope, if fortune prove so kind, 

On speckled trout they soon may dine! 

So lived the saints of old! 


“T go a-fishing,” now each one said, 

“The spot we've reached and camp is 
made” ; 

And soon beneath the cooling shade, 

With boots waist-high, the stream they 
wade! 

The joyous time flies all too fast, 

While here and there with fly they cast; 

And in each boiling crystal pool 

Some wily trout would play the fool— 

Much to the angler’s joy! 


But all too fast the moments fly, 

The time has come to say good-bye. 
Back to town and dusty street, 

Back to sun and sweltering heat. 

But memory sweet shall still be mine, 
I'll think and sing.of auld lang syne; 
And the good old angler of Galilee 
My guardian saint, I trust, will be! 


PRANKS OF PORCUPINES. 


G. O. SHIELDS. 


As a worker, the porcupine ranks next 
to the beaver in the quadruped creation. 
No obstacle seems to balk Mr. Quilly in 
his efforts to obtain salf or grease, and 
the things he does in pursuit of these 
dainties are almost beyond belief. The 
facts I shall relate, however, can be verified 
by hundreds of men who have camped in 
the woods where this little rodent makes 
his home. Many a man has been compelled 
to get up in the night and club these in- 
truders out of the tent to avoid having 
his shoes, his gloves, his hat, his bacon. 
his salt bag, or other property destroyed. 
The porcupine seems to know no such im- 
pulse as fear. He takes it for granted that 
he may go anywhere in search of food or 
of delicacies; and even after being whacked 
across the nose with a stick, or kicked out 
of the tent, he will return and continue 
his depredations, time after time. He 
seems not to have sense enough to take a 
hint, unless it be emphasized with a club 
laid on so vigorously as to inflict serious 
bodily injury, or even to cause death; yet 
in other respects he is exceedingly cun- 
ning. 

It seems a pity that so ingenious an 
animal as the porcupine should not have 
sufficient fear of man to keep out of his 
way; but poor Quilly is sadly deficient in 
this matter, and, as a result, his bones and 
his quills lie in bunches about almost every 
camp ground in the Northern States and 
in Canada. Many men and boys take de- 
light in murdering these poor beasts in 
cold blood, and when attending to their 
own affairs. Others, as I have said, are 
almost compelled to kill them in order 
to get a chance to sleep, or in defense of 
their property. ’ 

I have known porcupines to eat almost 
a whole axe handle that had been swung 
by sweaty hands and then left about some 
old, deserted camp. I have frequently 
found the remains of pork barrels and salt 
barrels that have been partially eaten by 
porcupines, in order to get the remnant 
of salt or grease which the wood contained. 

Two of my friends who were camping 
in the Selkirk mountains caught a young 
marmot, took him to camp and put him in 
a box, with a view to carrying him home. 
The slats which the men put over the front 
of the box had formed part of a packing 
box in which bacon had been carried. The 
cage was left outside of the tent and in 
the night a porcupine came along, ate the 
slats and liberated the marmot. 


.again and resumed operations. 


A man who was working a mining claim 
near Rosland, B. C., lay down under a tree, 
after lunch, to take a nap, and placed his 
hat over his eyes to shelter them from the 
light. He was tired and slept soundly. 
A porcupine came along and ate nearly all 
the leather lining out of his hat before 
the prospector awoke. 

Another quill pig visited W. H. Wright's 
camp one night, and smelled bacon grease 
on the sheet iron stove; whereupon he pro- 
ceeded to gnaw. The racket disturbed 
Wright and his partner, when the former 
got up, took the poker and threw the in- 
truder out. Then Wright went back to 
bed, but within 5 minutes Quilly called 
That time 
he was boosted out more energetically than 
before, and was thrown into the creek, 
which ran near the tent. He floated off 
down the stream, but Wright had only 
got comfortably asleep when the everlast- 
ing rasping was resumed. Then the camp- 
ers grew wrathful, and one of them got 
up and killed the chairman of the investi- 
gating committee. 

Dr. Schavoir and his wife camped in the 
same place the next spring, and during the 
8 days they were there were compelled to 
kill 27 porcupines in order to save their 
grub and clothing from destruction. One 
of their visitors attempted to cross the 
creek one night to reach the tent. He 
walked out on a log that extended part 
way across. When he reached the end of 
it he seemed to dread a cold bath, yet was 
so anxious to get across that he sat there 
and whined several hours. Finally the 
guide got up and killed him in order that 
the campers might sleep. 

The cook employed by this _ party 
hewed out a trough, from a big log, which 
he used as a wash tub. Having for the 
moment forgotten the ravenous appetite of 
the porcupines, he put the washing to soak 
over night, and in the morning found that 
a sleeve had been literally eaten out of one 
of the shirts. It is supposed that the por- 
cupine found some remnant of the salt 
flavor of perspiration in the sleeves; or, 
it may be there was something about the 
soap which suited his taste. 

The members of this party were com- 
pelled to hang up all their food, clothing, 
boots, shoes, saddles, cartridges, belts and 
everything else that had leather about it, 
or that had been Handled enough to have 
any flavor of salt or grease on it. 

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one day and left a bit of fixing solution in 
a crock, outside the tent. A porcupine 
came along in the night and drank this 
up clean. They did not find him, so it is 
not known whether he was well fixed after 
taking his medicine. 

In this connection I reprint a portion of 
an article on the porcupine which was 
written by S. N. Leek, of Jackson, Wyo., 
and which appeared in Recreation for 
June, 1900: 


Some years ago it was a common oc- 
currence to have to catch both cattle 
and horses and pull porcupine quills 
out of their noses or out of the heels of 
the horses. They probably would try to 
smell Porky and get within reach of his 
unerring tail. This led ranchmen to kill 
all the porcupines they saw, which has 
materially reduced their numbers. I 
have seen a horse step on a porcupine 
in a trail overgrown with grass and get 
all his legs full of quills. Once a friend 
dismounted from his horse to photo- 
graph a Porky. The beast made.a break 
for cover, which happened to be the 
doctor’s horse that was quietly gazing 
near. On feeling something prick his 
leg the horse struck out and kicked 
poor Porky, transferring the quills to 
his own legs. 

One spring while hunting bear at the 
foot of the Teton mountains I saw more 
porcupines than ever before or since. 
We usually put everything they could 
harm in the tent, but one night, coming 
in late, I forgot my saddle. They didn’t 
eat it quite up, but nearly so. The next 
evening, in walking around camp, I 
met 8 of them coming in to finish the 
saddle. Of*course*l turned them down. 

One day while going along the road 
I passed the carcass of a horse that had 
died the fall before, and there were 8 
Porkies gnawing at the bones. Farther 
on I saw 10 of them at work at one time 
on the bones of an elk. 

I put in a small saw mill at the foot 
of the Tetons and there we had trouble 
with the porcupines. We could not 
sleep while one was gnawing at the cor- 
ner of the house. We would stand it 
as long as we could; then someone 
would get up, steal outdoors and whack 
him. It is wonderful what pounding 
they can stand. One night while alone 
at the mill I killed 7, and about mid- 


PORCUPINES. 


night I got 3 more. The first one in 
front of the door on the porch gnawing. 
I got him. Then I heard one on a big 
box beside the door. He was eating a 
saddle blanket. I got him also, and was 
about to go in when I nearly ran my 
face against a big one clinging to the 
porch post, on a level with my head. 
He gave me such a start I missed him 
with an iron rod I had and _ nearly 
knocked the post out, but I got him the 
next trip. 

We never found anything they 
wouldn’t eat. They gnawed the whole 
end off the little porch we had on the 
house. At the creek where we washed 
they took the soap we left lying on the 
bank. A bar of soap just makes a 
porky a lunch. All tools had to be put 
in the house or the porcupines would 
eat the handles; and for saddle blankets 
or harness they had a weakness. The 
men working the road had their shovel 
and pick handles gnawed, all over and 
the plow handles nearly eaten up by 
porcupines. A man who left a wagon 
box on the Teton pass had one corner 
of it eaten entirely out and a hole 18 
inches across cut through the bottom. 

In skinning bears, mountain lions, 
lynx, wolverines and coyotes I have 
found porcupine quills embedded in the 
flesh. Once in skinning a mink I found 
him full of quills; but he had probably 
got too close by mistake. I have seen 
dogs get quills in them by rolling where 
a porcupine had been killed. 

The porcupine makes several different 
noises. One is a sort of singing made 
when the old and young ones are out 
together. Once I slipped out from 
camp about sundown, with my rifle, 
across a small meadow and through the 
woods 300 or 400 yards, after a strange 
calling noise I heard, to find it was a 
porky who was probably lonesome. 

I have seen these animals voluntarily 
swim a creek 75 feet wide. They seem 
to hear better than they see. A porky 
will either raise his quills and sit where 
he is, disdaining to run, or will make 
for cover, get to a log, stick his head 
under it and flirt his tail at anything 
that comes within striking distance: 
or he will climb a tree. 


Verily, the quill pig is an amusing little 


cuss. 


“Have you submitted this poem to any- 


one else?” 
“No, sir.” 


“Then where did you get that black eye?” 


—Life. 


421 


AN APOSTROPHE TO MY CANOE. 


R. R. KIRK. 

White Princess, over glistening wake Now lingering in the inviting shade, 

And brave appointed fish, and all Now swiftly following fancy’s flight; 
Swift moving things, which in thy wake Impatient to obey the blade, 

Flash and follow, mount and fall! Imperious urger, day or night; 
O lithe craft, most fair art thou, O, swift and sweet art thou, Canoe! 
Wherever water passes prow! On many a rivulet proven true. 
Where water swiftest runs, and cool, Of lightest cedar sawn; by deft 

Where willows bend above the stream, Skilled fingers shaped, and truly made 
Where fishes leap from darkening pool, Complete and beautiful; bereft 

Thy whiteness and thy jewels gleam! Of all unloveliness, and arrayed 
Akin to running streams art thou, Befittingly art thou, Canoe, 
O fairest boat, with stateliest prow! Who builded better than they knew. 


For wast thou not a spirit first, 
Ere yet they made for thee this shell? 
I know for waters thou dost thirst, 
Where plash of fish is heard, where 
dwell 
Wild creatures,—even as I who now 
With dripping blade guide thy swift prow. 


One of the novelists, referring to his 
hero, says: 
His countenance fell. 
His voice broke. 
His heart sank. 
His hair rose. 
His eyes blazed. 
His words burned. 
His blood froze. 
It appears, however, that he was able to 
pull himself together and marry the girl 
in the last chapter.—Exchange. 





“Yes, we’re going to be married.” 

“Have you proposed ?” 

“No, not yet.” 

“Then how do you know she'll have 
you?” 

“Why, she’s been encouraging me to save 
money instead of buying flowers and the- 
ater tickets.”—Chicago Evening Post. 


There was an old monarch in Thibet, 
Skirt dancing he tried to prohibit; 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY C M. WHITNEY. His rule was so strict, 
I’M BUSY. If any one kicked 
Winner of s2nd_ prize in Recreation’s 8th He ordered her hanged on a gibbet. 


Annual Phcto Competition. —Life. 
422 


ON TOP OF CALIFORNIA, 


D. M. LADD. 


The sharp clanging that gradually grew 
into a roar loud enough to have recalled 
the 7 sleepers from the land of dreams, 
was the breakfast gong in the vigorous 
hands of Tim, the cook. 

Jack Frost was attending strictly to busi- 
ness, though this was but May. The high- 
er Sierras do not don their summer garb 
until much later in the year. It mat- 
tered not that the air was cold, or that the 
blankets seemed like an earthly paradise; 
for that weazened, taciturn son of the Orient 
was the undisputed autocrat of the camp. 
His motto was: “No comee, no eatee.” 
Brief it undoubtedly was, but we found it 
built for business, since more than one care- 
less fellow had gone into the hills on a 
frosty morning with a light stomach and a 
heavy heart before that epigram was rec- 
ognized as law. It was at last well under- 
stood, and if any of the heavy sleepers did 
not put in a prompt though perhaps undig- 
nified appearance, it was a case for the doc- 
tor, the undertaker, or perchance for both. 
So much for discipline as administered by 
a Chinaman. 

The moonlight still gleamed softly on the 
valley, making the great pines look ghostly 
and unreal in the uncertain changing light 
and shadow. 

The camp was pitched deep in the valley 
of the middle fork, just where a little 
mountain brook, clear as crystal and cold as 
ice, came tearing down to meet the Feather, 
which plunged through Delaney canyon be- 
tween solid walls of granite, twisting and 
turning like a serpent in its effort to get 
through the almost impassable barriers 
placed in its way. The boisterous little 
river eddied around the foot of cliffs and 
burrowed beneath their overhanging shad- 
ows; or rushed out into the light and went 
dancing and singing over boulders that its 
own gentle touch had worn smooth as glass; 
then lingered a moment in some quiet, 
shady pool, and again sprang forward, going 
onward, onward to the sea. 

A few hundred feet upward, the canyon 
walls were bare and brown. Starting at 
the edge of the true wall and. extending to 
the glittering peaks of ice 10,000 feet above 
the blue Pacific, was one unbroken field of 
snow. Was this California, “the land of 
flowers and eternal sunshine?” Yes, but 
the Sierra Nevadas are not the Santa Clara 
valley, nor yet the famous San Joaquin. 
There are numerous climates, both good and 
bad, in the Golden State. 

Breakfast over, there followed a_ hasty 
scramble for guns, cameras and field glasses. 


423 


Just as the sun began to light up the East- 
ern peaks, painting the ice caps with gold 
and saffron, and letting soft, checkered 
shadows fall through the green of the pines 
into the valley below, the climb to the sum- 
mit began. A dozen miles the way slopes 
upward through unbroken forests of pine 
and fir. 

At this early hour the denizens of the 
deep woods were beginning to wake into 
life. All about, on-fallen logs and broken 
rock, chipmunks, small striped and insolent 
of manners, were making their morning 
meal of pine nuts. They paused with heads 
acock and gleaming little eyes, and viewed 
our progress with lively interest, or scam- 
pering fcr cover, stopped every few feet 
to sit jauntily erect, with nervous, twitching 
tails, to stare us in the face like animated 
interrogation points. Big silver-gray squir- 
rels glided swiftly around the pines and 
were lost to sight in an instant. The great 
golden flicker and his brethren, the red- 
heads and sapsuckers, were waking the 
echoes in quest of food. Grouse were 
drumming everywhere on the slopes, but for 
this day, at least, they were to pursue their 
way unharmed, since our party was intent 
on climbing. 

We passed rapidly upward until, within 
a mile of the summit, we began to strike 
the true snowcap. There progress became 
slower and more laborious. Nearly all the 
way there had been a light coating of snow 
but here it was of varying depth. Every 
few rods some careless fellow stepped 
where the crust was thin and went down to 
his armpits, scraping sundry patches of 
skin from shins and wrists in the descent, 
and making side remarks as to the utter 
idiocy of mountaineering. 

At last, and without serious mishap, we 
arrived within a few hundred feet of the 
top. There was where the real fun of the 
trip began. From that point on to the very 
last peak there were cliffs, and they did not 
look as if designed for climbing, either. 
In fact, as an easy means of getting up in 
the world they were distinctly a failure. 
Fortunately the members of the party who 
were looking for ease had remained in 
camp, so up we went, clinging like flies to 
a ceiling, on those seamed and frost riven 
faces. After nearly 4 hours of hard climb- 
ing we stood at last on the uppermost point 
of stone. 

A panorama of valleys spread out before 
our greedy eyes. The picture was one not 
soon to be forgotten. We began to realize 
that the Sierras were 150 miles wide and 


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/ 
contained not one poor little range, but 
range after range of snowcaps, dropping 
away in endless procession. Gray patches 
of sky and banks of giant pines marked 
the valleys, rich with spring verdure and 
sparkling with many streams. These were 
not mere slits in the hills, but big, lusty 
valleys, where pine, spruce and fir, hoary 
with age in the days of the forty niners, 
were still rank with life. The sentinel 


peaks, rough, jagged and snowcapped, 
formed a contrast seldom seen in land- 
scapes. 


Several little lakes lay half hidden in the 
sinks between the peaks. These, as well 
as every 1unning stredm, were full of trout, 
speckled and rainbow; both with a fight- 
ing capacity when hooked that was all but 
marvelous. 


RECREATION. 


The sweep of the eye revealed numerous 
little villages that to the amateur moun- 
taineer seemed ridiculously close together, 
but those of us who had spent a chilly night 
in the open air because of this optical de- 
lusion, still held a vivid appreciation of the 
distances between them. 

From every point of vantage we looked 
our fill. We loosened great boulders that 
went tearing downward with the noise of 
thunder. After lunching in the shelter of a 
protecting crag, we took the downward 
path, following in the wake of the descend- 
ing sun, and just as he hid his face behind 
the snow crowned range, 60 miles to the 
Westward, we plunged swiftly down the 
shelving canyon wall into the valley of the 
shadow, where Tim and the dogs were 
waiting to give us a riotous welcome. 


SUMMER. 


WILLIAM R. BERRY. 


There ain’t no use a-talkin’ o’ the pleasures 
riches bring, 

Nor to spout ethereal exstacy like poet fel- 
lers sing; 

’Cause the novelty don’t las’ long when ye 
get all things ye need, 

An’ I never yet seen poetry as could make 
me change my lead. 


But jus’ gimme hot old summer when 
there’s nary thing to do, 

An’ the ol’ crick’s runnin’ slow like, kinder 
waitin’ jus’ for you; 

When the tree frog in the poplar keeps a- 
singin’ till he’s sung 

That ye wish he’d git pneumonia in his 
gol darn little lung. 


Then fix up yer fishin’ tackle an’ git on 
yer favorite log, 

An’ open up yer bait can an’ git out a kick- 
in’ frog; 

But ye soon git kinder tired while ye sit 
up there an’ wait, 

Fer some ’vestigatin’ cat fish to swim up 
an’ take yer bait. 


So ye lay back ’ginst a tree trunk an’ look 
up in the sky, 

An’ ye wonder how that buzzard gits an- 
chored there so high; 

But ye soon git kinder sleepy an’ begin to 
doze an’ nod, 

While the water keeps a-tinklin’ an’ the 
frogs croak in the bog. 





AMATEUR PHOTO BY S, L. BEEGLE +ND W. +. 


MAURER. 


LIVE WILD MALE WOOD DUCK. 
The camera was focused on the grass spot in the daytime and the flashlight was made at midnight. 


A DAY ON LAKE OWEN. 


C. C. HASKINS. 


Lake Owen is between Cable and Drum- 
mond, Wisconsin, and is a signal station 
on the C., St. P.. M. & O. railway. The 
lake is 2 minutes’ walk from the station, 
and directly across it is the Eagle Knob 
hotel. On the beach there is always a 
boat, so if there happens to be no oarsman 
about, the way is open to do your own 
ferrying. 

I was fortunate, for when the little craft 
left the shore, headed for Otter slough, Jim 
Stokes, landlord, companion and_ guide, 
was at the oars. It was a beautiful June 
morning following a protracted rain. The 
loons had ceased their laughing chorus, 
and in softer notes were congratulating 
each other on the fine weather. The woods 
were alive with songsters, each striving to 
outdo the others in melody. Sitting well 
up on a dried and barkless pine a solitary 
crow cawed warningly, and a panther, or 
some other pariah of the cat family, ut- 
tered its hateful yell, probably to frighten 
some timid creature into betraying itself 
by moving in its hiding place. A _ great, 
gaunt timber wolf set up its howl, by way 
of bass to the concert. 

Otter slough is a long bay at the South- 
ern extremity of the lake. Its narrow en- 
trance, a few yards long, is shallow and 
clear of weeds and grass; farther into the 
slough the water, still shallow, widens into 
a bay, and is excellent ground for muska- 
longe, because of the weedy nature of the 
bottom. As we passed this ground Stokes 
said that by the time we had fished the 
bass ground there would be wind enough 
to ruffle the shallow water, and then we 
could try for a musky. 

Jim had much to do between rowing and 
berating me in a good natured way for 
making an occasional foul cast. All the 
same, I landed bass enough that day to 
satisfy any but a fish hog, and we returned 
down the slough about noon. 

Jim’s prediction was correct. The wind 
did blow a trifle, and the musky was there. 
He struck, and I struck, and Jim pulled 
for deep water. The first move of the vic- 
tim was to try to release himself by tang- 
ling up in the weeds. A taut line prevented 
that, and Jim pulled, down through that 
shallow water. As the boat spun, the fish 
headed for the narrows. Though Jim 
pulled all he knew how, Musky would have 
beaten him but for the reel, which kept 
taking up the slack. He was abreast of the 
boat, not 10 yards away, something like a 
quarter of a mile, and we finally brought 
him aboard just at the landing. 


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Putting him and our bass in the ice 
house, we passed down the West shore of 
the peninsula, toward another favorite bass 
ground. On the way we came suddenly in 
sight of a loon, which set up an unusual 
racket, and swam near our little craft. 

“Oh, ho!” said Jim, “that bird has a nest 
near here, and we must find it. They al- 
ways nest on a bog, and I think I know 
just where it is.” 

A little searching discovered the nest, 
with one unhatched egg and the broken 
shell of the other. We heard a faint “peep, 
peep,” and traced it to the egg. The little 
fellow had broken a hole in the shell about 
the size of one’s thumb nail, and was cry- 
ing lustily for release. 

After satisfying our curiosity, we re- 
turned to deeper water, and there saw the 
mother loon, with the recently hatched baby 
on her back. Following her closely, she 
became alarmed, dropped the baby loon 
into the lake and swam away. It was 
amusing to see the little one, only a few 
hours old, try to dive. The head and neck 
would go under well enough, but despite 
the kicking of those funny little paddles, 
the body, like Banquo’s ghost, would not 
down. When it reached the mother, the 
cooing of the parent reminded us of the 
notes of the turtle dove. 

Rounding a point of land, we came si- 
lently on a redhead duck with her little 
family of 10, quite recently out of the shell. 
A signal from the mother, and they all 
half paddled, half flew to the shore, while 
she flew away. They huddled under a bush 
within 20 feet of us, and she flew back and 
forth, uttering each time she passed a word 
of caution. At last as she flew by them 
she changed her note, and the little ones, 
as by a single impulse, half ran, half swam, 
to where she settled down among them. 
Resting a moment, she said something more 
and all started for the opposite shore, the 
mother adopting the same speed as the 
young. The ducklings were only 2 or 3 
days out of the shell, yet they thoroughly 
understood the language of their mother. 

Selecting a shady, sloping bank, we 
pulled up the boat where the water was 
hardly a foot deep, and had but just stepped 
out of it when a school of 9 black bass 
came in, evidently having been driven 
away from the shoal by our approach. 

I cast among them, but no motion did 
they make, except to allow the hook to be 
drawn past them. I tried several baits, but 
all to no purpose, while I had almost to 
fight to keep away the rock bass. The, 


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black bass were not in the least shy, but 
they were not hungry, and they were not 
on spawning beds. I had been taking bass 
in another part of the lake, but utterly 
failed of catching these fish. 

I have often found a_ substance like 
black mud in the stomach of a fish, but I 
never till that day saw one eating it. We 


RECREATION, 


both saw a bass of possibly 114 pounds 
with a lump of black muck in his mouth, 
close by a floating bog of that kind of mud, 
The fish was so near as to be plainly seen, 
and the lump was nearly as large as a 
hen’s egg. I have since learned that a va- 
riety of beetle of which bass are fond lives 
in the floating muck. 


A DISGRACE TO OREGON. 


I have just obtained the enclosed photo 
which shows part of a catch of 400 trout 
made in Coos county, Oregon. I am sure 
you will take great pleasure in roasting 
these men. The 3 on the left of the pic- 
ture were the boat pullers and are not re- 


oa a3 ot 
be 
: 


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‘ n/p : & 
es 


iam TH 


Dr. Byler, Mayor Bennett, Prof. Ford 
Young Bennett, 


They salted the fish and brought them to 
town, for which they are commendable, as 
others do not even trouble to clean their 
catches. Such slaughter is an outrage. I 
hope you will skin these people as they de- 
serve. E. B. Seabrook, Marshfield, Ore. 





Capt: Norris, Pete and Walter, boat pullers. 


- Young Tower, 


PART OF A CATCH OF 400 TROUT IN COOS COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE, 1903, 


sponsible for what occurred. The others 
are Professor Ford, principal of the Alle- 
gany high school of this county; Dr. Byler, 
a prominent physician of North Bend; J. 
W. Bennett, mayor of Coos; and 2 boys. 


The entry in the fish hog book reads: 
Dr. Byler,’ No. 4,010;:. “Prot. - Ford; Na. 
1,011; J. W. Bennett, 1.012; Young Ben- 
nett, No. 1,013; Young Tower, No. 1,014.— 
EpiTor. 


Professor—What do you know about the 


ibis ? 


_ Stfident—The ibis is the part of the eye 
immediately surrounding the cuticle.-—Chi- 


cago Tribune. 


FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


The man who quits when he gets enough, with plenty of game still in sight, is a real sportsman. 


-IN OREGON MOUNTAINS, 

One does not need to travel far from the 
railroad in Southern Oregon to reach a 
- primeval wilderness in the pine-clad moun- 
tains lying on either side of Rogue river, 
30 or 40 miles below Grant’s Pass. There 
are found deer, black and brown bears, lynx 
and bob cats. It is a region where nature has 
lavished choicest gems of balsam-scented 
forests, of leaping, laughing streams, and 
of birds, beasts and wild things. 

For the man who loves real hunting and 
genuine recreation, the Lower Rogue coun- 
try is the place of all places, if he be willing 
to rough it. The hunter must content him- 
self with a tough Indian pony, or rather 2 
of them, for there must be one to ride and 
one to carry the pack. A mule or a burro 
is the best possible pack animal for the hunt- 
er in this mountain region, but they are 


not always easily found. The burro will | 


never stray far from camp, will carry his 
load patiently and willingly, and can go any- 
where a man can go except up a tree. The 
pack should be complete, but never made 
burdensome with duffle not absolutely 
needed. The grub kit consists, first, of a 
frying pan and a coffee pot. Then there is 
the bag of flour and the beans—always 
beans. Space must also be made for small 
cans of salt and soda. Sugar is not needed, 
though it may be carried, but coffee must 
not be overlooked. A roll of woolen blank- 
ets, a rifle, plenty of ammunition and a good 
ax completes the pack. In a tin box, and oc- 
cupying an inside pocket of his vest, where 
they will always be found dry, the hunter 
carries his matches; and he is never without 
the big knife that serves more purposes 
than any other article of the outfit. 

The hunting grounds of Southern Oregon 
can be reached either from Grant’s Pass 
down Rogue river, or from West Fork, a 
small station on the Southern Pacific. The 
hunting season is August and September, 
and at that time the air is crisp and the 
sweet acorns are ripening on the ballota 
bushes. 

After 2 days’ traveling the hunter finds 
himself in a pine-clad solitude. As far as 
the eye can see are purple mountains, cut by 
deep canyons, down which streams go 
babbling to join the Rogue. The hunter 
must keep to the ridges, for as he proceeds 
deeper into the mountains all signs of the 
trail disappear, and he has naught to guide 
him but the sun or the winding river. 

There is but one way to hunt in that re- 
gion; that is to take a stand on an open 
ridge and wait patiently hour after hour. 
Deer will come out to feed on the rich 
grass, and bear will emerge to enjoy a sweet 


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acorn dinner. Last summer one party of 4 
Saw over 75 deer during their trip; bear 
were everywhere. 

Dennis H. Stovall, Grant’s Pass, Ore. 





NO SUBSPECIES 

I am much in sympathy with RECREATION 
on the question of game protection and my 
earnest desire that it may have even more 
power along that line prompts me to make 
a suggestion. 

Commenting on the cases of Brown, Mc- 
Nitt and Craig, in the January issue, you 
call each a game hog, though the offense 
of the first 2 consisted in shooting in closed 
season, and of the other, in killing protect- 
ed birds. I am not trying to defend these 
people. They deserve all they got. The 
term “game hog,” as used by ReEcrEa- 
TION, has, however, become accepted by de- 
cent sportsmen as meaning a person who 
takes more than his fair share of game, and 
in the cases mentioned it seems misapplied. 

G. A. Neble, Milwaukee, Wis. 


ANSWER. 


I thoroughly appreciate your frank and 
courteous criticism, and regret I can not 
quite agree with you. I do not think the 
term game hog, or fish hog, need be confined 
entirely to men who kill too much game or 
too many fish. It seems to me a man who 
can not wait till the opening of the legal 
season to kill his game, but who sneaks out 
ahead of all the honest, law abiding sports- 
men and kills his deer or his bag of ducks, 
is surely endowed with swinish proclivities. 
If you will pick up a dictionary you will 
find that many standard words in the Eng- 
lish language have different shades and de- 
grees of meaning. I see no reason why the 
term game hog should not be treated in the 
same way. For instance, a preacher wrote 
me from West Virginia that he was out 
hunting with several other men; that the 
dogs started a bear, as they supposed; that 
the entire party followed the dogs, but that 
he, being the best sprinter, outdistanced the 
others and got there first. The dogs 
treed not only one bear but 3, an old one 
and 2cubs. This clergyman sailed up to the 
tree and killed the old bear and one of the 
cubs before any of the other men got with- 
in shooting distance. Naturally these other 
men were disgusted when they found that 
their pastor had knocked down most of the 
persimmons, and told him so. He claimed 
the skins of the 2 bears he had killed, but 
was magnanimous enough to leave the other 
cub to be divided between his 3 or 4 friends. 
He applied to me to settle the dispute, and 
I told him in good forcible English that 1 


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considered him a hog; that if he had been a- 


gentleman he would have waited when he 
got to the tree and found that all the bears 
were safely cornered, unti] his friends came 
up, and would then have offered them, or 
some of them, the first shot. 

Do you not agree with me in this posi- 
tion P—EpIrTor. 





HOW TO COOK IN CAMP. 

Wheat Bread: Put two teaspoonfuls of 
best baking powder and a teaspoonful of 
salt into a quart of flour, mixing. thorough- 
ly, first dry and then with cold water, un- 
til a thin dough is made. Put in greased 
dish and bake or put in tin dish, cover with 
another dish, put on a bed of coals, cover 
with coals and bake. 


Pancakes: Mix the batter much thinner, 
but in the same proportion as the foregoing 
and do not knead. Add 2 tablespoonfuls 
of fat pork. 


Oatmeal Gruel: Into one pint of boil- 
‘ing water stir 3 tablespoonfuls of oatmeal ; 
salt and boil 40 minutes. 


Barley Bread: Mix barley meal, salted, 
with warm water to the consistency of stiff 
dough, bake in flat cakes and eat warm with 
butter. 


Oatmeal Bread: 
barley bread. 


Oatmeal Wafers: Take a pint of oat- 
neal and a pint of water, add a scant tea- 
spoonful of salt, mix, spread them on but- 
tered pan and bake slowly. 


Graham Diamonds: Pour boiling water 
on graham flour making a dough as thick 
as can be stirred with an iron spoon. Place 
the dough, with plenty of flour, on a mould- 
ing board and knead. Roll out half an 
inch.thick and cut into diamonds or any 
other shape. Bake in a hot oven 30 minutes. 
Easily digested. 


Hominy: Soak one quart of ground 
hominy over night, put over the fire in a 
tin pail, set in boiling water with water 
enough to cover, boil gently for 5 hours, as 
it can not be hurried. After the grains 
begin to soften on no account stir it. The 
water put in at first ought to be enough to 
finish it, but if it proves too little add more 
carefully, as too much makes’ it sloppy. 
Salt just before taking from the fire, as 
too early salting makes it dark. If proper- 
ly done the grains will stand out snowy 
and well done, but round and separate. 


Lunch Rolls: Sift together one pint of 
flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder and 
half a teaspoonful of salt. Work in one 
teaspoonful of lard or butter and add one 
half pint of milk. Mix to a smooth dough, 
roll out to half an inch in thickness and 


Make as directed for 


RECREATION. 


cut into circular shapes. Bake in a moder- 


ate oven. 


Johnny Cake: Boil a pint of water 
sharply in a kettle, add a tablespoonful of 
salt and 2 of sugar. Slowly stir in corn 
meal till thick mush is made. After this 
has cooked 5 to 10 minutes put it in a 
greased tin dish and bake half hour over 
a bed of coals or in an oven. 


Fried Mush: Slice cold mush thin, fry 
in hot butter and lard; or dip in beaten 
eggs, salted to taste, then in cracker crumbs 
and drop in hot lard like doughnuts. 


Parched Rice: Put into a frying pan 
enough butter to cover the bottom. When 
it is hot add cold boiled rice, a little at a 
time. Fry a delicate brown and serve. 


Washington Bread: Mix white corn 
meal with a little salt and make a batter 
with cold water. Spread thin on tin pans 
and bake well. To be eaten with butter. 
If white meal is not to be had use yellow. 
This is called pone in the South, and was 
used by General Washington in the field. 


Recipe for tonic: 1% ounces best red 
Peruvian bark, I ounce cloves, I ounce cin- 
amon, pulverize; add 1 quart domestic or 
port wine. Dose, wine glass full at meal 


time. 
H. E. Sabine, Camas Valley, Ore. 





FOUR BEAR IN A WEEK. 


We had a lot of fun on our 1902 hunting 
trip. King, Tiedens, my brother Dick and I, 
with Jack, our cook and camp man, pitched 
camp September Ist on Huckleberry moun- 
tain. 

The following day Dick plugged a 200 
pound silvertip cub. Hit him 3 times out 
of 4 shots, running, at 200 yards. 

Wednesday, the 3rd, King and I started 
a large black bear at long range. We fired 
5 shots, 2 taking effect, as we learned after- 
ward. We tracked him by blood drops 1% 
miles to where he had wallowed in a creek. 
There we caught 14 trout in one sink in 
the stream, roasted them, ate lunch and 
rested 2 hours. Taking up the trail again 
we came, after a mile of hard tracking, to 
a thick windfall. The bear was just leav- 
ing it. We all sighted him at the same 
time, and fired. The old fellow went down 
pe emai and died before we could get to 

im. 

Thursday was wet and we did not hunt. 
After dinner we prospected for elk sign 
and saw 2 cows and a calf. The law pro- 
tects all but bull elk. 

Next day, while descending the moun- 
tain, I heard crackling brush and warning 
grunts. Soon I saw brush move and 
a dark object standing. I guessed at the 
right place and fired. With a roar a female, 








FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 


silvertip charged. Two .303 bullets stopped 
her about 40 yards from me. She weighed 
probably 750 pounds and was a beautiful 
specimen. 

Luck deserted us until Monday, when 
King killed a black bear, making a bear 
apiece for the party. Tuesday Tiedens and 
I came in, leaving Dick and King in the 
mountains. They remained a week longer, 
moving camp to a better deer country. 

Later in the month I spent a day with my 


friends Miller and Benze, hunting near 
Marion, 25 miles West of Kalispell. 


Of 
4 deer jumped during the day we secured 3. 
H. E. Houston, M. D., Kalispell, Mont. 





A BOAR HUNT. 


Three years ago last winter my 3 part- 
ners’ and I started, with 2 pack horses and 
a camp outfit, for a hog hunt in the foot- 
hills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. That 
may seem odd to those accustomed only to 
Secing pigs in clover or in a pen, but those 


- who have -hunted wild hogs know it is a 


mighty strenuous sport. 
Learning that there was a bunch of hogs 
in a deep gulch near our camp we set out 


_ early to follow them. Wild hogs will move 


along while rooting about as fast as a man 
can travel on foot, and after finding sign it 
is always necessary to track them. Two of 
my companions went along one side of the 
gulch, and I the other. The fourth man 
made a detour, intending to strike the gulch 
4 miles farther on. 

Coming noiselessly to the top of a little 
break, I was offered the choice of 2 as fine 
shots as I could desire. Sixty yards up the 
hill stood a 5 point buck, while 200 yards 


_ down the hill a bunch of hogs was feeding. 


I was after hogs that trip, so I fired at 


the biggest, aiming at the sticking place. I 


shot too low, however, and the bullet, a 
‘30-30, broke his right fore leg, and ranging 
back, split the toes of a hind foot. 
Hearing the shot my friends across the 
gulch came over, bringing 2 bulldogs trained 
to track and hold anything alive. We set 
the dogs on, and the boar, after running a 
mile, took refuge in a thicket so dense we 
could not enter it save on hands and knees. 
With his rump to a rock the boar fought 
off the dogs, killing one before we came up. 
He charged the first man who entered the 


_ thicket, but. was stopped before he could do 
- any damage. 


A crippled grizzly is a tough 


- “proposition, but a wounded boar is worse, 





for he will fight to his last gasp. 
S. V. Stevens, Lyonsville, Cal. 





HOW IT LOOKS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 


We had extremely cold weather last win- 
ter, the thermometer twice falling to 26 
degrees below zero, and I am afraid the 
birds suffered greatly. Quails were plenti- 


429 


ful last fall as the result of being protected, 
and in the early part of the winter I saw 
a number of large coveys. Several farm- 
ers told me there were birds on their farms 
and promised to feed them during the win- 
ter. I had articles put in the papers, ask- 
ing farmers to feed the quails, suggesting 
that they take the grain in the sheaf and 
hang it in low bushes and trees where the 
birds can easily get it. If thrown on the 
ground it will either be lost in the snow or 
blown away. There is a law in this State 
allowing quail to be trapped and kept dur- 
ing the winter and liberated on February 
18. Some farmers do this, but most simply 
feed the quail, which become tame and 
stay around the premises all winter. I 
discovered that a number of wild turkeys 
had escaped the hunters in a section where 
these birds had become plentiful. I imme- 
diately made arrangements to have the 
place thoroughly patrolled and made many 
trips myself along that part of the mountain, 
with the result that the turkeys were not 
molested. There are several hunters living 
in that region who would have killed them 
if given a chance. One man said to a 
friend that he was afraid to stick his nose 
out of the door with a gun in his hand. 
Harry P. Hays, Hollidaysburg, Pa. 





The game law of New York should be 
amended to prevent the slaughter of deer 
in September. Nine-tenths of the deer 
killed in that month are gotten by floating, 
and 3% of them are does and fawns. Some 
sportsmen would prefer to shorten the sea- 
son by cutting out the last 2 weeks. That 
would not materially reduce the slaughter, 
as but few deer are killed by still hunting 
in November. 

T. J. Fenton, Jamestown, N. Y. 





We have a few rabbits, squirrels and 
grouse. A little farther North are deer; 
few were killed last season, though the 
woods were full of hunters. 


F. Goodfruit, Ada, Mich. 





Most game is scarce here, but a few quails, 
rabbits and ruffed grouse can be had. 
Raymond Hagar, Traverse City, Mich. 


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that when we came home from the theatre 
last night I saw you let a policeman out 
of the basement door? 

Mary Ann—Oi don’t know, mum, unless 
th’ play was shorter than usual, mum. 





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FISH AND FISHING. 


ALMANAC FOR SALT WATER FISHERMEN. 


The following will be found accurate and val- 
nable for the vicinity of New York City: 

Kingfish—Barb, Sea-Mink, Whiting. June to 
September. Haunts: The surf and deep channels 
of strong tide streams. Baits: Blood worms, 
shedder crabs and beach crustaceans. Time and 
tide: Flood, early morning. 

Plaice—Fluke, Turbot, Flounder. May 15 to 
November 30. Haunts: The surf, mouth of tidal 
streams. Baits: Shedder crabs, killi-fish, sand 
laut. Time and tide: Ebb, daytime exclusively. 

Spanish mackerel—Haunts: The open sea, Tay 
to September. Baits: Menhaden, trolling—metal 
and cedar squids. : 

Striped Bass—Rock Fish, Green Head. April to 
November. Haunts: The surf, bays, estuaries and 
tidal streams. Baits: Blood worms, shedder crabs, 
Calico crabs, small eels, menhaden. Time and 
tide. Night, half flood to flood, to half ebb. 

The Drums, Red and Black. June to Novem- 
ber. Haunts: The surf and mouths of large bays. 
Bait: Skinner crab. Time and tide: Day, flood. 

Blackfish—Tautog, April to November. Haunts: 
Surf, vicinity of piling and old wrecks in bays. 
Baits: Sand worm, blood worm, shedder crabs, 
clams. Time and tide: Daytime, flood. 

Lafayette—Spot, Goody, Cape May Goody. 
August to October. Haunts: Channels of tidal 
streams. Baits: Shedder crabs, sand worms, clams. 
Time and Tide: Day and night flood. 


Croker—July to October. Haunts: Deep chan- 
nels of bays. Baits: Shedder crabs, mussels. 
Time and tide: Day, flood. 


Snapper—Young of Blue Fish. August to No- 


vember. Haunts: Pivers and all tide ways. Baits: 
Spearing and menhaden; __ trolling pearl squid. 
Time and tide: Day, all tides. 

Sheepshead—June to October Haunts: Surf 
and bays, vicinity of old wrecks. Baits: Clams, 
mussels, shedder crabs. Time and tide: Day, 
flood only. 

New England Whiting—Winter Weak-fish, 
Frost-fish. November to May. Haunts: The 
surf. Baits: Sand laut, spearing. Time and tide: 


Night, flood. 

Hake—Ling. October to June. Haunts: Open 
sea surf, large bays. Baits: Clams, mussels, fish. 
Time and tide: Day and night, flood. 

Weak-fish—Squeteague, Squit. June to October. 
Haunts: Surf, all tideways. Baits: Shedder 
crabs, surf mullet, menhaden, ledge mussels, sand 
laut, shrimp. Time and tide: Day and night, 
flood preferred. t 

Blue Fish—Horse Mackerel. June to November 
1st. Haunts: Surf, open sea and large bays. 
Baits: Menhaden, surf mullet and trolling squid. 
Time and tide: Daytime; not affected by tides. 





IDENTIFIED. 
Ww. K. M, 


A group of men, all disciples of Walton, 
sat about a camp fire in the Adirondacks. 
The guide, after the manner of guides, was 
explaining just how and why they had not 
caught many fish. For several days he had 
been saying, “Jest wait till in the morn- 
ing; then we will ketch all the trout you 
can carry.” 

It happened that an attorney and an edi- 
tor were in the party and when the guide 
had finished his marvelous tales of “what 
we done when I was a boy,” the attorney 
winked at the editor and told the following: 


432 


“When I was a young lad I went to Am- 
persand pond, famous for its trout. After 
several days of successful sport my friends 
broke camp and started for home. As we 
pulled across the lake I could not resist the 
temptation of a final cast. Immediately a fish 
struck myi fly and I reeled. in a small but 
beautifully marked trout. It seemed a pity 
to retain so small a fish when we had all the 
law permitted us to take. Moreover, the 
little fellow had the brightest spots I ever 
saw on any fish; so I returned him to the 
water, but not until I had cut a small notch 
in his dorsal fin. I cut it deep and knew 
that if he grew to goodly proportions the 
mark would become very distinct. 

“Five years afterward several of us visit- 
ed Ampersand. We again had good luck. 
On the morning of the last day I cast far 
ahead and drew the flies along a sub- 
merged log. There was a_ tremendous 
splash, and the line cut about at a great 
rate. When I finally got my captive to the 
boat my guide deftly netted and brought in 
a 5 pound trout. As it lay gasping on the 
bottom of our boat I plainly saw the mark 
in its fin. It was the same fish I had caught 
years before.” | 

The editor laid aside his pipe, and with 
a deprecatory glance around the circle, he 
said: 

“When I was a cub reporter on one of the 
big dailies I worked so hard that I became 
threatened with consumption; so they sent 
me to the mountains to rest. I had made 
several good scoops for them, and it was no 
more than right that they pay for my va- 
cation. Ampersand was too far in for me to 
stand the trail, so I put up with my guide 
in a comfortable cabin on Colby pond, near- 
er civilization. 

“We fished most of the time. On the 
last day of my stay I, too, thought to have 
one more cast and, like my distinguished 
friend, I hooked a small fish. It was not 
so beautifully marked as his, but it was 
below the legal length and I decided to re- 
turn it after having properly marked the 
foolish fellow. Turning it over I saw the 
fins were too small to cut, that no marks 
could be made on the head, and that there 
seemed no way by which it could be sub-— 
sequently identified. If I could but attach 
some small object to its tail that would 
serve the purpose. I ran my hand in all 
my pockets and found a little nickle whis- 
tle. With a bit of thin wire I fastened the 
whistle to the trout’s tail, making the per- 


foration in the thickest cartilage so no in- 


jury might come to the fish. Then I put it 
back. 


“Five years afterward I visited Colby 








FISH AND FISHING. 


pond. The same guide took me over to our 
old cabin. We again fished and caught 
some good strings. One afternoon I hooked 
an apparently large fellow while bait fish- 
ing in deep water. He came up slowly— 
appeared to be logy and did not run—or 
fight; but he strained my tackle. Just as 
he came to the surface and the guide, after 
a mighty effort landed him safe in the boat, 
I discovered I had taken the same fish, the 
one marked years ago.” 

We observed silence, but the guide put in 
anxiously, 

“Had he grown much?” 

“He had not changed a particle, but the 
whistle had grown into a foghorn.” 

The guide busied himself about our bal- 
sam beds at once, nor did he offer any more 
stories of immense trout. 

“The press is mightier than the law,” 
remarked the attorney dryly. 





HE GOT WHAT WAS COMING TO HIM. 

aan Ee 

I never was what might be termed a suc- 
cessful angler, though from an early age I 
was a lover of the gentle art and could pa- 
tiently wait hours for a nibble. I do not re- 
member to have caught more than 1o fish 
in one day; frequently I caught none at 
all. Once I landed 3 trout in 5 minutes 
and another time I caught a 28-pound pike, 
which I spent hours landing. On the whole, 
I always returned satisfied from a day’s 
fishing. 

Among my chums in those days was 2 
boy who, up to the time I speak of, was 
fond of fishing. However, he thought it 
slow work with rod and line and with the 
help of another chum, of ours invented a 
way to kill fish with dynamite. His father’s 
farm bordered on a lake literally full of 
pike and perch. A quarryman showed him 
how to put the detonator containing the 
fuse into the stick of dynamite and common 
sense taught him how to sink it. He made 
2 experiments which proved successful. 

He was preparing to make a big haul 
and had baited part of the lake to attract 
the fish. Another friend and I were to 
be present to see the sport and help collect 
the fish. I was much disappointed when 
pressing business kept me away. 

My friend had to go on with the slaughter 
alone as our chum did not turn up either. 
About 3 p. m. on a July day he rowed out 
to the part of the lake he had baited. For 
some reason he had to strike nearly a box 
of matches before one would burn suff- 
ciently to light the fuse. At last he got it 
lighted and threw it in the proper place, 
which he had marked with a floating cork. 

It was then time for him to row for his 
life. He grabbed for the oars, but to his 
horror saw one of them floating 10 yards 


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from him, it having slipped out while he 
was lighting the fuse. He rowed frantically 
with the other, but instead of getting away 
from danger was right on top when 
the explosion came. He and the boat were 
blown 30 feet upward. When he came to 
himself he was on the keel of the boat, 
which was floating bottom up near the mid- 
die of the lake. He could not move lest 
he tumble off, nor could he swim ashore 
with his clothes and shoes on, being at best 
a poor swimmer. As it was a calm day 
there was no hope of his drifting ashore. 
He cried for help and at last some one heard 
him. It took some time to decide how 
to rescue him, there being no other boat on 
the lake. A boat was sent for, but before it 
arrived my friend had been 3 hours in the 
water, and from fright and exposure was 
well nigh exhausted. 

When our chum who had arrived mean- 
time, saw him safely landed, he collected 
the fish. They were of all sizes, from the 
smallest perch up to a pike 5 pounds in 
weight. As it turned out, it did the fish 
a good turn, for had he taken the 480 fish 
he killed without an accident he and his 2 
chums might have become a trio of fish 
hogs, the like of which the world never 
saw. 

We were scarcely to blame, as we were 
but boys, and did not know we were break- 
ing both the laws of the land and the laws 
of common decency by our act. However, 
it was all for the best, for it left 1s thank- 
ful thereafter for small mercies in the fish- 
ing line. One of the trio has since fished 
in the rivers of California, but not as a 
fish hog. 





A DISAPPOINTMENT. 


Dick Kirkham was coming down the Ma- 
pee, attired in a wading suit which “Old 
Hossfly” Jim Bryant had picked up for him 
in the lumber town of Pelton. About the 
time he reached the pool at the turn of the 
river I yelled for him to hurry and help me 
land the biggest trout in Michigan. I had 
put a red worm down the current into a 
big pool that churned and foamed beneath 
the overhanging branches of a giant elm, 
and got a bite that almost pulled me in over 
my boot tops. When I struck, it was simply 
a question of tackle endurance, but as I was 
equipped with an Alta line and a No. 4 
Pennell on a double gut leader I had no 
fear of the fish breaking away. But just 
beneath the surface of the foamy water a 
forked snag afforded the fish a splendid op- 
portunity to hang me up. He took advan- 
tage of it so thoroughly that the only di- 
rection he could take the line, after he had 
fastened it between the forks, led over to 
a pile of drift and brush, which meant 
freedom for him and confusion to me if he 
succeeded in reaching it. 


434 RECREATION. 


Before I put this particular worm into 
the pool I remembered how Old Hossfly 
had wiped my eye 3 years before with a 
2 pounder which he had taken out of this 
same water. As I held the fish against the 
snag and felt his mighty struggles I saw 
myself exhibiting a monster trout to the 
admiring eyes of the aforesaid Hossfly. 

That heavy wading suit impeded the ra- 
pidity of Dick’s movements, and as he 
didn’t come quick enough to suit me, I 
gingerly felt my way in on tip toe, with the 
water about to overwhelm my boot tops. 
By that time I had worked the fish up in 
the crotch of the snag and could faintly 
discern the dim outlines of my captive. The 
sight proved too much for my caution and 
in I went up to the waist until I could 
reach down and grab him. The fish was 
helpless against the crotch and as I reached 
for him, my hand came in contact not with 
the slippery, velvety skin of a trout, but 
against the spikes of the dorsal fin of a 
wall-eyed pike. As I released the fish and 
struggled to shore with him, Kirkham came 
along and admired my catch, but I could 
see the sly gleam of fun in his eye as he 
passed on down the stream. 

The pike weighed 5% pounds, was built 
like a race horse, and in a clean stretch of 
the stream it would have been a pleasure 
to play him with light tackle. 

It will be many a long day before I for- 
get the thrill which made me warm with 
hope when that pike took my hook in the 
finest trout pool in the beautiful Maple. 

James D. Ernston, Anderson, Ind. 





THE WAY OF IT. 


Just over the Southern line of New York, 
where the mountains crowd each other so 
closely that the beautiful Chemung is forced 
to share its fortunes with the more majes- 
tic Susquehanna, lies a natural park, Tioga 
Point, unknown to the many, though fa- 
mous for its wealth of Indian lore. 

There, where the rivers meet, is formed 
a large and beautiful body of water of con- 
siderable depth. Many a fine string of 
black bass have I taken from its rocky 
depths ; and though I have taken them from 
lakes and streams in many other places, no- 
where have I found the bass more gamy or 
more ready with that gallant rush and 
plunge we know so well. 

Still lingers the memory of my first ex- 
perience when, as a small boy with an in- 
dulgent father, I was allowed to join in an 
early morning trip. My father and _ his 
friend had fairly good luck, but the fish 
were not large and therefore not satisfac- 
tory to either angler. Try as patiently as 
they would, no big fellows could be lured 
to the gaff. 

Being the smallest and least important 
member of the party, I must needs content 


myself by baiting with the lowly worm, 
which proved to have less drawing power 
than the lively minnows the men were 
using. Becoming convinced at last that I 
was being discriminated against in the mat- 
ter of bait, I brought such pressure to bear 
that Father grudgingly fished from the pail 
a dead minnow and gave it to me. 

_My minnow was dropped quietly over the 
side of the boat and we were doing business 
once more. 

For some time blue smoke curled quietly 
from 2 aged pipes and things were growing 
monotonous. 

Suddenly there was a disturbance in one 
end of the boat, and Father turned to see 
a struggling boy, too wildly excited for ar- 
ticulate speech, grasping the end of his old 
maple pole as if he feared it would get 
away, and frantically motioning for help. 
Between all hands the fish was landed, and 
a choice one he proved; the largest taken 
that day, on a measly little dead minnow, 
and by a small boy, who felt fully the im- 
portance of the event. 

Ben W. Stroud, Cleveland, Ohio. 





I am a regular subscriber to your valu- 
able magazine, and fully conversant with 
the stand you take against the bristlebacks. 
I most heartily commend you. Every true 
sportsman should give you the benefit of his 
observations, to enable you to keep up your 
good work. I enclose a clipping for you 
to load your gun with, and fire into the 
ranks of our enemies. 

Thos. E. Lewis, Norfolk, Va. 

C. C. Cobb and J. B. McGraw exhibited in their 
office yesterday morning 50 large bass, weighing 
2 to 5. pounds each and more than 30 pike and 
other fish. The time occupied in. aking the 
catch was only one hour and 50 minutes. They 


used an ordimary pole and line, with live bait.— 
Virginia Pilot. 


I wrote these men as follows: 


I am informed you and a friend recently 
caught 50 large bass and more than 30 pike 
in one day. Will you kindly tell me if this 
report is true? 


I received this reply: 


Mr. Cobb and I caught 50 bass, or chub, 
as we call them down here, and 25 pickerel 
at Lake Smith, about 6 miles from Norfolk, 
October 14th, in an hour and 50 minutes. 

According to the rules of the Water De- 
partment, who have charge of the fishing 
privileges of the lakes, each angler is limited 
to 25 chub, and as 50 made the limit for 
both of us, we had to leave when they were 
biting about as lively as I have ever seen 
fish take the line. _ 

James B. McCaw, Norfolk, Va. 


Assuming that the 50 bass and the 25 


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FISH AND FISHING. 


pickerel averaged 2 pounds each, these men 
took 150 pounds of fish in one hour and 50 
minutes. Gee whiz! How they must have 
sweat and puffed and yanked to have 
pulled so many fish out of the water in 
that length of time. In order to take 75 
fish in 110 minutes, deducting the necessary 
time for detaching the hook from each and 
rebaiting and recasting, they could not have 
allowed any of the fish to run to feet after 
being hooked. The only sport these rooters 
could possibly have had must have been the 
mere slaughtering of fish. It must simply 
have been a case of hooking and yanking; 
but that is what the average bristleback 
considers real sport.—EDIror. 





WINTER FISHING. 


I had a day’s fishing on Bashan lake last 
Thanksgiving. We started early in the 
morning and after a 10 mile drive in the 
piercing cold we arived at the lake. We set 
out about 36 tips, getting them all in by 
8 a.m. They gave us all the employment 
we wanted. We would no sooner catch 
hold of the spud than a flag would go up. 
We had 13 good pickerel before we had our 
tips all in, and after that it was all we 
could do to handle them. 

We caught before 3 p. m. 178 of the finest 
pickerel we ever saw and 191 perch. Then 
our bait gave out, so we returned home. 
On arriving there we displayed our catch 
and weighed them on a Fairbanks’ scale. 
They footed up to exactly 513 pounds. We 
consider this exceptionally good luck at 
that early season. 

W. G. Reade, A. H. Baird, Middletown, 
Conn. 


Some readers may wonder why I do not 
rebuke these men. The reason is that I do 
not regard pickerel and perch as game 
fishes, and should be glad to see them all 
cleaned out of waters inhabited by better 
fishes.— EDITOR. 





NIBBLES. 


My home is in Ellisburg, Jefferson 
county, N. Y, A club there of which I am 
a member controls 1,800 acres of duck and 
pickerel marshes. Mr. F. Galliger has as 
much more land adjoining ours, and has 
established a summer resort with all equip- 
ments. The North branch of Big Sandy 
runs through his territory and affords ex- 
cellent black bass and pickeral fishing. To 
the South lie 10 miles of marshes and 
ponds. We leased our land to prevent non- 
residents from securing it, and in order 
that all our home people might have a 
place to hunt and fish. We bar none from 
our land, but outsiders who shoot or fish 
on it are required to pay $1 a day toward 
its maintenance. 


435 


Before leaving home last spring, I helped 
plant 10,000 brook trout in our waters. We 
now have 3 trout brooks stocked with 35,- 


000 fish. 
C. H. Noble, Ellisburg, N. Y. 





September was a banner month for an- 
glers on the Madison lakes. More large 
pickerel were caught than during any other 
month of the season. Robert Keyes landed 
one which measured 3 feet 8 inches and 
weighed over 20 pounds. Chas. Bryant 
caught a 12-pounder after a vigorous tussle. 
Both were taken from Lake Mendota. An- 
drew Hippemeyer in one day caught 2 
pickerel weighing 11 and 13 pounds respec- 
tively. A tew days previous he captured a 
black bass weighing 5 pounds and 14 ounces. 
They were caught in Lake Monona. Many 
more large fish were caught in both lakes 
while medium sized white bass, yellow bass 
and pickerel were taken in abundance. 

- Leo Bird, Madison, Wis. 





734,544. Trimming for Fishing Rods. 
James B. Hall, Cleveland, Ohio. Filed 
July 22, 1902. Serial No. 116,503. 
Claim.—1. A band for a fishing rod, 
formed of bendable metal and having on 
its inner face an integral rod-engaging 
means curved inwardly from opposite sides, 
as set forth. 
2. A band for a fishing rod, formed of 





bendable metal and provided with integral 
spurs curved inwardly from opposite sides 
to embed themselves in the rod. 





Tony Huss and I boarded the A. & S. C. 
train for Knappa, one day last summer, to 
take a shy at the trout. Arriving at that 
station at 9.30 we walked out to the farm 
of W. H. Twilight where we stopped for 
lunch. About 10 o’clock we went to the 
river and commenced fishing. In the course 
of the afternoon I caught 4 good sized sal- 
mon trout, and Mr. Huss caught 8. He got 
one steelhead salmon 33 inches long. It 
weighed 12% pounds. This made all the 
fish we needed, and having had fun erough 
to last us a long time, we returned to we 
city on the evening train. 

D. R. Blount, Astoria, Ore. 


A remarkable duck story comes from 
Nantes, France. Some fishermen were out 
at sea during a terrible thunderstorm, when 
suddenly a number of roasted ducks fell 
into their boat. The lightning had struck a 
flock and cooked the birds to a turn.—Ar- 
gonaut, 


GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


Anybody can shoot all day, but a gentleman always quits when he gets enough. 


ROBIN HOOD POWDER. 

Last October my attention was directed, 
by an ad in Recreation, to Robin Hood 
powder. I sent to the factory for a sample, 
and proceeded to make a thorough test of 
it, both at the trap and in the field. 

After trying several kinds of shells, I 
found that the Blue Rival was admirably 
adapted to this powder. ‘I loaded a number 
of these shells with 3% drams of Robin 
Hood; one card and 2 black edge wads over 
powder; 1% ounces No. 6 chilled shot; one 
light card wad over shot; and with 4% inch 
crimp. I used them in duck shooting, both 
at mallards and widgeons, and I found I 
could do better work than I had formerly 
done with larger shot over the same range. 
The pattern and the penetration was all 
that could be desired. 

I have used 3 drams of Robin Hood and 
1% ounces No. 7% chilled shot, at the trap, 
with excellent results. Those who desire 
a powder that will give great penetration 
and a close, regular patern, cannot do bet- 
ter than to use Robin Hood. 

L. L. Burtenshaw, Council, Ida. 





What is the difference between dense and 
bulk powders? How is pressure deter- 
mined on gun wads? What is the compo- 
sition of black powder? 

John Daniel, Eufaula, Ala. 


ANSWER, 


A dense powder, so called, is of the 
smokeless variety and so compounded that 
the quantity required to give a certain ef- 
fect is much less in bulk than other pow- 
ders not of this character. All dense pow- 
ders being of small bulk, should be weighed 
and not measured by volume. The so- 
called bulk powders are also smokeless, and 
have their strength so proportioned that 
~ bulk for bulk with black powder, they will 
produce results approximately the same. 

Pressure om gun wads is determined in 
various ways. In hand loading it is ascer- 
tained by using a special spring rammer. 
The spring, when compressed as far as it 
will go, indicates a certain predetermined 
number of pounds. By applying the ram- 
mer each time until the spring is fully com- 
pressed, a degree of accuracy in pressure is 
attained. 

Black powder is composed of varying 
proportions of potassium nitrate, sulphur 
and charcoal. Black powder has been made 
employing other chemicals, but the ingre- 


dients named have, however, been almost - 


universally employed 


in compounding a 
stable black powder. 


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An ordinary sporting powder would have 
the ingredients mixed in about the follow- 
ing proportions: Potassium nitrate, 78 
parts; sulphur, 10 parts; charcoal, 12 parts. 

E. B. Guile. 


THE REPEATER MUST GO. 


I am with you heart and soul in trying to 
prevent the use of the game hogs’ weapon 
—the repeating shot gun. It is a game de- 
stroyer in the hands of a good shot, a great 
consumer of ammunition in the hands of a 
poor shot, and the tool with which thou- 
sands upon thousands of waterfowl are 
each year bagged by market hunters. 

Most people who buy these guns do so 
because they can fire more shots in a given 
space of time, and consequently kill more 
birds. 

Hundreds of wealthy men use them for 
this very thing. Go to Detroit and see how 
it is there. Paul Bagley and Owen Scot- 
ten are 2 examples. They feel bad if they 
can't put 6 shots into a flock of ducks. 
Scotten will empty his repeater at a flock 
100 yards distant, yet he owns a $1,000 
Greener and a $750 American gun. 

The Winchester Repeating Arms Co. used 
to advertise “6 shots shot in 3 seconds,” 
and “if you had a repeater you might have 
killed 6 birds instead of one or 2.” Four 
or 5 years ago they got down to “A third 
shot to kill a cripple,” when sentiment 
against the use of repeating guns began to 
show. Now they claim to be friends of 
the game and of game laws and. are advo- 
cating a limit on the bag of so many birds 
a day. That sounds nice, but what does it 
amount to? Nothing; because if the limit 
were 25 ducks per day, the man that want- 
ed to kill 100 would find people enough, 
whether guides, boat pushers, or what, that 
would gladly kill 25 ducks for a dollar and 
not fire a shot. 

The deer limit in Michigan is 3 to each 
license, but there are plenty of licenses is- 
sued to people who do not fire a shot nor 
even try, yet somebody does the killing. 

The Winchester people have a lot of 
money and are going to make a fight to pre- 
vent legislation antagonistic to their inter- 
ests. ‘ 

If we succeed in stopping the use of re- 
peating shot guns, it need cause no loss to 
the country lad who worked hard to save 
the $17 he paid for his repeater. The mag- 
azine on every repeater can be easily and 
permanently blocked so that it will con- 
tain but a single cartridge, and at a cost 
of not more than s5ocents. A nice little fine 
of $100 for anyone found using a repeater 








GUNS AND AMMUNITION. 


in which the magazine was not blocked 
would be an inducement toward spending 
the 50 cents. 

The repeater must go. 
work along. 


Push the good 
C. L. V., Kalamazoo, Mich. 





GET NEW BARRELS. 


I have an old 12 gauge Parker hammer 
gun. It is in good condition save that both 
barrels are pitted. The bore is unusually 
large for a 12 gauge, so large that a No. 12 
will almost fall through. I did pretty well 
with it last fall while grouse shooting, but 
got most of my birds within 20 yards. At 
a greater distance it scatters badly. Would 
II gauge wads improve its shooting? 
Would it be advisable to use smokeless 
powder in this gun? 

Charles Gun Crank, Phila., Pa. 


ANSWER. 


About 15 years ago Parker Brothers 
made and put out some guns chambered and 
bored to use either brass or paper shells, 
and, of course, black powder. The best re- 
sults were obtained in those days by mak- 
ing a so-called 12 gauge gun with a slightly 
larger bore than had previously been used 
and than is used now in that grade. Many 
shooters used in such guns No. 9 wads, and 
some of them used No. Io, but it was in- 
variably found necessary to use as large as 
No. 10 wads in order to get the best re- 
sults. 

Since the introduction of smokeless pow- 
der and the practical abandonment of brass 
shells, 12 gauge guns are bored so that they 
measure exactly what they purport to be, 
and it is not necessary to use in them such 
large wads as were formerly used in order 
to get the best results with modern loads. 

Furthermore, it is likely that your gun 
has worn out to some extent, and that the 
openings in the barrels are larger now than 
when the gun was made. A barrel that it 
pitted will never do as good shooting as one 
that is in perfect condition. 

The only remedy, therefore, is to get a 
_ new pair of barrels made. 

I would not advise you to use smokeless 
powder in the barrels you now have. That 
would be a dangerous experiment.—EDITor. 





HIS CHOICE, 

I note in March RecrEATION that a reader 
asks which is the better to take into the 
Maine woods, a 32 Winchester Special or 
a 38-55, to which I say, by all means take 
the 38-55, which will be more popular in the 
near future than ever before. [ am not 
using this caliber myself, but, if I were to 
choose between the 2 mentioned, I should 
certainly buy the 38-55 for hunting pur- 
poses. I have a Savage 32-40 which is as 
strong a shooting gun as the 32 Winchester 


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Special, and a 38-55 is certainly stronger 
than either, whether it be Winchester or 
Savage. I consider the 32-40 large enough 
for anything that walks in America; if I 
did not, I should have a larger caliber rifle. 
I also have a 25-35 Savage rifle, with 22-inch 
barrel, which is the strongest shooting gun 
of its size and the most accurate I have 
ever used, considering the charge and 
caliber. 

I reload the 32-40, using as a high pres- 
sure load 25 grains of 30 caliber Dupont 
smokeless or 24 grains Laflin & Rand Light- 
ning, with metal patched bullet. For me- 
dium load I use 18% grains Dupont No. 1, 
with bullet cast in cylindrical Ideal mould 
No. 31954, paper patched. In patching the 
smooth bullets, I use enough paper to pro- 
ject over the base, so that the bullet can 
not touch the smokeless powder. The 
weights of powder I have given are by 
scales. I use an Ideal measure or loader, 
but the scale on the loader will not prove 
correct on all powders by weight. To get 
the 25 grain load of Dupont 30 caliber 
smokeless, I set the loader at 27 grains. 
The loader set at 40 grains on No. 1 Du- 
pont will give 18%, and for the regular 17 
grain load, as recommended, the loader 
should be set at 37 grains. I use both U. 
M. C. and Winchester shells, but the U. M. 
C. work better in the Savage gun. There 
is a slight difference in these shells as to 
muzzle and base measurements. I have 
calipered them both before they had been 
shot, and I find one larger at the base and 
smaller at the muzzle than the other. I also 
have to keep on hand 2 different sizes of 
primers, as the U. M. C. requires a smaller 
primer than the Winchester. I use black 
powder primers with black powder loads, 
which give the shells more durability than 
if smokeless primers were used. 

There is much more recoil from the me- 
dium black powder charge than from a 
charge of high pressure smokeless used in 
the same rifle. 

I take great pleasure in reading REcREA- 
TION. In fact, I have recommended your 
publication to a maker of hunting boots 
as an advertising medium, and would 
do the same to others should they ask my 
opinion in regard to such a matter. 

J. W. Smith, Bonner, Mont. 


THEY ROAST THE AUTOMATIC GUN. 

After trying a 45-70, a 45-90 and a 50 
caliber, all Winchesters, I am now using a 
30-40 of the same make. It has been my 
good fortune, during trips in the Maine 
woods to kill moose, deer, caribou and black 
bear. For such game give me a 30-40 every 
time. The gun is not only light, which 
means a great deal when one is alone on a 
long carry, but is also more powerful than 
the other calibers I have mentioned. I shot 





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with it a moose and a caribou at between 
200 and 250 yards. Each dropped where it 
stood, with both shoulders broken. When 
using a 45-90 I never succeeded in putting 
a bullet clear through even a deer. An ani- 
mal might escape with one shoulder broken, 
but never with both shattered. 

In regard to the automatic shot gun, I 
think the putting forth of such a weapon 
would be calamitous alike to sportsmen, gun 
makers and to the game. Its sale would be 
limited to market hunters and hogs, while 
its disproportionate destructiveness would 
lessen the demand for other guns by lessen- 
ing opportunity for their use. 

A. H. Gilbert, Philadelphia, Pa. 





As a lover of the birds and the wild ani- 
mals, I protest against the making and sell- 
ing of an automatic gun. Neither I nor 
any member of my family will ever buy 
or use an automatic gun, and we will dis- 
courage its use by others in every legitimate 
way. We will not associate with any man 
who may use such a weapon. 

Aurelia Hall Bonney, Hanover, Mass. 
President of the Hanover Band of Mercy, 

Director of the Rockland Humane So- 
ciety, Local Secretary of the Massa- 
chusetts Audubon Society. 





I have been reading RecrEATION for years, 
and think it is the best magazine for true 
sportsmen. I strongly endorse your protest 
against the automatic gun. It is a shame 
that these guns have been invented; in a 
few years the game will be exterminated if 
the use of these abominable weapons be per- 


mitted. 
John D. Wing. Millbrook, N. Y. 





Keep up the good work against the auto- 
matic gun. Every true sportsman in the 
country is with you, as well as every one else 
who doesn’t want to see the wild creatures 
of the woods exterminated. I will do all I 
can to discourage the use of both automatic 
and repeating shot guns. 

H. C. Wilcox, Bennington, N. H. 





I heartily endorse your crusade against 
automatic and pump guns, and trust you 
may be successful in securing the passage 
of laws in all the States to prohibit the use 
of these weapons. Of course, decent sports- 
men will never use them, and the other fel- 
lows should be restrained from using them. 

Will Thomson, Independence, Kan. 





We expect to make the manufacturers of 
pump and automatic guns stick their fingers 
in their ears when they hear the roar of 
New Jersey’s non-destructionists. 

Edward F. Duffy, Newark, N. J. 


RECREATION. 


The Winchester people will make a great — 
mistake if they put an automatic gun on the — 


market. 
hogs. 


I like the way you roast the game 
P. O. Badger, Augusta, Me. 





Your bill to prohibit the use of repeating 
shot guns received. 
get this bill enacted into law. 

W. B. Ivey, Jacksonville, Fla. 





SMALL SHOT. 

Until last fall I used a 12 gauge, 30 inch 
Ithaca, weighing 7 pounds, 9 ounces. While 
it was satisfactory in every way, I fancied 


ei aie 


I will do all I can to 


that a lighter gun and its relatively lighter — 


ammunition would suit me better. 
ingly, I ordered a 16 gauge, 28 inch, 7 pound 
gun of the same make. 


Accord- | 


It was built exactly 


as ordered, save that it weighed only 6 


pounds, II ounces. 


It gave good penetra- — 


tion, but the pattern was poor and the recoil, — 


even when I| used a shoulder pad, was un- 
bearable. I tried it with Winchester, U. M. 


C. and other factory loaded shells, always 


with the same result. 
some defect in the gun, or to the fact that 


Is the trouble due to | 


standard 16 gauge factory loads are too 


heavy for this particular weapon? Not load- 
ing my own shells, I have not tried it with 
lighter charges. CC. E. Baird, Albia, Ia. 





We have been hunting ducks and other 


game most of the winter. We killed 537 
mallards in February, 173 of these on one 
trip; and 58 birds were killed at 5 shots 
with a Winchester pump gun. 
Mr. Boval, sneaked up to a small pond and 
killed 84 ducks with 6 successive shots of a 
pump gun in as many seconds. This 
sounds marvelous, but it is true. 
T. J. Dunn, Pawhuska, O. T. 


Yet some people claim it’s all due the 
man behind the gun! 
son imagine that these brutes could have 
committed such slaughter with double bar- 
rel guns? 
—Eprror. 





I have an old Colt’s army revolver, cap 
and ball, caliber 36, 7%-inch barrel. It is 
in excellent condition and I am told it is 
an accurate shooter. What is the best way 
to load such a revolver, and will a round 
or conical bullet give best result at the tar- 
get? I should greatly appreciate informa- 
tion regarding the charging, holding, use 
and care of this. weapon. 

W. O. Brown, Youngstown, O. 





My partner, — 


Does any sane per- © 


Such talk is simply ridiculous. — 


le Oe ies 


I have a new 22 Savage rifle and consider 


it the best-gun of that caliber for target 
purposes and small game hunting. I like 
the way you pen the game hogs; they 
need it. . 
Lester R. Watts, Kensington, Kans. 


AS IN OLDEN TIMES. 


Some of your items in REcREATION about 
the slaughter of wild ducks remind me of 
old times. I formerly lived on Lake Hu- 
ron at the Northern shore of Saginaw bay, 
and the fishermen there killed vast num- 
bers of wild ducks and gulls. Some of 
the ducks were good to eat, but all had 
good feathers and all ate fish. I have seen 
tons of wild game birds lying dead and 
their feathers sold on the spot for $1 a 
pound. Some of the plumage was exceed- 
ingly beautiful. Many of the skins were 
taken off and sold with the heads and 
wings for millinery purposes. Many of the 
birds were sent to market and some of the 
uneatable ones were used as fish _ bait. 
Some of the birds were, of course, wasted, 
but the fishermen thought it was all right 
to destroy them, as the gulls and ducks ate 
the young fish and made business less in 
prospect for the fishermen. Now the fish- 
ermen and fish; the gulls and ducks, are all 
alike departed, and the shores know them 
no more. Most people think the lumber 
business was the cause of the fish leaving 
the shore, as the refuse from the mills 
fouled the waters. With the fish went the 
gulls and ducks that fed on them, and the 
fishermen turned to other ways of making 
a living or followed the fish to other shores. 
Now the pines are gone and the lumber 
men. 

I wish the shores might be given up to 
forestry. Then the wild things would 
come back and the waste places would be 
glad again. I often recall those times and 
scenes and sigh over the wastefulness of 
mankind! When I lived there deer often 
came out to drink or swim, and when 
pressed by the hounds they would swim 
from one point to another, five miles in a 
straight course. One Sunday morning a 
large stag came on’ shore in our door yard 
and he was so exhausted he lay perfectly 
still several hours before he was able to 
go into the woods. We went up to him 
and put our hands on him. He had beau- 
tiful horns. 

At another time a half grown fawn came 
in and my brothers secured him. They 
built a stockade and kept him a year and 
a half. He grew, and became quite tame. 
We fed him all the grass, hay and vege- 
tables he would eat, and it was in that way 
he met his death, for a small potato rolled 
into his windpipe. My brothers tried to 
help him but it was impossible to get out 
the obstruction and Dexter died. My 





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NATURAL HISTORY. 


When abird or a wild animal is killed, that is the end of it. 
its educational and scientific value is multiplied indefinitely. 


If photographed, it may still live and 


brothers had named him for Robert Bon- 
ner’s celebrated trotter, then first intro- 
duced, so by that you can tell how long 
ago it was. 

One night in summer we all sat at the 
supper table and saw 5 deer go by our 
door yard fence on the way to the water. 
It was in the season when they had no 
horns. The big male was first; after him 
were 2 does, 2 fawns and a yearling. They 
went down to the water, got their drink 
and went back to the woods, melting into 
the shadows without a sound. I shall 
never forget how still they were; like 
shadows. 

One night I sat at the chamber window 
enjoying the moonlight and saw a big buck 
on the sand. I did not see him come; all 
at once he stood there. He had a mag- 
nificent set of antlers. Soon does and 
fawns stole out of the underwood and 
slipped one after another into the water; 
I counted 9g of all sizes. The old buck 
stood sentinel till all had drunk and 
washed. When they had stolen away into 
the dark he went like a shadow and drank 
and bathed. Then he, too, vanished like 
a dream. I despair of giving any idea of 
how charming and mysterious it was; but 
it is a picture on memory’s wall and I 
enjoy it as I would a choice painting. 

I know you are in sympathy with all 
this, for your editorial work shows one in 
tune with nature in her wild and unspoiled 
aspects. 

Mrs. H. P. Piper, Lapeer, Mich. 





A NEIGHBORLY SKUNK. 


It was August. George and I had pitched 
our tent, cooked and eaten supper, made 
our beds and at 9 p. m. we turned in. On 
opening my eyes in the morning I found, 
about 4 inches from me, a skunk. When 
he saw I was awake, he turned and scam- 
pered out. We found our pork scattered 
all over the ground. The skunks had 
sampled every piece of it and rolled it in 
the dirt for luck. 

Our tent was too small for comfort, so 
we decided to build a shanty. Three days 
later we had it up. The floor was earth 
and the door was missing. We built 2 
bunks, the bottom one about 6 inches from 
the ground. The first night passed quietly, 
but the second night about 12 o’clock 
George wakened me. Something was making 
a racket near the stove. We got up, George 
lighted a piece of paper, and we looked 
around for the intruder. We found Mr. 


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Skunk trying to eat one of our seats. For 
the next 20 minutes George kept the light 
burning, while I tried to make the skunk 
understand that he was not wanted. I got 
him up to the door a dozen times, and just 
as we thought we had him out he would 
bolt to the back of the shanty. I would 
have kicked him out, but for obvious rea- 
sons I did not. At last he went out and we 
went to bed. The next day we put the door 
on, so that our callers would have to knock 
before getting in. 

About a week later, while sleeping in the 
lower bunk, I was awakened one rainy 
night by something heavy on my chest. It 
was too dark to see anything, but I put out 
my hand and down it came on a_ skunk. 
He ran off, and | could feel his bushy, wet 
tail slip through my fingers. I got up and 
slept with George the rest of that night. 
In the morning we found where the skunk 
had dug under the bottom log of the shanty. 
We had no more trouble with them after 
that. 

They were not at all afraid of us, and 
ate everything we threw out. 

If one happened to be in the path when 
we went after water he would not hurry to 
get out of the way and of course we would 
not hurry him. If a skunk is treated right 
he will act right. I knew 2 fellows who 
were trying to kill a skunk with clubs. One 
of them made a lunge at the skunk and the 
club broke and he fell almost on the skunk. 
He got a good dose, full in the face. I 
never heard of his trying to kill another 
skunk. His intended victim got away. 

J. J. McCormick, Ann Arbor, Mich. 





A SEVERE INDICTMENT OF THE CROW. 


Many people are wondering what has be- 
come of the song birds. They have been 
growing scarce for a long time. I know 
how they are going here in Massachusetts, 
and it is so all through the other States. 

In June and July of every year, when 
the young birds hatch, I have watched 
crows eat them. The crows begin about 
4 o'clock in the morning, or a little later, 
and they look the shade trees over for 
young birds. They go into the trees that 
stand in yards and that line the streets 
near buildings. As soon as people stir 
from their houses the crows disappear for 
the day, but begin again the next morning 
just the same and they eat every young 
bird they can find. The robin will put up 
a good fight with them, but the crows will 
get the young birds in spite of the parents. 
Every kind of small bird that builds its 
nest in trees or on the ground the crows 
are destroying rapidly. After the young 
have reached the age when they can fly well 
I have watched crows catch, kill and eat 
these little birds in the air. I have watched 
crows break up the nest of the meadow 


RECREATION. 


lark, which builds on the ground; in fact, 
they kill everything they can, being ex- 
tremely fond of meat. They hunt the 
meadows and pastures and woods every 
day in June and July for the young birds. 
I have seen crows take chickens 2 weeks 
old. If they can eat a robin after it can 
fly well and 2 weeks’ old chickens they 
must be able to destroy young grouse and 
quails. [wo or more crows together could 
easily eat young grouse and will put up a 
big fight to get what they are after. 

If the farmers in every State knew how 
much good the young birds that the crows 
are eating up every season would do the 
trees they would put a stop to some of this 
murder. It is appalling to see the song 
birds killed in this way year after year, for 
they are indeed becoming scarce. 

Anson Howard, East Northfield, Mass. 


KILL THE 





AUTOMATIC GUN 
THE BIRDS. 


I fully agree with you in what you say 
regarding automatic shot guns and other 
game-destroying firearms. 
be adopted and proper laws enacted for the 
increase of game rather than the decrease. 
This is far from being the case.. Species 
after species, once common, «is now hasten- 
ing to extinction. I well remember seeing 
wild pigeons in countless numbers. They 
flew in vast flocks or fed among the foliage 
of our then great forests, and to see them 
produced sensations I shall never forget. 

Geese, ducks, grouse, wild turkeys and 
bay birds are becoming alarmingly scarce, 
while the sandhill crane, the joy of my child- 
hood, that I so much admired as he honked 
and circled far above me, is almost extinct. 
The scattering remnants of egrets and he- 
rons that we sometimes see about the ponds 
and streams give no evidence of the vast 
flocks to be found years ago. 

The clearing of the forests, drainage of 
the swamps, lakes and ponds, together with 
the bird dog and the milliner traffic, have 
been the chief destructive agents. The till- 
ing and harvesting of crops have also de- 
stroyed millions of birds. 

The economic value of birds as insect, 
weed seed and rodent destroyers is impor- 
tants... 

Birds have been the theme of our most 
eminent poets throughout the ages 

The L. A. S., Recreation, Audubon so- 
cieties and bird day at schools are doing 
much to arouse the sentiment of people in 
behalf of the birds. May the good work 


go on! 
E. J. Chansler, Bicknell, Ind. 


CAUGHT A RUFFED GROUSE. 
One morning last summer I arose at the 
usual time, and went to the barn. The 
barn door had been open all night, as the 


AND SAVE 





Means should > 


V—— ee eee 


NATURAL HISTORY. 


weather was warm. [ was surprised 
to see on one of the roosts among the 
chickens a bird, called in this country a 
partridge, but which I am quite sure is a 
ruffed grouse. I called my brother, we 
closed the door, and commenced a merry 
chase. The grouse could fly as well as any 
wild bird, and it was several minutes before 
we succeeded in catching it. Fully two- 
thirds of its tail was pulled out when we 
finally captured it, but otherwise it was 
sound, as far as we could see. We kept the 
bird in a large box till the whole family 
had seen it, probably about an hour. Then, 
as that species of game bird is scarce 
around here, I decided to let it go. I took 
the bird out in my hand and gave it a little 
toss in the air. It flew a few rods and 
alighted in the garden. I followed, expect- 
ing to see it rise again, but instead of flying 
it merely crouched down and lay still. I 
tossed it up once more. That time it flew 
only a few feet, then alighted again and 
walked sedately back to the barn. It never 
left the place all day. Sometimes it was in 
the barn, sometimes just outside; but that 
night it disappeared. I could easily have 
taken some good photographs of the bird 
if I had had a camera. 
F. T. Wood, Whitford, Alberta. 





ANOTHER FRIEND OF THE SQUIRRELS. 


During a trip to Homestead, Pa., not 
long since, I had the pleasure of a visit to 
the home of Mr. A. C. Noel, a department 
foreman in one of the Carnegie mills. 

Mr. Noel, who was born among the Alle- 
ghanies, near the town of Loretto, Pa., and 
there spent his early days, has collected 
much in and about his home that reflects 
his early environment and inborn love for 
the beautiful in nature. Huis little colony 
of 4 grey and 2 fox squirrels is especially 
worthy of mention. Mr. Noel has arranged 
for them a spacious open air enclosure, 
where they live harmoniously, healthful 
and contented as in their native woods, 
provided as they are with so much to make 
them feel at home. Their nests are in 
some selected hollow tree trunks, on a few 
remaining branches of which may be seen 
on occasions, one or more of the bright 
eyed fellows deftly nibbling his lunch. 

In one corner of this playground, the 
floor of which is carpeted with sod and 
even in midwinter is most refreshing, 
grows a compact little hemlock, and among 
its branches the squirrels play hide and 
seek. 

Mr. Noel and his brother were ardent 
squirrel hunters in the days of the muz- 
zle loading rifle, but they have long since 
ceased to find sport in hunting such lov- 
able and interesting creatures. 

N. E. M., Cresson, Pa. 


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In answer to H. A. Morgan’s inquiry in 
RECREATION as to bull moose getting their 
horns locked, I know nothing of moose, 
but I know of 2 buck deer found near 
Eugene, Oregon, with their horns locked 
and one buck was dead; the other was 
nearly starved, past being able to stand, 
but had eaten all the grass within reach. 

I also know of 2 bull elk with locked 
horns, and it was impossible to get them 
apart. ‘They were nearly starved, but both 
were able to stand. 

U. S. R., Salem, Ore. 


MUSHRAT ON SHEBOYGANIN’. 


I hunt mushrat when snow begin, 
She like for make big haul; 
I go close by Cheboyganin’, 
Where he make some house las’ fall. 


I walk all night, I walk all day, 
She look roun’ everywhere; 

I nevare find where mushrat stay, 
Maybe she all get scare. 


Every day was too much blow, 
All night was blow some more; 
An’ everywhere she pile some snow, 
Like I nevare see before. 


One day I stand close by bridge draw, 
Some snow, some ice was float; 

So much big flood from Saginaw, 
She lose *bout hundred boat. 


On big ice-cake from Saginaw flat, 
Somet’ing I like for see; 

"Bout fifteen, twenty big mushrat, 
She float down close by me. 


I wish I have somet’ing for spear, 
Some big, long rubber boot; 

Dem nice mushrat she come so near, 
I got no gun for shoot. 


Dem ice-cake bust, she make me swear, 
I feel so awful mad; 
Some fat mushrat jump everywhere, 
By Gee! dat was too bad. 
George A. Williams, M. D., 
Bay City, Mich. 





Mamma (teaching Dorothy the alpha- 
bet) : Now think hard, dearie, what comes 
after t? 

Dorothy: After tea, papa usually kisses 
the waitress, and she screams—Chicago 
Chronicle. 





Tailor: Do you want padded shoulders, 
my little man? 

Willie: Naw; pad de pants! Dat’s where 
I need it most.—Chicago News. 


THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 


GENERAL OFFICERS 


President, G. O. Shields, 23 W. 24th St., 
New York. 

1st Vice-President, E. T. Seton, 80 West 
4oth St., New York. 

2d Vice-President, W. T. Hornaday, 2969 
Decatur Ave., Bedford Park, N. Y. 

3d Vice-President, Dr. T. S. Palmer, 
Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 

4th Vice-President, A. A. Anderson, 80 
West 4oth St., New York. 

5th Vice-President, Hon. W. A. Rich- 
ards, General Land Office, Washington, 


Secretary, A. F. Rice, 
Ave., Passaic, N. J. 

Treasurer, Austin Corbin, of the Corbin 
Banking Co., 192 Broadway, New York. 


155 Pennington 





LIFE MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE. 


Anderson, A. A., 80 W. goth St., New pied ed 
Beard, D. C., 204 Amity St., Flushing, L. 
Blackstone, Lorenzo, Norwich, Conn. 

Buzzacott, Francis F., Chicago, Til. 

aiers J. Stanford, 489 Fifth Ave., New York 


ity. 

Butler, C. E., Jerome, Ariz. 

Carey, Hon. H. W., Eastlake, Mich. 

Carnegie, Andrew, od, Fernandina, Fla. 

Carnegie, George, Fernandina, Fla. 

Carnegie, Morris, Fernandina, Fla. 

Corbin, Austin, 192 Broadway, New York City. 

N. T. De Pauw, New Albany, Ind. 

Dickinson, E, fHi.. Moosehead Lake, Me. 

. 5 : New York City. 
New York City. 

a Newport, 


R. 7 
: , 1720 Old Colony Bldg., Chicago, Il. 
Mansfield, 183 Lincoln Park Boulevard, 
Chicago, III. 
Fraser, A. V., 478 Greenwich St., New York City. 
Gilbert, Clinton, 2 Wall St., New York City. 


Hudson, E. J., 33 E. 35th St., Bayonne, N. J. 

McClure, A. J., 158 State St., Albany, N. Y. 

Mershon, W. B., Saginaw, Mich. 

Miller, F. G., 108 Clinton St., Defiance, O. 

Morton: Hon. Levi P., 681 Fifth Ave., New York 
it 

Nesbitt, A. G., Maple St., Kingston, Pa. 

O’Conor, Col. J. C., 24 E. g3d St.. New York 

Oliver, her F, -" Winfield, Kans. 

Pierson, Gen, J. , 20 W. s2d St., New York 


City. 
Prescott, A. L., 90 W. Broadway, New York City 


Rice, A. F., 155 Pennington Ave., Passaic, N. J 

Rininger, Dr. E. M., 142 E. 27th St., New York 
ity. 

Seton, E. T., 80 W. goth St., New York City. 

Seymour, J. H., 35 Wall St., New York City. 

Smith, B., Bourse Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Smith, W. H., Bryn Mawr, Pa. 

Thompson, J. Walter, Times Bldg., New York 


City. 
Towne, "E. S., Care of National Blank Book Co., 
Holyoke, ‘Mass. 
Underwood, W. L., 52 Fulton St., 
hur. Dr. W. A., 5 W. 35th St., 
ity. 


H. Williams, Box 156, Butte, Mont. 


Boston, Mass. 
New York 





DISCOUNTS TO LEAGUE MEMBERS. 
The following firms have agreed to give 


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members of the L. A. S.a discount of 2 
per cent. to 10 per cent. on all goods bought 


of them. In ordering please give L. A S. 

number: 

Syracuse Arms Co., Syracuse, N. Y. Guns. 

cts = ag Arms Co., Norwich, Conn. Shot 
guns 

Gundlach ‘Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y. Photographic 


oods. 
Blair Camera Co., Rochester, N.Y.Photographic goods. 
James Acheson, Talbot St., St. Thomas, Ontario, 
Sporting goods. 





SOUTH CAROLINA DIVISION, 


During the past year the South Carolina 
Division of the L. A, S. has had little work 
to do in the upper part of the State. Since 
the prosecution and conviction of Wm. 
Sewing, the leading restaurateur of this 
city, 2 years ago, for selling quail in viola- 
tion of law, we have had but little trouble, 
as everybody now understands that any man 
who may violate the game law will be 
prosecuted and convicted. There has not 
been a quail served at any restaurant in 
this city this winter, and the pot hunters 
have practically gone out of business. 
There were a number in this country who 
formerly did nothing but kill birds for mar- 
ket all winter, but they have all gone else- 
where or engaged in other occupations. 

We have so educated the land owners 
that nearly all of them are in sympathy 
with the League, and nearly all land is 
posted. 

When this Division of the L. A. S. was 
organized quails were so scarce in this 
county that it was not worth one’s while 
to hunt them; but they are now fairly plen- 
tiful and are increasing in numbers. 

We shall try to secure the passage of a 
law this winter to prevent the killing of 
ducks from April Ist to November Ist; 
also to limit the number of birds which any 
one man may kill in a day. 

C. F. Dill, Chief Warden. 


Munro Wyckoff, of Port Townsend, 
Wash., a iocal warden of the League and a 
State game warden as well, arrested his 
own brother last fall for killing grouse out 
of season. The offender was fined $10 and 
costs, and will know better next time. 


The Ithaca gun came to hand, and I am in 
love with it. My wife threatens to sue for 
divorce; she says I think more of the gun 
than I do of her. Expect to have good 
times this fall in duck season. 

W. E. Bedell, Montpelier, Ia. 


FOREST RESERVES AND FORESTRY. 


The first step in revising and reorgan- 
izing the administration of the public do- 
main, a project agitated in Congress for 
years, was the appointment by the Presi- 
dent of a special commission to investigate 
_and report on the present situation. This 
commission was composed of Mr. Gifford 
Pinchat, Chief of the Bureau of Forestry; 
Mr. F. A. Newell, chief engineer of the 
Reclamation Service, and Governor Rich- 
ards, Commissioner of the General Land 
_ Office. 

Inasmuch as grazing on the public lands 
is the most vital question in the land policy 
of the United States, the commission used 
every effort to attain the closest possible 
appreciation of the sentiment and attitude 
of the grazing interests toward the proposed 
revision of the land laws, the forest re- 
serves, and the various irrigation projects. 

The most interesting information they 
secured was from attendance on the joint 
convention of the National Live Stock As- 
sociation, representing the cattle interests, 
and the National Woolgrowers’ Association, 
representing the sheep interests, which was 
held at Portland, Oregon, in January. In- 
asmuch as the sheep and cattle owners have 
always been supposed to be opposed to the 
reserving of forested public lands from 
homestead entry and managing them as 
forests, the discussions and _ conclusions 
reached are of great interest to the country 
generally, and to foresters particularly. In 
brief, the almost unanimous attitude of the 
convention was as follows: 

First—Strong approval of the forest re- 
serve policy. 

Second.—A petition praying for the pas- 
sage of the bill, now before Congress, for 
the transfer of the administration of the 
forest reserves from the General Land Of- 
fice to the Bureau of Forestry. 

Third—The recognition that the stock in- 
dustry must be protected from the present 
injurious competition between the sheep and 
cattle men, resulting in a war for the free 
range. 

Fourth.—A gencral desire that the Gov- 
ernment step in and take control of the 
range, allotting grazing privileges, fairly and 
justly to the various owners, and making 
rigid laws and regulations therefor. 

Fifth—That the Congressional appropria- 
tion for the care of the forest reserves be 
made ample to insure a thorough, practical 
and business-like administration in propor- 
tion to the magnitude of the interests in- 
volved. 

The far-reaching significance of these con- 





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FORESTRY. 


It takes 30 years to grow a tree and 30 minutes to cut it down and destroy it. 


clusions by the most powerful and the most 
dangerous interests to be met with in the 
settling of these questions may not occur to 
the casual reader. They mean that the pres- 
ent lawless tangle in the fight for existence 
between sheep and cattle growers is near- 
ing an end and that we may soon see a just 
and fair division of the grazing privileges 
which will be accepted and defended by 
these men. They also mean that the most 
serious thing in the administration of the 
reserves will be unloaded from the shoul- 
ders of the Government, and that those lo- 
cally in charge of the various forest re- 
serves will know where they stand and feel 
that they have the authority of these two 
great associations and the arm of the Gov- 
ernment back of them in enforcing the re- 
serve regulations. 

But what is most important to the pro- 
fession of forestry, these resolutions mean 
that a brand new field, calling for the best 
men the country grows, is to be opened for 
foresters. Just how many trained foresters 
will be required it is impossible at this writ- 
ing to say. 

There are now over 60 million acres of 
forest reserves, which the Bureau of For- 
estry will have to manage in accordance 
with forestry principles. The British Gov- 
ernment has practically the same area in 
India and the English Forestry Service, 
which manages and cares for this Govern- 
ment forest, comprises nearly 15,000 men. 
Our own forest reserves are of as great im- 
portance and value to the nation’s greatness, 
and it is not extravagant to suppose that in 
time we may have a forestry service com- 
paring in size and importance with the Eng- 
lish service. 

The final report of the special commission 
is now in preparation, and will be looked 
forward to with great interest by all con- 
cerned in the administration of the public 
domain. 





THE PROPOSED FIELD SERVICE CLUB. 


The constantly increasing numbers of 
men in the Federal Civil Service who are 
out in the field half the year and come back 
to work up their field data in the Govern- 
ment offices in Washington have created a 
demand for some sort of social club wherein 
these men of similar tastes and occupations 
can meet and perhaps live during their tour 
of duty at the Capitol. 

The Army and Navy Clubs have always 
been a boon to the wandering members of 
both services, and have invariably been suc- 
cessful and_ self-supporting. Of course, 
from the very nature of their duties and 


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traditions these services have a link and 
esprit de corps that it will be impossible to 
duplicate in the civilian Federal service for 
a long time; but that this feeling is slowly 
but surely developing in Washington there 
is every hope. 

The popular idea of the civil service has 
undergone a wonderful change in the last 
two years. An entirely new class of men 
are being attracted by the opportunities of- 
fered by the various Federal departments. 
The very fact that political pull and influ- 
ence has well nigh been completely elimin- 
ated from appointments and advancement 
has changed the type of the Government 
men and fostered the good opinion of the 
public. Heretofore the only Government 
service open to the ambitious young man 
was in the army and navy, and we found 
the other services full of ward politicians 
and bewhiskered grangers from the Middle 
West. To-day we find the best type of 
young college men going into what might 
be well called the professional Federal de- 
partments, such as the Geological Survey, 
the Bureau of Forestry, the Reclamation 
Service, the Bureau of Soils, the Bureau 
of Animal Industry, the Bureau of Plant In- 
dustry, and the various bureaus in the new 
colonial service. 

The Bureau of Forestry particularly has 
attracted a class of men that never before 
thought of the Government service as a 
career. Probably the attractive nature of 
the work and the great attention which has 
been attracted to forestry as a profession 
accounts for this. The out of door life and 
the independence of action strongly appeals 
to the typical young American, especially 
if he is fond of hunting and fishing. The 
general opinion abroad may be that the 
typical American is a slave to trade and is 
imbued only with money getting instincts, 
but the facts do not bear this opinion out. 
The typical American is just as good a 
sportsman as the Englishman, when oppor- 
tunity permits. It would undoubtedly be 
vigorously denied that the sporting instinct 
has any considerable influence on a young 
man in choosing such a profession as For- 
estry, but it would not be denied by any 
one that other qualifications being equal the 
sportsman will make very much the best 
forester. 

Within the various Federal bureaus there 
has arisen a pretty good spirit of sympathy 
and comradeship, but there has never been 
an opportunity for the members of the dif- 
ferent branches to get together. The Cos- 
mos Club in Washington, to be sure, is 
largely composed of the scientific men in the 
Government service, but it does not offer 
the tone required, and but very few of the 
younger men engaged in active field ser- 
vice belong. 

The new club proposed would be unique 


RECREATION. . 


in this country, and should receive the en- 
thusiastic support of the entire civilian Fed- 
eral service. 

A committee consisting of Capt. J. B. 
Adams, Mr. 
George Woodruff and Mr. Coert Du Bois, 
all of the U. S. Bureau of Forestry, are now 
engaged in looking up a suitable house and 
making arrangements for the organization 
of the club. 





FOREST FIRES. 


Every summer and autumn large areas 
of public and private forests are devastated 
by fire. This destruction is a universal in- 
jury. It not only destroys a valuable asset 
of the country, but it is productive of 
floods. The forest is the most effective 
means of preventing floods and producing 
a more regular flow of water for irrigation 
and other useful purposes. 

To prevent the mischievous forest fires 
Congress has enacted a law which forbids 
setting fire to the woods, and forbids leav- 


Thomas A. Sherrard, Mr. 


ing camp or other fires without first ex-_ 


tinguishing them. 

The law provides a maximum fine of 
$5,000, or imprisonment for 2 years, or 
both, if the fire is set maliciously, and a 
fine of $1,000, or imprisonment for one 
year, if the fire is due to carelessness. It 
also provides that the money from these 
fines shall go to the school funds of the 
county in which the offense is committed. 

Hon. W. A. Richards, commissioner of 
the General Land Office, has issued circu- 
lars, warning the public against careless- 
ness, inasmuch as many fires start from 
neglected camp fires, and makes the fol- 
lowing suggestions: 

Do not build a larger fire than you 
need. 

Do not build your fires in dense masses 
of pine leaves, duff and other combustible 
material, where the fire is sure to spread. 

Do not build your fire against large logs, 
especially rotten logs, where it requires 
much more work and time to put the fire 
out than you are willing to expend, and 
where you are rarely certain that the fire 
is really and completely extinguished. 

In windy weather and in dangerous 
places dig a hole and clear off a place to 
secure your fire. You will save wood and 
trouble. 

Every camp fire should be completely 
put out before leaving the camp. 

Do not build fires to clear off land and 
for other similar purposes without inform- 


-ing the nearest ranger or the supervisor, 


so that he may assist you. 

As hunters, anglers and campers will 
soon haunt the woods and streams, it is 
hoped that newspapers everywhere will cir- 
culate this warning and information. 





FORESTRY. 


>. 


SPRING FIELD WORK AT YALE FOREST 
SCHOOL, — 

The senior class of the Yale Forest 
School left for Pike County, Penn., for 
their annual spring tour of duty in the 
woods, April 22, and will remain until 
Commencement, June 29. There are- 35 
men in the class who will graduate in 
June. The party will work under the di- 
rection of Prof. Graves, director of the 
school, and Prof. Marston, in charge of 
Forest Engineering. Mr. Austin Cary, 
forester of the Berlin Mills Company, who 
is the oldest practicing forester in this 
country, will assist in the instruction. 

The men will make a topographical map 
and a plan for the management and pro- 
tection of a forest tract in Pike county, 
besides doing a large amount of special 
scientific work. 

The class of two years ago spent the 
spring term on the forest estate of Mr. E. 
H. Harriman in Orange county, New 
York, and made a plan for the manage- 


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ment of its 15,000 acres. Last spring the 
class did a like piece of work on the U. 
S. Military Academy Forest Reservation 
at West Point. 





U. S. BUREAU OF FORESTRY NOTES. 


Nearly all the field men of the Bureau 
of Forestry are still in Washington, work- 
ing on the reports for which they secured 
data last season. It is not likely that any 
forestry parties will be sent out until the 
first of July. The distribution of the men 
for this summer’s work is a mystery, owing 
to the fact that there is a possibility the 
Bureau may be called on to take charge of 
the forest reserves, in which case it will 
have to withdraw its attention somewhat 
from private land work and concentrate its 
energy on the big problem. 

The appropriation this year by Congress, 
for the Bureau, will be $425,140, about $75,- 
ooo more than last year’s allotment. 


GENEALOGY. 


Gc H. 


When og swine with the devils inside, 
tra la, 
Went galloping down to the sea; 
The legion was properly mad, tra la, 
As angry as devils could be. 
They ripped and they swore, 
And their raven locks tore, 
And vengeance most dire 
They vowed in their ire 
They'd wreak on the fish in the sea, tra la, 
They’d wreak on the fish in the sea. 


So they grabbed each an armful of 
bristles, tra la, 
From the backs of the porkers so mad, 
And carried off all the swine tricks, 
tra la, 
The hogs so unfortunate had. 
They took them on land, 
Fixed them up to stand, 
And shouted in glee 
On the shore by the sea: 
“A brand new creation we’ve made, tra la, 
A brand new creation we’ve made, 


Then the head devil spoke in command, 
tra: ia 
To this monster the evil ones made: 
“You are now to go forth to destroy, 
tra la, 
And murder henceforth is your trade, 
No law you'll obey 
In the night or the day, 
But just sail in and kill 
All the fish that you will, 
And the first of ‘the fish hogs you'll be, 
tra la, 
The first of the fish hogs you'll be.” 


And from so minute a beginning, tra la, 
The fish hog has spread in the land. 
His brother, the game hog, is here, tra la, 
Like twins they are seen hand in hand. 
But there is a big pen 
No respecter of men, 
And a numbering brand 
Held by Coquina’s hand! 
Here’s hoping he'll keep the iron hot, tra la, 
Here’s hoping he'll keep the iron hot. 


“Folks say you only married me because 


I have money.’ 
“Nonsense ! 


My principal 


reason for 


marrying you was because I had none.” 


» 


PURE AND IMPURE FOODS. 


Edited by C. F. LAnGworsuy, Px.D, 


“What a Man Eats He Is.’ 


Author of “On Citraconic, Itaconic and Mesaconic Acids,’ “Fish as Food,” etc. 


MACARONI WHEATS. 


Macaroni wheats have from time to time 
been introduced into the United States dur- 
ing the past 35 years, but lack of demand 
for them has until recently prevented any 
extensive culture of these wheats, although 
“Wild Goose,’ or “Goose,” an _ inferior 
grade of macaroni wheat, has long been 
grown to some extent in Canada and the 
Northwestern United States. A few years 
ago, however, the Department of Agricul- 
ture undertook systematic work with a view 
to introducing improved varieties of mac- 
aroni wheats and building up a home mar- 
ket and foreign demand for macaroni flour. 
The Agricultural Experiment Stations and 
private individuals have co-operated effec- 
tively with the Department in testing the 
wheats under varying conditions and in 
studying the qualities and uses of the prod- 
uct. This work has been so successful that 
there is good reason for the belief that the 
United States will in time not only produce 
all the macaroni it consumes, but supply a 
considerable proportion of the macaroni 
and macaroni flour used abroad. 

These wheats are especially adapted to 
growth in the semi-arid regions of the 
United States, and render possible the 
building up of a profitable industry in re- 
gions in which ordinary wheats do not suc- 
ceed and which, without irrigation, are of 
little or no value except for grazing pur- 
poses. The macaroni wheats have been 
found to give the best results on the Great 
Plains near the tooth meridian, but they 
may be successfully grown over a _ wide 
area. 

The macaroni wheats are much harder 
than the ordinary hard wheats. In compo- 
sition they differ from ordinary wheats in 
having a smaller percentage of starch and 
a larger percentage of protein or nitro- 
genous matter. In samples examined by 
Professor Shepard, of the South Dakota 
Experiment Station, the protein varied from 
13.9 to 188 per cent. Ordinary wheats 
have on the average 11.8 per cent of pro- 
tein. As a consequence of the higher pro- 
tein content of the macaroni wheats the 
flour and by-products yielded by them are 
also richer in this valuable food constituent 
than those obtained from ordinary wheat. 
South Dakota macaroni wheat flour con- 
tained 16.9 per cent. of protein, the bran 
16.3 per cent., and the shorts 17.4 per cent. 
Ordinary wheat flour on an average con- 
tains 11.4 per cent. of protein, bran 15.4 per 


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cent., and shorts 14.9 per cent. The flour, 
or, as it is termed, semolina, from maca- 
roni wheats makes a richer macaroni than 
that of ordinary hard wheats, which has 
been used to a considerable extent by mac- 
aroni manufacturers. Macaroni of the 
highest quality was made from the maca- 
roni wheats grown in South Dakota, and 
analysis showed it to contain 16.5 per cent. 
of protein. The inferior quality of the 
macaroni made from flour of ordinary 
wheats is generally recognized in the trade. 
This has resulted in an increasing demand 
on the part of macaroni manufacturers, 
which has only partly been met by the mill- 
ers, for semolina from macaroni wheats. 
It is safe to assume that as this demand in- 
creases the millers will be induced to make 
the slight alteration in their milling ma- 
chinery necessary to grind the macaroni 
wheat and will supply the flour required for 
our growing domestic manufacture as well 
as for an increasing export trade. 

If, however, all of the macaroni wheat 
grown can not be disposed of profitably for 
the manufacture of macaroni, it may be 
used to advantage as a feeding stuff or for 
bread making, as is done in Russia and 
other European countries. The South Da- 
kota Experiment Station has shown that 
macaroni flour can be made into a sweet 
bread of good flavor and of average com- 
position. It has also been demonstrated 
to be well suited to the preparation of bis- 
cuits, muffins, griddle cakes, and similar 
products of good quality. For bread it is 
often considered desirable to mix 20 per 
cent. or more of red wheat flour with the 
macaroni wheat flour. 





BACON. 


Many who are fond of bacon hesitate to 
eat it, as they find that it causes indiges- 
tion. In a large number, if not the major- 
ity of cases, this is due not to the fatty na- 
ture of the food, but to the fact that the 
bacon was overcooked, or rather, cooked 
at too high a temperature. It is not sur- 
prising that this should be the case when 
we remember that fat heated to a high tem- 
perature is decomposed and that one of the 
products given off is acrolein, an unpleas- 
ant smelling compound which attacks the 
eyes, making them smart, and irritates all 
mucous surfaces. Acrolein is plainly no- 
ticeable in the acrid fumes of burning or 


PURE AND IMPURE FOODS. 


scorching fat. When bacon fat is heated 
to 350 deg. F., this chemical change is 
brought about to a greater or less extent. 
Very often bacon is hurriedly cooked in a 
hot frying pan over an extremely hot fire, 
and more or less scorched fat is an almost 
inevitable result. If broiled, there is less 
chance of scorching the fat, but the edges 
of the bacon are often burned, and this ‘s 
equally unwholesome. Great care should 
be taken to avoid too hot a fire. With 
moderate heat, bacon may be cooked to a 
golden brown, either crisp or not, as may 
be preferred, and there will be no indi- 
gestion from scorched fat. The whole- 
someness Of well cooked bacon and a way 
of cooking it, were pointed out in a re- 
cent magazine, in a discussion of the diet 
for children’s hospitals. 

Fat is a necessary item in a child’s die- 
tary. It is especially indicated for thin, 
nervous children, and for such as have 
frequent colds or catarrhal disorders. Chil- 
dren are fond of cream; but, though cream 
is not sO expensive as butter, it is generally 
thought too dear for common use in insti- 
tutions. 

Most dilldren like bacon, ahd tender, 
mild cured bacon is considered a whole- 
some form in which to eat fat. Hence 
a careful, painstaking cook is needed 
to cook even the simplest articles of food, 
that they be sent to the table in a condi- 
tion fit for the stomach of a child. Cook 
the bacon in a slow oven, in a hinged 
broiler, set over a dripping pan. The crisp, 
delicately cooked slices will be eaten with 
avidity by even small children. 





TEA, COFFEE AND COCOA. 


Judging by official figures recently com- 
piled, Americans are apparently becoming 
greater tea drinkers, for in 1903 the net 
imports of that article were 104,632,260 
pounds, against 73,374,041 in 1902. Com- 
pared with the preceding years the imports 
from Japan increased more than 7,000,000 
pounds, and there was an increase from 
China of more than 19,000,000 pounds. The 
gross imports of cotfee in the fiscal year 
1902 were 1,091,004,380 pounds, while in 
1903 only 915,000,380 pounds came in. De- 
spite the falling off in imports, which was 
probably due to the market having a large 
supply on hand, the quantity transshipped 
and exported was 47,701, 306 pounds, against 
34,462,615 pounds in the previous year. It 
is interesting to note that the per capita 
consumption of coffee is about 13 pounds, 
while that of tea is 1% pounds. The price 
of tea, however, is more than double that 
of coffee. 

The Department of Commerce and La- 
bor, through its Bureau of Statistics, shows 


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that the importation of cacao has grown 
from 9,000,000 pounds in 1883 to 24,000,000 
pounds in 1893, and 63,000,000 pounds in 
1903. The value of importations of cacao 
in crude form has grown from $1,000,000 
in 1883 to $4,000,000 in 1893 and nearly 
$8,000,000 in 1903. Meantime the importa- 
tion of manufactured cacao and chocolate 
has fallen from 1,467,977 pounds in 1897, 
valued at $239,819, to 690,824 pounds in 
1903, valued at $144,823. 

The growth in the importation of cacao 
has been more rapid proportionately than 
that of coffee, and much more rapid than 
that of tea. Other evidence of the growth 
in consumption and popularity of cacao 
and its product, chocolate, in the United 
States is shown by the fact that the number 
of cacao and chocolate manufacturing es- 
tablishments reported in the census of 1880 
was 7;.in 1890, I1, and in 1900, 24, while 
the capital employed increased from $530,- 
500 in 1880 to $6,890,732 in 1900. The value 
of materials used in manufacturing grew 
from $812,403 in 1880 to $6,876,682 in 1900, 
and the value of the product from $1,302,- 
153 in 1880 to $9,666,192 in I900. 





KEEPING QUALITY OF BUTTER. 


Experiments carried on at the Iowa 
Agricultural Experiment Station show that 
water used in washing butter contains 
germs which cause it to deteriorate in qual- 
ity. It was found that these germs can be 
removed or destroyed in a practical and in- 
expensive way by 2 processes, viz., pasteuri- 
zation or filtration of the water. 

Butter washed in pasteurized water will 
retain its normal qualities much longer 
than the same butter washed in unpasteur- 
ized water, while butter made from pas- 
teurized cream and washed in pasteurized 
water retains its normal flavor about twice 
as long as butter made from unpasteurized 
cream and washed in water which has not 
been thus treated. Unwashed butter made 
from good and well ripened cream kept as 
well as, and in some instances better, than 
the same butter when washed in unpas- 
teurized water. Experiment showed that 
salt, as is commonly believed to be the 
case, improves the keeping quality of butter. 

It pays to pasteurize the wash water as 
well as the cream. The expense of pas- 
teurizing milk and water, not counting the 
original cost of the pasteurizer, is about 
.I of a cent a pound of butter. From the 
standpoint of the producer the conclusion 
is important that the increased value of 
butter by pasteurization when about a 
month old, is .8 of a cent, which is equiva- 
lent to an extra profit of 7 of a cent a 
pound for butter thus treated. 


EDITOR’S CORNER. 


DECLINED WITH THANKS. 


The Winchester Arms Company has in- 
structed all its traveling men to join the 
L. A. S., and 23 of them have applied for 
membership. Here are a few of their let- 
ters: 

Denison, Texas, March 24, 1904. 
Mr. A. F. Rice, Secretary, 
League of American Sportsmen, 
23 West 24th Street, New York. 
Dear Sir: Replying to your favor of the 


Address all letters to 


WINCHESTER 


REPEATING ARMS CO, 
NEW HAVEN, CONN. 


Aine eeron 7 iy ee Ie Oe 
|e. Gee PS SS 


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8th inst., relative to a membership in the 
League, ‘beg to advise that my permanent 
address is 130 Hibernia Street, Dallas, Tex. 
My occupation is that of a commercial 
traveler, and I represent the Winchester 
Repeating Arms Company, New Haven, 
Conn. 
Trusting that this is,all the information 
you desire, I beg to remain, 
Yours truly, 
Alex White. 


The others used either hotel letter heads 
or plain stationery, simply stating that they 
were traveling men. Mr. Collins is the 
only man of the lot who stated that he had 





been instructed by the Winchester Company 
to apply for membership, though, as will 
be seen by the reproduction of their letters, 
2 of the men inadvertently used Winchester 
stationery. 

These 3 men will undoubtedly be vigor- 
ously called to account when Mr. Bennett 
sees this issue of RECREATION. 

Several of these men have already called 
on division officers of the League and have 
asked for lists of the names and addresses 


LLeaamnmact, 22h Gbngad 9 Yo 


ee Ll 


ER iow Bt Ae2aaln de 


of the members in their respective States. 
Judging from this and from the fact that 
the Winchester Company is fighting REc- 
REATION tooth and nail, it is obviously the 
purpose of the company in instructing its 
salesmen to join the League to be able to 
have spies in our camps all over the 
country. 


When these facts developed, a meeting 
of the Membership Committee of the 
League was called to consider the applica- 
tions. This committee consists of W. T. 
Hornaday, Ernest T. Seton and Arthur F. 
Rice. Mr. Rice and Mr. Hornaday attend- 
ed the meeting and after canvassing the 


448 


EDITOR’S CORNER. 


Atttress alt Weller’ 
WINCHESTER. : 
REPEATING ARMS €8, 
NEW HAVEN, CONN; 


449 





applications carefully decided that it would. 


not be well to allow these 23 Winchester 
traveling men to belong to the League. 
The secretary was, therefore, instructed to 
drop from the rolls the names of 7 of the 
men whose names had already been placed 
thereon, and to return to the other 14 men 
the sum of $1 each which they had remitted 
with their applications. 





I am still getting large numbers of let- 
ters written by the Winchester Company 
to readers of RECREATION and which are 
forwarded to me. While the Winchester 
people insist that they do not intend to 
make an automatic gun, yet they defend 
that slaughtering machine vigorously. The 
burden of Mr. Bennett’s song is that the 
automatic gun is up to date; that it is the 
highest type of shooting iron thus far in- 
vented, etc. Dynamite is up to date, too, 
but when a man uses it to fish with the law 
steps in and lays an iron hand on him. 
Viewed from the standpoint of a man who 
wants to kill everything in the country, the 
automatic gun is a big improvement on any- 
thing heretofore produced, and for that 
reason its use on birds should be prohib- 
ited by law. 


The so-called sportsmen of Iowa have 
succeeded in defeating a bill introduced in 
the legislature of that State last winter, 
aiming to prohibit the shooting of wild 
fowl in spring. The same men have also 
killed a bill which aimed to provide a close 
season on prairie chickens for 3 years, in 
order that they might recuperate from the 
effects of the war of extermination which 
has been waged against them for many 
years. All real sportsmen will regret this 
action, and it is hoped these latter may 
succeed in passing an anti-spring shooting 
se at the next session of the law-making 

ody. 





Does any reader of RECREATION know the 
present whereabouts of A. L. Meigs? If 
so, I should like to have his address. There 
are indictments pending against him in 3 
States for obtaining money under false pre- 
tenses, and I should like to be able to put 
the sheriffs of the respective counties in 
which he did this work on his trail. 





“Did you notice the perfume as she 
passed ?” 

“Yes, she is probably a Colognial Dame.” 
—Exchange. 





THE MONARCH OF THE POOL. 


F. H. ROCKWELL. 


There is a large pool in a Northern 
Pennsylvania trout stream that a true ang- 
ler would pronounce the prettiest he ever 
saw for large trout. Even an ordinary 
angler was usually rewarded by the cap- 
ture of some of its inhabitants. 

A certain trout of that pool came at last 
to be known as the monarch. I knew him 
well. My first experience with him was in 
June, 1897. I had gone out for the after- 
noon and after catching from that pool 2 
or 3 medium sized trout, I started up the 
stream. I had gone 4o or 50 rods above 
the pool when I hooked a beauty, about II 
inches long. There was a pile of drift 
across the lower end of the hole and I had 
considerable trouble in keeping clear of 
the logs, but I finally succeeded in landing 
him. Much elated, I clapped him in the 
basket. As I did so, I noticed a white 
strip across his back, near the head. 

It was getting late and I started down 
the stream again. In order to fish the 
next hole properly I had to wade. I was 
not successful there and concluded to take 
another look at my big fish. He was not 
in the basket. The cover had become loose 
and he had flopped into the stream. I leave 
it to the imagination of the reader as to 
how I felt when I made this discovery. I 
had but one consoling thought: he is in 
the water and some other fellow may have 
a chance at him. 

This monarch trout was seen by many 
persons during the seasons following. He 
must have grown wonderfully to judge by 
the size different persons gave him. He 
was anywhere from 15 inches long to 2 
feet; but it must have been the same trout, 
as everyone who saw him agreed that he 
had a large white stripe across his back, 
and all accounts placed him in that partic- 
ular pool. The amount of fishing done for 
that trout was incredible. In the spring of 
1901 I took my little boy, 8 years old, to 
that stream. He wanted to fish, like me. 
Accordingly, I cut a willow pole, tied a 
hook on a piece of old line, attached the 
line to the pole, and put a lively worm on 


the hook. After getting the boy at his 
work I set about mine. A heavy shower 
came up and we took to a shed for shelter. 
The shower was soon over and the boy 
wanted to go back to the pool to fish. He 
said he had seen a fish that he thought 
must be a young whale, and asked me how 
long a whale is. I was, however, discour- 
aged by my own failure and said the boy 
could fish till I got the horse, when we 
would go home. 

I had just hitched the horse to the 
wagon when I heard a scream and a loud 
splash. I was behind some brushes from 
the pool and could not see what was hap- 
pening. Fearing something was wrong, I 
ran over to the pool. The boy was in the 
swift water at the head of the pool and 
floating down where it was 6 or 8 feet 
deep. He seemed towed along, as he had 
hold of his willow pole and was part of | 
the time under water. He went down 
toward the eddy. Then the towing stopped 
and the boy sank. I jumped in and after 
considerable effort I got hold of him. 
When I tried to wade out there seemed to 
be a drag. The boy still held to the pole; 
the line- was wound around him, and there 
was something tugging viciously out in the 
water. I got my boy’s head above water, 
and he exclaimed: 

“T’ve got him!” 

I appreciated the joke and said, 

“T guess I’ve got him.” 

Gradually we approached shore, but still 
felt something tugging back all the time. 
I began to think may be the boy was right 
and that he had got something. When the 
boy was safely out of the water the line 
dragged out the big trout, the “Monarch 
of the Pool.” 

It was surprising that he did not break 
loose, but on examination I found he had 
swallowed the hook, worm and all, and 
was firmly hooked in the throat. That 
white mark was across his back. He was 
171% inches long and weighed a trifle over 
2 pounds. 


“Now, William,” said the man of busi- 
ness to the office boy, “I am going out to 
get shaved.” 

“Yes, sir. Barber’s, sir, or Wall street.” 
—Yonkers Statesman. 

450 





THE HILL OF TARIK IN AMERICA. 


HERBERT 5S. 


HOUSTON, 


With Photographic Illustrations by Arthur Hewitt. 


Madeira 
the ship’s course 
was straight for 
the Mediterranean. 
Among those = on 
board, bound for 
the Orient, were a 
New York publish- 
er and a bright boy 
from the West, 
eager for all the 
new sights of the 
old world ahead. As 
the land breezes 
caught the pennant 
at the masthead, the boy scanned the East- 
ern horizon and he kept it up for hours. 

“What are you looking for so hard?” in- 
quired the publisher. 

“Oh, T want to see that big sign of the 
Prudential on Gibraltar,’ and the boy still 
peered into the East. When at last the 
great rock, the Hill of Tarik, the Saracen, 
lifted its head above the ocean the boy 
searched in vain for the sign he was sure he 
would see. For him, as for all other Amer- 
icans who read the magazines, the Pruden- 
tial was inseparably associated with Gibral- 
tar. And this association has made the rock 
and the insurance company almost inter- 
changeable terms, simply because each sug- 
gested strength. But the American Gibral- 
tar achieved its strength in a few vears, by 
dauntless human endeavor while the slow 
accretions of ages gave strength to its 
namesake, the mighty Hill of Tarik. 

Ten years after the close of the Civil 
War—a period so recent that its. history 
has scarcely been written—the Prudential 
was established in Newark. As if fore- 
knowing the great rock to which it would 
grow, it began its foundation in a basement 
office. It was like the beginning of the 
New York Herald by Bennett, the elder, in 
a basement on Ann street. But it would 
be an idle play with words to make a base- 
ment office the real foundation of the Pru- 
dential. ~ It was something much deep- 
er down than that—nothing else than the 
bedrock American principle of democracy. 
The Prudential applied the democratic 
principle to life insurance. As _ Senator 
Dryden, of New Jersey, the founder of the 
company, has said, “Life insurance is of the 
most value when most widely distributed. 
The Prudential and the companies like it are 
cultivating broadly and soundly among the 
masses the idea of life insurance protection. 
To them is being carried the gospel of self- 
help, protection and a higher life.” 


From 





And what has been the result of the dem- 
ocratic American. principle worked out in 
life insurance? In 1875 the first policy was 
written in the Prudential. At the end of 
1903 there were 5,447,307 policies in force on 
the books of the company, representing 
nearly a billion dollars. The assets in 1876 
were $2,232, while twenty-seven years later, 
in i903, they were more than 30,000 times 
greater, or $72,712,435.44, the liabilities at 
the same time being $62,578,410.81. This is 
a record of growth that is without pre- 
cedent in insurance and that is hard to 
match in the whole range of industry. The 
rise of the Prudential to greatness reads 
like a romance in big figures, but, in fact, it 
is a record of business expansion that has 
been as natural as the growth of an oak. 

The corn crop of the country seems too 
big for comprehension until one sees the 
vast fields of the middle West, and then it 
appears as simple as the growth of a single 
stalk. So with the Prudential. To say that, 





U. S. SENATOR JOHN F. DRYDEN, 
President of the Prudential. 


452 


in 10 years, the company’s income grew 
from something more than $9,000,000 a year 


to more than $39,000,000 last year is amaz- | 


ing as a general statement, but when made 
in relation to the broad principles on which 
that growth has been based, it becomes as 
much a matter of course as the corn crop. 
There is no mystery about it; but there is 
in it, from the day when the principles were 
planted in Newark until these great har- 
vest days, the genuine American spirit of 





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propaganda. The company’s organization 
is essentially military, It is a wonderful 
combination of big grasp and outlook with 
the most painstaking thoroughness and sys- 
tem in details. And, as is always the case 
in every organization that throbs through- 
out with intelligent energy, there is a man 
at the center of it. This man has a con- 
structive imagination lighting up a New 
England brain. To business prudence there 
is added the large vision which sweeps the 


HOME OFFICES, PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE CO., NEWARK, N.,_ J. 


achievement, strong, hopeful and expansive. 

The Prudential Insurance Company of 
America is a national institution. It was 
founded to provide insurance for the Amer- 
ican people on the broadest possible basis, 
consistent with strength and safety. 

Just as Grant and Lee organized their 
armies, or as Kouropatkin and Yamagata 
plan their campaigns in Asia, so does the 
Prudential work out its national insurance 


horizon for opportunity. Naturally, to such 
a vision the application of the democratic 
idea to insurance was an opportunity of the 
first magnitude. When seen, it was grasped 
and developed. The Prudential was found- 
ed. In the most careful way, its idea was 
tested, just as the Secretary of Agriculture 
tests seeds at the Government’s experiment 
farms. Here was where prudence kept the 
large vision in proper focus. Gradually 


PUBLISHER’S NOTES. 


the idea took root and grew. Year after 
year the Prudential added to its number of 
policyholders and all the time the company 
was working out a more liberal basis for its 
democratic idea. But each time a more lib- 
eral policy was offered, it was fully tested. 
“Progress with strength” is the way Presi- 
dent Dryden describes the company’s prin- 
ciple of growth—the results, clearly, of vis- 
ion and prudence. At the end of ten years 
of this method of growth, the company 
reached the point where, it was believed, in- 
surance could be safely offered for any 
amount with premiums payable on any plan, 
either in weekly instalments or at longer 
periods. Within the five years, 1886 to 1890, 
inclusive, the company’s assets increased 
nearly five fold, from $1,040,816 to $5,084,- 
895, and the amount of insurance in force 
from $40,266,445 to $139,163,654. 

The Prudential had found itself. The 
idea of democratic insurance had been fully 
tested and adjusted to the needs and condi- 
tions of the American people. Then, with a 
boldness which only large vision could have 
quickened, the plan was formed to make the 
Prudential’s idea known in every section of 
the country. Gibraltar was chosen as the 
symbol of the company’s strength, and ad- 
vertising—the telling of the Prudential idea 
to the people--was begun. 

The Prudential publicity is accompanied 
by wise promotion from a field force of 
over 12,000, some of whom have been with 
the company for over a quarter of a cen- 
tury, working in almost every state of the 
Union. They have the zeal of Crusaders 
and it is kept at ardent pitch through an or- 
ganization that could not fail to produce a 
wonderful esprit de corps. Wise direction 
and constant encouragement come from the 
home office, and then the company’s agents 
are grouped in districts, under superintend- 
ents and assistant superintendents, mana- 
gers, general agents and special agents, and 
in each district a strong spirit of emulation 
is developed by human contact and co-oper- 
ation. Weekly meetings are held, and the 
problems of wisely presenting insurance are 
discussed. Comparative records of the 
men are kept in many districts, and prizes 
are offered for those writing the largest vol- 
ume of business, for those making the great- 
est individual increase, and for many other 
contests. This wholesome rivalry produces 
an alertness and industry which are to the 
company an invaluable asset in human effi- 
ciency. A few weeks after this magazine ap- 
pears, probably 2,000 agents of the Pruden- 
tial—those who have made the best records 
for the year—will be brought to Newark 
from all parts of the country. They will, of 
course, visit the home offices and come in 
contact with the directing center of their 
wonderful organization. 

And, after all, there is no place where one 


453 


feels the greatness of the Prudential quite 
so much as in the vast granite piles which 
have been raised for the company’s home 
buildings. They rise above the Jersey mea- 
dows as Gibraltar does above the sea, a 
convincing witness, surely, to the growth 
and to the strength of the Prudential. But 
they are not a cold, gray rock, but a living 
organism throbbing from vital contact with 
millions of policyholders. There are now 
four of these great buildings, all occupied by 
the company. In one of them is the Pruden- 
tial’s publishing plant, which, in equipment, 





THE WHIRL OF THE ENGINES. 


surprising as this may seem, is equal to that 
of almost any publishing house in the coun- 
try. Millions of booklets, two publications 
for the company—one, “The Prudential,” 
with a circulation of more than two mil- 
lions—and the policies are all printed here, 


~ besides no end of commercial printing for 


the home office and for the district agencies. 
The big composing room, the pressroom, 
with its eighteen presses, the bindery with 
its folding, cutting, sewing and numbering 
machines, are models of cleanliness and 
light. But, for that matter, all the build- 
ings are as spick and span as a man-o’-war. 
There are subways, well lighted, under the 
streets, connecting the different buildings. 
In every way there has been, in the arrange- 
ments, a conservation of energy and time 
to produce economy and efficiency in carry- 
ing on the company’s vast business. As in- 
dicating how vast that is, the mail coming 
to and going from the Prudential is nearly 
as large as for all the rest of Newark, a 
city with more than 250,000 population and 
of great industrial importance. The mailing 
department is really a big city post office. 


THE PRUDENTIAL TOWER, 


And in all the departments one gets the 
feeling of size that comes in the enormous 
government buildings at Washington. And 
it is as a national institution that the Pru- 
dential always fixes itself on the mind—its 
fundamental idea of democracy in insur- 
ance, its nation-wide organization for 
spreading the idea, its essentially American 
spirit throughout, all make the company 
worthy of its name, the Prudential Insur- 
ance Company of America. 

To-day the Prudential is paying over 300 





RECREATION. 


claims a day, or about forty each working 
hour. On many policies settlement is made 
within a few hours by the superintendent of 
the district; on the large policies a report 
is sent immediately to the home office and 
settlement authorized by telegraph. And on 
over 45 per cent. of the claims more money 
is paid than the policy calls for. From the 
beginning the Prudential has followed lines 
of great liberality, whether in dealing with 
the family where the policy is kept in the 
bureau drawer, or with the estate of the 
millionaire. 

It would be interesting to describe the 
broad activities that hum in the great build- 
ings at Newark, but they would more than 
require an entire article themselves. So, 
too, with the equipment and furnishings of 
the buildings which, in the way of complete 
adjustment to their particular work, are 
probably unequaled in the world. For ex- 
ample, in the actuarial department is a card 
machine, invented by the actuary of the 
company, which can do all but think, But 
many of these things, in miniature, will be 
seen by the thousands who go to the 
World’s Fair at St. Louis. They will find 
in the Prudential’s exhibit in the Palace of 
Education, a fine model of all the buildings, 
and also the fullest data concerning life in- 
surance that have ever been brought to- 
gether. 

But the last word about the Prudential 
is not told at any exposition. It is found in 
the 5,500,000 policies which form a stupen- 
dous exhibit on the value of life insurance 
in developing thrift, safe investment and 
home protection in a nation. Of course, 
such an exhibit could never have been pos- 
sible if the Prudential had not worked out 
safe policies that would meet the broad 
needs of the American people. 


HAS THE 


(STRENGTH OF | 
Y; GIBRALTAR |! 


by 





RECREATION. 455 


Insures beautiful teeth, sweet mouth, agreeable breath. 
Preserves while it beautifies. No powder or liquid to 
spill or -vaste in use. Convenient and Economical. 
Agencies in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, 

Ghent, Brussels, Manila, Honolulu, and City of Mexic 

Sold in every cicy on the globe through the export } bbing 

houses of New Y .rk City, San Francisco and New O.'eans 


25 Jens at all druggists 


C. H. STRONG & CO., CHICAGO, U.S.A. 


Hamburg, 





456 


HAD A FISH STORY OF HIS OWN. 
HARMON W. MARSH. 


There once was a lad with the gift of gab, 
a wonderful gift had he, 

And he told more tales of big fish caught 
than if he had drained the sea; 

There came a time when he had to leave 
and cross to the beautiful shore, 

But the habits acquired on this mundane 
sphere, they all of them followed him 
o’er. 


Whenever he saw an angel band, grouped 
on the golden street, 

He’d butt his way to the center, sure, and 
one of his tales repeat. 

There was one little saint with a shriveled 
form, of quiet and weary mein, 

Who, whenever one of these tales was 
sprung, looked as if it gave him a 
pain. 


He’d stand on the edge of the angel throng, 
till the story was told complete, 

Then rustle his wings with a grunt of dis- 
gust, and silently cross the street. 
The guy with the stories was piking around 

to learn the impression made, 
And he saw that all of the angel band ex- 
cepting this little one stayed. 


It grated his nerves that this one old boy, 

Couldn’t stomach the tales the rest would 
enjoy, 

And the more he pondered, the more he 
got sore, 

He had never been treated like that before; 


So he hiked him along down the golden 
street till he came to the golden gate, 

And he roused up the saint who tended the 
door, his tale of woe to relate. 

And when he had finished he asked the 
saint, “Who is that egregious brute?” 

And the saint replied with a kindly smile, 
“That ’s Jonah, you blamed galoot.”’ 





The Fulton County Rod and Gun Club, 
a chartered organization now 2 years old, 
holds 6,000 acres of fine hunting and fishing 
ground in the Blue Ridge mountains. Game 
is plentiful and consists of rabbits, grouse, 
quail, turkeys and deer, with an occasional 
bear. We are working hard to save the 
game in this region from foxes, wildcats, 
game hogs and forest fires. We are grad- 
ually thinning out the animals named, but 
can find no defense against the fires that 
every spring sweep over these mountains. 
We should be glad to receive suggestions 
from experienced fire fighters as to the best 
way of preventing or limiting forest fires. 

G. M. Sproul, McKeesport, Pa. 


- abiding in Oklahoma. 


RECREATION. 


ON THE BATTENKILL. 

Since the opening of the season, Mav 1, 
many good catches of trout have been made 
in the Battenkill and its tributary, Green 
river. My friend, Charles Hawley, and I 
could hardly wait for the day to arrive, and 
we planned to be the first on the river. 
When I was called at 3 am.,. 1 tumbled 
sleepily out of bed, and going to the win- 
dow, found it was pitch dark, cold, and the 
wind blowing a gale. It was still dark 
when we reached the river, and growing 
colder every minute. 

Someone had been before’ us, for we 
found the dying embers of a fire at the 
bridge. We afterward learned that a party 
had been fishing since midnight and had 
left just before our arrival. We stayed an 
hour until, discouraged by ill luck and the 
cold, we moved farther up the river. There 
Charley succeeded in enticing a sucker to 
land, and that revived our falling spirits. 
When presently I pulled in my line to see 
if my bait was frozen hard, a half pound 
trout came with it. After that the luck 
changed, and we returned at 6 o'clock with 
a good catch of trout. € 

Fishing has been better with the fly than 
with bait. Everyone thought fish would be 
scarce this year, as so many were taken 
last season, but the supply seems inexhausti- 
ble. I have heard some talk of nets and 
Noman and fear both are used. occasion- 
ally. Se 

C. H. Crofut, Arlington, Vt. 





IS IT UP TO- CUNNINGHAM? 

I am warden of Comanche county and 
though I try to work with as little hurrah 
as possible, my district is the most law- 
The farmer boys are 
coming over to my side, and there is little 
doing that they do not hear of. They put 
me on the track of a man named Horn, who 
had been dynamiting trout. I took out a 
warrant and found him just an hour after 
he had burst his last bomb. It tore off both 
his arms, broke 5 ribs, and blew out an 
eye. Rather than appear to be crowding the 
mourners, I omitted reading the warrant. 
It looked to me like a plain case of God 
and the little fishes. 

But it is not all plain sailing. Newton 
Onwiler, owner of a restaurant here, served 
quail to his guests on Christmas,” I dined 
with them. Then I took my ihformation 
and the names of 6 witnesses to County At- 
torney S. M. Cunningham. He flatly re- 
fused to prosecute. If there is any way to 
bump him into doing his duty, I wish you 
would start the bumper. You may mention 
that you learned the facts from 

Marion Miller, Lawton, Okla. 









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if issued at years of age. 


458 
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. 


“For sport the lens is better than the gun.” 


I wish to make this department of the utmost 
use to amateurs. I shall, therefore, be glad to 
answer any questions and ‘to’ print any items sent 
me by practical amateurs relating to their expert 
ence in photography. 





THE ANNUAL COMPETITION 


RECREATION has conducted 8 amateur 
photographic competitions, all of which 
have been eminently successful. The 9th 
opens April Ist, 1904, and will close No- 
vember 30th, 1904. 

Following is a list of prizes to be 


awarded : 

First prize: A Long Focus Korona Camera, 
5 x 7, made by the Gundlach Optical Co., Roch- 
ester, N. Y., fitted with a Turner-Reich Anastig- 
mat Lens, and listed at $85. 

Second prize: A 4 x 5 Petite Century Camera, 
with Goerz Anastigmat Lens and Century Shutter, 
listed at $73. 

Third prize: A Royal Anastigmat Lens, 4 x 5, 
made by the Rochester Lens Co., Rochester, N. Y.; 
listed at $36. 

Fourth prize: A Waterproof Wall Tent, 12 x 16, 
made by Abercrombie & Fitch, New York, and 
listed at $32. 

Fifth prize: 
made by the Multiscope and Film Co., 
Wis., and listed at $3o. 

Sixth prize: A No. 3 Focusing Weno Hawk- 
eye Camera, made by the Blair Camera Co., Roch- 
ester, N. Y., and listed at $27.50. 

Seventh prize: A 12 x 12 Waterproof Wall 
Tent, listed at $16.30. 

Eighth prize: A Tourist Hawkeye Camera, 
4 X 5, and made by the Blair Camera Co., Roch- 
ester, N. Y., and listed at $15. 

Ninth prize: A Bristol Steel Fishing Rod, made 
by the Horton Mfg. Co., Bristol, Conn., and 
listed at $8. 

Tenth prize: A pair of High Grade Skates, 
made by Barney & Berry, Springfield, Mass., and 
listed at $6. 

The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 
a pair of chrome tanned leather driving or hunt- 
ing gloves made by the Luther Glove Co., and 
listed at $1.50. 

The 10 next best pictures will each be awarded 
a Laughlin Fountain Pen, listed at $1. 

A special prize: A Goerz Binocular Field Glass, 
listed at $74.25, will be given for the best picture 
of a live wild animal. 


An A\l-Vista-Panoramic Camera, 
Burlington, 


Subjects are limited to wild animals, 
birds, fishes, camp scenes, and to figures 
or groups of persons, or animals, repre- 
senting in a truthful manner shooting, fish- 
ing, amateur photography, bicycling, sail- 
ing or other form of outdoor or indoor 
sport or recreation. Awards to be made 
by 3 judges, none of whom shall be com- 
petitors. 

Conditions: Contestants must submit 2 
mounted prints, either silver, bromide, 
platinum or carbon, of each subject, which, 
as well as the negative, shall become the 
property of Recreation. Negatives not to 
be sent unless called for. 

In submitting pictures, please write sim- 
ply your full name and address on the back 
of each, and number such prints as you 
may send, I, 2, 3, etc. Then in a letter ad- 


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dressed Photographic Editor, REcREATION, 
say, for instance: 
No. I is entitled —— ——. 


Made with a —— —— camera. 
—— —— lens. 

On a —— — plate. 

Printed on —— —— paper. 


Length of exposure, —— ——. 

Then add any further information you 
may deem of interest to the judges, or to 
other amateur DESEO RE REE Same as to 
Nos. 2, 3, Oe 

This is necessary in order to save post- 
age. In all cases where more than the 
name and address of the sender and serial 
number of picture are written on the back 
of prints I am required to pay letter post- 
age here. I have paid as high as $2.50 on 
a single package of a dozen pictures, in ad- 
dition to that prepaid by the sender, on ac- 
count of too much writing on the prints. 

Any number of subjects may be sub- 
mitted. 

Pictures that may have been published 
elsewhere, or that may have been entered 
in any other competition, not available. 
entry fee charged. 

Don’t let people who pose for you look 
at the camera. Occupy them in some other 
way. Many otherwise fine pictures have 
failed to win in the former competitions 
because the makers did not heed this warn- 
ing. 





ENLARGING. 


Since reading Mr. Klinefelt’s inquiry in 
January RECREATION in regard to using a 
5x7 long focus Premo camera for making 
bromide enlargements, I have been giving 
the matter some thought. 

I have such a camera; which I use for 
the most of my work; but I do not con- 
sider it ideal for the purpose named. It 
can be used, though if Mr. K. can get hold 
of a front focus, reversible back view 
camera he will find it more satisfactory. 

The first requirement for enlarging is a 
room which can be made entirely dark. 
Bromide paper is nearly as light-sensitive 
as a day plate, and must be worked by yel- 
low light. The easiest way to darken the 
windows of the room selected is to make 
a light wooden frame for each one, using 
pine strips, say I1%4,x7% inches. These 
frames are to fit snugly inside the window 
casing and are halved together at the cor- 
ners. Cover each side with heavy brown 
paper glued on. If the windows are large 
one or 2 cross bars should be put in the 
frames to stiffen them. The frames may 
be held in place in the windows by a screw 
at top and bottom, or by buttons, as may 
be most convenient, the object being to get 
as close a joint as possible around the 
edges. If some light filters through the 


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paper give it a coat of lampblack and tur-’ 


pentine, with a little varnish added to make 
the mixture adhere to the paper. ‘There 
will probably be some cracks around the 
edges of these screens which will admit 
’ light. To cover these get some cheap black 
cambric and make curtains for the win- 
dows, which may be hung from small nails 
at the top of the casing. 

One of the windows in the room should 
have a clear outlook to the sky. The frame 
for this window should be made stiffer 
and heavier than the others, and at a con- 
venient height from the floor 2 cross bars 
should be put .in, leaving about 5% inches 
between their inner edges. To the lower 
one of these attach a board projecting out 
into the room so that the camera may set 
on it with its rear end close against the 
screen frame. 

Next make out of 3-16 inch wood a box 
about 2 inches deep, without top or bottom. 
This must fit closely inside the back frame 
of the camera in the space occupied by the 
ground glass frame, which is removed 
when the camera is to be used for enlarg- 
ing. 

The rear end of the little box is to be 
secured to the 2 cross bars of the window 
frame and its inside provided with small 
cleats to hold the negative in a position 
parallel to the back of the camera. The 
sides of the box may be slotted so that the 
negative may be pushed into place from 
the outside. The minor details of this I 
leave to the builder, as they must vary ac- 
cording to circumstances. 

This window frame is to be covered with 
paper like the others, taking special care 
that all cracks are covered. A rectangular 
opening should be left where the box is 
attached so that the light may strike the 
negative. This opening should be covered 
with a piece of ground glass or tracing 
cloth to diffuse the light. 

As a support for the bromide paper take 
a fair sized box, the ever present soap box 
suggesting itself here, and nail 2 uprights 
to its sides. To the upper end of these 
fasten a small drawing board or something 
similar, so that its flat side is parallel to 
the window. The center of this board 
should be at the same height as the lens 
when the camera is in position on its shelf. 
This board should be covered with smooth 
white paper pasted on, to make a good sur- 
face on which to focus. 

Bore a hole in a small square piece of % 
inch wood, which will fit easily over the 
end of your lens, and over this hole fasten 
a square of yellow glass. 

To make an enlargement, darken all the 
windows and put the camera in position. 
neg the chosen negative into place in the 

Ox 


the camera. Place the soap box easel in 


inverted, and with the film side next’ 


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position in front of the lens. A heavy 
stone or a flatiron in the box will help 
to hold it steady. By shifting the relative 
positions of lens and easel you will be able 
to get any degree of enlargement. Use the 
lens wide open for focussing and when a 
sharp focus has been obtained stop down to 
say I-16. 

Slip the yellow glass cap over the lens 
and pin a small strip of bromide paper on 
the easel. Remove the lens cap for say 
30 seconds. Cap the lens and develop the 
test strip. 

Bromide paper is somewhat slower in 
development than gaslight paper (velox, 
rotox, etc.), but still much faster than a 
dry plate. 

If your test strip shows a correct ex- 
posure you may proceed to pin a full sized 
sheet on the easel and expose as before. 
The object of the yellow glass cap is now 
apparent, for it allows enough light to pass 
to permit of accurate adjustment of the pa- 
per without risk of fogging it. Thin 
parts may be held back by shielding with a 
card during part of the exposure and con- 
versely over dense spots may be brought 
out by giving them extra exposure by 
means of a cardboard shield with a hole 
cut in it which is held over the dense part, 
gently moving it so as to avoid making a 
sharp tine on the print. 

Any of the various brands of bromide 
paper on the market will give good results. 
The Eastman Kodak Co. makes paper that 
is reliable in every respect. The hard, or 
slower working, grade will prove the best 
for general use. 

Amidol or M-2 developer will prove 
satisfactory, and I prefer an acid fixed bath, 
such as is recommended by the makers of. 
gaslight paper. 

Japanned iron trays are the most satis- 
factory for this work. They are light, their 
cost is small compared with trays made of 
other materiais, and with an _ occasional 
coat of bicycle enamel or asphalt varnish 
they will last a long time. 

li at any time more detailed informa- 
tion is desired I shall be glad to give what 
help I can, either through RECREATION or 
by personal letter. 

C. M. Whitney, Bayonne, N. J. 





A NEW SPORT. 
D’LAURIE. 


How many of RecreEaTION’s readers are 
egg collectors? Some, I am sure. To 
them I propose a new and exciting sport, 
a game in which both they and the birds 
will be winners; for while they will get 
nests and eggs, the birds will yet retain 
them. This sport is made possible by the 
camera. 

My interest in bird photography dates 


460 


many years back. My first success was a 
photo of 3 fuzzy, funny little ground spar- 
rows that had their home under a shelter- 
ing bank. As I was focusing, one, more 
restless than its fellows, fluttered out, and 
had gone some distance before I caught 
him and brought him back. I remember 
yet my thrill of pleasure when I developed 
the plate and saw the image grow. 

All is not so easy, however, for I have 
been 2 years attempting to get a good photo 
of a pewee’s nest under a certain bridge. 
A picture of a wood pewee’s nest, secured 
after days of hard work, is one of my 
prized possessions. The nest was built on 
the branch of an oak fully 60 feet above the 
ground. The only way to get it was to 
crawl out on a limb higher up. After sev- 
eral failures, I one day strapped my cam- 
era to my back, climbed the tree and 
crawled out on the limb to within 20 feet 
of the nest. The creaking and swaying of 
the limb forbade further progress, and I 
was compelled to take the nest at that dis- 
tance. Holding to the branch with arms 
and legs, I focused as best I could and 
snapped. The picture, though small, proved 
excellent. 

The most peculiar nest, of which I have 
a picture, a pyramid of sticks with 2 blue 
eggs a-top, was built by an ambitious black 
billed cuckoo in an old lard can chance- 
thrown into a thicket. 

I have, too, a photo of a cowbird’s nest 
that caused some mystification until it 
turned out to be a thrush’s home. 

The swinging cradle of the red eyed 
vireo, the more stable one of his yellow 
throated cousin, the tiny nest of a hum- 
ming bird with its tiny eggs, the high-set 
homes of hawks and crows, and many 
more have place in my collection, and it is 
a pleasure to look them over and recall 
the history of their getting. 

Come, my friends! put away your col- 
lecting boxes, drills, and blow pipes, and 
like true sportsmen preserve the birds. 
Give this new sport a fair trial. Don’t give 
up after the first failure, stick at it. Think 
of the trees you have shinned after crow’s 
eggs, only to find the nest was last year’s! 
Stick to it! and you will find health and 
pleasure in this novel pastime; the birds 
will enjoy their share of life, and we shall 
not have to regret another extinct species. 

I feel sure that, should sufficient interest 
be aroused, the editor of RECREATION would 
have a class for these photographs in his 
next contest, and award a prize to the most 
worthy. 

I use a Premo 5x7 camera, made by the 
Rochester Optical and Camera Co., and 
fitted with a Victor rectilinear lens. I gen- 
erally use a 128 stop with an exposure of 
40 to 60 seconds; this, of course, depends 


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on circumstances. Develop with hydro, and 
print on Velox paper. 
QO. L. Griffith, Rosemont, Pa. 





SOUVENIR POST CARDS. 


The ease with which these cards arc 
made leads me to wonder why the amateur 
photographer does not get busy. The card 
may be bought already sensitized. All that 
is necessary may be found in the possession 
of every amateur. The most important 
item is the negative. It should be rich in 
detail and have some contrast. A piece of 
black paper, 4x6 inches, with an opening 
cut the size one wishes the photograph to 
appear on the card, is the only need. Cut 
the opening 23¢ x 33¢; then place a regular 
size post card on the paper, marking with 
a heavy line the position the sensitized card 
is to occupy. This will leave a narrow 
white margin on 3 sides of the photo and 
15g inches to write on. Instead of the se- 
vere corners, I cut a lantern slide mat in 
4 and paste them on the mat, making round © 
corners. These cards are greatly appre- 
ciated by the persons who receive them. A 
bit of landscape or a spot where once we 
took our lunch makes a valued souvenir. I 
use Rotox cards and find them perfect. 

C., Bethlehem, Pa. 





I have been having very thin negatives, 
though this does not seem to be caused by 
under development or exposure. Some of 
my negatives are so thin that the sky in the 
negative prints gray. There is plenty of 
detail, but it has a faded brown appearance. 
If I hold my hand back of the sky part of 
the negative, I can easily see my hand right 
through the sky. It is mysterious to me, 
and I hope you can solve it for me. 

Frank Rose, East Boston, Mass. 


ANSWER. 


I am inclined to believe that the cause is 
over exposure. I suggest making at least 3 
different exposures, and developing each 
one separately just as you have been doing. 

An over exposed plate is thin, flat, lacking 
contrast, full of detail, but producing a gray 
print. An under exposed plate has a lack 
of detail, and if not developed too far pro- 
duces a gray print. If development is car- 
ried far, the print will show great contrast, 
but ot much detail—EnprrTor. 





Please give us all you can on photog- 
raphy. I get more practical hints from 
RECREATION than from a magazine to which 
I subscribed that is devoted entirely to that 


subject. 
W. H. Cummings, N. Y. City. 





RECREATION. xvii 





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I most heartily commend the stand you 
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I believe you are justified in being as harsh 
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grand work you are doing in ridding our 
country of the worst pest it ever had—the 
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me of hoggishness. 

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New York City. 








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XXvi RECREATION. 
el kee Em 


WILD ANIMALS THAT REFUSE TO 
ASSOCIATE WITH ME. 


ARTHUR GUITERMAN, 
In New York Times. 
The Sentimental Panther met the Melan- 
choly Lynx 
In the mallows by the shallows where the 
Fawn at evening drinks. 
Each was chewing on a Rabbit— 
*Twas an absentminded habit, 
For they’re Brothers in the forest, from the 
Mooses to the Minks. 


Quoth the Panther, “Lucivee, 
How they libel you and me 
With their pictures and their strictures on 
our ‘predatory’ lives! 
Why! they even call us cruel! 
Though we dine on water gruel 
And we gambol and we ramble with our 
babies and our wives.” 


Sighed the Lynx, “I fear you’re right. 
Oh, they’re dreadful impolite! 
For they hint of blots of carnage on our 
stainless pantry shelves! 
Come and join me in my den 
With your pad and fountain pen; 
For I’m sure they'll love us better when 
we've told about ourselves.” 


The Philanthropic Weasel and the Consci- 
entious Fox 
Bent in unremitting sorrow in a cavern in 
the rocks 
O’er a wishbone and a bill 
That were left them in the will 
Of a friend—a lovely Rooster who had 
died—of chickenpox. 


f.nd the Weasel dropped a tear 
As he murmured, “Reynard, dear, 
How these Humans misinterpret all your 
motives pure and sweet!” 
Sobbed the Fox, ‘That wicked slander 
In the Matter of the Gander! 
Who the Dickens wants their chickens !— 
with such loads of grass to eat!” 


Now a Phonographic Marvel with a most 
convincing style 
Overheard the Guileless Credtures, and he 
made it worth his while, 
For he printed all they said; 
And a Soulful Public read, 
And it wailed, “The Beasts are Angels and 
our Kind alone is vile!” 


But the Guide on Wolver’s Run 
Naughty! naughty!—owns a gun! 
Conned these fancies and romances till he 

chuckled, lost in sin, 
“Well, this may be mighty pretty 
Fer old ladies in the City, 
But I wonder where in thunder does the 
species ‘MAN’ come in?” 





We have here ducks, reed birds, English 
snipe, etc., in their seasons, 
Mrs. A. Creelman, Essington, Pa. 


SKOOKUM SALMON. 


An amusing incident happened during 
the early days, at an important ferrying 
place on Rogue river, in Oregon. 

Pioneers and prospectors with their out- 
fits were put across by Indians in their 
canoes, the saddle and pack animals being 
forced to swim. 

Few Indians at that time possessed or 
understood firearms. On one occasion an 
extremely green young buck was making 
his first ferry. His passenger, a prospector, 
sat at the opposite end of the canoe, his 
pele lying on the luggage piled between 
them. 

At that ferry the river is deep, and the 
water so clear that the stony bottom may 
be distinctly seen. Glancing down, when 
the canoe was about the middle of the 
stream, the Indian saw an enormous sal- 
mon just beneath them. Shouting “Ugh! 
Skookum salmon!” he snatched the carbine, 
shoved it into the water and fired. There 
was no opportunity to ascertain the damage 
done the fish, for the contents of the canoe 
were immediately distributed over the ford. 
With the help of other ferriers, the miner 
and nearly all of his effects were rescued; 
but the Indian must have swum down to 
the shallows half a mile below, and crawled 
out on the rocks. 

Some time later he reappeared on the 
opposite cliff, dejected and dripping, a great 
gash showing across one cheek. When 
hailed he cast a terrified glance toward the 
ferry, and with a loud “Ugh!” set off at a 
swinging trot up the trail. The startling 
experience must have inspired him with a 
wholesome awe for civilized appliances, as 
he was never again seen or heard of in that 
locality. 

(Miss) M. L. Sutton, Coburg, Ore. 





Two candidates for office were stumping 
the State, and in one town their appearance 
was almost simultaneous. The candidate 
last arriving stopped at a house for a drink 
of water. To the little girl who gave him 
the desired draught he offered in recom- 
pense some candy, and said, 

“Did the man ahead of me give you any- 
thing?” 

“Oh, yes, sir,” she replied, “he gave me 
candy.” 

“Ah!” exclaimed the candidate, “here’s 
5 cents for you. I don’t suppose he gave 
you any money?” 

“Yes, he did. He gave me 10 cents!” 

Not to be outdone, the candidate gave the 
little one another nickel, and, picking her 
up in his arms, kissed her. 

“Did he kiss you, too?” he asked, gen- 
ially. . 

“Indeed he did, sir!” she responded ; “and 
he kissed ma, too!”—Collier’s Weekly. 





I have a pack of well trained hounds and 
I enjoy catching a bob cat or coon as much 
as killing a deer. We also catch a wolf 
once in a while. 

Tom Coleman, Rosenberg, Tex. 


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It’s worth trial to simplify the diet, get well and keep well. 


Say Breakfast and Lunch on a little fruit (preferably cooked and very 
little sugar), 

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Slice of whole wheat bread and butter, 

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RECREATION. 





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China 





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in purchasing. 





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and I will send you 
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or a hard rubber, water proof Match Safe, 
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loops, listed at 60 cents, or a Revolver 
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a choice of a Horn Whistle or Star Vest 
Pocket Whistle, or a Duck, Snipe, Turkey 
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choice of a Dandy, Star or Perfect Oiler, 
very fine and handy, and each guaranteed 
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or a coin Money Purse, genuine soft kid, 
three compartments, listed at 50 cents, or a 
Money Pouch, made of fine sheep skin, with 
draw string, very fine, listed at 75 cents, 
or a self-closing rubber Tobacco Pouch, 
listed at 50 cents, or a high grade French 
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RECREATION. xxix 





AN EDITOR’S PERIL. 


The editor stood at the case, 

As printers were once used to stand, 
With a cynical smile on his face 

And a composing stick in his hand. 


He gave his hot forehead a wipe, 

All damp with the grime and the heat, 
And put the reports into type 

For readers of his little sheet. 


“The Japs have forsaken Yalu, 
They’ve gone up the opposite brink, 

They’re moving en masse on Wiju, 
They'll soon fight a battle we think. 


“The army has gone from Anju, 

The march of the troops has begun, 
The latest war news from Chifu 

Shows the Russians to be on the run.” 


So he set up types. Of Kwang-su 
And Anju and Wiju he told, 

And Chifu and Yalu, Niu 
Chwang and others enrolled. 


Then in a few minutes he dropped 

His stick and looked down at the case. 
*n puzzled confusion he stopped 

Setting type with a frown on his face. 


Then added this to his reports: 

“We'd give yew some more of the news 
If these names did not yews all the sorts, 
We've yewsd every one of owr yews.” 

—J. A. Foley, in New York Times. 





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the subscribers. If RECREATION pleased 
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subscribe. Carl Peavey, Howesville, Ind. 





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you more subscriptions. 

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success be yours. 

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and wish you success. 

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A year ago a manufacturer hired a boy, 
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RECREATION. Xxxi 





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I learned to imitate the call of the wild 
duck from an article in August, 1900, REc- 
REATION, and I wish to thank the writer who 
taught me how to give the call of the wild 
duck by means of the hands and lips. I 
can deceive the oldest duck-hunter, and 
have brought to bay black ducks too wily 
to come to trained live decoys. 


T. J. Ardill, Wakefield, Mass. 


The Chicago College of Dental Surgery 


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RECREATION. 





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A Kansas City teacher of a kindergarten 
was incapacitated from work one day last 
week by the following incident. The sub- 
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animals and birds. 

“Now, children,’ said the teacher, “I 
want each of you to think of some animal 
or bird and try for a moment to be like 
the particular one you are thinking about, 
and make the same kind of noises they are 
in the habit of making.” 

Instantly the schoolroom became a me- 
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In a remote corner a little fellow was 
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“Waldo, why are you not taking part 
with the otherrchildren?” 

Waving her off with a deprecating hand 
and wide, rebuking eyes, he fervently 
whispered: 

“Sh—sh—sh, teacher—sh! I’m a_rooster, 
and I’m a-layin’ a aig!”—Kansas City Star. 








RECREATION is the magazine that lays 
over them all. 
L. L. Henderson, Boston, Mass. 


RECREATION. XXXili 


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stop listening!” he broke in, interrupting R. H. Barger, Smith Centre, Kans. 
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What prairie chickens we have migrate from 
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| weighs only two ounces; 3 cutting 
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1 Wild Game 


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retaining its shape and elasticity under all sorts of cenditions and hard usage. Hand-laid sheets of 
downy softness, each of the full size, are care- 
fully compressed into the tick. The OSTERMOOR . . 
Patent Elastic Felt is purity itself, germ-free and 30 Nights’ FREETrial 
vermin-proof. OSTERMOOR mattresses cannot Sleep on the OsTERMOOR 
3 feet wide, 30 1bs. 10.00 | get lumpy, never need renewing; an occasional | itty nights free and if it 
$ feet 6 inches wide, |] 79 | sun-bath is all they require. The tick can be rab for. if ee 
4 feet wide, 40 Ibs. 13.35 taken off and washed whenever soiled. lieve it to be the equal in 


4 feet 6 inches wide, 
1 15.00 


SIZES AND PRICES 
2 feet 6 inches wide, 
25 lbs. $8.35 


cleanliness, durability and 


4 . comfort of any §$so. hair 
anctedinneeiors. | Send for Book, Mailed Free | se ever mcs. ves 


can get your money back 
by return mail—"‘no ques- 
Our 96-page book, “ The Test of Time,” not only treats tions asked.” 
exhaustively the mattress question, but also describes and 
illustrates (with scores of pictures), OsteErMooR Cushions 
and Pillows, for Window Seats, Cozy Corners, Hall Benches and Easy Chairs; Boat Cushions, 
Carriage Cushions, Church Cushions—we have cushioned 25,000 Cliareben, It is an ency- 
clopzdia of comfort and good taste—may we send it? Your name ona postal will do. It p> 
costs us 25 cents, but you are welcome to it—even if you send from curiosity alone, ? 
Look Out! Dealers are trying to sell the “just as good kind.’’ Ask to see the name 
“OsTERMOOR” and our trade-mark label, sewn on the end. Show them you can’t and won't 
be fooled. It’s not Fe/¢ if it’s not an Ostermoor. Mattresses expressed, prepaid by us, 
same day check is received. Estimates on cushions and samples of coverings by return mail, 


OSTERMOOR & COMPANY, 11% Elizabeth St., New York 


Canadian Agency: The Alaska Feather and Down Co., Ltd., Montreal 


Express Charges Prepaid. 
In two parts, 50 cents extra. 
Special sizes at special prices. 





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SOME RARE OPPORTUNITIES 


These goods are all new, and will be shipped 
direct from factory. Prices named are those at 
which manufacturers and dealers usually sell. 
Here is a good chance to get 





A Book, a Gun, a Camera 
A Sleeping Bag, a Fishing Rod 
A Reel, a Tent, 


Subscriptions need notall be sent at once. They 
may be sent in installments as taken andcredit will 
be given on account. When the required number 
is obtained the premium earned will be shipped. 


FREE OF 
COST 


TO ANY PERSON SENDING ME 


TWO new yearly subscriptions to RECRE- 
ATION at $1 each, I will send a copy of 
Hunting in the Great West, cloth; or an 
Ingersoll Watch or Cyclometer, listed at 
$1; or a Recreation Waterproof Match 
Box, made by W. L. Marble and listed 
at 50c; or a Shakespeare Revolution Bait 
listed at 75c; or a Laughlin Fountain 
Pen; or a dozen Trout Flies, assorted, 
listed at $1; or a pair of Attachable Eye- 
glass Temples, gold-plated, made by Gall 
& Lembke; or one Rifle Wick Plug, made 
by Hemm & Woodward, Sidney, Ohio, 
30 caliber to 50 caliber, or Shotgun Wick 
Plug, 20 gauge up to 10 gauge; or a pair 
of chrome tanned horsehide hunting and 
driving gloves, listed at $1.50, made by 
J. P. Luther Glove Co. 


THREE new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
safety pocket ax, made by W. L. Marble 
and listed at $2.50; or a dozen Bass Flies, 
assorted, listed at $2; or a pair of Shot- 
gun Wick Plugs made by Hemm & Wood- 
ward, Sidney, Ohio, 20 gauge to 10 gauge; 
or a Polished Buffalo Horn Gun Rack, 
made by E. W. Stiles; or a pair of gaunt- 
lets, for hunting and driving, ladies’ size, 
listed at $2.50, made by J. P. Luther 
Glove Co., or a Press Button Jack Knife, 
made by The Novelty Knife Co., and 
listed at $1. 


FOUR new subscriptions at $1 each, an 
Ideal Hunting Knife, made by W. 
Marble and listed at $2.50; or a 82 ecali- 
ber, automatic double action revolver, 
ae by Harrington & Richardson Arms 
so. 


FIVE new subscriptions at $1 each, a copy 
of Cruisings in the Cascades, cloth; or 
an Ideal Hunting Knife made by W. L. 
Marble, and listed at $3; or a pair of 
lock lever skates, made by Barney & 
Berry, listed at $4.50; or a J. C. Hand 
trap made by the Mitchell Mfg. Co., listed 
at $4; or a Bristol Steel Fishing Rod, 
listed at $6 or less. 


SIX new subscriptions at $1 each, a Hawk- 
eye Refrigerating Basket made by the Bur- 
lington Basket Co., or one dozen Eureka 
golf balls listed at $4; or a Pocket Poco 
B 34%x4%4, made by the Rochester Op- 
tical Co., listed at $9. 


SEVEN new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
copy of The Big Game of North America, 
or of The American Book of the Dog, 


RECREATION. 





cloth, or one set Lakewood golf clubs, 
5 in number, listing at $5; or a series 
11F Korona Camera, made by the Gund- 
lach Optical Co., listed at $10. 


EIGHT new subscriptions at $1 each. A 
series 1, 4x5 Korona Camera, made by 
the Gundlach Optical Co., listed at $12, 
or an Acme single shot gun, made by the 
Davenport Arms Co., and listed at $8. 


TEN new subscriptions at $1 each, a Cut- 
Glass Salad Bowl, made by Higgins & 
Seiter, and listed at $4.50; or a Water- 
proof Wall Tent 7x7, made by Aber- 
crombie & Fitch, and listed at $8; or a 
Rough Rider rifle telescope, made by The 
Malcolm Rifle Sight Mfg. Co., and listed 
at $12; or a Pneumatic Camp Mattress, 
listed at $18; or a pair of Opera Glasses 
made by Gall & Lembke and listed at $10. 


TWELVE new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
Davenport Ejector Gun, listed at $10, or 
a Cycle Poco No. 38, 4x5, made by the 
Rochester Optical Co., listed at $15. 


FIFTEEN new subscriptions, $1 each, a 
Shakespeare Reel, Silver Plated, listed at 
$15; or a set of rabbit plates made by 
Higgins & Seiter, and listed at $8; or 
a Field Glass made by Gall & Lembke; 
or a Kenwood Sleeping Bag, complete, 
with canvas cover, listed at $16; or a 
Bulls-Eye rifle telescope, made by The 
Malcolm Rifle Sight Mfg. Co., and listed 
at $16; or a pair of horsehide hunting 
boots, listed at $10; or a Queen Hammock, 
made by the King Folding Canvas Boat 
Co., and listed at $15; or a Mullins Duck 
Boat, listed at $20. 


TWENTY new subscriptions at $1 each, 
a 14-karat Gold Hunting-case Watch, 
with Waltham Movement, listed at $20; 
or an Elita single shot gun, made by the 
Davenport Arms Co., and listed at $18; 
or an Acme Folding Canvas Boat, No. 1, 
Grade A, listed at $27; or a Queen Ham- 
mock, made by the King Folding Canvas 
Boat Co., and listed at $20; or a Mul- 
lins’ Bustle Ducking Boat, listed at $27. 


TWENTY-FIVE new subscriptions at $1 
each, an 11-foot King Folding Canvas 
Boat, listed at $38. 


THIRTY new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
Waterproof Tent, 1444x177, made by 
Abercrombie & Fitch, and listed at $25. 


THIRTY-FIVE new subscriptions at $1 
each, a 14-ft. King Folding Canvas Boat 
listed at $48. 


FORTY new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
Savage .303 Repeating Rifle; or a No. 10 
Gun Cabinet, made by the West End Fur- 
niture Co., and listed at $32. 


FIFTY new subscriptions at $1 each, a 
No. 20 Gun Cabinet, made by the West 
End Furniture Co., and listed at $38; 
or a Colt Automatic Pistol, made by the 
Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co., and 
listed at $25. 


Address, Recreation iw You 


RECREATION, 


xl vii 


























P. D. ARMOUR, 


Head of the great Armour Packing Company, Chicago, III., 
(in a personal letter to Dr. Keeley) said: 


I have sent about two hundred of 
my employees, from butchers to fore- 
ij men, and all have been permanently 
cured. I do not think there is any 
one thing, or any one man, who 
ever did the good to humanity that 
you are doing with your cure. 





Produce each a disease 
having definite patholo- 
gy. The disease yields 
easily to the Treatment 
as administered at the 
following Keeley Insti- 
tutes: 


Alcohol, 
Opium, 
Tobacco 
p Using iy 
eT 


ALWAYS ADDRESS THE INSTITUTE NEAREST TO YOU. 


Details of treatment and proofs of its success sent free on application. 


Birmingham, Ala. 
Hot Springs, Ark. 


Crab Orchard, Ky. Fargo, N. D. Columbia, §. C. 
New Orleans, La., North Conway, N. H. Dallas, Tex., 
Los Angeles, Cal. 1628-38 Felicity St, White Plains, N. Y. Bellevue Place. 
San Francisco, Cal. Portland, Me. Columbus, 0. Richmond, Va. 
1170 Market St: Lexington, Mass., Cor. 3rd and Seattle, Wash. 
West Haven, Conn, Grand Rapids, Mich. Dennison Aves Huntington W.Va 
Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Mo. Portland, Ore. Waukesha. Wis. 
211 N. Capitol St. 2803 Locust St, Harrisburg, Pa. Toronto, Ont 
Dwight, Ill. Boulder Hot Springs, Philadelphia, Pa., Winnipe ‘ Man. 









Charlestown, Ind. ; ng Mont- Piss ie = ps St. London, Eng. 

Des Mahncs, 1a: 7248.19thSt 4946 Fifth Ave, “*P® Town, 5. A. ‘ 
Buffalo, N. Y. Providence, R, I. Rat. = y? 

Rey. T. DeWitt Tatmage’s famous lecture, “Evils of Intemperance,” Mailed on application , ...1 ©. xerrey. wp. Lp 








Last year the Marble Axe Co. sent me A. F. Misselbach & Bro., of Newark, N. 


one of their pocket axes, ordered by you, 
as a premium. I did not have occasion to 
test its qualities until last Christmas day, 
when I tried to cut a hard hearted ever- 
green for a Christmas tree. The edge of 
the axe crumbled badly and I could not 
cut off the tree. I wrote the Marble people 
about it and they at once asked me to re- 
turn the axe, assuring me they would make 
it good. I returned it to them and in a 
short time received a new axe by express 
repaid. 

I would be pleased if you could print a 
statement of this transaction in RECREATION 
to prove to its readers that the Marble 
people are square gentlemen. The new 
axe is all right in every respect. 

Louis R. Bristol, Avon, N. Y. 





Hungry Hawkins—Do yer mean ter say 
yer got a square meal out o’ dat sour 
woman ? 

Diplomatic Mike—Sure! 

Hungry Hawkins—Well, yer a wonder. 
How’d yer do it? 

Diplomatic Mike—When she opened de 
door | sez: “Is yer mother at home, Miss?” 
—Philadelphia Press. 


—_—_—_——_——- 


IN ANSWERING ADS. PLEASE 
MENTION RECREATION. 


J., have patented and are putting on the 
market a new governor, for fishing reels, 
which is well worth the attention and in- 
vestigation of all anglers. The governor is 
a friction device placed inside of a balanced 
handle which may be fitted to any reel used 
in fresh or salt water angling, by simply 
taking the old balance handle off and put- 
ting the governor handle in place of it. 
It is admirably suited for black bass, weak- 
fish, striped bass, or any other game fish. 
You can get a circular giving full informa- 
tion and cut, for the asking. When you 
write, please mention RECREATION, 





C. L. Bradley, of Clarksville, Tennessee, 
has invented and put on the market a rear 
sight for double barrel shot guns, that can 
be easily attached and detached at the will 
of the shooter. This sight sells at $1 and 
Mr. Bradley has issued a circular that illus- 
trates and describes the new device fully. 
It is certainly worth the while of every bird 
shooter and trap shooter to get a copy of 
this circular and study it. In writing for it 
please mention RECREATION. 





RECREATION is fine. I think it ought to 
be published every day. 


Wilson White, Catonsville, Md. 


RECREATION. 


nUNDERWOOD?S 
gy. ORIGINAL _ 
=) DEVILED HAM 


In camp, picnic, or home, it will be found not 
only pure, but delicious and satisfying. Made only of 
pure spices and sugar-cured ham. There is but one 
deviled ham — Underwood’s Red Devil Brand. All 
others are imitations, but imitations in name only, no 
more like Underwood’s than chalk is like cheese, 


Send for book of 43 prize receipts. 
WM. UNDERWOOD CO., BOSTON, MASS. 


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4 





Free :— To any person sending me $1. for 
I new yearly subscription to RECREATION, 
I will send a deck of the celebrated golf 
playing cards. 

For 2 subscriptions, a fine artificial 
minnow listed at $1, or a spool of 50 


The Bore—Do you know, Miss Alice, 
Byron’s poems completely carry me away. 

She—Do they? I’m awfully sorry I have 
not a copy with me.—Scraps. 





yards of Kingfisher No. 5 silk casting 
line listed at 75 cents. 

For 6 subscriptions, a lancewood cast- 
ing pole, length 5 feet, with middle joint 
convenient length for carrying, and fine 
agate tip. This is a pole that can always 
be depended on as it is made of selected 
stock. List price, $5.50. Arthur W. 
Bruce, 508 Woodward Avenue, Kalama- 
zoo, Mich. 


No gun of its caliber could make a better 
pattern than my premium Harrington & 


Richardson shot gun. 
H. P. Hall, Plankinton, S. Dak. 





I received the Marble pocket ax. It is a 
beauty, and I am much pleased with it. I 
thank you for the prompt attention shown 
me. 


C. W. Chappel, Green Bay, Wis. 





A Press Button Hunting Knife 


Is one of the best articles a hunter ever carried 





It has a 4 Inch Blade made of the Best Silver Steel 


The knife cannot come open in your pocket. It cannot close on your hand when in use. It opens and closes 


only when . 
YOU PRESS THE BUTTON 


If you once use one of these knives you will never use any other. You can get one as a premium for 


3 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO RECREATION 


Sample Copies furnished on request. 


RECREATION. xlix 


Club 
Cocktails 


Famous the world 
over for purity. 
They never vary. 
The secret of their 
perfect blend is that 
they are kept six 


months before being 
drawn off and bot- 
tled. Be sure you 
have them in your 
camp, on the yacht, 
and on your outing 
trips wherever you 
go. They are ready and require no 
mixing. Simply pour over cracked ice. 


For Sale by all Fancy Grocers and Dealers 


G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. 


29 BROADWAY, N.Y. HARTFORD, CONN. 





I do not well see how I could get along 
without RecrEATION, for it helps one to 
live and respect the dumb creatures. 
Through its persistence against the game 
destroying porkers, people are being brought 
to see the necessity of protecting game. 
My complaint against one dealer in game 
out of season made him dance to the tune 
of $104.55. I don’t think he will want an- 
other lesson right away. 

C. A. Merritt, Marietta, Wash. 


Your method of roasting game and fish 
hogs is certainly good, and is appreciated by 
all true sportsmen, and the law abiding pub- 
lic in general. It has been my duty to look 
after poachers the past year, with some good 
results, but the field is large and hogs are 
plenty. Don’t let people like the Peters 
Co. discourage you; your work will show 
when they are dead and gone. 


Frank C. Mejidley, Sisseton, S. D. 


“Charley, dear,” said young Mrs. Tork- 
ins, “I have done you a great injustice.” 

“In what way?” 

“I suspected you without reason. I 
asked several of your friends that you go 
out with of evenings whether you knew 
how to play poker, and every one of them 
thought a minute and said you didn’t.”— 
Washington Star. 


ta 


Iam the Toffee King 


and I have decided to talk especially this month to those 


Who Sell Candy 


I am the largest candy manufacturer in 
the world. The sales of my one brand 
reach the enormous amount of 1oo tons 
a week, Ihave built up this enormous 
business because I have the biggest propo- 
sition for those ** who sell candy.’ 


MACKINTOSH’S 
TOFFEE 


is a remarkable seller, because it is 
“ moreish;” the more people buy of 
it, the more they want of it. 

Ifany of my large force of sales- 
men have not reached you as 


secure your order , 
JUST ONE 4-LB. CAN _— 

to show customers W 
the ool ane and prove to 
what @ seller Mackin- 
tosh’s Toffee is. Send me 
$1.60, the retail price for a 
+b. tin,and I wap all 
resscharges ;and, further- 
more, I will return toyouthe 
trade discount with the Tof- 
fee, provided you make ap- 
plication upon your bilthead 
Seeashanmee Uauineaseanl 
Now don “tdelay sordertoday. 
CHURCH ee 6 
invite persons work or 
, socials, and 


stamps to pay postage. 
Beware of Substitutes, 


Lamont, Corliss & Co, 
Importers, 
78 Hudson St., New York. 


ON APPROVAL 














The 
Hawkeye 
Refrigerator 
Basket 


Is made of the best 
rattan it is possible 
to purchase, with a 
water-tight,non-rust- 
able metal lining and 
non-conducting in- 
terlining of hair-felt and 
asbestos. 

A removable compartment of 
sufficient size to hold enough Ice to keep 
the contents of the basket cool and sweet for 
hours (see sectional view below), makes it an 
ideal acquisition to any sportsman’s kit—an 
ideal utility for all persons going on picnic 
excursions or outings of any kind. 


THE HAWKEYE REFRIGERATOR BASKET WILL LAST A LIFETIME. 


SENT FREE ON APPROVAL. 

READ OUR OPPER.—Send us $3.50 and we will 
send you our No. 2 Basket, ice 20x) 3210; use it 
ten days, and if notfully satisfied that It bears 
out every claim we make for it, send It back at 
our expense and we will cheerfully refund every 
cent of your money; or, we will send the basket 
to any responsible person FREE ON APPROVAL; 
test Itin any way you like for ten days and if net 
satisfied itis the beet thing you ever saw of its 
kind for the purpose, send it back at cur ex- 
pense, otherwise send us your cheek for $1.50 






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We want customers, 
———_ but we want satisfied customers. 
THE HAWKEYE REFRIGERATOR BASKET IS FOR SALE BY DEALERS GENERALLY 


Descriptive booklet sent free to Interested persons. etter write for it today 


The Burlington Basket Co., 18 Main St., Burlington, Iowa 






RECREATION. 


al 


Folding Canvas Boats 


were not satisfactory until the 


KA ITN G 


was produced. It’s a revelation 
in boat construction, nothing 
like it ever made. JVonsinkable 
Can't tip over. Puncture Proof, 
wear longer than a wooden boat. 


Norepairs. Nocost for storage, 
always ready, folds into a small 
neat package, carry by hand, 
used by the U. S. Navy. They are simple, wonderful. A thoroughly 
patented article. Beware of imitations. Made only by ourselves. A cav- 
alog of I00 engravings and 400 testimonials sent on receipt of 6 cents. 

Bottom Boards rest on the frame, not on the canvas, ribbed longitu- 
dinally and diagonally. They are stiffer and safer than a Wooden Boat 
because the lines are fuller, and are much easier to row or paddle. 


KING FOLDING CANVAS BOAT CO. 
Mention RECREATION, KALAMAZOO, MICH., U. S. A 


. 4 i «foot 





ARE YOU MARRIED to the old style Oarlocks, with their ever- 
lasting rattle and squeak? Or could you be DIVORCED long 
enough to try a pair of noiseless, frictionless and durable 


BALL BEARING OARLOCKS? 


The ideal locks for pleasure rowing, hunting and fishing. 
Write for prices and descriptive circular. Mention RECREATION 


T. H. GARRETT, Jr. AUBURN, N. Y. 


TO OWNERS OF GASOLINE ENGINES, ss aah Fe 

AUTOMOBILES, LAUNCHES, Ete. HINTS ON PRONUNCIATION 

The If the place is on the Chinese coast, re- 
Auto=-Sparker ' Be at a age ® 7 aera ; 

does away entirely with all starting and member the num er O your aun ry IcKet, 

running batteries, their annoyance and multiply by six, subtract what is left, and 

2xpense. No belt—no switch— bat- - . 

san * can be stiuchall sotuastaneied find the puzzle. If a Russian name, add 

se Segre: frat abe te None I ae at three portions, sneeze, cross your fingers, 

write for descriptive catalog. | ‘ it N O I : Ti D ’ 

Reaislader Device Mia ‘Co. and forget it—New rleans —Jimes-Demo- 
75 Main St., Pendleton, Ind. CT AL, 


PL"! Non -Siahable St / 
ima TUSCOTT LL pout ZI 








se ss 


Fitted with powerful Automobile, 
four cycle marine engine, cannot sink, 
cannot rust. Capacity ten to twelve 
people. 


Nonsinkable Steel Launches, 
RowBoats, Sail Boats, Canoes, Duck Boats, etc. 


Made from the best quality Apollo Steel—will last a life- 
time. Send for catalogue. Write for agents’ discount. 


MICHIGAN STEEL BOAT CO., 1275 Jefferson Ave. 


DETROIT, MICH., U.S. A. 


RUsQee™ ee CO neni 
A . c aren : oe | : Te? 


and copy of The Launch 





RECREATION. li 









has proven the superiority 
of the 








OVER ALL OTHERS 
Has record of 86,400 miles 
in fourseasons andstill in 
service. Send 8 cents for 
descriptive catalogue. 
Mention RECREATION. 


Iowa Marine Engine 
Works 


BELLEVUE, IOWA. 





Patented 


Folding Boal seat 


Can be instantly applied to 
boats, wagon seats, lawn seats, 
ball park seats, in fact can be 
applied to any board seat not 
over 1% inch in thickness. 


: Corduroy, $4.00. 
Price, § Imitation Leather, $3.50. 


Delivered to your address ir 
any part of the United States 
east of the Rocky Mountains, by 


The Old Hickory Chair Co. 


MARTINSVILLE, IND. 








Mrs. Bacon—I see by this paper that the 
average family in the United States has 
4 7-10 persons. 

Mr. Bacon—I suppose I’m the 7-10 in 
this family—Yonkers Statesman. 





Your magazine could find warm friends 
in any household. 
Jas. S. Mason, Keyport, N. J. 





Outlate—Had quite an arg’ment to-day, 
m’dear, with a college profeshor. Now, 
what’s the proper thing to say—‘I have 
drank” or “I have drunk”? 

Mrs. Outlate—The proper thing for you 
to say is: “I am drunk.”’—Philadelphia 
Press, 


THE TEST OF TIME. 


Towa Marine Engine 


RUSHTON 


CANOES. 









The Canoeing Habit 


If you spend your vacations on a 
lake or river—which is the ideal 
way—you need a canoe. On hot 
summer days the coolest place is 
on the water in the shade of trees. 
There you can enjoy reading, or 
talking, or sleeping a hundred times 
better than on shore. 

First, get the right kind of canoe 
—a Rushton. Ask anybody who has 
used one, compare it with others, and 
you will agree that I make the best. 
My 30 years’ experience built in every one. 

My large illustrated catalogue will help you select the 

kind ef pleasure boat or canoe you prefer. Sent free, 
J. H. RUSHTON, 817 Water St., Canton, N.Y. 















A boy baby arrived at a certain house, 
and a visitor said to a little girl in the 
family: “Do you like the baby?” The 
little girl said she did, but would have pre- 
ferred a lady baby. “Well,” the visitor 
continued, “maybe you can exchange this 
one.” “No, I don’t think we could,” said 
the little girl, “because we have been using 
it for 7 or 8 days.”—Chicago Chronicle. 





Webber shooting jacket received. It is 
just what I have wanted a long time. I 
thank you very much and hope to get more 
subscriptions in the near future. 


Ed. L. Hall, Allen Grove, Wis. 





SAN 
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ABSOLUTE LAUNCH SATISFACTION 


Is contained in the ‘‘Western Recreation.”’ | 
Grace, Beauty of Outline, Sy maeey, Simplicity and Safety. : 
you wantit, Most reasonable in first cost, most economical to maintain. 


THE BEST FINISHED, HANDSOMEST, MOST RELIABLE. 


We build them with either Torpedo or Semi-Elliptic Hulls, and in completeness, it is 
the ideal and dependable craft for both pleasure and security. 


The Western Marine Engine 


describing our Laynches and Marine Engines sent upon receipt of 10c. Catalog L. 


Western Launch and Engine Works, No. 12 Linn St.. Mishawaka. Ind. 





It possesses those essential points 
Speed is there too if 


Will please those who build their 
own hulls. Beautiful Art Catalog 


li RECREATION. 





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GASOLINE ENGINES and LAUNCHES pits 


Self-Starting Jump or Break Spark Catalog Free 


D. M. Tuttle Co. ‘ota Saree AS COR, a 


RELIANCE 


MARINE MOTORS Gat 














LIGHT POWERFUL ECONOMICAL 
1 to 6 Cylinders 4 to 150 horse power 


Special Design for Auto Boats 





Write for information and prices 


RELIANCE MFG. CO. 


City Island, N. Y. City Gest enainc Risaka 


Mention RECREATION. 





RECREATION. liii 


Bowe? 


Motors & Q 
Launches 


The Fay & Bowen Marine 
Motor is a_ revelation to those 
who have used others. Reli- 
able, safe, durable and easy to 
operate. Remarkable speed contro]. Best of all, it starts when 
you start it. No handle or crank is used. Our patent igniter 

: is absolutely unique and always instant and positive in action, 
It is really the only perfect and satisfactory igniter. 

Motors complete from 114 to 25 actual Horse Power ready for installation. 

We also build a line of the finest launches afloat, complete and with our motor installed and 
all ready to run. We make these in either the usual round stern model or our flat stern torpedo 
model in lengths from 18 to 35 feet. We can furnish large cabin launches on special order. For 
excellence of workmanship and beauty of finish and design our boats are unsurpassed. Ask for 
description of our fast torpedo outfits, 


Send for Catalogue and live testimonials from satisfied 
customers. Our customers are our best advertisers. 


FAY & BOWEN ENGINE CoO). ist sive, Geneva, N. Y. 


{(Formerly Auburn, N. YY.) & 


FISHERMEN 


who are critical are the ones we are 
looking for to examine our New Specialties 









Operated by 
GASOLINE. 
VAPOR 


Motors 1% to 25 HP. 
















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silver mountings, extended tucky patterns. Hasa take-apart 
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i ; Casting Reel, rubber quadruple 
Knox ae ane? me! ¥ r 6.00 Oncko multiplying reel, steel 3 00 
ee eee ee pivots with metal bands on side plate . 
M-1 Split Bamboo, Fly Rod, extra tip, Idea Casting Reel, nickel plated quadruple 


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each 3.00 handle, click and drag. 60 yds, 2.00 








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302 and 304 Broadway, New York 


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prove a pleasure to own and use. Selected materials used through- 
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boat for fishing and shooting. Send 4 cents in stamps for catalogue 
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Folds most compact of any boat made. 


Mention RECRKATION. 


LIFE SAVING FOLDING CANVAS BOAT CO. 


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Latest patent and improved Canvas Folding Boat on the market. 
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Built of Maine Cedar, covered with best canvas. Made by 


workmen who know how. Models and sizes for all kinds of 
service. From $28 up. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
Send NOW for Free Illustrated Catalogue. 


0ld Town Canoe Co., 28 Middle St., Old Town, Me. 


I have been looking over RECREATION 
again and think you sock it to the game 
hogs in just the right way. A hog has a 
thick, tough hide, and a fine cambric needle 
is scarcely the instrument with which to 
penetrate it. Right down, outspoken abuse 
is the only thing a game hog can under- 
stand. 

Alex. W. Russell, Middletown, N. Y. 
















Write today 
for free catalogue. 


15 foot 


boat, crated $2 9 


Especially valuable at summer 
resorts, for family boating. 


Mullins Galvanized 
=z Steel Pleasure Boats 


Made of steel. Practical indestructible. Air 
chamber each end. Cannot leak. Require no 
caulking. Ideal boat for family use, summer 
resorts, parks. Guaranteed. Will seat five persons in com- 


fort. The modern row boat for pleasure, safety and durability. 


W. H. MULLINS, 228 Depot Street, Salem, Ohio 





“TAKAPART” REEL 


(No tools required.) 





Very Smooth Running. 
Highest finish and workmanship. Handle is adjustable in 


any position. Bearings on spool are adjustable, with which 

a slight friction can be applied to prevent back lashing. 

Quadruple action. Compare it with any other, if it is not the 

best by all odds, returnit. 60 yd. $5, 80 yd. $5.50, 100 yd. $6. 

With ‘‘Automatic”’ Click, 50c extra. From all Dealers. 
Send for Catalogue. 


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Mention RECREATION, 6 Prospect St,, Newark, N. J. 


promptly obtained OR NO FEE. - Trade-Marks, 
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subjects ofimportance to inventors. Address, 


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Sportsman’s Coat 


Sheds Water Like a Duck’s Back 


Positively waterproof and rain defy- 
ing. Made of fine duck as soft and 
pliable as chamois. Lined throughout 
with same material. Treated by a 
patent process that resists a driving 
rain or an all day drizzle and yet per- 
mits perfect ventilation. No rubber 
of any kind used in its construction. 

Guaranteed rain proof under all con- 
ditions where a sportsman would wish 
to use it. Double stitched through- 
out. Re-inforced shoulder cap. Patent 
ventilated gusset under arm allows free 
arm movement with rod or gun. Cor- 
duroy collar and cuffs. Full cutand well 
tailored. Light tan or dead grass color. 

EASY AS A SWEATER 


Price $5.00 express prepaid. Give snug breast 
and waist measure, height and length of arm 
from center of back. State color desired. Sam- 
ples free. 


BIRD, JONES & KENYON, 
No. 4 Blandina St., Utica, N. ¥.. 


WOULD YOU ACQUIRE 


Manly Bearing 

Erect Carriage 

Grace and Elegance of Movement 
Perfect Muscular Development 


If so take a course of training in 


THE NEW METHOD OF FENCING 


as taught by 
LIEUT. J. MARCZI DE ZOLDY 


Late of the 25th Regiment, Austro-Hungarian Army. 
STUDIO: 


489 Fifth Avenue, New York City 


Write for terms and full information 


Hamper*lrunk 
| Stronger than a Trunk 
3 As light as a Basket 


Can be used for a hamper 
or packing-trunk at home, 
’ will outwear a ten-dollar 
trunk onthe road. Justthe 
thing for the summer tourist 
or camper. Made in all 
sizes. 32-inch size, $4.00. 
Freight paid east of the 
Mississippi river and north 
of Tennessee. 


SCHWANBECK BROS. 
489 Milwaukee Ave., Detroit, Mich. 













I have been a reader of RECREATION over 
5 years and think it the best magazine pub- 
lished, for all true sportsmen. I like the 
way you roast the game and fish hogs, for 
they need it. 

Raymond Hagar, Traverse City, Mich. 





“He doesn’t know enough about the law 
to be a successful lawyer.” 

“Well, let’s make him a judge.”—Chicago 
Evening Post. 





Ethel—Marry him! Why, I'd die first! 
Edith—Nonsense, dear. He is not as 


strong as he looks.—Puck. 


cas otOVE 


Makes its own Gas 


For camp, home and traveling 
Burns Spirits or wood alcohol 


COST OF FUEL 


% cent per hour. 
Always ready—Can't explode. 
Heats quart of water in five 
minutes. No soot. Easily car 


, vied. Price, highly niekeled, 


$1.00 postpaid 


J. C. PAUL & CO., Sole Mfrs. 59 Dearborn St., CHICAGO, ILL. 





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RECREATION. 





At last a Perfect 


Fishing Tackle Box 


No trays to spread out and spill about, 





Patent applied for. 


Take this up-to-date convenience on your vacation trip 
and have everything for Fishing literally at your finger 
tips. Our Special Holdfast Lock Loop not 
shown in cut is a decided winner. Sent carriage paid on 
receipt of $2. with privilege of return if not satisfactory 


References: RECREATION, New York City. 


Yale National Bank, New Haven, Conn. 


Merriam Mfg. Co. 


DURHAM, CONN. 


Sole makers of Johnson Trayless Tackle Box, 





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G0 a8 wees ch °*°" Bass Flies 


SPLIT BAMBOO RODS 
Fly Rods 57 cents Bait Rods 


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With cork grip and extra tip, in wood form 


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523 Broadway, New York City 


Catalogs of any of above goods free on application. 
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I want every enthusiastic fisherman, whe- 
ther amateur, beginner or professional, to 
have a personal knowledge of the fine points 
of the Shakespeare Reels and the marvel- 
ous catching qualities of the Shakespeare 





Baits—and to do this I propose to send to 
every man or woman who fishes for the 


real sport there is in it, one of my reels 
and baits for free trial on their next fish- 
ing trip. Write to-day. Send your name 
and address and the name and address of 
the leading sporting goods dealer of your 
city to Wm. Shakespeare, Jr., 404 Shake- 
speare Bldg., Kalamazoo, Mich. The Shake- 
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out doubt the best reel in the world, and you 


will say so when you see it. The metal 
used in the Shakespeare Reel is hard- 


drawn brass and the finest English Stubbs 
steel. Painstaking care is used to secure per- 
fect accuracy in every detail. In beauty of de- 
sign, and simplicity of construction it is un- 
equaled. Its easy, silent running suggests 
perpetual motion and it is fitted with the 
most perfect drag and click ever invented. 
Words will not describe its beauty, its use- 
fulness, nor its many advantages over all 
other reels. My reels and baits are for 
sale by all first-class dealers but I want you 
to see them and try them for yourself and 
I will send them to you direct, express pre- 
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are really marvelous. With them the fish- 
erman is sure of a good catch, no matter 
where the fish are, in the lake or stream. 
If they are in deep water, Shakespeare 
makes the bait that attracts them. If they 
are in shallow water, Shakespeare makes the 
bait that catches them. If they are hidden 
in the lily pads or moss, Shakespeare makes 
the bait that makes them strike. And Shake- 
speare offers $100 in prizes for the photo- 
graph and authentic dimensions of the big- 
gest large or small mouth bass caught this 
year. Write to-day for particulars. His 
little booklets, “How to Catch Bass,” “Shake- 
speare Fine Fishing Tackle” and “The Art 
of Bait Casting,’ are free to every angler. 
Write to-day. 


RECREATION. 


lvii 


If You Want to Double the Enjoyment in Landing Your Fish Use 


THE LIBERTY REEL 


Best Model and Most Improved 
Fishing Reel Yet Produced 
bd The drag is applied by 
Special Features the handle. Tension of 
click adjusted at will, or 
Free Running if preferred. Easily and quickly taken 
apart. German Silver and Hard Rubber. Three Sizes. 


Surely See This High-Grade Reel 


After using this reel half a day, all others are 
thrown aside. 


Prices, 80-yd. quadruple, $6.00; 100-yd. quad- 
ruple, $7.50; and for lake trolling, 250-yd. 
double, $9.00. 


WE ARE ALSO AGENTS FOR 


King’s Prepared Shiner Bait, 

Grout’s Tackle Boxes and Minnow 
Pails, Milward’s Angler 
Spinners, Blue Label 
Enamel Lines, etc. 


Send 10 cents in stamps for the Finest Catalogue of Highest Quality 


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Quail were fairly plentiful here last year, 
ducks and geese the same. The wild turkey 
is disappearing rapidly as it is hunted at 
all times of the year. Barring that, how- 
ever, the game laws are much more respect- 
ed than you would imagine. Putting the law 
on antelope for 5 more years was one of 
the best things that could have been done. 
They are anything but plentiful. We have 
several small bunches on the Hash Knife 
ranch, and are protecting them as much as 
possible. 

Mark Hopkins, Jr., Seymour, Tex. 





A coroner is a doctor whose duty it 1s 
to inspect cases where persons have died 


Fishing Tackle published in America. 


100 pages. Mention RECREATION, 





Tag) WM. READ @ SONS 


107 Washington Street, Boston 





I often wonder how you can give such 
valuable presents for so little work. My 
brother and I have obtained through Rec- 
REATION a Bristol steel rod, a pair of hunt- 
ing boots, a 9x12 wall tent and a Marble 
pocket axe. My worst wish for you is 
that you may live many years and may see 
the result of the good work you are doing. 
The memory of your valuable magazine 
will live in the minds of American sports- 
men forever. 

L. E. Wooer, Empire, Mich. 


Her Father—What! You say you're en- 
gaged to Fred? I thought I told you not 
to give him any encouragement. 

His Daughter—I didn’t. He didn’t need 
any.—F un. 











without medical assistance.—Grit. 


Cal 






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achable Even Spoolers 


RN ar, attached to a good reel make the best casting and fishing outfit on earth at about 


half the price of old style. 


They give perfect satisfaction in every case. 
regret later on, don’t buy the wrong reel. 


To prevent 
Our free catalog (B) names reels spooler 


will fit. Price and description of spoolers, gun cleaners, fish scalers, ball bearing, jeweled, and 


steel pivot bearing reels fitted with ‘even spooler. 


line securely to rod when not in use. 


Our new rubber hook-shield binds hook and 


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A. W. BISHOP & SON, 


PATENTEES AND MANUFACTURERS 
RACINE, WIS., U. S.A. 


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PRESTO is guaranteed to keep mosquitoes, black flies, midges, and 
punkies from biting. 


Presto Kills all Insects 


and is invaluable as a kennel requisite, eradicates unpleasant odors and 
kills fleas and their larvae. No sportsman’s camp is complete without 
a bottle of PRESTO. 

Make your dealer send for it, for if you use Presto once, you will 
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Lock Box 1248 OSSINING, N. Y. 


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Game is plentiful around here. Several 


BUILD YOUR OWN BOAT 
7 


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prices from $3.00 up. We also build comple: 


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410), 14) bm Set Of working instructions and illustrations. 


BROOKS BOAT MFG.CO.sTa:B BAY CITY, MICH 





Your premiums are very 
subscriptions are easily obtained. 
Jas. R. Taylor, Boston, Mass. 


liberal, and 


rabbits lived all winter in the wild grape- 
vines in the ravine back of our house, and 
I have seen grouse tracks in our hen yard, 
One day I was snow-shoeing in the ravine 
back of the house and saw a large cock 
grouse scratching in a spring. He scratched 
the leaves out and then stood a moment as 
if waiting for the water to clear. He stood 
erect with his enormous ruff standing 
straight out and then stooped and took a sip 
like a hen. As I moved forward to get a 
better view, he heard me and was gone like 
a flash. 


N. C. Burnham, Jonesville, N. Y. 





= Send for catalogue of our full line of Folding 
——— S Canvas Boats and anes ee been 

SSS adopted by Governments of United States, Can- 
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Acme Folding Boat Company, Miamisburg, O. 













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A Sportman’s 
Boat 






Price $20—Crated on cars Salem 







228 Depot Street, + = » 


MULLINS “Get There” Steel Duck Boat 





Endorsed by Thousands of Sports- 
men. Air Chamber each end. Always ready. 
No repairs. Send for handsome free book. 

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Salem, Ohio 


RECREATION. lix’ 


The ‘*‘ BRISTOL” Steel 
Fishing Rod is universally 
popular on the St. Lawrence 
River. The fishermen buy 
them to use—-the boatmen 
buy them to rent. 


The strong current and heavy 

fish common there will take all 

the heart out ofan ordinary rod 

but the ** Bristol”’’ will never 

give up, and hangs just as true 
after a long season's service 
as at the start, 

If you want a Rod that will 
stand hard work—any where — 
get the ** Bristol;”’ it will not 
disappoint you. Sold by all 
dealers, at reduced prices. 


Free Catalog“ D” 
showing more than 
twenty-five styles of Steel Rods 


The Horton Mfg. Co. 


Bristol, Conn.. U.S. A, 


BLACK BASS—“ He is a fish that lurks close all win- 
ter, but is very pleasant and jolly after mid-April and 
May and in the hot months.”’—IzAaK WALTON. 


Get your bite—the ‘‘Bristol’’ will do al- 
most all the rest. It has the necessary 
spring, snap, and stiffish back required ina 
Black Bass Rod.The most resilient material 
used in rod making is Steel, which makes 
them tough and elastic, with a rebound 
found in no other rod but the ‘Bristol.’ 

Sold by all dealers: they will give 
you the benefit of reduced prices 


Free Our handsome catalog “D"’ describing 
all the “ Bristol’’ steel roda, 


rHE HORTON MFG, CO. Bristol, Conn. U.? 





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1840 


Geo. B. Carpenter & Co. 


Makers of High Grade 


\ 


Tents, Sails, Camp \ 


( 
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Folding Cots, Tables, Chairs, \\ \ 


EF urniture Oars, Paddles, Marine 


The Largest and most Complete Stock in the U. S. 


Send 4c. in stamps for Tent and Camp Catalogue, or 6c. in 
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Anvthing That’s Knit 


BLAUVELT’S 


Hunting and Fishing 


COATS 


THE BEST THAT’S MADE 


In Oxford Grey or Dead Grass, or 
any other color or combination of colors, 
made to your measure. 

Sweaters of all kinds — for Men, 
Women, Boys and Girls. The correct 
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country or mountains, 








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BLAUVELT KNITTING CO. 
148 and 150 Central Ave. Newark, N. J. 


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VACATION 


Equal or better than your light at home. One 
gallon gasoline lasts all summer in our 


Brilliant Gas Lamps 


They make their own gas, while they burn 100-candle strong, 
Can be hung anywhere. Safer 
If you are not using them, write for our ‘‘*R” 
complete, ready for use, to your 
nearest express station prepaid on receipt of $53.00, every lamp guaranteed. 


or outdoor use; portable, light and handy, 
and cheaper than kerosene. 
catalog, or we will send a lamp like cut, 


Mention RECREATION. 


BRILLIANT GAS LAMP CO., 


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I am in receipt of the 4x 5 Weno Hawk- 
eye camera you gave me as a premium. 
The camera is the best made and the 
simplest to operate of any I have examined. 
I acvise anyone wanting a first class 
camera to get a Hawkeye and those desir- 
ing good reading to take RECREATION. 

John D. Burns, Weiser, Idaho. 


You are doing a good work, and I like 
to see the fish and game hogs called down 
properly by a man who does it without fear 
or favor. May you receive 10 subscriptions 
from sportsmen for every one you lose by 


roasting a hog. 
A. G. Russell, Wabeno, Wis. 


Montana Copper Mines: I have 
some very promising prospects in North- 
western Montana carrying gold, silver and 
copper values. Would sell outright, bond 
or give an interest to secure capital to de- 
velop property. 

If you are interested, it would pay you to 
write me. 

Sidney M. Logan, Kalispell, Montana. 

Satisfactory references furnished, 


“This paper says if spots appear before 
your eyes it will give you a headache.” 

“Yes, they gave me a_ headache last 
night.” 

“What kind of spots were they?” 

“Seven spots, and the other man held 
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out oven. The light 
est, strongest, most 
compact, practical 
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sheet 














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steel top, smooth out- 
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other. Used by over 9,000 campers and only one stove 
returned, 

For catalogue giving full partic ulars, mention RECREA- 
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To Sportsmen. Our new 
Illustrated Catalog. It tells 
how we can teach you to 


Be Your Own Taxidermist 


Learn to save your fine trophies. They 
are magnificent for your home, or den. 
Taxidermy is easily and quickly learned 
under our instruction. Complete course 
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Standard methods, reasonable cost. The 
spring shooting season is open. You 
will get some fine birds. Mount them 
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SUMMER or WINTER 


Get a pair of 


Thompson- 
Quimby 
Hunting 
Boots 


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I Make the Best 


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plication. Mention RECREATION, 


T. H. GUTHRIE 
NEWARK, N, J. 


Ixii RECREATION. 


A VALUABLE PRESENT 


For Your Wife, Your Mother, Your 
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For 25 Yearly Subscriptions to Recreation, I will send you 


a set of 
1 DISH AND 12 
TOMATO PLATES 


made by Higgins & Seiter, 50 West 22d Street, N. Y. Listed at 
$19.50. 

And, for 2Q Yearly Subscrip- 
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12 WATERMELON 
PLATES 


listed at $16.50. (See illustration) 


HESE are fine, thin, white 
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watermelon. 
No more beautiful or appropriate present could possibly be 
found for a lady than one of these sets. 
You can earn one of them in a few hours, and at the sametime 
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Rambler Touring Cars give thorough. — 
satisfaction at a minimum of cost. 
Model H, with tonneau, as shown abovi iy? 5-00 
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I have read RECREATION 4 years and 
it does more for game protection than all 
the other magazines combined. There is oC Il Oil 9 
plenty more work to be done, however. ish Ollath- 
Queechy Lake is noted for its fine pickerel, preserves leather and 
and certain people here fish it all winter. P renders shoes and 
As soon as the ice will bear them they set harness positively 


tip-ups and leave them out until March. Waterproof WATERPROOF 


Much of the time the lines. are frozen in 


the ice. When that is the case, why could LEATHER Used by the U. S 


not the owners be prosecuted under the law DRESSING the Army and Navy 
forbidding the use of set lines. What would AND and National Guard. 

a court be likely to rule in such a case? If ie Send asc. for trial can, 

a baited but unwatched and frozen tip-up iL’. AGENTS WANTED 
is not a set line, what is it? Ifa test case Write for terms and circulars 

could be brought it might serve to limit a J. R. BUCKELEW 


vicious and destructive method of fishing. Dept. A. 411 Chambers St., N. Y. 
A. B. C., Canaan Corners, N. Y. 


Will some lawyer please answer ?— 








EDITOR. ne 
I received my Malcolm telescope as a 
premium from you and am delighted with 
it. It surpasses anything I ever expected to 
get and is first class in every respect, I 
can not see how you can afford to give such DRIVES AWAY 


nice premiums. I shall do all I can to pro- 


mote the welfare of RECREATION. . 
Frank W. Fuller, No. Bennington, Vt. lack Flies 


Dick—How did you know when it was 


and 
time to leave her house if the parlor was ~ 
ie osquitoes 
Fred—A little bird told me. 
Dick—Get out! Bach Stick Burns an Kour 
Fred—Yes. The cuckoo came out of the Full box sent postpaid for 60 ots, 


clock and called 11.—Philadelphia Record. The Culecide Co., 1704 Summer St., Boston 





Ixiv RECREATION. 


The Sports- 
manlike 
— Qualities 

of a "Y and E" Auto- 

matic Reel 














Skykomish 
River, Wash., 
where 

"31 Comancho" 
caught the 

15 Ib. (Record) 
Rainbow 
Trout 





will be greatly admired by every true angler. 


@ The pleasure of playing your fish is not 
diminished in the least by the Automatic feature. 


@ On the other hand, the knowledge 
that only a slight 


pressure of the = ee << 4 < wpe 
little finger is ~~ “I 

needed to keep your Gamy | 
Fighter from dislodging the 


hook, gives a zest to the sport which the user of the 
ordinary crank reel can never know. 






Finger 
does ite 


@ Nothing is so aggravating as to have the Scaly Gentleman drop your hook after 
the battle is almost won. 


@ A"Y and E" Automatic Reel takes up the slack just as fast as he makes it, and 
exerts a tension that keeps him from stripping your reel. 


@ Besides all this, a "Y and E" Automatic-Combin- 
ation Reel may be made either free running (just like 
any other reel) or automatic, by the simple pressure of 
a slide. You make your cast free-running; you reel 
j in your line automatically. Beats winding a crank 
~ 2 like fury! 










4 @ Write today for our handsome new booklet 

7... No. 101—"When Pardner was Mascot"—the exciting 

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BOOKLET 101 


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" Pardner" and the 


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RECREATION. Ixv 


The Car of 
Highest Grade 


Among all means of travel—and among all automobiles— 
the Cadillac stands pre-eminent as a hill-climber. A 
locomotive can go up a 10% grade; a trolley 
car 15%; a bicyclist, if his wheel be not 
geared too high, 20%; a horse 
with a light car- 


DIL 


Hill-climbing ability is attainable thro low gearing—speed with 

hill-climbing ability only throa plenitude of power. 30 miles an 

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passengers. Smooth riding, powerful, absolutely dependable, 

the Cadillac is a car surprising alike in performance and in cost. 
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also tell you of a nearby agency where demonstrations are given— 
for most Cadillacs are sold by being seen and tried. 


CADILLAC AUTOMOBILE CO., Detroit, Mich. 
Member Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, 





E. B. Brigham, M. D., of Indianapolis, 
asks how many of your readers have eaten 
deer’s liver? I have, more than 100 times’ 
during some 30 years of deer hunting. 
Among old hunters the liver, kidneys and 
heart are looked on as the only meat that 
can be eaten without bad results while the 
carcass is still warm. Too fresh venison 
steak usually acts as a cathartic, which 
leaves Ayers far-famed compound far in the 
shade. Take note of this, callow sportsmen, 


when standing with an empty stomach by ‘ 

the side of a fresh killed buck, with camp No Fault of the Auto 

10 miles away. Boil a piece of liver or heart 

on a stick. If you shoot black powder, That it cost you ae: eee ee yo 
° “U.. P : ee u was 

sprinkle on a little in place of salt—it is 2,000 dollar cndidoy’ chiles by a 75 cont oot of dry 


first-rate; but don’t eat the warm meat. batteries— every autoist has his battery troubles. 
This part of the Rio Grande valley was, ree 

until the new Texas game law was passed, Th A | H t Dy 

a deer butcher’s paradise and siete hog’s C pp . gil 100 name 

heaven, but it is all off now. Ina few years is just what you want 

dry goods clerks will be able to kill deer —don'tdepend on un- 

with their yard-sticks in the back yards Pree csclpar eye 
" ~ : ynamo gives you a 

around Eagle Pass, even though the law is hotter spark, more 

only half observed. power, more speed. 

Six Shooter Bill, Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Mex. oes ~~  aeaene 


apparatus for Auto- 


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Over the Ocean.” 
He—Well, I bet I know what made him 
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GUIDE TO TAXIDERMY. 


Full of valuable information, with 
complete instructions how to pre- 
pare and mount 


“Ss BIRDS, ANIMALS and FISHES, 


Also a complete list of all North 
: American Birds, with Prices of 
iM theic Eggs, Skins, and mounted 
' Specimens, an Exhaustive Line 
of Ornithologists’, Oologists’ and 
Taxidermists’ Supplies; valuable 
information for the amateur. 
Recipes, etc., etc. 


Cloth Bound, 35c., postpaid. 


CHAS. K. REED, 
102 UNION ST., 






WORCESTER, MASS. 


For Sale: 20,000 buffalo horns, all in 
good condition. Largest stock in exist- 
ence. Also designs and patterns for 
working same into hall racks, mirror 
frames, chairs, gun racks, electric light 
brackets, etc. Full information on re- 
quest. Personal inspection invited. Ad- 
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Avenue, Bradley Beach, N. J. Mention 
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Mounted Moose Heads; 
spread 45 inches each; one has II points 
on each horn, the ather 9 and Io. Price 
$60 and $50. Photo sent on request. 
Robert Rice, Wawanesa, Manitoba. 


For Sale: 8 Al Vista 4 B Cameras, 
new and in good condition. Cost $25 
each. Would sell for $10 each. Address, 
C. B. Hodgdon, Fort Totten, N. Y. 


For Sale: 2 





G. O. SHIELDS, 


Date, 


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SOME GOOD GUIDES. 


Following are names and addresses of 
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by men who have employed them; together 
with data as to the species of game and 
fish which these guides undertake to find 
for sportsmen, 

If anyone who may employ one of these 
guides should find him incompetent or un- 
satisfactory, I will be grateful if he will 
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FLORIDA. 


C. H. Stokes, Mohawk, deer, alligators, turkey, 
quail, and snipe. 
IDAHO. 
John Ching, Kilgore, elk, bear, deer, antelope. 
mountain sheep, trout and grouse, 
Chas. Petty’s, Kilgore, ditto. 


MAINE, 
H. R. Horton, Flagstaff, deer, bear, moose, cari- 
bou, fox, grouse and trout. 
Eugene Hale, Medway, ditto. 
MONTANA. 
A. R. Hague, Fridley, elk, deer, 
bear, grouse and trout. 
Chas. Marble, Chestnut, ditto. 
OREGON. 
Charles H. Sherman, Audrey, bear, deer, grouse 
and trout. — 


mountain shecp, 


WASHINGTON. 
Munro Wyckoff, Port Townsend, deer, bear and 


grouse. 
WYOMING. 
S. N. Leek, Jackson, elk, bear, deer, 
sheep, antelope, grouse and trout. 
CANADA, 
Carl Bersing, Newcastle, N. B., moose, caribou, 
deer, bear and grouse. 
NEWFOUNDLAND. 


John C. LeMoine, Birchy Cove, Bay of Islands, 
caribou, salmon and trout. 
A. M. Pike, Bay of Islands, 

mon trout. 
John Gillard, Notre Dame Bay, ditto. 


mountain 


bear, caribou, sal- 





FOR SALE 


—Prehistoric Specimens. 


Indian Relics Large stock list and 


photos ten cents, 
N. E, CARTER, ELKHORN, WIS. 





INE MOUNTED GAME HEADS, 
BIRDS, ETC., for sale at a Re ede prices. 
Send to cents for photos. 

JOHN CLAYTON, Taxidermist, Lincoln, Maine 


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THE 


1904 Model 


LEATHER-COVERED Pneu- 
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J. R. WINTERS 
Clinton, Mo. 





ROE UG! Ss SHELL EXTRACTOR. 
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vest pocket, Fits any 
gauge shell. Koenig’s 
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E.G.KOENIG, NEW JERSEY S LARGEST GUN HOUSE 


N. J. 





SOUTH BROAD ST., NEWARK, 


~° ° 9 Glass Eyes for 
Taxidermists’ ‘Stuttea’Birds, 
Oologists’and 
Entomolosgists’ 


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FRED. KAEMPFER, °°,STATE ST.. 


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CURIOS 


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DEADWO JD .. So. DAKOTA 


Squabs are raised in 1 month, bring dig 
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se your spare time profitably. Small 
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FREE BOOK, “ Howto make money 
with Squabs. * PLYMOUTH ROCK 
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NAVAJO BLANKETS, 

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Moccasins, Alaskan Curios, Mexi- 

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If it’s Indian we have it. 


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138 West 42d Street, New York City 
Mention RECREATION. 





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from a railroad, and found his stepson 
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J. H. Cruickshank, Big Indian, N. Y. 





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STEEL TRAPS 


Made since 1848 by ONEIDA COMMUNITY 





S. NEWHOUSE 
(The Old Trapper and Trapmaker) 


Fifty years ago this famous old Trapmaker of 
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any animal that got into its jaws. Even greater 
pains are taken now than then in selecting the 
finest steel and rigidly testing every part. 

This is why all experienced Trappers insist 
on having the 


““ NEWHOUSE ”’ 


‘¢T have seen an Indian trade his pony for one 
dozen Newhouse Traps.’’—Popular “a 
Writer. 


Eleven Sizes for Catching 
Every Fur Bearing Animal 


Every Trap Cuaranteed 
Illustrated Catalogue Mailed 

(22 Send twenty-five cents for “The Trapper’s Guide,’ 

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ONEIDA NEW YORK 


Ixviii RECREATION. 


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Hammer and Hammerless 









Built for Hard 
Service and to 
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No Rifle complete unless mounted with one of our 


IMPROVED TELESCOPIC | OUTFITS 






We make them from 8-power up. With our side 
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SEND FOR OUR CATALOGUE 


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F. T. CORNISH, Mgr. 
Established 1857 SYRACUSE, N. Y., U. S.A 





Trade CEDAR OLEUM Mack 


THE IDEAL CLEANER, LUBRICANT and RUST PREVENTIVE 
It is colorless, impervious to atmosphere and salt- 
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Mention RECREATION. CEDAROLEUM COMPANY, Perkinsville, Vt. 








I received the J. C. Hand Trap’ as a pre- Received the Press Button Knife. It is 
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subscribers when I can. thank you for it. 

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This is the Ney, NEW LEFEVER 


It is a plain gun, and sells at a popular 
price, but has all our latest improvements. 


Send for 
1904 
Catalogue 
and 


Discounts 


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Not connected with c 
Lefever Arms Company, Syracuse, Ny, 2 ; RECREATION 


Mention 





RECREATION. lxix 


The Garrison SHOTGUN ROD and CLEANER 


We took up the manufacture of this de- 
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ever invented. The reasons are that it has ne tn te 
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in itself, has no attachments to be taken off or on or to become lost, the pads will 

last for years (new set costs 
7 only 10c), you can feel every 
; Mesix spot of lead or caked powder 
eae aaa ep ts d “rr ff. which 
" - Le and wor em off, whic 

oN ; saves looking through the 
cloth. When used bare, the brass gauze pads barrel every minute; rag can- 

will remove lead or powder very rapidly. 
not become stuck in barrel. 
These advantages make it a pleasure to clean a gun instead of a trial. Wood rods, 
plain, 75c3 highly finished, $1.00; brass tube rods, $1.25; nickeled, $1.50. 
Send for one, use it 30 days. 
If not satisfactory return and 
get your money back. Sold 
by dealers or direct, prepaid. ‘ 
Send for 1904 catalog show- Sho: -‘ing the 3 cleaner pads partly expanded. Each pad is made 














x E ; by stringing 30 brass gauze washers on a holder and 
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are the neatest and best things a hunter “Well,” he answered, hesitatingly. “the 


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Sportsman’s cabinet arrived in perfect 

The Weno Hawkeye camera was received | order. Words can not express my appre- 
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No. 1 
Special 









No. 4 
List $100 






i. A WRITE FOR 
- 1904 ART CATALOG 


AND 





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Mention Rec 


ITHACA GUN COMPANY 


ithaca, New York 


Ixxii RECREATION. 





ID O If so, why not get a good 
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Y ou And why not get it free of 
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W ay nt This is easy. 


Any old box will answer - 
a the purpose if it does not 
— leak light; but you must 


h fi ] x 
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One of the 9 


Built for Business | 
‘6A’? GRADE $8() LIST 


In offering this gun to the public, we have combined 
ALL OF THE DISTINCTIVE IMPROVEMENTS 


which have gained for the ‘Syracuse’ its present prominent position 
among American Arms. 








epee! reer Se sete fy . . 








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“A” GRADE 
| Condensed Description. 


BARRELS—Fine quality of Damascus Steel, or if desired, we will fur- 
nish Krupp Fluid Pressed Steel Barrels, made at the Krupp Works, 
Essen, Germany, and imported to our order. 


STOCK—Imported Italian Walnut, finely figured and dark rich color. 
Full pistol or Straight Grip as desired. 


AUTOMATIC EJECTOR—With our Patent Non-Ejector device 
which allows the gun to be instantly changed from an Automatic 
to a Non-Automatic Ejector. 


This model gun is handsomely engraved and cleanly finished, and will 
compare favorably with any gun on the market listing at $100.00. 


All ‘‘Syracuse’’ guns for 1904 will be built with our New Compensating 
Double Cross Bolt; and Fratines Inletted into Stock, thus prevent- 
ing the spreading or splitting of same. 


Catalogue yours for the asking. Mention ‘‘ Recreation.” 


SYRACUSE ARMS CO.  SYRACUSE_N. Y. 


Ixxiv RECREATION. 


H. & R. 
“Bicycle 
Hammerless” 
Revolver 


Description 
32 Caliber, 5shot. 2 inch Barrel. Weight, 12 ounces. 
C. F., S. & W. Cartridge. Finish, Nickel or Blue. 


Impossible to catch on the pocket and discharge accidentally. 


Absolutely Safe. Although designed for cyclists, this revolver is equally adapted 
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will not supply. Mention ReEcrEATION when writing. 


HARRINGTON & RICHARDSON ARMS CO. 


Makers of H. & R. SINGLE GUNS 
oes ee WORCESTER, MASS. 


Bradley’s Attachable Rear Sight 


Makes the aim true and quick Prevents over and under shooting, 

It will improve the score, Instantly attachableand detachable. No 

tools required t> adjust to your gun, and it will not mar the barrel, 

Fits any gun. One sight will dotor all your guns. Once used it will 

never be discarded, It is made of the best spring steel, nicely fin- 

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Mention RECREATION. 


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A Correspond with H. Vegetarian—Don’t you know the strong- 


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Haupt, t Fae Patent Attorney and being the most powerful? 
Counsellor, 55 Liberty St., New Carnivorous Friend—That’s all right. If 
a patent or | they _weren’t so strong they never would 
York, when <a a ai be able to stand a vegetable diet.—Boston 
information regarding patents. 


: Transcript. 
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Hammerless Double 
Our Latest 


“DAVENPORT” 


‘es Strictly 
~_ High 
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a premium for subscriptions to your valu- 
able magazine. In material and workman- 
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could not wish for a better premium. 
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Mary—Three, mum. 

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When you have @ gun in mind, 
Be sure you get the 
Don’t take the other “‘ 
But call for PARKER as you should, 


roper kind: 
ust as good,” 


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Only one 


POW DER 


Has more penetration and less recoil 
than all others, and it has 
been proved by comparative tests that 


Kobin Hood 


is the ONE. 





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Manufactured by 


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Swanton, Vt. 







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Health 
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brings appetite, health 
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Salt Natune is not an alco- 
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digested food in liquid 
form, easily assimilated 
by the weakest stomach. 


Nalt:/ibine is sold by all 


druggists and grocers. 
Servedatallhealthresorts 
and summering : places. 






Prepared only by the 


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St. Louis, U.S.A. 


Also brewers of Budweiser, the 
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_out-door life are often seriously hurt by 





All over the civilized world 
THE IMPROVED 


BOSTON | 


IS KNOWN AND WORN 
Every Pair Warranted 
“ME The Name is 


stamped on every 
He — 4 


CUSHION 
BUTTON 


CLASP 


Lies flat to the leg—never 
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